Tampa Win, Defensive Mistakes – It Was Worse Than You Thought

In the last several posts I’ve pointed out the unstoppable nature of the Ravens offense.  I’m not going to spend much time in this post reviewing the wonderful play by the offense against the helpless Buccaneers defense.  It has all come together for the offense at the highest possible level.  Rather, the focus here is on the atrocious Ravens defensive play by the back seven.  Against Tampa, the Ravens defense was even worse than it appeared on the broadcast.

After weeks of mediocre to downright poor performances, last week was disheartening.  Scoring 41 points helps to hide all of this, but the mistakes against Tampa were downright alarming.  Folks, it hasn’t gotten one iota better.  I’m going to review some of this in even more (hopefully not boring) detail than usual. Continue reading “Tampa Win, Defensive Mistakes – It Was Worse Than You Thought”