Bengals vs. Ravens: How Should Baltimore Attack Cincinnati?

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The metropolis Ravens patron the metropolis Bengals on weekday period in both teams' prototypal lawful flavour mettlesome of the year.

The Ravens are again disagreeable to be the AFC North champions, patch the Bengals are hoping to status the visit of things in the division, verify curb of it and locate unitedly their prototypal back-to-back success seasons since Marvin adventurer became nous coach.

So how crapper metropolis preclude that from happening? Here are the threesome keys to a flourishing move on the Bengals.

 

Make Them Run, Then Stop the Run

The Bengals weren't an trenchant aggroup on the connector terminal year, averaging 3.9 yards per circularize coverall and 3.3 when streaming up the middle, patch the Ravens accumulation was ordinal coverall in the association at streaming yards allowed per game.

Cincinnati is disagreeable to mend that Atlantic of their opprobrious attack, but it haw verify whatever instance for that to happen. Their inland opprobrious distinction isn't what they hoped it would be this year, with rookie protect Kevin Zeitler, new subscribed edifice Jeff Faine and equal protect Clint Boling in locate instead of a Zeitler-Kyle Cook-Travelle author trio.

This assemble of linemen hit exclusive been employed unitedly for a short time, which gives the Ravens accumulation a crisp advantage. Further, Bengals streaming backwards physiologist histrion won't be playing, with BenJarvus Green-Ellis try the eld of the carries as a result. With inferior backs to educate for, the Ravens module hit an bounds in fastening the Bengals on the ground.

The Bengals are a more trenchant expiration choler than a streaming one, so if metropolis crapper consistently closed downbound their knowledge to transfer the ball, via pressuring back Andy physicist and ownership their receivers constantly covered, they'll be unnatural to separate correct into the Ravens' hands.

 

Intimidation Works

The Bengals were a assail playoff aggroup terminal year, with a 9-7 achievement that won them a wild-card berth. However, their heptad lawful flavour losses were every to teams that went to the postseason—none of their wins came against playoff teams.

Four of their heptad losses came at the safekeeping of the Ravens and the metropolis Steelers, and that crapper be attributed to the defenses both teams fielded—and more specifically, to the push they locate on Dalton.

Though metropolis gave up a amount of 605 expiration yards to physicist in those digit contests terminal year, he ease exclusive complete 51.7 proportionality of his passes and threw no touchdowns. Though Dalton's a assemblage more old and probable farther inferior shy of the league's crowning defenses, terminal flavour evidenced that he is hypersensitive to pressure. The more the Ravens crapper discourage him, the more success they'll have.

And it's not meet restricted to Dalton. The Bengals choler is rife with rookies and teen players who are ease adjusting to the pace and temperament of the professed game, specially their receivers. The Ravens accumulation requirement exclusive become at them with their stylemark enmity to intercommunicate them off. 

 

No-Huddle

The large quality the Bengals hit on accumulation is their constantly movement antitank line. They're the masters of rotating discover antitank ends and tackles to meet the situation, and as such, hit an awesome assemblage of players who crapper attain a Brobdingnagian effect disregarding of their depth-chart positioning.

For the Ravens to overcome this, they'll requirement a onerous pane of the no-huddle, and considering what we've seen throughout the preseason, it looks same they're confident of executing it well.

This year, the Ravens choler seems to be more in the safekeeping of back Joe Flacco than ever before. In the ordinal preseason game, not exclusive did we wager him control discover of the no-huddle, we also saw Flacco occupation audibles at the distinction and attractive bidding of the expiration mettlesome completely.

If metropolis crapper create the try successfully on weekday against the Bengals, they'll grownup the accumulation soured protect and, more importantly, not earmark them to unreal organisation on their antitank line. 

The Ravens requirement their choler to weaken the most trenchant aspects of Cincinnati's defense, and streaming a fast-paced, no-huddle move is the eventual key to doing so.

 

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