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02-08-2021, 02:34 AM #37Pro Bowl Poster
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Re: Blueprint to Beat the Chiefs - Your Thoughts...
Double team Hill and Kelsey, drop safeties deep, and most important of all front 4 pressure on Mahomes. He is remarkable at throwing the ball even while being tackled, very acrobatic, but he was exposed as not being the most accurate passer and and gets rattled.
Also get them in the playoffs, Andy Reid isn't really a great big game coach. He finally won a Super Bowl last year after many post season failures in Philadelphia. His calling time outs near the end of the first half which enabled Brady and the Bucs to score a TD: dumb.
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Re: Blueprint to Beat the Chiefs - Your Thoughts...
Hope 4/5 offensive line starters are out and get pressure without blitzing while also putting up 30+. Remember the Ravens struggled to score against the Chiefs in their matchups it wasn’t just Mahomes beating them, the Chiefs defense also stuffed the Ravens offense.
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02-08-2021, 05:25 AM #39
Re: Blueprint to Beat the Chiefs - Your Thoughts...
No, the line in 2019 had 3 good players on it. At the beginning of last year, it was 2, at the end of last year it was 1.
There are 5 guys on the oline and there is nothing wrong with wanting 5 good oliners. The Browns have 4/5 oliners who are very good, a number are top 5 PFF. It's absolutely clear that the Browns have a better oline than the Ravens, and theres no reason why they can't make improvements there.
A starting, very good NFL Center, probably through free agency, maybe through a trade, someone who can start week 1 and be better than anyone the Ravens have had in years.
That should get you back to 3 good oliners, like in 2019. I've suggested that the Ravens add 6'9 OL/TE hybrids through the draft, Spencer Brown, Drew Himmelman, but that's not the only way the Ravens can go about fixing the oline problem.
About defense, it looks like if the Ravens lose edgers like Judon or Yannick, the Ravens will have to replace those edgers, and I'd think that a high ceiling, top sparq edge in the first seems right. And probably another one later.
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Re: Blueprint to Beat the Chiefs - Your Thoughts...
3 years of data says your offense will have to score over 30 and you have to be able to get consistent pressure with your front 4 and play zone behind it.
Yes, the KC tackles being out led to a shocking low amount of points, but even Mahomes other losses, you can slow that offense down just enough to have a chance of outscoring them if you can get some pressure on him.
If we continue to have to rely on blitzing 5-6 guys against them, he's going to eat this defense up for the forseeable future...there are no blitzes that Wink is going to be able to dial up for 60 minutes that will work against him.
Also, your offense of course needs to score a lot and by a lot, I mean a lot of touchdowns, not FG's. For whatever reason, our offense has really struggled with consistency against them.
No easy way to do it. Bucs made it look easy because they got the Chiefs with backups across the entire OL, but your only hope is to get pressure with the front 4 and your offense scoring 28-30+ points.Although Walsh's system of offense can compensate for lack of talent; however, defense is a different story. According to Walsh, talent on defense was essential and could not be compensated for. What did Walsh do in 1981? He acquired physical and talented players on defense.
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02-08-2021, 08:23 AM #41Pro Bowl Poster
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Re: Blueprint to Beat the Chiefs - Your Thoughts...
With a healthy line and without a foot injury to Mahomes that hurt his lateral movement, this would have been a totally different game. To me all this shows is that with constant pressure up the middle, even the best player in the league looked like Lamar did in the San Diego playoff game.
What the Ravens need to takeaway from that game is to have a good pass-blocking offensive line and talent on the defensive line.
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Re: Blueprint to Beat the Chiefs - Your Thoughts...
That was a great game - Bowles the blitz king kept his guys pretty much in base with two deep safties. They were not going to get beat deep, they were going to make KC drive the field. When Mahomes ran for about his 5th play to bail out of a pass I smiled and knew that was just what they wanted.
9 freaking points...
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Re: Blueprint to Beat the Chiefs - Your Thoughts...
World Domination 3 Points at a Time!
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02-08-2021, 09:28 AM #45
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02-08-2021, 09:33 AM #46
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Re: Blueprint to Beat the Chiefs - Your Thoughts...
It's not a new blueprint. Getting pressure with the front 4 has always been the key to slowing if not beating them. It's the biggest reason the Ravens haven't been able to beat Mahomes, they continually blitz nonstop over and over because they have no other choice with no guys who can consistently win 1 on 1, and Mahomes picks it apart. Literally a thread created by Mcclend back in 2018 after our first loss to them saying without being able to pressure with 4, those games will continue to end in heartbreak, and so far through 2 more games that has held true.
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02-08-2021, 09:50 AM #48Legendary RSR Poster
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Re: Blueprint to Beat the Chiefs - Your Thoughts...
It's the same way to beat any good QB. If you can get consistent pressure with a 4 man rush, it's going to be really tough for any QB to excel.
Also, it's probably understated how well the Bucs LB's are in pass coverage. Lavonte David essentially took Kelce out of the game.
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