{"id":143406,"date":"2020-12-29T07:30:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T04:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/what-doomed-the-giants-defense-against-ravens\/"},"modified":"2020-12-29T07:30:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T04:30:07","slug":"what-doomed-the-giants-defense-against-ravens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-doomed-the-giants-defense-against-ravens\/","title":{"rendered":"#What doomed the Giants\u2019 defense against Ravens"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#What doomed the Giants\u2019 defense against Ravens<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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How did the Ravens gash the Giants for 249 rushing yards?<\/p>\n

A lot of plays were won before the ball was snapp<\/a>ed because defensive players were in the wrong gaps.<\/p>\n

\u201cDepending on the certain defensive call, on any given play certain guys had to leverage certain players,\u201d inside linebacker Blake Martinez said. \u201cWhether it\u2019s the No. 2 receiver, No. 3, end guy on the line of scrimmage, whatever it ended up being.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of the sudden they started doing their shifts and motions \u2014 all the stuff they did pre-snap \u2014 which then changed your certain alignment pre-snap. Once you weren\u2019t in the spot, all of the sudden they snapped the ball. Now you\u2019re two spots behind instead of being in the right spot to start.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Ravens use more pre-snap motion than any offense in the NFL, so it shouldn\u2019t have been a surprise. In addition to getting the defense to tip off man-to-man or zone pass coverage, motion helps the timing of their unique run-pass-option offense.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way I look at it is you have 11-on-11,\u201d Martinez said. \u201cOne guy has to be holding the ball, so there\u2019s 10 against 11 to block. If we can fit it right, one guy should be free and we just didn\u2019t do our assignment on each one of those plays to be able to have that free guy being the advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Giants missed an uncharacteristically high number of tackles and seemed to be always chasing down ball-carriers from behind. Martinez credited coordinator Patrick Graham\u2019s in-game<\/a> adjustments listening to player feedback for why the rushing defense improved as the game went on, but the 14-0 first-quarter hole (on the back of 95 rushing yards) was too big to dig out of.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou couldn\u2019t scrape over the top or get over the offensive linemen or the fullback, whoever it ended up being,\u201d Martinez said. \u201cIt allowed them to just have that open running lane.\u201d<\/p>\n

When a coach is directly asked about a player\u2019s future, he sometimes feels no choice but to dance around the truth with lip service. Take what 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan said about quarterback Jimmy Garappolo as an example of creating wiggle room: \u201cI do believe Jimmy\u2019s going to be our quarterback next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s different than Giants coach Joe Judge\u2019s unprompted vote of confidence for quarterback Daniel Jones, which was voluntarily slipped into an answer to a question Monday about offensive line penalties. Judge pointed to Jones\u2019 ball security and decision-making as reasons he is a \u201ckey piece\u201d to the future.<\/p>\n

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