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On Friday, the Baltimore Ravens conducted their yearly press conference to wrap up the season.
Naturally, the initial inquiries focused on the team’s shockingly low number of running attempts in their 17-10 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs, the defending champions, which prevented them from making it to the Super Bowl for the first time in eleven years.
The Ravens’ running backs only carried the ball six times as a group, and they only had eight designed runs, two of which involved quarterback Lamar Jackson and resulted in both a short and a long gain.
This was one of the weakest run defenses in the league, ranking near the bottom in both DVOA and EPA. Jackson scrambled six times and finished with a team-leading 54 running yards, more than half of their pitiful total of 81.
Ravens Head Coach John Harbaugh stated, “It was that kind of a game” and “That’s the way the game went” during his postgame press conference, but on Friday, he provided a far more thorough explanation of why the game unfolded as it did and why the Ravens finished with the fewest yards rushing since Week 1 of 2022.
You don’t want that number,” Harbaugh remarked. “After everything is said and done, that’s definitely not going to win us an AFC Championship game. There’s more to it than merely placing plays.
Calling run-pass options was a key component of the offensive coordinator Todd Monken and the Ravens’ game plan. Jackson was then able to assess the defense and counter it with a rushing play or passing play, both before and after the snap, by calling “cans” and “check with me” plays.
