Next Gen Stats: The Ravens Five Fastest Ball Carriers 2020 Season

Yeah more Duvernay….

Yesp

Yes! Yes! Yes! But, at least they finally came to their senses and started using Dobbins more. Hopefully Duvernay is next.

@Ron Edward only because ingram was injured

@Logan Eades But now that they’ve seen what he and Edwards can do, I think Ingram is going to play a lesser role going forward. He’s older and more injury prone.

Yes bruh I feel like he could be lethal for deep balls and jet sweeps

@Alex Nava I can agree I think we have one of the worst OC in the league he doesn’t know how to come up with plays that lets our offense reach its full potential

Not to sound like a Roman apologist, but I have to defend him a little bit here. You can’t just run sweeps or give the ball to your fastest player all the time and expect it to always work. It has to be done at the right time. The Chiefs, Colts, and Steelers have fast defenses — those ‘gimmick’ plays wouldn’t work against them. Chiefs and Steelers used them against us because our defense was missing several players.
The other key issue is you have to fix Lamar before you try _anything_ like this. If defenses don’t respect him throwing, they’ll key on the run no matter who gets it. Hopefully the second half of the Colts game did that. But we as fans have come here before and complained, “Oh, Hollywood was wide open! Why didn’t Lamar throw it to him?!” You just can’t blame Roman for that.
Once we get back to being the offense we were last year, I’m *sure* we’ll see more of those plays you’re talking about, because the defense will actually need to respect Lamar throwing, opening up all kinds of options for us.

@matrixphijr I’m not saying that’s specifically what he should do I’m just saying he should create more opportunities for our best players and do a better job of play calling for instance he’ll do a run play on first and second down and we’ll only get 2 yards out of both carries then expect Lamar to complete a big pass on 3rd he needs to trust Lamar Jackson more in the passing game because Lamar is a great passer in my opinion he has accuracy and an amazing deep ball……utilize our players with speed more like the chiefs do and we’ll be better off

@Quali McPherson Yes, absolutely. I’m sorry if it sounded like I was specifically responding to you, because there are a lot of people (in this comment section, but also just about everywhere) expressing the same sentiment. I see “GET THE BALL TO DUVERNAY/BROWN MORE!” all the time, and it’s like, “Whoa, slow down there. It’s not that easy.”
Sweeps are essentially gimmick plays in that you’re relying more on fooling the defense rather than actually getting everyone blocked. If you don’t actually fool them, which you’re not likely to after… well, _once,_ it’s not going to succeed.
Yes, we do need to do a better job in the passing game, but the lack of success there this season is mostly on Lamar, not Roman. Jackson has had opportunities to complete easy passes, or make decisions that _don’t_ lead to turnovers, and so far, he hasn’t done a very good job of it. Granted, some of that also falls on his receivers (like Andrews) for dropping a lot of would-be completions. But the point is, Roman can call the best passing play there is, but it won’t work if the QB and WR don’t actually complete the right pass.

That’s what I’m saying

Because Greg Roman insist w the same run heavy attack from last yr.

@Mo3Bandz your dumb we don’t run

That the thing they need to stop doing

Screen pass would work better especially against blitzing teams (most of the nfl) Lamar being a run first qb would sell it easily

@King Kane yea

We only have 2 TE.

ya he kinda fast. not gonna lie hes a lil fast

Never going to happen with shitty Greg Roman.

Um not boykin

@Dan Wolf Boykin is underrated.

@B-DuB 813 no he isn’t lol