How the Wins Piled Up for Lamar Jackson’s Ravens - Andy
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first-down percentage. Week 15 NFL Team of the Week - Gordon McGuinnessThe
second-year cover corner is PFF’s #8 player at the position this season with a
81.7 overall grade.Baltimore Ravens put ‘analytics guys’ to work — on in-game
situations and playoff possibilities - Aaron KasinitzHarbaugh has called 19
fourth down attempts this season, converting 11. Three of his six challenges
have been successful. The Starting 11: The Five NFL Teams With the Most Work to
Do This Offseason - Robert MaysThe offense has posted a 53-percent red zone
efficiency since Lamar Jackson became the full-time quarterback.Ravens Have to
Do the Job Themselves, And They Can in L.A. - John EisenbergThe Chargers are
favored by 4.5 points in Las Vegas. The Elo model suggests the Ravens have a
34-percent win probability. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — This year’s class of quarterback
prospects isn’t as sexy as last year’s group led by Baker Mayfield and Sam
Darnold. Nor does it feature the tantalizing talents of next year’s headliners:
Tua Tagovailoa, Justin Herbert and Jake Fromm.There are a few passers who merit
first-round consideration, but what teams will see an abundance of at the NFL
scouting combine this week are the players who will make their living chasing,
corralling and clobbering quarterbacks.“To me, it’s all about big guys,” NFL
Network analyst Daniel Jeremiah said. “Premier talent and depth at the defensive
line position, inside
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draft.”It’s not only the rush, but the push.Defensive ends led by Ohio State’s
Nick Bosa and Clemson’s Clelin Ferrell are prized pass rushers, but nowadays
players such as Clemson D-tackles Christian Wilkins and Dexter Lawrence are just
as highly valued for their interior pressure.“I think we’re getting to the point
in this league where we’ve become such a pass-first league that you take those
guys wherever you can get them,” said Mike Mayock , who parlayed a 14-year run
as the NFL Network’s draft guru into the Oakland Raiders‘ general manager’s
job.Mayock said he’s spoken to just about every top quarterback in the NFL since
2004 and he’s asked them all the same question: What bothers you the most?“And
almost every top-flight quarterback says, ‘immediate pressure up the middle,'”
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throwing the ball so much that you’ve got to find a way to affect it
regardless.”Broncos new coach Vic Fangio concurred, saying it’s no longer enough
to have two great pass rushers such as Denver’s duo of Von Miller and Bradley
Chubb.“You want four guys that the quarterback can feel caving in on him,”
Fangio said. “And that’s critical in the pass rush. And that’s an area that we
need to improve in.”There’s plenty of those players in Indianapolis for
interviews, physicals and testing this week.Despite the down year for QBs,
there’s still plenty of intrigue at the position thanks to Kyler Murray, who
followed Mayfield from the state of Texas to Oklahoma, won the Heisman Trophy
like Mayfield did, and is now following the Cleveland Browns‘ starting QB to the
NFL after spurning the Oakland Athletics.“He’s a guy that, once
again
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the kid knows how to win,” Mayfield said. “When it comes down to it, that’s the
most important thing.”After committing to football over baseball, the biggest
questions surrounding Murray this week aren’t about ability — “Kyler can make
every single throw,” Jeremiah insisted — but his height and weight.So his
weigh-in Thursday will garner as much interest as anything else this week.Is he
really under 5-foot-10? Has he really bulked up to 206?Murray, Dwayne Haskins,
Drew Lock, Daniel Jones and Ryan Finley all project as a solution to somebody’s
quarterback quandary despite the relative weakness of this year’s QB class.The
scouting combine always seems to come on the heels of another Super Bowl parade
for New England. As
usual
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managers who will meet with the media, so football’s focus moves on to other
topics:BROWN’S TOWN:Where will Antonio Brown play next season? Don’t count out
Pittsburgh. Or, for that matter, Baltimore, Cincinnati or Cleveland. Steelers
general manager Kevin Colbert said he’d prefer to keep one of the league’s top
playmakers in Pittsburgh. If he does trade Brown, he’d rather deal him out of
the AFC North.But …“If a team comes through with the best compensation, we have
to balance that out: OK, we’re going to play him twice a year, but we’re going
to get the best
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to use one of their three first-round picks on a quarterback after Mayock’s high
praise of Derek Carr on Wednesday.“I think it’s really difficult to improve over
a franchise quarterback like the one we have in our building right now,” Mayock
said.ELWAY’S QB CAROUSELFor the first time in four years, Broncos GM John Elway
attends the combine knowing who his quarterback will be. He has a trade in place
with Baltimore for Joe Flacco once the league year begins March 13.Just like
last year, when the Chiefs had a deal pending that would send Alex Smith to
Washington, the Broncos and Ravens are barred by NFL rules from discussing the
matter, making for an awkward situation as both teams dance around their
franchise’s biggest offseason story line.
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