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01-31-2024, 08:38 PM | #871 |
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To be fair, Lamar has a lot of daddies
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02-04-2024, 01:21 AM | #872 |
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02-05-2024, 11:32 AM | #873 |
How tall is this thing?
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At this point, I think it's fair to say or at least arguable, that John Harbaugh and the Baltimore Ravens were more concerned with killing the narrative around Lamar Jackson as a RBQB, than they were with winning the game and going to the superbowl.
The Ravens didn't even begin the football game trying to run the football. In total, there were 8 rushes, including 2 designed runs by Lamar Jackson, and totalling 6 carries for their running backs. It was like Harbaugh went into the game thinking that Lamar was going to put the football up 40+ times, against the leagues best secondary. Why? To try to catch us off guard by playing right into our strength? I don't think so. Baltimore never tried to establish the run at any point. Either they really shit the bed and panicked horrificly early (a fair point considering the early 4th down attempt from their own 30) and completely abandoned the thought of the run going forward, or they really wanted Lamar to be the guy to take them over the hump. It just doesn't appear that the Ravens ever planned to lean on the run to try to win this game. In the end, all they did was cement the fact that Lamar is more RB than QB. He's a highlight reel guy, 2 time MVP with 2 playoff wins in 6 years. Not only that, but they've called into question just WTAF was Harbaugh doing signing off on a gameplan that ended with just 8 rushes on the day by leagues best rushing offense. Lamar and Pat became starters in the same year. While Patrick has made his legend largely coming roaring back to drive daggers through the hearts of opponents that go up 2,3,sometimes 4 scores on him, even in post season, and maintaining around an 80% win rate in those games, Lamar Jackson has yet to win a single one in which his team goes down a couple scores at half. It rarely ends well when you have the ability to run, but you want your QB to be the one getting the credit. Pete Carrol knows a little something about that, and we can probably add John Harbaugh to that list as well. |
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02-05-2024, 11:42 AM | #874 |
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02-05-2024, 11:51 AM | #875 |
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I read someone say the TD to Flowers gave the Ravens a false sense of security that they could beat the Chiefs passing.
They got a broken play TD and thought that was gonna happen every down. I don't think I've ever seen a Chiefs team squeeze Lamar in the pocket and mostly shut down his scrambling AND scrambling to throw better. He had one big run and not much else. |
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02-05-2024, 11:54 AM | #876 |
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Games are organic. Baltimore went in with the plan of what they wanted to do. The Chiefs dominated the time of possession and forced Baltimore out of their comfort zone.
I guarantee you the BMore planned to run. A lot. The Chiefs made them change that plan. |
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02-05-2024, 01:33 PM | #877 |
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The old Chiefs...he would gave ran that catch his own pass in for a TD
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02-05-2024, 04:04 PM | #878 |
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I definitely think Baltimore pushed the "panic" button after KC started the game with 2 very strong, time consuming drives for touchdowns. This placed Baltimore into a mentality that they needed 40 points to win the game.
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02-05-2024, 04:08 PM | #879 | |
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Any competent team would take their chances through the air under those circumstances, especially if they have a league MVP QB and perimeter weapons. The Chiefs stacked the box, dared the Ravens to throw and the Ravens obliged. "Take what the defense gives you" as they say. |
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02-05-2024, 04:09 PM | #880 | |
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That was literally it. |
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02-05-2024, 05:31 PM | #881 | |
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Chiefs dared Lamar to beat them with his arm and he couldn’t. Simple as that. And not at all surprising. |
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02-05-2024, 06:42 PM | #882 |
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Mahomes is Mahomes. With a win Sunday he has no equal.
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02-05-2024, 08:30 PM | #883 | |
How tall is this thing?
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If this is what happened, tgat Harbaugh blinked after just 2 possessions, then it almost has to be a fireable offense for Harbaugh, to flat give up on the overwhelming strength of his team, and ask his qb to do something he's just not built to do, and that is be a one dimensional dropback passer for the entire game. That's a tall task for elite throwers of the football, to have success based on passing attack with no support from the run. A guy like Lamar, just no shot. |
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02-05-2024, 08:51 PM | #884 |
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Looked to me like LJ's lost a step already.
On the play he broke out into the open, he ran lookin over his shoulder til he got taken down from behind. First time I've seen him do that. |
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02-05-2024, 08:59 PM | #885 |
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Same, I'm not sure if he'd lost a step, or just hadn't fully committed, or what but I thought he was gone on the play that Sneed tracked him down.
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