During Saturday morning’s practice and as they do often throughout training camp, the Ravens simulated game situations with a variety of down and distance scenarios. Cam Cameron put his unit through the paces of 3rd and 4 and 3rd and 7 conversion opportunities alternating quarterbacks as well as first and second team squads. Here’s how it played out:
3rd & 4
FLACCO
Flacco to Heap in right flat, first down
Flacco to Marcus Smith, incomplete (sloppy route)
Flacco sacked by William VanDeSteeg
Flacco to Heap, short left hash area, poor throw and off Heap’s hands
Flacco to Kelley Washington outside left hash marks, first down
Conversion Rate: 40%
SMITH
Smith to Ernie Wheelwright, first down
Smith sacked by Paul Kruger (nice inside move from the left)
Smith sacked by Haloti Ngata
Smith to LJ Smith, short pass just outside right hash, first down
Smith to LJ Smith over Landry, first down
Conversion Rate: 60%
FLACCO
Flacco with nice touch pass down right seam over defenders to M. Smith, dropped
Flacco sacked by Lardarius Webb
Conversion Rate: 0%
BECK
Beck to Wheelwright short of first down, tackle by Jameel McClain
Beck to Wheelwright on out to right, first down
Conversion Rate: 50%
FLACCO
Sacked by Oglesby
Conversion Rate: 0%
SMITH
Smith to Wheelwright, deep out right for 15 yards and first down
Conversion Rate: 100%
3rd & 7
FLACCO
Flacco to Washington, intercepted by Chris Carr
Flacco to M. Smith, 15 yards and first down
Conversion Rate: 50%
SMITH
Smith to LJ Smith, first down
Conversion Rate: 100%
BECK
Beck to Eron Riley, incomplete…good throw, bad route
Conversion Rate: 0%
SMITH
Smith to Justin Harper, 12 yards and first down (Foxworth)
Smith to Harper, hit in stride but dropped
Smith to Harper, 65 yd TD over Oglesby
Conversion Rate: 67%
OVERALL 3RD DOWN CONVERSION RATES
Flacco: 30%
Smith: 70%
Beck: 33%
CHARTING DRIVES
FLACCO
1-10-45 Flacco rolls right, play blown up by Haloti Ngata
2-10-45 Flacco rolls right, hits D. Williams, 8 yards
3-02-37 Flacco rolls right, hits M. Smith, 7 yards
1-10-30 Flacco chased from pocket, throws out of bounds
2-10-30 Quick out to Ray Rice flanked right, 4 yards
3-06-26 Flacco sacked by Dwan Edwards, -1 yard
4-07-27 Gano FG good from 44 yards
SMITH
1-10-45 Smith to Harper, incomplete (pass way off mark)
2-07-42 Sprint roll right to LJ Smith, 3 yards
3-07-42 Smith pass to Harper incomplete, blanket coverage by Webb
Turnover on downs
FLACCO
1-10-45 Screen pass to McGahee, 3 yards
2-07-42 Flacco to Washington, 12 yards
1-10-30 (Hurry up) McGahee 4 yard run
2-06-26 Flacco sacked, Edwards/Johnson, -9 yards
3-15-35 Flacco deep right to Williams incomplete
53 yard FGA by Gano is NO GOOD
BECK
1-10-45 Beck pass to Matt Lawrence, -1 yard (nice recognition and coverage by A. Barnes)
2-09-44 Jason Cook 1 yard run
3-08-43 Beck sacked by Webb
Turnover on downs
1-10-45 Lawrence 4 yard run
2-06-41 Lawrence no gain (offense goes into hurry up mode)
3-06-41 False start
3-11-46 Deep throw on 9 route to Harper into crowd incomplete
(Harbaugh pulls Harper aside and later we learned that he told the receiver that he needs to fight for those jump balls and make a play.)
Turnover on downs
SMITH
1-10-45 Smith to Jayson Foster, 18 yards
1-10-29 Cedric Peerman run, -2 yards (Tony Fein on tackle)
2-12-31 Lawrence 11 yard run
3-01-30 Smith sacked by VanDeSteeg
Cameron resets down and distance to:
2-15-26 Smith to Foster incomplete (tight coverage from Walker)
3-15-26 Draw to Peerman, -3 yard run
4-18-29 Gano 47 yard FGA is GOOD
FLACCO
1-10-17 Flacco to Williams on post in end zone, incomplete (Williams wide open on play)
2-10-17 Flacco sacked -1 yard
3-11-18 Flacco to Williams incomplete
4-11-18 Gano 36 yard FGA is GOOD
NOTE: Harbaugh announces before kick that if Gano hits it, the team will have the afternoon practice off.
Receiver
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Defender
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Advantage
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Comments
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FLACCO
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Williams
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Walker
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Walker
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Rare interception in one on one drills
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M. Smith
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Carr
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Carr
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Smith had a chance to make a catch on the end zone comeback to the front right corner of end zone but dropped it.
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Harper
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Walker
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Harper
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SMITH
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Wheelwright
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Oglesby
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Oglesby
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Pass off the mark
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Riley
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Walker
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Riley
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Walker physical at LOS, may have made contact beyond 5 yards
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FLACCO
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Rice
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Landry
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Rice
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Flacco hits Rice in stride, drops pass
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Harper
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Webb
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Harper
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Tough battle
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Heap
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Landry
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Landry
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Pass hits Heap’s hands
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