There’s been a lot of negativity thrown at Daniel Faalele.
But he kept his head down, kept working and turned in a much better performance in Week 3 against Dallas. We break it all down below.
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Looks to me like the Ravens are trying to protect their O-lineman (and LJ8) from getting beat by using tight splits. This leaves the defensive guys little room to maneuver around their massive opponents. It looks like it really helped limit the effectiveness of Dallas’ twists and jump rushes.
But it also leaves a lot less room to run isolation plays with Ricard and Henry between the tackles. It worked some against Dallas because Henry is a good cutback runner–although, he ended up cutting back parallel to the LOS more than once for no gain.
It will also allow edge guys to feast on running plays from the backside if they’re unblocked because they will be lining up closer to the ball in response to the tight splits. Some of this happened especially game 2 when the off side turnouts failed or the edge went unblocked. TJ Watt might eat the running game alive this way. All in all, puts a bit more tension in third and short.
The other thing it does is limit the running lane for LJ8 if he has to take off under pressure, forcing him wide and allowing the defense to run to the ball. And it puts his best throwing lines out wide–where the pick 6’s reside.
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Enjoy these OL compendiums.
Looks to me like the Ravens are trying to protect their O-lineman (and LJ8) from getting beat by using tight splits. This leaves the defensive guys little room to maneuver around their massive opponents. It looks like it really helped limit the effectiveness of Dallas’ twists and jump rushes.
But it also leaves a lot less room to run isolation plays with Ricard and Henry between the tackles. It worked some against Dallas because Henry is a good cutback runner–although, he ended up cutting back parallel to the LOS more than once for no gain.
It will also allow edge guys to feast on running plays from the backside if they’re unblocked because they will be lining up closer to the ball in response to the tight splits. Some of this happened especially game 2 when the off side turnouts failed or the edge went unblocked. TJ Watt might eat the running game alive this way. All in all, puts a bit more tension in third and short.
The other thing it does is limit the running lane for LJ8 if he has to take off under pressure, forcing him wide and allowing the defense to run to the ball. And it puts his best throwing lines out wide–where the pick 6’s reside.