09-28-2015, 01:10 PM
(09-28-2015, 01:07 PM)masterpanthera_t Wrote: Yeah, as a general rule, you don't put a taller corner on a shorter receiver when they run quick short routes, because of the quickness disadvantage. I believe Adam would have done a better job of containing Smith, but not sure if this was their decision or just the way Smith lined up. But, I may have seen some crossing routes where a LB was expected to tackle Smith and a slower Reggie Nelson was expected to tackle Smith after the catch in space. They could have made their lives so much easier if they had just double covered him the whole game and forced Flacco to look elsewhere, but as I said before, I don't know if this is what they did and Smith beat them anyway or not. Looking for some comments from anyone who noticed this part of the game.
I think the defense had a plan to just stop the deep ball. Most the games Flacco wins is with a lucky deep ball or deep ball PI call. We just let them throw it short and hope we could make the tackle. It almost backfired because Smith is a beast, but technically we got the W so I cant complain. It's rare to watch a game where Flacco doesn't throw deep like he did yesterday. The Ravens really have issues without a deep threat, as that is Flaccos game.
