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One NFL offensive coach believes the Baltimore Ravens‘ one fundamental weak point as a crew is Lamar Jackson‘s struggles as a passer this season.
“The splendid pressure blueprint the quit of the game, they didn’t let the MVP of the league throw one lag,” he told The Athletic’s Mike Sando. “While Ben (Roethlisberger) is soundless upright and permits his guys to work in field, there would possibly be diverse capability error and issues that must lag moral for Baltimore’s passing game to salvage where it desires to be. They’ll not beautiful lag out and lag it.”
That coach used to be relating to Baltimore getting the ball back with 7: 29 last in the fourth quarter, trailing the Pittsburgh Steelers 28-24. The Ravens ran the ball 10 straight times, driving all of the trend down to Pittsburgh’s 8-yard line sooner than Jackson lost a fumble on a 4th-and-3 flee up the center.
Granted, the Ravens ran for 69 yards on that pressure, getting themselves in topic blueprint. They additionally ran for 265 yards for the game, carving up Pittsburgh’s defense on the ground. The Ravens could perchance presumably argue that their flee-heavy advance to that pressure used to be “if it ain’t broke, originate not repair it.”
The topic is that after they purchased the ball back with 52 seconds last at their have 37-yard line, Jackson went 2-of-6 for 31 yards. For the game, he used to be beautiful 13-of-28 for 208 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions, additionally shedding two fumbles.
Granted, the Steelers have an splendid lag defense. They’ve given greater than a couple of quarterbacks concerns, in particular Jackson.
“The turnovers, I unquestionably feel, are the motive we lost the game. I put that on me,” he told newshounds after Sunday’s loss. “The delivery up of the game, the first pressure—a consume six. After which we pressure to the crimson zone—I fumbled. I’ve purchased to salvage the ball out faster, because all people knows they’re dominant up entrance. After which that consume off the play to the flat throwing it to Ticket. I’ve purchased to aesthetic these up, and I unquestionably feel like we (would’ve) won that game.”
For the season, Jackson has thrown for 1,343 yards, 12 scores and 4 interceptions, completing 60.5 percent of his passes. That places him on flow for 3,069 passing yards, 27 touchdowns and nine interceptions, under the passing numbers he posted in his 2019 MVP season (3,127 yards, 36 touchdowns, six interceptions, 66.1 completion proportion).
Granted, a gargantuan motive Jackson won the MVP used to be that he additionally had a historically excellent season on the ground (1,206 speeding yards, seven touchdowns). He continues to be a likelihood in that regard, nonetheless there would possibly be cramped demand that Jackson has regressed in the passing game, not lower than by plan of seven video games.
