PFF Week 1 Grades - Ravens @ Bengals

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(09-11-2017, 06:08 PM)Murdock2420 Wrote: Maybe we are talking about the same ones then...

Like I said, I understand it is not all on him, but the LB making the play in the endzone, you have got to get that ball high enough that your receiver in the back of the endzone is the only guy who can make a play on the ball.

The banging it off helmets is on the O-line and the OC but also a little on Andy, when they are coming in at you, drop back or roll out...don't just throw it right at them.

Please don't take this as I'm saying Dalton is the problem with this team, that is not the case at all. The O-line is the biggest problem, but Andy's play yesterday on missing throws and bad choices just made an ugly display that much worse.

Believe me Murdock....I know you're not saying that....I've read your stuff long enough to know better than that.

As to the bolded, you are 100% correct on that play, and Dalton even admitted as such during his presser.  A lot of the offense seems to be predicated on pre snap reads and quick hitter timing routes, so, sometimes, you're just throwing to a spot, and if a dlineman jumps up and occupies that airspace after you've released the ball, it's already too late to adjust.  I'm not saying that is the case on these plays, as I really don't know.....but it can explain it from time to time.  The pressure was getting there in a hurry, and pressure does not usually bode well for 14.  Why we trot out a shit show of an oline KNOWING this is beyond me.  It was in his scouting report FFS.