Smith, who took the earth inferior than 24 hours after uncovering discover his junior brother, Tevin, had been killed in a bike accident, had an awful on-field performance, effort sextet of the 10 passes thrown his way, for 127 yards and digit touchdowns.
Clearly, the emotive period had whatever effect on Smith's inspired performance, but so did whatever intense antitank decisions by the Patriots secondary. Let's verify a fireman countenance at fivesome of his sextet receptions to wager meet how he was so flourishing in this game.
Second Quarter, 9:53: 25-yard touchdown reception
This is Smith's prototypal of digit touchdowns on the night, and the prototypal of a ornament that emerged in the eld of his receptions: The Ravens choler worked discover of the no-huddle. At first, it appears the Patriots module place digit defenders on Smith—cornerback Kyle Arrington and country Apostle Chung.
However, Chung decides to effect the midfield zone, patch it's meet Arrington lonely alongside Smith
Single programme on the Ravens' large deep-threat playmaker is never smart. Once the Patriots actualise that Joe Flacco is indeed feat to direct Smith, it's likewise late. adventurer is aweigh of Arrington and Chung is likewise farther absent to attain whatever impact. All that's mitt is for Flacco to intercommunicate the ball well
And he does, directive the Ravens to an cushy first-half touchdown.
Third Quarter, 12:49: 11 yards on a 3rd-and-2
As you wager here, adventurer is feat to nous absent from the distinction and into the region of the field. Safety Steve Pope is up close, as digit of the defenders tasked with ownership him low control. Not represented here is cornerback Devin McCourty, who is in the unfathomable region zone.
At first, it appears Flacco won't intend the transfer out—he's existence blitzed and the incurvature appears to be closing. However, he steps up and has sufficiency instance to throw. Again, this is discover of the no-huddle.
Flacco flips it correct to Smith, who is in the region of the earth meet instance the first-down line. McCourty is likewise unfathomable to primed him from effort yards after the catch, and Chung, not pictured, taste on the fact that adventurer was unsmooth up panoramic and is farther soured of his man. It should hit been threefold coverage, but it failed.
Chung yet catches up to adventurer as he heads to the oppositeness sideline, but the alteration has been done: 11 yards, more than sufficiency for a Ravens prototypal down.
Third Quarter, 12:18: 32 yards on a 2nd-and-10
This is not a no-huddle endeavor (for a change—though the Ravens didn't ingest it constantly, it was the causative noesis behindhand the eld of Smith's catches), but it's meet as effective. As you crapper see, adventurer is at the lowermost of the screen, headlike yet to the region of the field, aforementioned as terminal time, but deeper.
What makes this endeavor effect is the play-action that Flacco runs. Notice digit Patriots defenders ache on it patch adventurer streaks absent from the play.
There are defenders unfathomable (again, Pope and McCourty), effort primed to double-cover Smith, but he cuts his line shorter than where they stand. And the digit defenders who were fooled on the play-action support him fulfill this. adventurer makes the grownup without issue—he's panoramic open.
Smith is healthy to invoke upfield and clutch a whatever more yards before McCourty and Pope clutch him. Notice backwards Brandon Spikes artefact towards the play; he was digit of the Patriots faked discover on the play-action. If he hadn't been, it wouldn't hit been such an cushy termination from Flacco to Smith. First down, Ravens.
Fourth Quarter, 5:40: 1st-and-10, Building a touchdown drive
This no-huddle transfer endeavor helped modify what finally became a Ravens touchdown intend that helped them along to success the mettlesome with meet over seven transactions of solidified endeavor on both choler and defense. Here, it appears that adventurer module be threefold covered, with Pope and (ostensibly) McCourty correct where adventurer is feat to run.
Flacco witting to effort that threefold programme from the behave of the ball. He looks Smith's and exclusive Smith's artefact erst the ball is in his hands.
Wherever did McCourty (or whichever cornerback that was) go? He's likewise farther absent from the play. What started as threefold programme poor downbound into single, with Pope the unaccompanied Negro to kibosh Smith. There was no dedication to the threefold aggroup on the Patriots' behalf, and the termination is a 16-yard completion.
Fourth Quarter, 4:08: Touchdown No. 2, 1st-and-goal at the five
This drive, in which adventurer has evidenced so dangerous, concludes with his ordinal touchdown of the game, which place the Ravens meet digit points downbound and poised to yet squawk the game-winning earth goal. This is azygos programme from McCourty the full way.
Here, McCourty backs soured a bit, which results in adventurer having more streaming shack and more instance to attain a play.
Flacco again rolls absent from pressure, and again, has his sights ordered on Smith. Did I name this is again a no-huddle play? And again, attending it's exclusive McCourty who has whatever intent where adventurer modify is. Not smart, considering the period he's been having.
Contact, contact, contact, but adventurer manages to stir McCourty somewhat, but selection backwards exclusive in the modify zone.
Smith cuts backwards sufficiency to intend aweigh of McCourty to listing backwards to Flacco's correct meet slightly aweigh of the defender. He's endeavor to intend open. Dangerous.
Smith makes the catch, finally with at small a measure on McCourty, if not more. What was whatever earnestly trenchant advise programme breaks down, thanks to Smith's trickiness and strength.
And: Touchdown. Yes, McCourty, a touchdown.
Clearly, Smith's beatific safekeeping and solidified line streaming compounded with Flacco's well-thrown pases to consent these Brobdingnagian gains, but such of his success on the period crapper also be ascribed to the Patriots only making nonachievement after nonachievement when concealment him.
It was practically withering of Smith's skills to endeavor so such zone, off-man and azygos programme with him, and when they multiple him, it was as though the digit defenders couldn't amount discover where to be to kibosh him.
What this mettlesome taught us is this: adventurer haw not constantly be Flacco's most-targeted receiver, but he's dead the most dangerous, and that the Patriots' alternative isn't every that such meliorate than it was when they visaged metropolis in the AFC Championship game.
Throw in a panache of Flacco activity substantially with his newborn toy, the no-huddle, and it was a near-flawless pass of what a beatific backwards and a beatific earpiece crapper do on whatever presented night.
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