I'm going to refrain from commenting on a lot of this stuff, so do excuse me on that. I'd rather not anger a bunch of people who I do very much enjoy interacting with on here, and I'm going to leave it at that.
Luminesa wrote:Outer Sparta wrote:But but but stick to sports!
Eh. I guess it’s still sports. Ish? Trump should let Drew say what he wants to.
Definitely still sports, Drew Brees was mentioned.
Side bar, I would ask everyone to abstain from venturing off into the root causes of a lot of what is going on right now in this thread. You seem to have all been doing good with that, and I appreciate it very much. This is both in order to stay on topic in the thread and to avoid heated and confrontational discussions.
Baltimore-Ravens wrote:Definitely. Though he'll have to change his game up once his legs start to go on him in 5 - 7 years or so. But just imagine this guy with 4 or 5 seasons of coaching and experience under his belt?
OMIGOD.
And we got him all the way down at pick 32 of the 2018 draft which cost us two late 2nd round pick (one in 2018 & one in 2019). What were these teams thinking?
I think Baltimore is going to have a tough time moving the ball this year, at least early on. If I'm correct, they like to go with heavy sets, with 2-3 tight ends in the game. As much as I love the idea of pounding the rock and such, I've seen it with my own team. A clever DC (I saw the Ravens do this), will have the back 7 cheat up. With so many guys tight to the OL, you can crowd the line of scrimmage, opening up a lot more players to blitz, which makes it much harder to predict what is coming. Ravens fans correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Mariota was sacked 10 times in that game. And Mariota, while nowhere near the player Jackson is, is at least near his level as a pure athlete.
Beyond that, I'm not sold on Lamar as a passer yet. He is totally capable of making a perfect throw (I've seen it) However, when I watch, a lot of his statistical success through the air seems to be a product of forcing teams to play a different style of football rather than his accuracy.
For those of you who played high school (or college?) football, it's easier to prepare for a team that runs a similar system to what you've seen before. If you're playing against ground and pound squads all season, that air raid offense is going to probably cook you. Granted, this is still an advantage for this football team, and it's never going to be easy to prepare for them. So until people do start to figure out what to do, it'll continue to play in their favor.