02-13-2024, 03:12 PM
(02-13-2024, 03:07 PM)Soonerpeace Wrote: He didn’t look 100% to most but he was rusty regardless and the scheme still protecting him
Oh now the rust. If you're a Ravens fan, you could just as easily be sitting there saying it was their 2nd game in a new offensive system without playing in the pre-season games.
Their offense whooped our defense that game, regardless if you want to use the Burrow crutch which I think is severely over-emphasized in that game and folks have been living in a bit of an alternate reality when it comes to that game. For context, he played just as well in that game than he had played against the Mcdonald defense the previous year:
2022:
Game 1: 24/35, 217 yards, 1 td, 1 int, 6.2 Y/A
Game 2: 24/42, 215 yards, 1 td, 5.1 Y/A
Game 3: 23/32, 209 yards, 1 td, 6.5 Y/A
2022 Average: 23/36 213 ypg, 1 td, .33 int, 5.8 Y/A
2023 Game 1 "injured": 27/41, 222 yards, 2 tds, 1 int, 5.4 Y/A
He played basically exactly the same in that game as he did in the 3 games in the previous year but that doesn't fit the narrative.
I'm just not buying the "things would have been different, he wasn't healthy in that game" argument when it was 7.5 weeks after the injury, he didn't re-injure it until the last play he was on the field, and his performance was equal, if not better to his performances against that team the previous 3 games. The bad INT in the endzone had nothing to do with his calf.
