Caleb Harris
Last season the Baltimore Ravens finished with one of the NFL best offenses. Lamar Jackson and Co. racked up the sixth-most yards in the NFL, as well as the fourth-most points. They ranked fourth in FTN’s DVOA and tied for eighth in Tru Media’s version of EPA per play.
The season ended with Jackson winning the second MVP award of his career after leading the Ravens to a 13–3 record in his 16 starts, during which he completed 67.2% of his passes with an 8.0 average. yards per attempt, with 24 touchdown passes. against 7 interceptions. He also rushed 148 times for an additional 821 yards and 5 scores.
And now, the Ravens are going to put even more on their plate. Asked earlier this offseason what he would add to the team’s offense next year, Jackson told the coaching staff that he wanted to take on more responsibility to be heard at the line of scrimmage.
“From us watching film and playing games, to teams changing things about us, we just want to add extra layers to all of our calls,” Jackson said, via ESPN.
Quarterbacks coach Tee Martin said giving Jackson more autonomy within offensive coordinator Todd Monken’s system is a good next step for the team to take.
“It’s like that smart kid in class, you can’t allow them to get bored, right?” said Martin. “He’s like that. You have to constantly add things and adjustments and things of that nature and responsibilities.”
That’s not to say the Ravens haven’t allowed Jackson to listen at the line before, but there are differences between the amount of leeway each quarterback has to pass and change plays in response to what the defense shows them at the line of scrimmage. , and the Ravens will apparently increase that for Jackson.
Martin also wants him to vary his cadence more often in an effort to draw more offside penalties and create more advantages through manipulating snap counts, after the team only drew an opposing offside once last season.
“It’s been a tool in the past and we’re going to continue to take it to the next level,” Martin said. “Lamar is excellent at this, whether it’s nonverbal on the road or verbally at home. We have a lot of different ones that give us an advantage so people don’t know when we’re snapping the ball and slowing them down a little bit.”
The Ravens were one of the best teams in the league for most of Jackson’s starting career, and were also at the top of the league’s offensive rankings for several years. But they still haven’t cleared the hurdle to represent the AFC at the Super Bowl, let alone beat it, then it makes sense to take steps to make the unit even more dynamic. Given Jackson’s centrality to his success, placing that responsibility in his hands also works.
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