Tag: Nate Wiggins

Ravens 2024 Season Finale, Final Thoughts

Ravens fans should have one primary thought heading into the season finale.  Don’t choke on the Browns!  Cleveland is a terrible team, and will field unknown players against the 20-point favorite Ravens.  We should never take anything for granted, but an unfathomable loss against Cleveland would be one of the biggest NFL regular season shockers of all time.  To the Ravens: just win the game and avoid injury.  And don’t let Myles Garrett get to Lamar.

Pundits are Crowing Over the “New” Defense – Are They Right?

The Ravens offense walloped the Texans.  The defense pitched a shutout.  Was the defense that good and have they now become a top level NFL unit? Continue reading “Ravens 2024 Season Finale, Final Thoughts”

Ravens Defensive Problems Just Keep Rolling On

For the second week in a row I’m not going to spend any time on the Ravens offense.  Through ten games the only team that has stopped the Ravens offense is the Ravens.  I’m eager to see whether Lamar can finally exorcise his Steelers demons.  But the Ravens defensive problems just continue to roll on.  The risk that these problems are unfixable is growing.  Below, I try to characterize my concerns, take a quick look at what is going wrong, and point to a few dim glimmers of hope.

Zach Orr and the (In)ability to Adapt

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Ravens 2024 Draft – Round 1 Recap, Day Two Thoughts

Day one of the Ravens draft is signed, sealed, and delivered.  Right out of the gate I’ll confess that my research on Nate Wiggins missed the most important fact behind my Wiggins conclusion.  I failed to catch that Wiggins had put on ten pounds of weight, post-Combine.  At 183 pounds, the conclusion changes.  As I put it in my detailed Wiggins report: “If they [the Ravens] are convinced they can bulk Wiggins up (and he’s young enough to think he might naturally add eight to ten pounds anyway) then he’s worth the pick.” Continue reading “Ravens 2024 Draft – Round 1 Recap, Day Two Thoughts”

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