How did the Ravens break the giants for 249 running yards?
Many plays were won before breaking the ball because the defensive players were in the wrong gaps.
“Depending on the defensive call-up, in any play certain guys had to take advantage of certain players,” said Blake Martinez, the inside defender. “Whether it’s receiver number 2 or number 3, the end of the fight line is what it ended up being.
“Suddenly, they started making their changes and moves (all the things they did before), which then changed your certain pre-alignment. Once you weren’t in place, they suddenly broke the ball. Now you have two places back instead of being at the right point to start ”.
The Ravens use more forward movement than any offense in the NFL, so it shouldn’t have been a surprise. In addition to getting the defense to deactivate pass coverage to man or zone, the move helps time their single race option offense.
“My way of looking at it is that you have between 11 and 11,” Martinez said. “A boy has to be holding the ball, so there are 10 against 11 to block. If we can fit it well, a boy should be free and we didn’t do our job in each of those plays to be able to to have the advantage of this free boy ”.
The Giants missed an incredibly high number of attacks and always seemed to chase the ball carriers from behind. Martinez credited the game’s adjustments to coordinator Patrick Graham, listening to players’ comments, why the fast defense improved as the game progressed, but the first quarter hole went 14-0 (at the back of 95 hasty yards) was too large to extract. .
“You couldn’t scratch or get past the offensive liners or the winger, whoever they were,” Martinez said. “It allowed them to have only that lane open.”
When asked directly to the coach about a player’s future, he sometimes feels no choice but to dance around the truth with good service. Let’s take what 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan said about quarterback Jimmy Garappolo as an example of creating a movement room: “I think Jimmy will be our quarterback next year.”
That’s different from Giants coach Joe Judge’s unpredictable vote of confidence for quarterback Daniel Jones, who voluntarily included himself in an answer to a question Monday about penalties on the offensive line. The judge pointed to Jones ’safety and decision-making as reasons why he is a“ key piece ”for the future.
“You always want to know about‘ Is Daniel our boy? Will we continue with Daniel? The answer is absolutely, ”the judge said.
“What gives us that confidence is even in games like [Sunday] where it didn’t come out perfectly … you look at the tape and you see that guy who operates in it, who executes, who understands the pressure, and who not only stays in there with courage as he has done all the time and has given a blow , but he understands how to do it, take the blow and make a precise pass and move the sticks around the field “.
TE Evan Engram left the game late Sunday due to injury and met with doctors Monday night. The judge is “optimistic” that the Pro Bowler will be able to play in all 16 games for the first time in his four-year career.