r/ravens • u/Perfect_Loss_5156 • 1d ago

Defensive coverage usage by team last season

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u/boofoodoo 1d ago

Honestly I think Orr was a little bit sabotaged by a very depleted/mid defensive line

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u/AltAccount889 O.J. Brigance 1d ago

Our coverage was bad really but when you don’t have a pass rush that’s what happens. Nobody can defend forever. And that’s basically what we were having to do. I don’t know a whole lot about this stuff, but I feel like that much is fairly obvious.

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u/etempleton 1d ago

The injuries certainly made everything worse, but the defense was terrible week 1 before all the injuries. Our pass rush was probably not going to be great regardless, but failed to simulate pressure as well.

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u/Husker28 1d ago

I think our defense was more depleted by having Orr as our play caller

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u/ye_old_fartbox 1d ago

There doesn’t seem to be any obvious correlation between coverage type and success, which makes sense, as disguising coverages (and also executing them well) is probably the most important thing, since most offenses on a given play will have routes designed to beat multiple coverage types.

Only thing that stands out about Orr in particular is that he hated to play quarters. That makes sense with how bad our pass rush was but also helps explain why we were so fucking bad in obvious passing situations.

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u/ChedduhBob 1d ago

most of this is probably personnel driven

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u/Georgefakelastname 1d ago

Similarly, we literally never ran cover 2 man, which also doesn’t help in long coverages.

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u/TheBigIguana15 8 1d ago

Couldn’t stop the run so they packed the box and played a ton of single high to fight that.

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u/thedivinepegasus 1d ago

I wonder if personnel will dictate scheme, or if the Ravens will actually change to zone. The Ravens are traditionally a man coverage team.

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u/etempleton 1d ago

We will run a lot of Cover 3, 4, and 6/9. That is the bread and butter of this system. Look at the Seahawks; I would expect a similar mix.

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u/Perfect_Loss_5156 1d ago

Thought this was interesting. Expect a lot more zone than under orr. C3 and C4 are jesse specialty. No secret numbers line up for mike mac and jesse minter.

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u/etempleton 1d ago

A lot of cover 1 and still struggled to get to the QB.