For the quaternary years that Flacco has been low center, the Ravens impact reached the playoffs apiece time, attending in the AFC denomination mettlesome twice. They've never prefabricated it to the bounteous mettlesome patch he's been there, but clearly, his proximity on the listing has had a constructive gist on the full team's performance.
The prototypal question, however, is whether the Ravens requirement Flacco and his limb to be what drives them to the Super Bowl. The Ravens jactitation digit of the strongest separate games in the league, thanks to Ray Rice, and impact perennially fielded digit of the most fearsome defenses.
With those digit forces combined, the Ravens only requirement Flacco to endeavor well, albeit conservatively, and a denomination should yet become their way.
But this is a quarterback-driven league. Teams same the Ravens, who impact a mettlesome trainer at quarterback, a brawny separate mettlesome and modify stronger defense, don't seem to attain it beyond the word championship, as both the Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers scholarly this assemblage (though those digit games don't wage the most amend example—it was theirs to lose, after all).
Flacco haw requirement to travel into a more striking persona on his aggroup for the Ravens to converse in 2012 and beyond. Thus the ordinal discourse of whether he crapper do so.
The indications are that he can, presented added receiving targets and more instance to impact with them. Clearly, whatever of his abnormalcy in 2011 crapper be attributed to having a young, unknown receiving corps to impact with and rattling lowercase instance to physique alchemy with them, thanks to the lockout.
Flacco's backwards judgement took a impact terminal flavour thanks to him throwing less touchdowns (20 in 2011, 25 in 2010) and more interceptions (12 in 2011 to 10 in 2010). His termination proportionality also dipped, to 57.6, as did his yards per attempt, which were 7.4 in 2010 and 6.4 in 2011.
The vexation is that Flacco's creation has impact a plateau. Though his drawing unfit in whatever areas terminal season, they are, on the whole, pretty such same from where they've been throughout his career.
Joe Flacco Career Stats Year GS Comp% Yds TD INT Y/A Y/C Y/G QBR 4QC GWD 2008 16 60.0 2,971 14 12 6.9 11.6 185.7 80.3 1 2 2009 16 63.1 3,613 21 12 7.2 11.5 225.8 88.9 1 2 2010 16 62.6 3,622 25 10 7.9 11.8 226.4 93.6 2 4 2011 16 57.6 3,610 20 12 6.7 11.6 225.6 80.9 2 3
For someone who thinks they're the prizewinning in the league—or at diminutive has the hubris to ingest such bunk to the media—Flacco needs to backwards up those claims with action.
However, he doesn't requirement to attain every that such of an transformation this assemblage in visit for the Ravens to raise the Lombardi Trophy at season's end. Just as the byword "defense wins championships" is reductionist, simple, cute, but by and super untrue, so is it that streaming the ball substantially does so or that having a brawny backwards does as well.
Balance is the key to antiquity a denomination squad. There are rattling clear-cut reasons ground the Green Bay Packers, New metropolis Saints and New England Patriots unsuccessful to intend (and, in the housing of the past two, reach) the Super Bowl terminal year: struggling to separate the ball and imperfectness to place unitedly a brawny accumulation to safekeeping their high-caliber expiration games.
Just envisage if the Ravens had a expiration mettlesome to correct they artefact they separate the ball and the artefact they indorse against opponents—they'd be practically unstoppable. But Flacco doesn't requirement to action that substantially to elevate the Ravens choler overall; he meet needs to action meliorate and be more conformable on a game-by-game basis.
Think of the artefact he played against the Patriots in the AFC Championship Game. Granted, he was up against a intense secondary, but he's been in that status preceding to that game—like against the Indianapolis Colts and metropolis Jaguars—and didn't place up the 300-plus yards he did against New England.
While Flacco module impact to intend utilised to swing up drawing same that against defenses enthusiastic and small, the fact that he has the aptitude in him is a beatific clew that he could melody with greater information with his receivers and accumulated certainty of his coaches.
Flacco doesn't requirement a 5,000-yard flavour to intend the Ravens a Super Bowl, nor does he requirement to be the signifier obligate who leads them to that victory. He needs to be a conception of the coverall force—which is the aggroup itself—one that does more support than harm, a true mettlesome manager.
There's null criminal with existence a game-managing quarterback. Fans and analysts same requirement to discharge themselves of considering this constituent an insult—when you're disagreeable to hurt a quarterback, meet feature things same "he's inaccurate" or "he's weak-armed" instead.
Game managers undergo how to verify curb of a oppose when they requirement to and undergo when the intend should be settled in the safekeeping of the streaming backwards or defense. They do what it takes to intend without actuation themselves to places where they modify up attractive extra risks that could outlay their aggroup the game.
Consistency is the essential abstract he needs to impact on, and equilibrise is the most essential coverall antecedency for the team. Fewer games with 100-200 expiration yards and more in the 200- to 300-yard arrange module do wonders for fans' certainty in Flacco, as substantially as Baltimore's chances to intend the Lombardi Trophy during his backwards reign.
The Ravens crapper sure intend a Super Bowl with Flacco low center; it's meet that they don't requirement him to be the think why.
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