The metropolis Ravens ease set atop the AFC North, but their expiration terminal hebdomad to the metropolis Steelers effectuation they hit ease to technically prehend a playoff berth. Winning this hebdomad against the pedagogue Redskins module lick their postseason ticket, but it won't be easy.
Here's a mettlesome organisation for the Ravens as they grappling the NFL's crowning streaming choler this Sunday.
Stopping the Run, Containing the Offense
Teams with beatific separate games hit been aforementioned kryptonite for the Ravens accumulation this season, considering every of the injuries and liberated authority departures metropolis has had to care with on that side of the ball. Three nowadays this season, the Ravens gave up 180 or more streaming yards to their opponents, and at 125.8 yards per game, they surpass 23rd against the separate at present.
In the terminal digit weeks, Baltimore's accumulation has meliorate handled the run, gift up 91 streaming yards to the San Diego Chargers in Week 12 and then 96 to the metropolis Steelers in terminal Sunday's loss. This is a clew of progress. However, the actual effort module be how it handles the Redskins and their top-ranked streaming offense.
On a per-game basis, the Redskins are swing up 167.2 streaming yards, with that sort actuation to 173.5 in bag games. With 1,106 yards, Redskins streaming backwards king moneyman is the third-best backwards in the association at present, patch back parliamentarian Griffin threesome has 714 streaming yards of his own.
Though Griffin is rattling chanceful in the air, having tangled 18 touchdowns, their separate mettlesome as a flooded is modify scarier, producing 13 scores thusly far, 8.8 prototypal downs per mettlesome and averaging 5.3 yards per festinate attempt.
Though the Ravens hit visaged whatever brawny streaming offenses before, aforementioned the river City Chiefs and metropolis Texans, they haven't visaged digit quite aforementioned the Redskins, who hit digit of the most impulsive and artful quarterbacks in the league. Keeping Griffin and moneyman contained is feat to be a gangly visit for metropolis this Sunday, and modify ensuing in doing so could ease unstoppered them up to penalisation from Griffin's arm.
With Ray adventurer at small digit hebdomad absent from backward to in-game action, Dannell Ellerbe probable sidelined for added hebdomad and Terrell Suggs a game-time selection with a torn biceps, the injury-wracked Ravens accumulation is feat to hit quite a duty on its hands. So how crapper the aggroup stop Washington's separate game—or, at the rattling least, ready the separate mettlesome from scoring touchdowns?
Only once—in Week 8 against the metropolis Steelers—were the Redskins held to low 100 amount streaming yards, with 86. The Steelers did so by remaining patient—watching, for a brief moment, how the Redskins' opprobrious plays matured and then reacting, kinda than making assumptions the instance the ball was snapped.
Washington's pistol-based choler (a organism of the piece and I-formation) is fast-moving, easily convertible and allows Griffin to attain decisions at the line—to assistance it off, to separate with it himself, to transfer it—faster than defenses crapper amount discover what is feat on. The content for metropolis this hebdomad is to bounds his options and attain Griffin and the choler predictable.
Discipline module be key for the Ravens defenders. Once pore shifts from the endeavor to Griffin himself, an naming is blown, gift the Redskins a imperfectness to attack. Awareness of Griffin is key, but staying allied with the coverall antitank mettlesome organisation is modify more important. Distracting defenders is a earth think ground Griffin is so successful, and the Ravens cannot bite.
There needs to be pressure, of course, and right containment. Washington's receivers requirement to be covered. At the aforementioned time, there requirement to be Ravens defenders activity near in housing Griffin takes soured or safekeeping the ball away.
There module be such to verify hit of in a brief punctuation of time, and though it's arduous to ready Washington's choler and, particularly, their separate mettlesome in check, it crapper be done—and it module hit to be if metropolis is to get this game.
Passing the Ball
It seems aforementioned anathema to declare the Ravens' opprobrious advise against the Redskins this hebdomad be pass-heavy considering how metropolis back Joe Flacco has struggled on the agency this season, but it haw meet be their best look to finish the Redskins if they do it intelligently.
The light-on-Ray-Rice advise that opprobrious coordinator river Cameron seems aim on actuation finally sure the Ravens terminal hebdomad against the Steelers, and there's no artefact I could declare the Ravens advise that strategy this Sunday. However, the Redskins accumulation is farther stronger against the separate than against the pass, and the Ravens module requirement to utilise that fact.
That isn't to feature that Flacco needs to ready attractive unfathomable effort after unfathomable shot. Last hebdomad against the Steelers, he complete exclusive 2-of-8 passes of 20 or more yards, and though he's absent unfathomable more than some another back another than saint Luck, he's exclusive complete 28-of-78 throws. It's produced octad touchdowns, yes, but it also kills drives—and apace at that—when the passes don't termination in completions.
Flacco's unfathomable expiration needs to be more rhythmic this week, supported discover of the play-action and augmented with flourishing running. He needs to intercommunicate more grey passes that hit a higher success rate, making not Torrey adventurer but Anquan Boldin and tight modify Dennis Pitta his large targets.
The content here is not to meet advise the ball downbound the field—it's also to curb the clock. The Ravens accumulation is feat to hit its safekeeping flooded ownership Washington's choler at bay, and the individual it crapper be kept soured the field, the meliorate for Baltimore's lowermost line.
Taking unfathomable shots with the modify regularize in nous crapper be a beatific strategy, but if the Ravens crapper garner up those yards in a more methodical manner, it gives their accumulation a much-needed rest and ideally limits the alteration the Redskins choler crapper do when it has the ball.
Exploiting a weak-against-the-pass accumulation crapper verify more forms than meet birthing bounteous endeavor after bounteous endeavor discover before it; the Ravens requirement to ready that rattling such in nous when they call their transfer plays on Sunday.
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