by Rivers McCown | Dec 18, 2020 | Baltimore Ravens
There are many reasons that the Ravens’ passing offense has not repeated on the success it had last year. Some of them are about the running game — while it has been effective, it hasn’t been as otherworldly as it was in 2019, which has led to deeper downs for a...
by Rivers McCown | Dec 1, 2020 | Baltimore Ravens
As we look ahead to a matchup that the Ravens handily won on defense last time, holding the Steelers to just 221 total yards, what stands out to me is just that the unit has undergone a lot of shuffling as they’re dealing with injuries, COVID, and the Yannick Ngakoue...
by Rivers McCown | Nov 13, 2020 | Baltimore Ravens
It’s hard to talk about anything the Ravens are doing right now without it coming back to their pass offense feeling fundamentally broken. Lamar Jackson says teams are calling out the plays: Greg Roman (and many other Ravens) have said: “Well, that kind of happens.”...
by Rivers McCown | Oct 29, 2020 | Baltimore Ravens
When we look at what the Ravens have shown thus far, the major decline has been with the passing offense. They have fallen from a league-leading 52.7% pass offense DVOA to a respectable-but-boring 9.8% pass offense DVOA. It’s a figure that gets even more alarming if...
by Rivers McCown | Oct 16, 2020 | Baltimore Ravens
One of the major turning points of the season to me is Week 4. That’s when Football Outsiders finally has enough team-by-team comparison data to run with defense-adjusted numbers rather than the ones that are just pure outputs from the games. (You can discuss this on...
