Film Study: This is why the Baltimore Ravens stopped running the ball Vs the Kansas City Chiefs
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Ravens got spooked when they went down 10. A level-headed OC who wants to run, will continue to run unless there's absolutely too little time.
And ALSO...maybe NOT bench the hottest TE in football during the first half of the most important game in a long while for a 2 month IR TE INO in the form of Andrews. It was the Ravens game to lose, and they succeeded in losing. Harbaugh is the most overrated coach in the NFL.
@@samk4801he wasn’t fully healthy he rushed backed. just got hold the L. this lost got some of y’all panicking bad scrambling to figure out what happened. mahomes happened
@@samk4801 relax, good lord
Good call by you. Spot on. Great observation. 10 was the number and the whole thing shifted. Lamar starts throwing these shit sidearm moves out to the flat and 2 were batted down and 3 others were just garbage balls. Wasted plays. There were drops. I'm not sure about bringing Andrew's in after they has so much success while he was out. No disrespect Andrew's is great just a different look after 5 weeks so??? But the turnovers killed them ultimately. It was a great defensive play on flowers. But 100 yards in penalties. Never gonna be a ravens win with all that.
@@will-zj5gq Mahomes wasn’t the driving factor of this game imo, it was the chiefs defense and ravens offensive collapse.
After those first 2 drives, the ravens defense played great and the chiefs could not move the ball. Outside of that last pass to MVS, they had like 30 yards of offense in the 2nd half.
The ravens 2 huge turnovers in the end zone made the game feel a lot less close than it actually was.
They didnt even attempt enough runs to ABANDON the run game. You have to have some patience and allow the run game to develop at least for the first half of the game! If it still wasnt working then yes, adjust but they never allowed for it to actually unfold.
Before they knew it they were down ten...they didn't know what to do to be behind.
Running backs had no vision including lLamar
Can't have patience when Mahomes is chewing up your defense in the 1st quarter. This is why running the ball is dead. Your defense has to play well enough to keep you in the game and modern NFL rules do not allow this to happen
@@difference018My brother in Christ the defense DID keep them in the game, the ravens panicked for no reason…
Gus should of had more touches and cook should of had some touches lamar also should of ran more
Ravens have a habit at times when they call longer developing routes instead of quick passes when the protection isn't there for the longer stuff.
Finally someone said it instead of saying “Lamar is trash”
@@javinlawrence7326 it can be both. maybe lamar can't execute quick passes because he cant read pre-snap very well.
@@psynauticthat makes zero sense lol. It’s much easier to run quick game than longer developing routes due to the fact you don’t have to worry about your oline breaking down in pass protection. It’s also hell on us as DB’s if a team is constantly running short routes because in the back of your mind you know a double move is coming eventually.
@@InfamousMikeRobinson I'll tell harbaugh you should replace monken, cause you've basically found the cheat code to the NFL.
@@psynauticFor Lamar to execute quick passes the receiver has to be able to get open quickly😂it’s the very reason the OC goes to longer routes, the only one who gets open with regularity is Zay Flowers
You didn't discuss any of the problems with the pass game though, you didn't show the plays with no one open or Lamar's indecisiveness. Ravens barely ran the ball, but the pass game looked horrendous. They were lucky more weren't picked. Better question to ask is why they thought spamming pass plays & risking INTs was a better idea than at least TRYING to run the ball. They didn't make any adjustments, the pass game wasn't there. This is terrible coaching.
Here’s the problem with the pass game, the chiefs defense is awesome and they made it tough on him. Defense made plays
Hindsight is always 2020 after a loss. If they ran it 25 times for 40 yards people would be slamming them for taking it out of Lamar's hands.
Throw a screen, go 4 or 5 wr, do something to get the chiefs out of blitzing every damn play.
What’s puzzling is that we saw the Texans try this exact strategy and Lamar / Monken punished them for it.
@@donovan4222yeah like the texans had any chance of winning..with their rookie qb..they were happy just being there
@@donovan4222 Besides chiefs corners can lock down reciever long enough for the blitz to get home plus Spags design some unique blitzes where the QB isnt expecting certain lb, safeties or corners to blitz
@@goofycomputer1234 Lol the rookie qb doesn’t play defense
@@scottw5247 The ravens were not adjusting to the blitzes, chiefs corners are not invincible, Ravens have plenty of receivers who can make a play if you just get the ball out on time.
Spagnola might be the best DC in nfl history
underrated comment
Wrong. Bill B is the best DC ever.
Not true! Gus averaged 6 yards per carry……you just don’t abandon it. They didn’t do screens or quick slants to stop the pass rush. Why sign Dalvin Cook just to let him watch the game…..or try to run with the smaller Justice Hill on 3rd & 1 with Gus and 300 lbs FB on the bench???
Good point. Buffalo had MANY passes behind the line of scrimmage and almost every one of those plays got big yardage. The Ravens did not do much of this at all.
it was rigged and the coaches are in on it
Right? Feel like I'm taking crazy pills watching this video. Gus had 3 carries for 20 yards. The entire game. 3 carries. THREE. At over 6 a clip. Why on earth thy just refused to use him I'll never know. And like he said in the video Jacksons scrambling and designed runs were also working.
The Chiefs did nothing to force the Ravens to abandon the run so early. It was just the team panicking for some reason and getting lost in the moment.
@@dirediredudenotice any similarities between the AFC title game and the 2019 division game? The panicking and abandoning the run? Monken wasn't here in 2019, Roman was. Who is the common denominator???😊 Look closely at the side line at who has the play card in his hand and talking in the head set😊 I forgive Roman , he had to deal with Harbaugh interfering with calling the game.
Why aren't they using cook?
That's a master class by Spags to scare the Ravens off running the ball. To me, that's still unacceptable for the Ravens offense. Look at the Chiefs, the run game was blown up consistently after the first 2 drives, yet Pacheco still have 2X carry. Reid knew and trusted the game plan, yet Ravens just ran away from it. Without the run, they fell into the trap Spags baited them into, forcing Lamar passing against our elite pass D without the threat from the running game. Lamar was rattled, pressured constantly leading to back breaking mistakes. Todd Monken deserved blame for abandoning the running game too soon while not having a backup plan on passing to take pressure off Lamar. Lamar deserved blame for not using his best asset, his ability to run more to take pressure off his passing game, which is not his forte. Finally, Harbaugh deserved blame for letting these happen and not intervening.
Yep, even if you aren’t getting big 6 yard runs every time, you still have to stick with the run game so the threat is still there. Especially that early in the game when there is so much time left.
Bro it’s scripted. Stop trying to justify why the Ravens played like that. Lamar literally stopped running because he knew he was supposed to go down.
@@tommelsvon Everything I don't like is a conspiracy. It couldn't possibly be that Lamarr Jackass is a complete idiot with no composure. It has to be a fix. There's no other explanation.
@@tommelsvonfacts Lamar Jackson could easily scored 3 tds on the ground he kept getting caught from behind every time especially that pass he caught that was another tds
The passing play calling was not the best though. It was way more competent and creative in the 2nd half of the Houston game, Miami, and 49ers games
Yeah sometimes the ravens just refuse to call quick pass plays
@@donovan4222Texans don’t like to blitz, and so aren’t good at it. The chiefs love blitzing and are possibly the very best and most creative at it, so that’s a big difference. Although Mike Mac was dialing up some special plays so he might be a touch better but his ravens defense would be the only one
@@tristankinnamon3181 Well the ravens defense had the best pass rush all year, and Lamar goes up against those guys in practice, so you’d think he’d be used to it by now. The whole reason for bringing in Monken and new wide receivers was so the ravens can beat the blitz with quick passes, but all game it looked like they were refusing to call those plays. They kept trying 20 yard pass plays. They actually called a good screen pass to flowers that would have went for a td if it didn’t get batted down by Chris jones…but then they never tried a play like that the rest of the game. The OC really seemed like they panicked.
The flowers fumble was so unfortunate bc i think had they got the touchdown the momentum would’ve switched and the ravens would’ve pulled ahead
But they didn’t hahahahah
If they had, the Chiefs would have gone out of their vanilla offense and likely scored. The Chiefs kept running the ball to kill clock, but averaged under 3 yards per carry. That would have changed with a TD here.
You just be new here. Harbaugh has NEVER won a game while down 10....and NEVER won a game while trailing in the 4th quarter. Just UNREAL.
@@RICARD01 I believe it has been 28 straight.
@@RICARD01 From the top of my head the Ravens came back trailing to the Colts in the 4th quarter in 2021. I know that was the first time they ever did that. Even with the Mile High Miracle they were tied in the 4th quarter.
Harbaugh is 0-28 when trailing by 10. Hes 0-31 when trailing in 4th quarter. This has been happening the last decade and no media outlet touches the subject. In a few short seasons it will be year 20 for him, with 1 ring. Find me any other coach who is still around after that. For how good the ravens franchise is, its mind boggling they cannot see that.
Finally someone has spoken…. Thank u!!! Not one media outlet has spoken on this terrible coaching all blame is going to Lamar.. sad tbh .
As a Bengals fan, I sincerely hope they fire Harbaugh as well
@@Crackerjuice75 trust me, no you don't. We only get better and especially if we hire Mike Macdonald.
Both Tomlin and Harbaugh became HC around the same time and need to get sent home.
Tomlin is worst because he basically walked onto a SB run team with a HOF QB. Harbaugh didnt have a HOF QB when he won the SB.
Those are sobering stats. You are right. No one is talking about their failure to come from behind.
If people are suggesting that you take the ball out of the MVP’s hands with a trip to the SB on the line, then maybe he isn’t the MVP. Greg Roman somewhere chuckling right now
Exactly. They wanted Greg Roman gone because he ran too much, but now they’re mad because Monken didn’t run it enough lol. I love Lamar, but it’s always someone else’s fault
Nah just playing balanced offense like you have all yr 😂😂 funny how yall try to spin it
Don’t try to spin it bruh they was talking bout playing the offense the way they been playing which has been balanced
@@khaliljohnson4331 Y’all still would have complained 😂. It would have been “not enough screen passes/bootlegs.”
@@DeontaeMiller You still would have complained. “Not enough bootlegs/screen passes.” Being in 3rd & long consistently while chewing up clock isn’t the answer. Throwing it got them back in the game, until Flowers & Lamar blew the opportunities.
Also, we need to acknowledge that Lamar was changing plays at the line. It was possible they had run calls in that he changed because he saw how heavy the box was.
I don't really put most of this on Monken. Lamar was the one who panicked here. Let's just be real. I love him, he's my favorite player right now, but he panicked. He reverted to the guy who tries to do everything instead of taking what the defense was giving him. Guys were open on short routes, but he kept trying to push the ball deep when that's absolutely not his strong suit, and then he'd overthrow it.
And come on, the problem in the 2nd half was not yards. The problem was stupid mistakes.
People underestimate how good the Chiefs defense is, they assumed they fell off but that's a misconception due to their WR struggles. Chiefs defense is still top 10 easily. People are just mad the chiefs won and are blowing it way out of proportion, it was a 7 point game not a blowout. Ravens are far from the only team to lose to the Chiefs in playoffs. Spags deserves a LOT more credit than he gets.
Best Chiefs defense in a long time
Bro...we have the #3 defense. We are going to be hard to beat.
But you also have to see where ravens fans are coming from. They are 14-1 when rushing it 25 times or more and average 32 a game. They randomly rush it 6 times? That's the one weaker spot of the cheifs d and they failed to even attempt it. Great defensive scheme for passing though.
I make a point above of not understanding why they abandoned the run, but I do agree that Spagnuolo is the best or one of the top 5 best situational play callers on defense, even when their defenses were awful.
@@Nc18554ravens fans are having panic attacks
Stop the run, you stop Lamar. This has been the strategy since 2020 and it still holds true. Chiefs were daring him to throw it and he choked.
I just love it when Lamar proves all of his doubters right. 😂
He has the same amount of playoff wins and Mahomes has Super Bowls
@@Franciscasieri ?
The Texans clamped down on the run too in the 1st half of their game, but the Ravens persisted at it & eventually wore them down in the 2nd half. You can't just give up on your biggest strength at the first opportunity b/c it doesn't get you immediate results.
Finally someone gives credit to the chiefs defense
the defense and the refs are the reason the chiefs are here
@@earthpart3 grow up and learn football first and then you can give your opinion
@@edwintapia200 bawwwww, i see the truth struck a nerve in your weak beta brain. XD
@@earthpart3The refs let them play for the most part. A phony hold took a KC TD away.
@@povertyspec9651 ah, one sided bias. didn't see that coming.
Yea cuz - sample size of six is big enough to have good runs
it is when you are down 17-7 and havent gotten a first down.
@@firelinkedadurite1128 They failed at getting 1st downs with pass plays. What Jackson seems to be ignoring is that for the entire 1st half, when nearly all of the rush attempts he talks about happened, passing was not working any better than the rushing was. So why abandon the run game in the 2nd half?
If that happened but the Chiefs convert that 4th and inches and score a touchdown and also don’t get that weak holding penalty on Rice’s touchdown, Chiefs could have won 31 to 17.
Nah, u can't justify this horrendous scheme by Monken and Harbaugh
This is ridiculous. Of course play action didn't work. That only works if you're actually running the ball. It has been a common wisdom for at least 30 years that being consistent with pounding the ball eventually starts to wear down a defense. The run is like body shots in boxing. It is an investment in the future. There is no way 9 designed runs with 2 of them going for giant chunks of yards can be justified as 'it wasnt working'. Near as I can tell the Ravens coaches just panicked.
The opposite can work too. Especially with a mobile QB. Throw the ball to soften the defensive front for runs in the 4th quarter. Unfortunately, in this game, the Ravens passed the ball so that they could pass the ball some more.
Reminds me of what Terrell Davis & The Broncos would do and of course Smith with the Cowboys
They never started .. 11 attempts when you’re the best running team is just plain stupid
Exactly if u the best rushing team in the nfl why stop with 11 attempts
The point is they were going nowhere with it! 3 in out and short drivers.
@@hillsane9262 only 11 attempts you’re not even giving yourself a chance . Cmc will avg 3 yards and still get 20 touches
@@L.S.1 I was where you were, then I wasn't based on some analysis, now I'm back to where you were. I watched some highlights from the Buffalo game and they had eight and nine in a box and buffalo still was effective at running the ball. Ravens just gave up on the Run way too soon. They panicked like they always do when they get down by 7. It appears that that is a reputation of the Ravens if you get them down by 10 points they panic. The defense did not show up early enough for stuff that the great Ravens defense would have stopped after no more than one drive at best. Those stupid penalties gave the Chiefs three points.
@@hillsane9262 I hear u but what buffalo game u talking about because I remember the one where they had 20 points and Buffalo came back that’s the one I remember and when Lamar was in that game he played good until they started going for 2 u can’t really put him in a box with no WRs even that game I’m talking about when buffalo came back they played terrible the bills just scored more that’s what it was Lamar and Baltimore marched down the field they just didn’t score
I get the issue with handoffs, but there should have been designed QB runs.
The 21 yard run on 4th and 1 also had a blatant hold on DT Tershawn Wharton that sprung Jackson loose.
People gotta remember Spags sent Tom Brady home as the NYG DC. This defense is legit
Jets or Giants ?
For both Super Bowls?
@@joshuaj.2108 yes
Should never have abandoned the run. Way too early to say ohhhh it's not working. The problem is they ran wide when they should have plowed right up the middle. That's when Edwards broke it long. The other runs were wider and go watch the bills game. They blasted right up the middle forcing KC to put 9 guys on the line. Their problem was the receivers were sucking it up. They also were running longer routes in blitz situations. Allen ran over the chiefs so why wasn't Lamar running more. Lamar still can't throw long accurately and needs to work on it.
The Chiefs had an entirely different defensive game plan against the Bills. The Chiefs dared the Bills to run and accentuated the pass defense. Against the Ravens, they played the rub knowing that Lamar wasn't going to beat them passing.
The chiefs sold out against the bills on the run because of how dangerous Allen is as a passer. They dont have that same problem with Lamar
The Bills, so far, were the closest to beating KC in the playoffs, precisely because of how they ran the ball. Even though it took them almost 2x the plays, they ultimately lost because they were trying to bait Allen into being impatient.. and he did well until became impatient on the last ~4 plays. The dropped long bomb by Diggs probably factored into Allen's psyche on that drive... he's gotten better about that for sure, and I hope (as a Bills fan), Allen turns the corner next year. Mahomes has been better at that since 2020.
Perfectly reasonable explanation that Ravens fans cannot accept. The Chiefs won and they would have won if the Ravens threw the ball more. Your qb is overrated.
****ran
Its amazing to me how few commentators actually picked up on the reality that the Ravens tried to run, and it failed them. It turns out the Chiefs could play run defense all season, they just chose to focus on pass defense instead for most of their matchups.
How is giving Edward's the ball 3 times trying to run?
Except they literally didn’t try to run. Jackson should know better than to say the chiefs are “stopping the run” after just a handful of attempts…the passing was not working any better than the running in the 1st half…there only TD drive was set up by 2 massive designed runs from Gus and Lamar, then Gus never touched the ball again.
Shanahan needs to script a vintage Shanny opening drive, running traps, play action, lots of motion, Deebo running, CMC receiving, Aiyuk going deep. If they execute like they can, I truly believe they can march down the field and get a lead (assuming KC doesn’t have a lead). Once they get rolling, they can pull away *fast.*
As we’ve seen in this postseason and others, though, Kyle tends to get more conventional in big games. If they come out just handing the ball off to McCaffery for off-tackle rushes or even have him follow Trent Williams, they’re going to get stuffed. And then KC will run sweeps, Mahomes will make crazy passes on 3rd down, Pacheco will start going up the gut, and they’ll have the momentum to win.
I do think SF has more talent on both offense and defense, and they have a good attitude and have shown resilience, but they don’t seem to be able to beat Reid, Mahomes, and Kelce. The Chiefs and the Ravens are both really tough in the trenches and they can sniff out misdirections, and if the Niners don’t get an early lead, I don’t see them winning. Even if they get an early lead, we know what Mahomes can do as far as coming from behind.
Aiyuk, Deebo, and McCaffery are YAC monsters they didn’t have in Super Bowl three years ago, and Purdy is the equal of Jimmy G as far as being a system QB, except he’s got bigger balls that Jimmy’s ever had in close games. The Chefs actually seem to have _fewer_ weapons (eg, no Tyreek), but they are still fundamentally solid, and Mahomes could probably take a Pop Warner team and make a good run at a title - he seems to be in the mold of Joe Montana and Tom Brady, very hard to put away.
I would go absolutely nuts if my guys could get revenge on the Chefs and make Mahomes cry on the sideline. Make Taylor Swift have to console Kelce rather than have scene after scene of them celebrating and their families looking happy in their million dollar luxury suite. F the Chefs. But I have tempered my expectations because despite the 5 Super Bowl rings they have, they have had plenty of heartbreaks since 1994. Thirty years of frustration, especially in recent years. I’m just hoping that changes and it’s KC who gets a *massive* kick in the meatpods this time round. #GoNiners
And the rest has been history.. From 28-3 with the Falcons to Rams loss in the NFC Championship to the Chiefs Super Bowl losses, Shanahan abandoned the run. It's almost like he outsmarts himself with the plethora of weapons and play calls on his clipboard. Passing is more sexy. It looks prettier. At the end of the day, you run the damn ball. It's what made the Cowboys successful with Smith, setting up Irving & Harper. Or with TD & the Broncos.
Jackson you nailed it. You're the only guy I've seen who gets this...
Because this was a horrible analysis. Plenty of nfl and former nfl coach/coordinators have called this a horrible and stupid gameplan.
@@Swoldridgeeasy to say in hindsight. There’s a reason they’re “former” and not currently involved in coaching these situations
@@tristankinnamon3181
I mean I'll trust guys who were in the league rather than CZcams guys. Are you serious?
They are "former" coaches who coached in the NFL.
Where did JK coach??? No offense.
@@bubbajr19 those guys don’t care anymore majority of the time, just making money off their name. What valuable insight does Tony romo bring to games? Jackson studies the stuff and brings informed takes
@@tristankinnamon3181 they're former because they're retired. Everybody isn't trying to coach into their 70s.
This is a good breakdown. HOWEVER. 1. It’s the attempts not the yards. 2. Gus should have had at least 10 touches. Ideally a few behind Ricard. It’s about identity and tone setting early.
3. Our history of worst playoff losses. Tracks directly to playoff games with fewest Gus touches.
4. Love Justice Hill. The Gus bus would have picked up 2 extra yards on that 3&1 play.
5. Which could have been number 1. NO EXCUSES… this was disappointing but not shocking. We’ve done this before.
if you want to continue going 3 & out, continue handing the ball off. thats what wouldve had happened. we wouldnt have gotten past midfield but ok. the key to beating 5-3 front is putting your 4.3 40 yard dash QB getting him on the outside with QB runs
@@firelinkedadurite1128 I doubt that they could have stopped Gus. His career record of positive plays is OUTSTANDING and nothing less. They didn’t stop him on any touch that he had. So why would I believe that they could have done it consistently?
Lamar’s rushing opportunities would have come just fine after that.
Also every defense wants Lamar running laterally?? That 4.3 has been gone for 2+ years obviously. It’s the unpredictable darty take offs up the middle. LJ’s highlights are filled with far more between the tackle runs. Than designed outside runs that you can prepare for.
@@firelinkedadurite1128 your use of the word “continue” is baffling. Especially since I would have continued to call runs for the guy that started off with a 15yd carry. Then had to wait until the third qtr get the ball again.
Imagine a Payton Manning or Tom Brady led team abandoning the pass because the it's not working... Never stop what you do best especially if what you don't do best isn't working. No matter, the Ravens have the whole offseason to try to figure it out.
Brady relied on the run quite a bit lol
So did Elway once he got TD. Lol
I think Mahomes brilliance over Lamar and last year Jalen Hurts in the biggest games proves the need to DRAFT THE RIGHT TYPE OF DUAL THREAT QB. While the Ideal Modern QB is a dual-threat QB, there's a titanic gulf between two types of dual threats. The First Dual Threat Type = 1. Move in the Pocket Pass first 2. Scramble to pass as a second option and 3.) Run out of the pocket as a last resort ... Prototypes: Patrick Mahomes and Aaron Rodgers ... the Ideal QB talent. The Second Dual Threat Type: 1. Run as a first option ... 2.) Scramble to pass as a second option ... 3.) Move in the Pocket Pass a a last option... Prototypes: Lamar Jackson and Jalen Hurts... retired: Cam Newton/Michael Vick. I always say, whatever instincts a QB has in college, he'll be stuck with them in the NFL, no matter how hard he tries to coach them out at the Pro-Level. A PLAYER (ESPECIALLY QB) IS THE SUM OF THEIR NATURAL INSTINCTS WHEN SHHH HITS THE FAN.
The problem with run first QBs starts in college or even high school, being that their speed is too much of a temptation to actually hone and refine their pocket awareness, mechanics and instincts due to inferior competition. In college a 4.4 or sub 4.4 speedy QB with a rocket arm albeit inaccurate can out-perform collegiate defenses on raw talent alone given any college roster will usually have 95-99% of players that will never even be considered talented enough for the NFL Draft. Lamar Jackson like Jalen Hurts and Cam Newton before them, will always lose games like this because here's the golden rule: when shhh hits the fan, players fall back on their natural instincts... and for the Lamars and Jalens, the panic button for them is to run out of the pocket first and when forced to stay in the pocket, all their weaknesses as passers are exposed (aka staying locked with eyes on the first read and throwing into triple coverage) whereas the panic button for Mahomes and Rodgers is to carve the defense with a variety of well practiced and accurate throws in and out of the pocket.
Your analysis doesn't make any sense with a sample size of 6 rushes with their running backs.
Also attempting a 1st down rush for 1 yard by Hill instead of Edwards made no sense.
Nothing about this game made sense. The Ravens offensive game plan sold the Chiefs a win by playing as they wanted them to.
Facts it's just very awkward to m
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Even safety Reid said he was surprised yet relieved the Ravens abandoned the run.
I totally agree, Jackson. Being in 3rd & 6/7 constantly isn’t the recipe for the Ravens. Running more would have led to that & sucked off more time. Players deserve just as much blame, and you gotta credit the Chiefs defense. Took a page out of the Chargers book from that 2018 WC game with 6-7 DB’s to help deter from more designed QB runs.
Can i please ask... what program do you use for evaluating these nfl highlights? I'm a big fan of your work, and its inspiring me to analyse the local rugby here in Australia. Any help would be appreciated
It was 17-10 early in the 3rd. Never abandoned your identity. Throw when you're at least in FG range, but run and control game until you get in FG range. Ravens ran the ball only 3 times on first down all game. That's not their identity. They choked.
Great channel...
Awesome defensive game plan. OK, just good, but awesome execution. When Lamar has to beat you with his arm, you are looking good.
Spot on!
Very good break down
The Chiefs had 8 men in the box all game daring Lamar to throw. Tough to run with 8 in the box.
They stopped running the ball because Spags knew that if they were able to run they would win. People are just so stupid not even LOOKINg at why Lamar didnt run more because spags practiced the past week with plays designed so he COULDNT!!
GOOD STUFF!
This is nonsense. Gus should have been in not Hill. Also when you don't run play action is off the table. Gus averages 6.7 yards per carry. You also don't address the order of the calls and they didn't play Dalvin. The run sets everything up...
If the Chiefs are clogging up the front it should mean there are open receivers Lamar isn't seeing. In a couple of plays you showed there is an open receiver that's not being targeted. At 2:58 Lamar is scrambling right and a few yards before he gets to the line Beckham has some separation at midfield but Lamar has committed to run. Beckham actually shows some frustration (arms go up) because he felt (rightly so in my opinion) that it was a missed opportunity for a 1st down. Stacking the line means you don't respect the QB, receivers or both.
The Ravens got kicked in the balls right away in this game and their confidence was shaken. What kind of contender does that? Ohhh right, ones who play under John Harbaugh. I’m not saying Harbaugh is a bad coach; obviously he’s a great regular season coach (and did get a SB ring…grr). But his “game script”? Totally unimaginative. And they were scared off the run… If you’re the better team you beat the other team in the trenches and wear them down. The Chiefs scored 17 points and none in the 2nd half, wtf? The Ravens should have been ground pounding in one way or another the entire first half. I’m not saying straight up the middle, but keep hitting them with different-look running plays. Then in the second half, give them the same looks but start going play action a lot, catch them in 1 on 1 matchups and open up the playbook. But they ran…6 times. NOT going to get any team to the Super Bowl.
It's not like it was 14-21 point lead for the Chiefs. They were within striking distance the whole game. If you are gonna go down swinging, go down with at least 40+ carriers running the rock.
Great take
Still crazy proud of the guys. Some of the things they were able to demonstrate this season and post season was a lot of things people said they would be forever incapable of a feat half as impressive. Disappointing for distribution of mistakes to end up how it was yknow wish they would have got that out of their system before the playoffs but they really didn't get super egregious with the mistakes on the whole. It did really seem like if they were ever going to get the Lombardi it would have been then but who really knows I remember the crushing Lee Evans drop in the endzone to lose a conference championship to the Patriots and I thought they were at their ceiling and could only hope to match with the following season only for them to not only win the conference championship the following year but win the whole thing just a little bit of luck here and there maximized the talent and hardwork gridiron is like that it giveth and also it taketh away. Would we really want it otherwise have a multiple loss elimination or play multiple redundant games as a series like every other sport does I don't think so the black magic element of it gives the spark of spontaneity and the unique charm that makes it what it is.
A fan that is proud if his team choking away this chance is not a fan
I dont care who the qbs are. Ive seen joe Flacco beat brady at home enough times to know that. Its all about discipline and game planning in playoffs. What 2 teams again prevailed? The best coached teams with the most discipline. You can argue shannahan and reid are top 2 coaches in league. It takes a lot to out wit reid, and harbaugh and mcdermott and others cannot do it.
Slight correction to add to your point (I agree with your main point): Flacco always outplayed Brady on the road in the playoffs and beat him there a few times.
And the Ravens did not have one offensive lineman called for holding.. not one
I like your argument. We definitely didn't abandon the run like we did in 2019. I would've liked to see them run the ball more in the first half, especially on a third and one where they ran Hill instead of Gus the Bus. Gus is literally our money guy in those situations. I thought the roughing the passer on Mahomes was a little tacky since Lamar never gets those calls, and when Roquan jumped the ball there was definitely no personal foul. I also never released taunting penalties were that severe. However, if I was an unbiased fan, I would say I'm glad there was no PI called on that triple coverage throw. I thought there was a guy open underneath, and while Likely fell over, I didn't feel it was a significant enough push to really cause that. The way the super bowl ended last year left a bad taste in my mouth, and I wouldn't want to see a team get there in that way, even if it was my Ravens (plus we won our last SB on a very controversial no-call). I've never seen a defense shut down Mahomes like ours did in the second half, and at the end of the day we didn't deserve to win with how many scores we gave away on offense. That being said, I wish we would of won for how Mahomes and Mr. Pfizer disrespected OUR kicker in pregame warm-ups, and I do think at least some refs have a pro-Mahomes bias, especially when it comes to roughing the passer and PI, not seen since late-career Tom Brady. I'd like equal roughing calls for all QBs, preferably being on the lower end because I think the NFL should recognize the existence of momentum.
As a Ravens fan, this hurts brand new every single time, like being in Groundhog day but in a car accident. I want to put something out here, and I hope people tweet it, like it, repeat it until we can manifest it but what does Andrews, Likely and Flowers remind you of? To me it's like poetic deja vu, but the Ravens are in the singularly unique position to be the 2.0 Patriots with Hernandez, Gronk and Welker/Edelman. The talent level of that Patriots triple is right here in Baltimore- we have 2 amazingly talented TEs and a wicked fast and shifty wr all playing at an all-Pro level football. Why is this not blindly obvious to Harbaugh eludes me. On top of that, we have the envious position to have an RPO silver bullet in Lamar and Keaton in the backfield and the tank Ricard and bruiser Edwards who play bully football in the red zone; the Ravens are the complete offensive juggernaut. Everything about the current Ravens player roster screams dynasty, minus the X's and O's. The NFL is a copycat league, and we need a new coaching philosophy, either we grab the entire 2012 Patriots playbook and make it our own or we do the unthinkable and bring in the coach who wrote it...
KC line was playing their gap responsibilities 1st and pressuring the QB 2nd which was why it would be dumb to run the ball. You take what the defense 'gives' you. Unfortunately for the Ravens the Chiefs secondary were covering very well also. It was pick your poison. If the Ravens ran the ball a lot and lost this game then everyone would be saying "why didn't they pass it more?"
No they would say they just lost to the better team and Patrick mahomes is just that great. It’s never a good idea to go away from your identity unless it’s completely shut down. The ravens faced minor adversity and panicked. Considering you have the best defense in the league is even more reason why you continue to try and run the ball. This was a collective meltdown.
The game plan was predictable. The ravens never run on 3rd and 6+. Play one should be a play action. They needed to have KC defense guessing. Instead they stuff our 1st down run. Then switched to a pass defense on 2nd/3rd and long.
You sound like a person that should be talking about baseball not football who in there right mind would say that not running the football for the best running team in the NFL that's crazy it was a rigged game that's why TODD MUNKEN disappeared after the game he couldn't explain how the best running team only had called 6 running plays for the whole game
The Ravens leading rusher in the regular season was. . . Lamar Jackson with 821 yards. Gus Edwards had 810 with Mitchell at 396 and Hill at 387.
How are the Ravens “the best” rushing team?
It’s clear their running game was all about Lamar scrambling against the current zone flavor of the month defense in the NFL. The Chiefs spied Lamar keeping him from scrambling.
Not only did they abandon the run, they also abandoned the short pass game.
Why in the WORLD were they playing like they were down 21 and the whole game!?
The balanced offense is the best offense, becoming one dimensional makes it easier for the defense
When you force Lamar to beat you with just his arm, you have a good chance of beating him
Doesn’t matter what ANYONE says the #1 rush team vs the #17 rush defense and they run 8 or less designed runs is crazy. Chiefs did a good job but the ravens didn’t run enough to abandon all together.
The entire offense wasn’t the one that the Ravens played throughout the regular season. 6 Rushes by the running backs are criminal. The blocking for the runs remained the same. Teams that are number one in rushing don’t abandon the run, because the defense won’t have to play them honestly.
Based on the first play set up, easy WR screen pass for a few yards. Like they're whole defense was set up for run and long passes, throw easy short passes, depend on flowers and Bateman to make those short catches and run after.
Gotta disagree Jackson. Bc where was the short passing game? I’ve heard the notion (again) that a defense blitzed and dared them to throw and they couldn’t.
We didn’t just not run we had more deep shots than I remember in a long while. Like you’re down 3 scores in the 3rd quarter not 1 score in the 1st or 10 points.
Maybe it’s a chicken in the egg thing. Did we panic and abandon the run or abandon the run bc we panicked?
I very strongly disagree with this analysis. The chiefs stopping like 2 or 3 run plays is not enough to say “the run isn’t working” especially when you’re the #1 rushing offense.
Did you not see the chart of the first 9 design run plays? Only 3 were successful. The other 6 were failures. And the more you run, the better the defense will be against it.
@@MrDavidknigge Ravens first 3 drives:
1. Called one run play and went 3 and out
2. Called 3 run plays, 2 went for big yardage, and drive ended in a touchdown.
3. Called 1 run play, then Lamar fumbled on a pass attempt
4th drive: only called 2 run plays for Lamar and Flowers and 3 pass plays. 0 handoffs to Gus Edwards or Justice Hill.
5th drive: 3 and out on 3 pass plays
Those are all the ravens 1st half drives. There’s no possible way you look at that and say “the chiefs really stopped the run” the ravens completely abandoned the run game.
@@MrDavidknigge Basically, I think Jackson is missing that in the 1st half, passing plays were mostly not working any better than running plays. The chiefs weren’t “stopping the run” they were stopping everything, and the ravens just kept passing, despite only being down 1 or 2 scores with plenty of time left.
All but 3 designed run plays were successful. 2 of them gained 1st downs. The other 5. They were not going to sustain drives this way. They had to pass if they had a chance. The way things were going, if they had run 21 more times, 14 of them would have ended poorly. Everybody with eyes could see that the Chiefs were playing to shut down the run. But when they passed, the Ravens were unable to have success. The pass rush rattled Lamar. That is why the Ravens lost. If they ran more they would have still lost.
@@donovan4222 once the Chiefs were up 2 scores, the Ravens never, ever had the ball down less than 2 scores. Additionally, the Chiefs had the ball inside your 15 and turned it over on downs. In the first 9 design runs, the Chiefs stopped them on 6 of them. Therefore the Ravens were never going to sustain a drive running. They were going to lose regardless. Your coaches weren't stupid. They were desperate by necessity.
I like the Ravens. Please, people, get over it. Ravens lost great season.
Try it again next year.... Congratulations to the Chiefs!!!
That play at 4:40, the pulling right tackle takes on the wrong player. The safety comes in and ends up closer to the line than the line backer before the tackle engages anybody for a block. But he goes for the line backer.
And when he does try to engage the line backer, look how he just falls aside so easily and the line backer doesn't even slow down. He just comes right through after the safety has made contact.
That's why that play didn't work.
The OL is supposed to take first threat inside. He’s not supposed to have the Safety in that spot. Defense has the O outnumbered and called a good play against that run.
@@grimaceburgers4491 Inside threat is usually the closest player to him.
If a safety comes down all the way to the line of scrimmage and the LB is still away from the line in back of the safety, he should take out the safety.
But ignoring all that, he still whiffed on the block on the LB. All he did was fall on the ground.
Enjoyable video. But, as with all stats and numbers in the NFL, the sample sizes are tiny and the confounding factors numerous.
Ill put it in simplest terms... ur analysis was on point but there were options for the ravens to drop back and use play action!
Did they play a 5-3 front???!!! 😂 Thats crazy.
KC was smart, if you take away the run game and make Lamar pass it is a guaranteed win.
On top of having 11 rushes on an awful Rush defense the team started passing when the Defense is now looking for the pass. Jackson throws into trike coverage one can’t tell me that play or others before it the run game wouldn’t have worked which in turn opens up passing lanes again.
The question isn't why they stopped running the ball, Its why they didn't adjust to run the ball. In the video start at 1:00, look how the Chiefs react to motion and clearly how they called the strength left. This should have been an easy audible for Lamar to check left or kill the play to something else. Instead he lets it roll to a one yard gain. Chiefs repeatedly did this all game when we would motion and showed strength to one side. We never tried to counter it or run, run replace concepts with play-action. It was complete failure of offensive coaching and pre-snap recognition that lost the game. Inexperience set it and they started chasing points which they never were losing by more than 10 points all game..... its truly puzzling.
The ravens ran for 229 yards per game. And after 8 Carries for 27 yards they abandoned it? Makes you think if instead of letting kelce get free releases over and over and play him man to man while 5-10 yards off the ball what if Baltimore tried to Jam kelce or double team him. You think mahomes would only force 3 throws to him all game? No excuse to only run 8 times when that’s what got you there. You think Tennessee abandoning the run with prime Henry ? Everyone knew what they were doing. Down 10 or up 10.
they really never made even a half hearted attempt to run the ball you just can't say they tried and quit because they never tried.
Longer drives are meaningless if you can’t punch it in. Yeah, some bad breaks, but that’s on them. So I guess I respectfully disagree with you: They needed to run 20-25 times regardless. Maybe throw underneath to their backs, but keep them involved. Lamar looked lost in the second half, despite his defense coming up huge and giving him a whole half to get ten lousy points (or more).
It’s not as though KC’s offense was rolling and the Ravens were trying to chase them. They needed to keep KC guessing with lots of looks, and they didn’t. And if they can’t rush for positive yardage when KC is in a pass protection formation like you showed, they don’t deserve to win! Good teams impose their will on the opponent, they don’t abandon a staple of their game and rely on their QB to do everything.
If they’re better than the Chiefs, use a mix of runs and passes, play action, draw plays, screens, sweeps, delays…whatever it takes. They lost, so they’re not the better team. Scoreboard. (And KC is one of three teams I hate with a passion.)
I disagree. They ran the ball 8 times. They never established the run at all. Defending the pass is the Chiefs strength. Bad game plan in my opinion.
The Chiefs have a wall in the middle, but I guess you could run around it, as you mentioned
The issue was they weren’t running the ball at all on early downs. They were getting stopped in obvious running situations and didn’t dictate any type of pace or anything inna game that they were down 10 at most.
A good offense uses the run to set up the pass. It takes time and isn't just about gaining yards
So if a team focuses on stopping the run aren't they saying beat me with the pass? Got to give props to big Andy and their game plan?
You only need to make 2-4 yards a play to generate a drive. Not every play has to be a bomb.
Until you get in 3rd & 7 constantly
@@TJB270problem is they got to 3rd and 7 a lot because they were tryna throw bombs
@@jujushaw8250 and those guys had some separation at times, but were missed
Gus Edwards ran 3 times for 20 yards. They had not proven that they could stop him.
No Ricard at FB blocking for Jackson either.
Teams have run up the middle against the Chiefs regularly.
The strongest piece of the Chiefs defense is their secondary.
It's almost like the game was scripted. A run-first offense decides not to run. Kinda like the infamous Seattle Superbowl lose by not giving the best running back in the game the ball on the one yard line for the winning touchdown. I can't believe NFL fans still believe the league is a competitive sports league when it's literally called sports entertainment (like the WWE).
😂😂😂 Yeah ....Im baffled at why the Ravens put the ball in their so called MVPs hands. 😂😂😂😂
Proof that His is not the MVP in most peoples eyes.....because I don't remember anyone complaining about a team putting the ball in the MVPs hand before
So chiefs loaded box, the play you showed where tgey ean to right, why not run bootleg opposite or run screen? Can just do standard drop back
How to beat Larmar, the two times MVP. Force him to be quarter backy.
Ravens fans are the least knowledgeable I've met. All emotion, no understanding. Even when you show them, they find someone on their side to blame. Usually a coordinator. Eagles fans were the same last year. A great regular season never, ever promises post season success.
I have a feeling Lamar checked out of a good amount of the runs
It was just a concoction of bad. Too many penalties, turn overs, completely abandoning the run, overthrown balls, not properly adjusting your offensive play calling to getting blitzed ever snap, ect
Only one QB can make it to the Super Bowl each year, and Mahomes being in the AFC plays spoiler to all the other qbs in the division.
What is infuriating is the number of roaches that come out of the woodwork anytime Lamar loses and says he shouldn't be a QB. Why is Lamar the only QB that gets that king of rhetoric anytime he loses? He has shown he more than belongs as a starting QB in the NFL.
On each of ther runs you show not working, there were available clear routes to run, just made bad snap desicions. Like at 3 mins there is a block opening up the outsude run, and he cuts inside straight into all the defenders
Fans with hindsight: 'that didn't work maybe they should've tried something different.
This guy: 'Nope. I don't care that it failed, I agree with it.'
So basically the chiefs were only worried about the ravens run game and not Lamar passing. Which makes Lamar look even worse
Niners also struggled if you watch film. the the chiefs D line was dominant most of that game.
BILLS HAD 182 AND 2TDS RUSHING AND RAVENS ARE FAR AND BEYOND BEST RUSHING TEAM. THEY DIDNT SCHEME THE RUN WELL ENOUGH JUST LIKE 2019
My ears hurt
What you said was they didn’t try to run. Edwards should have had more touches. You showed why in the first clip bill is not a tough enough runner
As someone who both hates the Ravens and has paid a lot of attention to them this year, I'm very happy they abandoned the run. That horrible decision helped them lose, and that makes me extremely happy. Running the ball and defense is why they were the #1 seed and when they decided to win with Lamar's arm, my heart grew 3 sizes(in a good way).
Rent free.
It would be like Floyd Mayweather getting out of his lockdown defense style of fighting and get caught up in a toe to toe fight the whole bout.
RUN THE BALL 🏈!
You normally are spot on but this is nonsense. The ravens since ,2015 have not had a running back get more than 13 carries or 100 yards rushing in the playoffs. That has happen with , 2qb jk Gus Hill and more at RB, 2 OC. The Ravens in that time they have also thrown 59 times in a playoff game. More important what they have done that you agree with has caused them to not win.
Justin forrset is the last ravens rb to even have 100 yards in a playoff game.this falls on John and it's very bad
Old guy here. As a Chiefs fan, I kept wondering why the Ravens didnt go to their strength of running the ball with their RBs and their rushing QB. They led the league in rushing, and the chiefs are weak against the run. They should have pounded the ball all day. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad KC won, but I don’t know why Baltimore didn’t play to their strength. I think they did give up too soon, but it worked in the Chiefs favor. They faced Lamar as a passing QB, which is not his strong suit, rather than a running QB, which he excels at. Not sure who decided it, but the Chiefs took advantage of it.
In a way, I kinda feel bad for Lamar. He’s like the poor man’s Jalen Hurts. A little bit better runner than Hurts, but not near as good as a passer. Lamar can make the easy throws, but that’s about it. He seems to have a harder time reading the coverages too. That pick he threw in the end zone in the 4th quarter was into triple coverage, and was intercepted by a backup safety. He’s just not an elite QB with all the skills needed to be. Unless he can change it up, I’m afraid he’ll be destined to a fantastic regular season QB, racking up yards, TDS, and wins for his team. But in the playoffs where the competition is more fierce, that is the defenses tougher and better disciplined, he will struggle and possibly lose like he did against the Chiefs.
Jackson is better at everything than Hurts. Teams know that if they control the clock and don't turn the ball over, they'll beat the Ravens. If Kansas City played the Ravens like they played the Eagles in the Super Bowl, or the Bills the prior week, they would lose. They played the Ravens like the Colts and Steelers played the Ravens in the regular season and won easily.
Jackson's play in these games have nothing to do with the playoffs. Jackson was just fine the previous week in a playoff game. Harbaugh is 0-28 when trailing by 10, and 2-4 vs. Steelers. They've been losing games like this routinely in the regular season, but few teams have good enough defense and coaching to pull it off.