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Ravens film study: How Calais Campbell and Derek Wolfe can bring ‘sack city’ to a middling pass rush
Campbell and Wolfe bring an added dimension to the Ravens' defensive line, and a more diverse pass rush should produce a more effective pass rush. - Perhaps the most unlikely feat of Lamar Jackson’s 2019 season was that his passing acumen in many ways surpassed his running ability.
- From injuries to dropped passes to offensive line breakdowns, here's what went wrong in the Ravens' 28-12 playoff loss to the Titans.
- The Ravens have been to the playoffs seven previous times under coach John Harbaugh, usually as road-warrioring underdogs and never as the Super Bowl favorite. That has all changed this season.
- Even if the Ravens bottle up Derrick Henry in Saturday’s AFC divisional-round game, the mere threat of the run will still test their defense.
- Gus Edwards is more than a 6-foot-1, 238-pound sledgehammer. Battering rams don’t average 5.3 yards per carry.
- Kurt Warner says Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson's 2019 is “a special, special season that we need to appreciate, because we may never see it again.”
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- The first time the Ravens didn’t need Lamar Jackson this season, they got a pretty good impersonation from his backup.
- As the Ravens prepare to face the Cleveland Browns on Sunday and consider their postseason future, Marquise Brown’s role looms large.
- The Ravens did not need their pass rush to strike like lighting to finish with seven sacks in Sunday’s 41-7 win over the Texans.
- Schematically, the outlines of the Ravens’ and Texans' offenses are visible in a 2016 college showdown between Lamar Jackson and Deshaun Watson.
- When the Ravens face a defense either unprepared to stop the run or overcommitted to bottling it up, there is no better changeup than a play-action pass.
- If there’s any defense on the Ravens’ schedule that knows what not to do, it’s the Bengals. They have firsthand experience.
- Two of the Ravens' longest gains Sunday against New England came on plays called for the first time this season — and both were called on the opening drive.
- In Week 9 of last season, Joe Flacco played his final snaps as a Baltimore Raven. A year later, as the Ravens prepare for a hyped Week 9 match-up with the New England Patriots, Lamar Jackson has brought fresh excitement to their world.
- Talk to Mark Ingram II during the week and you would never guess that underneath the ready smile and soft-spoken reflections on family and team, the Ravens running back is nurturing a monster who’ll burst forth Sunday morning.
- The Ravens' offensive line struggled at times against the Browns and Steelers’ talented defensive fronts, but the onus might fall heaviest on Lamar Jackson.
- Ravens vs. Steelers will always register as one of the NFL's signature grudge matches. But with both teams struggling, familiar faces missing and primetime cameras focused elsewhere, this chapter will feel different.
- The Ravens defense hasn’t done much of anything the past two games. Earl Thomas, though, has not been the problem.
- Through three weeks, the Ravens have done the unexpected: Their passing attack is in better shape than their pass defense.
- What the Ravens don’t have to spend on Lamar Jackson, they can allocate elsewhere. Just look at Kansas City.
- Jackson's production in two Ravens wins defied conventional expectations for a quarterback as mobile as he is.
- The Ravens’ 59-10 win Sunday over the Dolphins offered a glimpse of the potential of their exotic, redesigned offense and of Jackson’s ability to captain it.
- Here’s what we learned from the Ravens’ snap counts in their season-opening victory over the Miami Dolphins on Sunday.
- "We need to be the most effective Raven offense. However that builds itself, we’ll see,” Greg Roman said.
- The Ravens will open the defense of their AFC North title Sunday against the Miami Dolphins.
- With the Ravens opener Sunday, meet the players who make up the 53-man roster.