05-09-2022, 03:27 PM
(05-09-2022, 10:34 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: They managed to do it in 2020, and they didn't have a single player reach 60 catches or 800 yards, yet still had the 7th scoring offense, won 11 games, and won a playoff game.
If you zero blitz all the time, you're going to be giving up huge plays all the time too. Lamar Jackson can always tuck it and let his 4.34 speed handle the rest if he sees the slightest gap, or he'll just quickly dump it to Mark Andrews who is going to almost certainly beat his guy 1-on-1 with no help in the vacated middle.
Now... do I think that their offense is a threat to win a SB? Probably not, but it can win some games in the regular season. Not many defenses are set up to defend against that type of offense anymore.
This is in fact what we, and many other teams, did to him last year on 3rd downs and why he struggled really badly on them. He saw more 0 blitzes than any other QB in the league last year on 3rd and long situations. I have referred to it as blitz and sticks, after we showed other teams how Lamar saw teams setting their defenders in off coverage at the sticks on 3rd and longs and sending 6 man pressures. Lamar when hurried was one of the worst passers in the league last season, when he can hold the ball 3+ seconds he is one of the best. Teams figured out they can hurry his mechanics by sending pressure and playing off because his ball placement is so bad with hurried mechanics it does not give his guys great chances to run after the catch.
