Flacco

[BmorePat87]

(10-10-2016, 12:22 AM)rfaulk34 Wrote: Nooowwwwww that the Flacco is BACK in bmore...

Leads the league in pass attempts and completions.
Averaging a whopping 5.9 per pass attempt.
Averaging 1 td and almost 1 pick per game.
Checks in at 25th in passer rating, behind such luminaries as Mariotta, Tannehill, Kessler, Siemian and Hoyer. 
#2 in top QB salaries.

Discuss?

Mostly play calling. Trestman calls a lot of short pass, a ton behind the line of scrimmage. Matt Forte was able to convert those to huge gains so it should work with Buck Allen and Terrance West, right? This offense doesn't give a lot of opportunities to take advantage of what Flacco is good at, throwing deep. He once had the most passes that traveled over 20 yards in the air, now he has the most passes for under 5 yards or something silly. 

The end result is a ton of completions for no gain or a loss of 1-3 yards. 

Receivers aren't completing big plays. Flacco threw a great game winning TD to Perriman, who beat Josh Norman, only to see Perriman not drag his foot, resulting in an incompletion. Wallace dropped a catch on 4th down. Perriman missed a deep pass earlier too. Norman was out for a huge chunk of the game and Trestman didn't even try to call for big passes. 

It goes beyond the passing game. West had 95 yards on 11 carries, but the run was basically abandoned in the 2nd half, despite the Ravens still having the lead.


I get that smack isn't the right place to actually discuss football so I'm not sure if I expect a real response to this.