They have the overall #2 defense, 7th in passing and #1 in rushing. However, the Cowboys and Giants have scorched them in the past month.Giants passed for 400 yards, and ran for 38.
Cowboys had 417 total yards, 300 passing. The formula is simple. We have to get back a lineman or two. We have to get Parker back. And spread it open and let Tannehill do his thing. I am not saying abandon the run, but the Ravens are vulnerable against the pass
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Yes, they are a defensive team, they aren't passing the ball well and they're one of the worst running teams in the league and yet they are 9th in ToP and are 6-5, so yeah, they are a defensive team, lol, you've got to have a damn good D to have ToP like that while not being able to run the ball.
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I'm very confused so I looked it up and made a graphic with my uber Microsoft Paint skills-
It looks like their offense isn't that good but their defense is legit. Then again, they beat us in every stat except for our rushing on offense and our pass defense.Last edited: Nov 29, 2016 -
LOL, nope...no taxi driver driving for me.
Microsoft Paint is a state-of the-art 1980's image editing program that is still included in modern versions of Windows for some reason. Old school nerds like me still use it for making a quick walk-thru or something similar, while everyone with any common sense would use Photoshop and make a graphic 1,000x neater. But Paint is easy so it's my weapon of choice. =)dolphin25, Superself, Hiruma78 and 1 other person like this. -
I like Miami's chances, nonetheless. Tannehill has to use his legs in the pocket. I just hope he doesn't have one of those moments. It seems like once or twice a game, you ask yourself, "Wtf was he doing there?".dolphin25 likes this. -
I did burst out laughing though reading the first line of the paragraph, "state-of the-art 1980's image editing program", but please don't get me wrong, I'm not making fun or anything, it's just those words together make me laugh, "state-of the-art 1980's image editing program", lol, I did it again.
I do remember when it came out, it was big medicine in the cyber world, everyone in computers was very excited when they came out with that. -
I agree, although, we have the framework too, if we can get a lineman back or two and Parker. Dallas has been fortunate they have had no real injuries on that line AND and depthColmax likes this. -
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I think at one point they had some injuries on the defensive side of the ball. Don't know if they're fully healthy or not but that could explain the offensive explosions for a few weeks
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I do not think it is deceiving at all. Shows how great the defense is when firing on all cylinders.
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In a lot of ways, this is our toughest game left on the schedule...and we may well lose this contest. But I think the one redeeming thing is that our stats flat out lie and it is impossible to game-plan for our offense at this point since it changes weekly. After all, do you-
- Play in tight coverage to shut down Landry?
- Crash the gaps to stop Ajayi
- Play zone with two safeties over the top to negate Parker/Stills?
- Blitz often to keep Tannehill off-balance?
That's a lot to ask a team to prepare for in 3-4 days total, which I think is a big reason we are still winning. There are just so many ways we can burn a defense and if Parker's healthy, I don't think he's coverable at this point in his career. It all comes down to Gase making the proper calls and exploiting the mis-matches...which has really been the story of the game all 11 weeks.cuchulainn and Colmax like this. -
Baltimore tends to win these ugly, fluke-y looking games. Very aggressive on defense, especially at home. Their front-7 is excellent, have to stay on-schedule for manageable 3rd downs, which we've been doing. On offense they rely on hitting a few big plays (including Pass Interference on deep balls...it's uncanny how they draw those penalties). But they're wildly inconsistent in terms of putting drives and first downs together. Flacco is erratic and the run game has been awful. I like our chances a lot.
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Rams Defence was legit too, ditto with the Jets. Hopefully getting one or two of the Linemen back will help the offence compared to that game against the Rams.
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I like how Miami really started using misdirection this week. I had been calling for it even when Ajayi was running well. We'd run the stretch plays and we'd get so predictable that teams were just loading up the side we ran towards. If you go misdirection from that than you have a positive imbalance of your guys on one side of center moving away from where most of the defense is.
Now that we've shown that for 2 weeks, especially this last week, we can really create uncertainty on where the ball is going on any given play.
The announcer was saying that Tannehill keeps holding the ball on the read-option to diminishing returns. That's OK, because now the defense doesn't know where the ball is going and if they lean towards Tannehill keeping it, the RB will have better holes when Tannehill hands it off, which is the preferable scenario anyway.
The game Sunday had so many 'teachable moments' for our team and you're way ahead whenever you can win a game with so many 'teachable moments', especially on defense.
One thing to add, though, about San Fran's run defense: I think they accrued those awful stats with Glenn Dorsey out of the lineup. He played against us and I think that immediately made the stats coming in irrelevant. I'd shudder to think how our run defense would look without Suh.
I think the more Miami can create confusion in Baltimore's defense about where Tannehill is going to throw from, the better off we're gonna be. Without our horses, we can't just stand there and go 'mano y mano', so to speak. I'd love to see Drake get more opportunities in this game. Exploiting mismatches will be our only chance to win. -
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Baltimore has the same defensive scheme they always have they over pressure and send 7-9 guys to line on rushing downs, I think a good compliment of ajayi and Williams/drake split back would throw them off wont happen but id like to see it, alotta miss directions and counters will help a lot, I read someone say they held dallas to 118, dallas running game is really simply of dives and sweeps and when those get stymied they really have nothing else to go to because the normal plays work, and we def don't have the line to keep it that simple and be productive so we need to keep them off guard and use a lot of hurry up get them tired and over pursuing and we got them. we are 2-6 in the last 8 meetings against the ravens there defense has changed personnel but the scheme really hasn't. I think this will be a good test but im very unsure Rt can distinguish blitz and audible, if any game he needs it, it will be sunday and he hasn't shown any signs of doing it.
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