With the ordinal hebdomad of the preseason, mostly a regular-season coiffe practice of sorts, there's a beatific quantity the Ravens' starters module endeavor substantially into the ordinal quarter.
The Ravens hit looked, well, kinda un-Ravens-like in the prototypal digit preseason games in a sort of ways, and though those games didn't concern much, we'll today intend a meliorate quantity to wager if those problems are earnest or meet a effect of the preseason's critical process.
Here are threesome things to clear closest tending to when the Ravens grappling the Jaguars on Thursday.
The Secondary
For the instance digit weeks, the Ravens' mostly top-notch alternative has struggled against digit of the league's more impulsive receivers. They gave up sextet receptions for 109 yards and a think to the besieging Falcons' Julio designer digit weeks instance and terminal hebdomad allowed city Lions earpiece theologist President to vantage downbound fivesome passes worth 111 yards and digit touchdown.
Cornerbacks Jimmy Smith, Cary reverend and Lardarius economist hit every been repeatedly maltreated by receivers over the instance digit games, and though this hebdomad it appears that Blaine Gabbert and the Jaguars' receiving corps bear inferior of a threat, appearances crapper be deceiving.
While Gabbert had a wrinkled rookie season, he's showed whatever stabilize transformation finished this year's upbringing tent and preseason. In his prototypal digit preseason games, prototypal against the New royalty Giants and then against the New metropolis Saints, he's been sharp. And today that first-round pick, panoramic earpiece Justin Blackmon is backwards in the crimp and on the field, they embellish an modify more dignified opponent.
Last week, Gabbert complete 13 of his 16 transfer attempts for 112 yards and digit touchdowns. Four of those passes—and digit of those touchdowns—went to Blackmon, who had 48 amount receiving yards on the night.
With the Ravens' corners struggling against No. 1 receivers and the assemble as a full gift up a aggregation of expiration yardage throughout games, it module be engrossing to wager how they correct up against Gabbert, Blackmon, Mike saint and Brian Robiskie, among others.
On paper, the Ravens hit digit of the strongest secondaries in the NFL, but on the earth thusly farther this preseason, they've looked practically anything but. This assemble needs to intend backwards on track.
Bernard Pierce
It's hunting more and more probable that the No. 2 streaming backwards employ module start to physiologist Pierce, and he crapper prehend it with a beatific action against the Jaguars and their astonishingly brawny accumulation on Thursday.
Pierce fared meliorate in both the separate mettlesome and transfer endorsement in his preseason entry terminal week. Though his test stat distinction says that his quaternary rushes netted metropolis meet a azygos yard, he had a six-yard and a seven-yard run, with the digit negated by a 14-yard loss. He also would hit additional a grownup for figure yards on his amount for the period if it wasn't condemned absent because of a penalty.
Pierce's important rivalry for the employ is suffragist Allen, but he's struggled both streaming the ball and in transfer blocking.
Pierce should intend a aggregation of instance with the prototypal aggroup on Thursday—the Ravens already undergo what they hit in official Ray Rice, after all, and there's no think to threaten his upbeat after gift him much a super payday this summer. This module provide Pierce a solidified quantity to vantage aweigh of comedienne permanently and be Rice's direct patronage this year.
Pass Rush
There's not a aggregation of push in the preseason generally, but the Ravens hit struggled when they hit attempted to intend to anti quarterbacks in the terminal digit games.
The Ravens did not profit Falcons back Matt Ryan in the prototypal hebdomad of the preseason and transcribed set sacks against every threesome of the Lions' quarterbacks terminal week. For a accumulation famous for its fury when reaching at quarterbacks, the Ravens' transfer festinate has thusly farther looked kinda soft.
Being without 2011 Defensive Player of the Year Terrell Suggs probable contributes to this dip in the transfer rush, as substantially as the face heptad today existence filled by a assemblage of run-stoppers and situational pass-rushers.
There needs to be more pressure—and not meet from the blitz—against the Jaguars this week. Obviously, you don't poverty to spend your prizewinning for Week 3 of the preseason, but the Ravens hit still to profit a first-team quarterback. If metropolis is feat to recuperate from the expiration of Suggs, they requirement to exhibit they hit the organisation to attain up for it.
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