Ravenous_Ravens

No blame, just advice, two hands on the ball if you dive through the air. Point is if your body will not touch the ground easily, your are just asking for someone to knock it loose. Again though no blame, he plays defense and that is advice mostly given to offensive ball carriers. CJ Mosley's play and motor are flying high. Hopefully the injury is nothing too serious and just a tight muscle.

Pretty sure he is in the hot seat already. Whether firing Trestman was ultimately his decision or an ultimatum given to him, who knows or cares. Thing is he is overall responsible for this team and this recent move certainly hints at him feeling the heat rise to uncomfortable levels.

Gambling for points when your behind and cannot score regularly is like strangling yourself when your lacking oxygen in the first place.

What are you talking about? Pees on notice. If it was not for his defense playing very well, the Ravens would easily be 0-5 with no sign of slowing the suffering down. Maybe his pass rush is not among the best in the league, but the best pass rushes have more to do with exceptional players making unbelievable plays over just a DC making a good play call. I will also very clearly point out that had the offense been able to stay on the field and produce even the NFL average points per game, this defense would be much better simply from not being gassed as the game goes into the fourth quarter. Cannot drop the entire load on the defense like that and expect miracles to happen when the offense decides to disappear for 3 quarters plus.

Cam Cameron was too vanilla overall. Just not much imagination to force defense to hesitate. Mark Trestman was too fancy overall. Trying to make these fancy type plays ever play or settle for the fire escape dump off passes. Morningweg just needs to stay within those two boundaries and he will do fine.

The best run systems are the ones that encompass all the strengths of a team and mask their weaknesses. It's called synergy. All the parts need to be on the same page (in sync), clearly understand what is expected of them (communication) and held accountable for better or for worse to reinforce the system and buy in. Lastly the system needs to be realistic in what they ask their players to execute. What ever the task is must be reasonable to expect their can successfully execute it 90% + of the time, if not automatic.

Trestman really did not make the transition from the CFL. In CFL you can pass and run at those rates because you only get 3 downs vs 4 downs. It pretty much forces you to throw along those lines or average at least 5 yards a carry to keep your offense on the (bigger) field. NFL with a smaller field just has less room to run his routes with means the run game is more highly valued. Either way, he has been in the NFL long enough to have been able to pick up on this, whether coaches telling him of judging the results from game film. I was in favor of firing Trestman, mostly for the complete lack of putting up points. This was the single biggest issue for concern.

It is not so much about the exact number of run vs pass plays but the %'s need to be more even keel. At the least 60% pass and 40% run or 60% and 40% pass. That is the range to stick within. Even more important however is masking the play calls so defenses cannot simply read the play before it happens. Call it the poker face aspect of being an OC. Lastly, when something is working well, keep it up and do not stop until opponents show they can stop it outright. Having has the chance to get to know Joe and this thoughts on offensive game planning should be nothing but a blessing for Morningweg as he sinks his teeth into the duties of OC.

1) Mostly agree. Flacco is great at executing the play calls, but not necessarily making things out of nothing. When the OC has been suspect his play has been suspect. When the OC has been formidable, his play has risen appropriately. 2) Harbs is still pretending he has HoF caliber players leading his team on the field for him. Time to step up and make up the difference in coaching. 3) Defense is legit. Biggest issues is lack of depth at ILB. 4) Agreed, when you stop doing what is working and so very well it begs the question, what game was he watching? 5) ST is better than that as they have made some great game changing plays. They suffer because of parting ways with proven ST players. Giving up a return here and there will happen but the distance and frequency is a bit concerning. 6) Mediocre? Maybe when they decide to play with urgency, otherwise I would say uninspiring. 7) Someone tell the Ravens where their home field is so they can get excited for something? Feels like the purple kool-aid is been passed around before games. Firing Trestman cannot possibly get any worse for point production. Heck we might even see 2 100-yard rushers again. Just make sure the next OC knows what an offense looks like and how it gets going.

This is not school yard football. You just don't run a route where you want to. Plays are designed to attack certain defense alignments in certain situations. On 3rd & Long, the primary Wrs run routes past the 1st down marker, which leaves underneath open. So, if Flacco only has 2.3 seconds to make a decision, Wallace & Perriman were never open, his O-line is crashing, he's going to throw the ball to the open receiver underneath if that's Juice, Gilmore, etc. Almost every pass play in the NFL has a deep route, an intermediate route, a short route and a checkdown. It's up to the primary WR to get open (Wallace & Perriman were not) then it's up to the QB to read the route (or go to the next progression) and then it's up to the O-line to give him the time and then the QB has to make the throw. Good O-lines typically give the QB 3-4 seconds to make that happen. Ours is not. ZERO offenses can be successful if you are only giving your QB 2.5 seconds - I don't care who is calling the plays. Agreed. But this story has been told for too long to be the real excuse anymore.

Defense.. check. Special Teams.. check. Offense.. Offense!.. Anyone seen the offense?.. Better have Biscotti send out the search teams, this might take a while.

Tough to say where this offense tries to go with the ball. Yes a bad call, but perhaps it was the call or the best option, which might be more telling of the real issues.

Well either his knee is bothering him more than they let on or this offensive scheme and game planning is just not working with this group. I'll go with the latter. Since last season before adding more of Trestman touch on the playbook, they were at least able to put up the points more often, even with all the injuries. Against the statistically bad defense they only put up 10 points? Only question now is, how long will it take before coaching staff/Front Office make the necessary changes. Cannot continue on this path and expect different results.

Now that your getting your opportunity, make the most of it and do not take it for granted. Its the best way to stick around.

Lewis cannot do any worse at LT and seems to be very solid in pass protection. I would have made the same call, assuming Stanley actually does not play.

Suggs leadership was always there. It is just that now he gets more of the spotlight to himself. Very glad to have him back out on the field setting the bar for the rest of the team.

Definitely saw it coming but sounds like Waller has to out perform Brown... The spot won't just be handed to him Well see. Don't think it has anything to do with out performing Brown, as he seems to make the roster for an extra blocker, being a heavier player. Waller vs a 3rd running back is basically the decision that needs to be made now. That creates some interesting competition with Dixon returning to practice and Buck Allen getting a bit of a taste of game action last week.

Well it is much more obvious than that because it really is Harbs giving the long leash. If an OC/DC or any coach is not cutting it, it falls on the HC to deal with it and right the ship. If that doesn't happen, the flack rise to the top for not dealing with it (doing their job). To be fair we did see more run commitment by Trestman last game. But the penalties (dumb one at that) killed too many drives and stopped any kind of rhythm form forming. Teams are taking away the top and playing the run, so the middle of the field and seams should be wide open yet they do not take advantage enough. Throwing for 45+ attempts a game also does not bode well for a long season and hopefully playoffs. A game or two here and there is good, but any kind of pattern like that will be a bad thing come December unless the run game decides to really explode and take off.

This organization knows Defense first and foremost. They also know Special Teams. Offense is really a guessing game like shooting into the dark. The Ravens need to get better at assessing offensive players and coaches. this is the main reason their offenses only really ever peak as much as they do. Still going throw this out there because each week that goes by I keep getting reminded of what could have been. Second round draft pick should have been WR Sterling Shepard. He is a great slot receiver that can create enough separation to make tough catches. He also could have been a return man for punt and most likely kickoffs. He had much more upside than trying to convert Reynolds from QB to WR/return man. He also has a much more sturdy frame than Campanaro. They even could have still traded back the first time and gotten him. KC has shown very little from a second round pick in comparison. I don't even put that all on him though, since they brought him in to play a new position. Yes this is just one move that could have had many positive gains on this team. It would have let them move on from Campanaro and use the Reynolds pick on another position of need that might contribute in a bigger manner, say CB/S or O-line. They would had no reason to go and sign a aging return man who is now dealing with injury and had some issues with the muffs. For the record, I was promoting the Ravens draft Sterling Shepard since before the drat happened.

While I agree that Trestman has been hurting this offense but the Vikings and the Dolphins are both averaging less yards a game then the Ravens and Vikings are only averaging one more point a game then the Ravens. Sure that one point would have helped last week but its not like either one of these teams have great offenses. Well I have some good news, according to NFL.com those ranks in that article are completely wrong. The Ravens have number 1 ranked defense and the 19th ranked offense. And in all honesty a big game ore two could easily put them in top 15, or higher. When it comes to the offense Trestman is definitely problem number one, but dropped passes and penalties are arguably 2 and 3 on that list. Then you have the offensive line struggling in both pass blocking and run blocking. Even with that said, I think its a little early to say "another year of disappointment looms for this offense" Like one expert was saying, with limited offseason practices the first four games of the season are like preseason games. Teams are still figuring around what they are good at and when needs to be fixed, There is still time to turn things around. Last season the Ravens were able to fix their pass defense and late into the 2012 season a change in OCs helped the Ravens win the Super Bowl. But they need to fix things now because their schedule is about to get a lot tougher. The lack of a sense of urgency from the coaches is what worries me. Since when is a coach okay with a close loss in a must win game situation. Must win because last week was a very winnable game and especially because the schedule only gets tougher here on out. I get you gotta keep your head on straight and not sink when you lose, but it really seemed like no one was concerned with the lack of execution throughout mostly the first 3 quarters.

So it would sure seem that Stanley is not likely to play this week. I read between the lines, because as soon as Maxx Williams left the game his absence and help with blocking gave way for the raiders defense to get after Joe much more easily. then they bring up Daniel Brown who at this point seems likely to be that extra blocker and of course ST. What is the injury to Stanley's foot anyways? Did he get stepped on or it is ligaments or worse? Just curious because everyone says its not serious and he could play, yet he did not play and this week still seems up in the air and unlikely we'll see him on the field.

Strange move IMHO. Waller could easily have provided what Brown brings on ST and is a bigger target as well and can line up in multiple positions. Let's be honest Brown is not going to see many snaps at WR or even many targets. They have enough issues, getting all the top WR's the ball. Also curious why they went out and got a another WR for the practice squad who is most likely not as polished as Butler is, hence why he got move to full roster. The staff/personnel decisions this last year have been very suspect to me and only seem to continue. Did no one ever stop to consider maybe getting more help for the offensive line? I mean it is the biggest elephant in the room right now.

Run game issues are on Juan Castillo. Since he got here, run game has declined steadily. He might be good at teaching the pass pro but run blocking does not show the same kind of results and it has been some time he has been here now with a good body of work to look at. I think he needs to rethink that department. Trestman needs to get this offense playing fast. They look/seem out of sync and cannot establish a rhythm easily. Not sure the cause but seriously start copying the better offenses if necessary. There is too much invested into this offense to not produce much better results. Harbaurgh needs to cut the dumb penalties out however it needs to get done. Just like last year it will often be the difference of winning and losing and we have seen that reminder even early into the season.

Actually play action is setup just on the run being effective. Pass protection helps, helps they reason PA works is due to misdirection to give you just enough of a window to roll out and find your target for a strike. If anything PA can help out a when protection is not great.

Yes, Joe does not have the hustle he needs to be effective right now. I would start telling him if he can't go full speed, Mallett plays. Not stepping into your throws is a bad habit that leads to interceptions and inaccuracy issues. Also would indicate his knee is not back to normal. It might be healthy and all, but he's not trusting it fully yet by hesitating to step into his throws.