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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
It's not that they weren't scoring because they didn't need to.
They weren't scoring because they put the risk knob to 0. And the Ravens defense is very good.
If you're going to score on them, you're going to have to make higher risk plays (the flip to Kelce on 3rd, for example). But the squad seemed to understand that the Ravens, if given a long field, were going to make a mistake before they score. They knew the Ravens couldn't drive a long field.
So rather than risk giving them a short field, they chose to play the field position game, force them to execute for a full drive and get it into the end zone.
And Baltimore simply never could. Every time they got to the red zone required a big play. We went into a shell on defense AND offense. Because it's pretty damn hard to do one but not the other. If you're going play the way we were playing defensively, you need to complement that offensively and continue to force them into long drives.
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Only thing I disagree about yesterday was not taking the FG on 4th and 1 which made me believe that after Lamar's only TD Andy thought it could be a possible shootout.
Just take the points Andy. Omenihu gave us a great turnover in FG range and we wasted it by going for it against by far the leagues best rush defense that has done well all year in those short yardage situations.
Not getting points there hurt. Get what you can with this defense bc it's gonna be hard for any offense to score TD's on us