[News] With Offensive Line Back In Place, Ravens Hopeful Offense Will Follow

[BR News]

Rookie left tackle Ronnie Stanley (foot) and Pro Bowl right guard Marshal Yanda (shoulder) were full practice participants Wednesday, putting them on track to face off against the Steelers. Yanda said it’s no secret that they’ll try to run at Pittsburgh.

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[whobilly]

If Joe throws over 40 times we lose. That is not our formula. Never has been.

[The Greek]

it is all about results. we shall see what happens.

[Purple Dawg 96]

There are no more "EXCUSES" then Joe should sling that Rock and put this game away and not depend on the Defense to do it! Joe can you save me?! I will be surrounded by squeelers Sunday from Cleveland and squeeltown get together with my new Ravens tie dye that arrived last week! Mallet saved me with backups starring Kamar Aiken! LETS GO!

[GeeWallee]

Good to have the Starting O-Line back as a group.Run the Ball and take some Deep Shots down the Field. That is how this team succeeds.
They 'must' start scoring once they get in to the Red Zone. Touchdowns are a vital piece of getting a lead and maintaining it.
I agree that the Defense shouldn't have to shoulder the load.
Hope to see a "W" this Sunday !!!

[surfdude]

Really bummed the Steve is back at practice. Ravens truly need him on the field. Only guy with any fire.

[surfdude]

Steve is NOT back at practice ....

[Asmodeus1971]

According to this the Ravens o-line was worse with them, 11 sacks compared to 9. I think something is wrong here:

"There’s no doubt the Ravens are better with Stanley and Yanda on the field. But they still had trouble preventing pressure even before injuries knocked them out.

The Ravens gave up 23 quarterback hits and 11 sacks in the first three weeks. They surrendered 27 hits and nine sacks over the next four weeks"

[surfdude]

O LIne stinks no matter who's out there. NO athleticism what so ever.Yanda I'm afraid is done IMO. GREAT GREAT player but father time has caught up to him. The rest are weak and nasty streak.

[Asmodeus1971]

This fixes nothing, the first three weeks the weak side was actually the right or right down the middle. Stanley and Lewis did great but Zuttah and Wagner were awful. Yanda had more penalties three games than he has had the last few years combined. If Yanda, Zuttah, and Wagner don't play better it won't fix much unless we run to the left.

We need that from our offense and we need our defense to keep pressure whether on the QB. Our secondary can cover if there is pressure, if not any decent QB will have a field day waiting for the coverage to break somewhere and that isn't on the secondary that is on the front seven not getting the pressure. Seems like the pressure comes in a few series and then disappears. It may come back again a few series later but that is no good it needs to stay steady.

[ryananth]

These qb hits, hurries and sack stats are so misleading. It'd be nice if maybe they'd put some sort of metric on those stats. Like how many times they are hit, say, three seconds before and after the snap to give true comparative figures.

[sami]

Steve is NOT back at practice ....

surfdude, click on the time below ur name and you can edit ur comment.

[Raven1995]

Whoa, Yanda has not hit the wall yet. He is just trying to do too much and is playing next to a weak center. In 2013 he got a lot of penalties playing next to Gino Gradkowski, and he is a sub for Carolina

[surfdude]

Whoa, Yanda has not hit the wall yet. He is just trying to do too much and is playing next to a weak center. In 2013 he got a lot of penalties playing next to Gino Gradkowski, and he is a sub for Carolina

I agree , Jeremy is weak and Wagner is weak as well. Yanda is doing too much. Love Yanda.

[martyknight@yahoo.com]

Looks like a flag-happy crew--great.  

[ellicottraven]

The bottom line is Flacco needs to be protected very well for him to be effective. He's not good under pressure and that's been borne out time and again. So, I'm glad that the O-line is back healthy now and hopefull can give Flacco that extra half second to get rid of the ball without taking a sack.

The other important thing is the coordinator has to take into account that Flacco isn't good under pressure so he has to figure out a game plan where there are quick and easy options for Flacco to dump the ball ASAP and to hand the ball over to the RBs more than 50% of the time. If these goals are accomplished our defense will win us the game. The most critical thing to remember is not to give up the ball on offense either through INTs or fumbles.

If we can get good special teams play by giving us good field position and the running game is efficient by getting us to FG range, we have the best kicker in the NFL who also happens to be our best player in Tucker. Let him win the game for us and not let the offense lose it for us. If we follow this pathway till Flacco regains confidence in his knee and game, we'll be good to go come January if we win 7 games out of 9! Then Flacco can get back to being January Joe.

[fusuymada]

After much thought and consideration about this offense, and the progressions and transitions over the last 5 years and the coaching hires, I don't look for much improvement until Harbaugh sits down with the front office and really thinks this Offensive Coordinator thing out. I think the Kubiak hire if nothing else shows just what an impact a quality OC can have. I don't know if changing from Marty is the answer at this point because part of the problem is switching OCs 5 times in 5 years. Cam was a good OC and having many years with Flacco the offense could grow and progress. When Cam was canned, Caldwell, I believe benefitted from a league who had no idea what an OC who had never called a play would call and how he would scheme. Plus I think Joe felt relief after being under Cams thumb since being in the league. Caldwell was exposed in the next year but then Kubiak came back and righted the ship. Just another reason a person from Baltimore should hate John Elway. Trestman was just a bad hire and Marty is trying to piece this back together with little time and limited resources. Viewing it under this light I don't expect much progress BUT like Pittsburgh and Cincinatti, we don't fire the Head Coach, he and Bisciotti and Newsome have to sit down and figure this all out. Too much firing talk. Same with the front office. Ozzie is a genius of player personnel, that doesn't change. He needs to figure out why the scouting reports aren't accurate, why scouts are standing up for the players they do, what's changed in the evaluation process. Trestman stunk it up last year and was well on the way this year. Harbs needs to really think this OC thing out whether it's keeping Marty or or a really, really strong candidate like Kubiak was and Ozzie needs ro figure this draft problem as well,

[Cillmatic]

Run. The. Ball.

[The Greek]

According to this the Ravens o-line was worse with them, 11 sacks compared to 9. I think something is wrong here:

"There’s no doubt the Ravens are better with Stanley and Yanda on the field. But they still had trouble preventing pressure even before injuries knocked them out.

The Ravens gave up 23 quarterback hits and 11 sacks in the first three weeks. They surrendered 27 hits and nine sacks over the next four weeks"

juan castillo is the problem

[Fastynart]

O baloney. The four game losing streak has nothing to do with the offensive line. That is not to say it has done its job, but the last awful showing, against a Jet team whose quarterback was so bad they benched him, yet he lit up the Ravens like the reincarnation of Johnny Unitas. Flacco has been on a downward spiral since the Super Bowl win. He was just awful in the Jets game. The offensive line gave him time and he couldn't even hit his receivers when he had it. Still throwing off his back foot. Still short arming passes into the ground. Still throwing over the heads of receivers. He should have been pulled from the game.

[Fastynart]

After much thought and consideration about this offense, and the progressions and transitions over the last 5 years and the coaching hires, I don't look for much improvement until Harbaugh sits down with the front office and really thinks this Offensive Coordinator thing out. I think the Kubiak hire if nothing else shows just what an impact a quality OC can have. I don't know if changing from Marty is the answer at this point because part of the problem is switching OCs 5 times in 5 years. Cam was a good OC and having many years with Flacco the offense could grow and progress. When Cam was canned, Caldwell, I believe benefitted from a league who had no idea what an OC who had never called a play would call and how he would scheme. Plus I think Joe felt relief after being under Cams thumb since being in the league. Caldwell was exposed in the next year but then Kubiak came back and righted the ship. Just another reason a person from Baltimore should hate John Elway. Trestman was just a bad hire and Marty is trying to piece this back together with little time and limited resources. Viewing it under this light I don't expect much progress BUT like Pittsburgh and Cincinatti, we don't fire the Head Coach, he and Bisciotti and Newsome have to sit down and figure this all out. Too much firing talk. Same with the front office. Ozzie is a genius of player personnel, that doesn't change. He needs to figure out why the scouting reports aren't accurate, why scouts are standing up for the players they do, what's changed in the evaluation process. Trestman stunk it up last year and was well on the way this year. Harbs needs to really think this OC thing out whether it's keeping Marty or or a really, really strong candidate like Kubiak was and Ozzie needs ro figure this draft problem as well,

Ozzie, the genius, hasn't had a good draft for 6 years. He has blown high draft choices on the likes of Elam, Perriman, and the immortal Sergio Kindle. If that is genius, a dog could do better. That is why the Ravens are in the sad state that they are, not because of inept Offensive Coordinators.

[RaRaRavens]

  8 hours ago, fusuymada said:

After much thought and consideration about this offense, and the progressions and transitions over the last 5 years and the coaching hires, I don't look for much improvement until Harbaugh sits down with the front office and really thinks this Offensive Coordinator thing out. I think the Kubiak hire if nothing else shows just what an impact a quality OC can have. I don't know if changing from Marty is the answer at this point because part of the problem is switching OCs 5 times in 5 years. Cam was a good OC and having many years with Flacco the offense could grow and progress. When Cam was canned, Caldwell, I believe benefitted from a league who had no idea what an OC who had never called a play would call and how he would scheme. Plus I think Joe felt relief after being under Cams thumb since being in the league. Caldwell was exposed in the next year but then Kubiak came back and righted the ship. Just another reason a person from Baltimore should hate John Elway. Trestman was just a bad hire and Marty is trying to piece this back together with little time and limited resources. Viewing it under this light I don't expect much progress BUT like Pittsburgh and Cincinatti, we don't fire the Head Coach, he and Bisciotti and Newsome have to sit down and figure this all out. Too much firing talk. Same with the front office. Ozzie is a genius of player personnel, that doesn't change. He needs to figure out why the scouting reports aren't accurate, why scouts are standing up for the players they do, what's changed in the evaluation process. Trestman stunk it up last year and was well on the way this year. Harbs needs to really think this OC thing out whether it's keeping Marty or or a really, really strong candidate like Kubiak was and Ozzie needs ro figure this draft problem as well,

Ozzie, the genius, hasn't had a good draft for 6 years. He has blown high draft choices on the likes of Elam, Perriman, and the immortal Sergio Kindle. If that is genius, a dog could do better. That is why the Ravens are in the sad state that they are, not because of inept Offensive Coordinators.

I looked through A LOT of draft boards before drafts, and I didn't see anyone else having Elam or Perriman go in the 1st. Obviously for a good reason.

[thegooddoc456]

If Flacco lets the play clock run out just one time this Sunday, I'm going to run onto the field and yank him out myself. I'm sick of that rubbish! Yeah, have the Ravens learnt to pass rush yet? Has Pees learnt how to surprise anyone with pressure? I shed purple tears when I watch other teams play attacking defense...what is life???

[sizzlingdoom]

Run. The. Ball.

Exactly. So glad we have West otherwise running the ball wouldn't really be an option. Get healthy Dixon. Healthy Oline now, run the ball. Then maybe finally we can get Breshad or Mike running 50 yards down field on some play action

[Rav'n Maniac]

A healthy OL will help but, health isn't the only issue. We are severely weak at the Center position. Until we fix that, teams will continue to blow up the middle through the A gap.

[Raven1995]

6 hours ago, Fastynart said:

O baloney. The four game losing streak has nothing to do with the offensive line. That is not to say it has done its job, but the last awful showing, against a Jet team whose quarterback was so bad they benched him, yet he lit up the Ravens like the reincarnation of Johnny Unitas. Flacco has been on a downward spiral since the Super Bowl win. He was just awful in the Jets game. The offensive line gave him time and he couldn't even hit his receivers when he had it. Still throwing off his back foot. Still short arming passes into the ground. Still throwing over the heads of receivers. He should have been pulled from the game.

The Offensive Offensive line Couldn't get no running game started. 11 Rushing yards that is awful. The Jets defense was just sitting back waiting for the passes. I knew their was going to be interceptions before they happened. Yes Joe is playing bad he has been hit too many times. Hopefully Yanda and Stanley can right the Ship.

Edited November 4, 2016 by Raven1995

[gooftroop]

I'll tell you what I'm tiring of watching- games in which receivers are running open, all over the field. And it ain't us.

[jravens1313]

I think Flacco needed this bye as much as the rest of our injured players. Everyone is so quick to attack Flacco. Playing QB in the NFL is tough. Playing QB in the NFL when your O-Line can't block and you throw 40 times is even more difficult. I think Harbaugh made the mistake of rushing Flacco back. He is obviously is tough enough to stand in there and take hits, but Mallet should have started the season off until Flacco felt close to 100% or our O-Line could prove that they can pass block on a consistent basis. Look how the Steelers rest Ben through his injuries. We need to use Mallet when necessary. *This falls on Harbaugh. 

Edited November 4, 2016 by jravens1313