The number one offense does not rest on its laurels and rather works hard every week to continue adding
BALTIMORE — Standing in the middle of the locker room after the team’s victory Baltimore Ravens by 30-23 over the Washington Commanders On Sunday, the runner Baltimore <a href="https://www.archysport.com/2022/01/nfl-end-of-season-review-individual-honors/" title="NFL End-of-Season Review: Individual Honors”>Derrick Henry He jokingly cut off a question from reporters about how the exact play — a pitching run to the left side — sealed a victory for the second straight week.
“Shush, shush, shush,” Henry gestured with a smile on his 27-yard run. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
For the Ravensthere are no longer secrets about its success. Lamar Jackson and the offensive of Baltimore led the team to a fourth consecutive victory to keep the Ravens (4-2) atop the AFC North, along with the Pittsburgh Steelers (4-2).
Baltimore has developed a determination to finish games, closing out Sunday’s victory by scoring on its final five drives before taking a knee to run out the clock. The Ravens They’re playing with so much confidence that it doesn’t matter where they start on the field, putting together scoring drives of 93 and 94 yards.
In this expected confrontation between the teams with the highest points in the NFLthe Ravens offense took the bragging rights, even if they chose not to.
So how good is this offensive? Baltimore?
“We came here with humility,” Henry stressed. “We’re being humble.”
With the Ravens Being so effective at running and passing the ball, how versatile is this attack?
“We’re being humble,” Henry repeated.
A reporter asked, ‘Humility aside, is this the kind of production Henry envisioned when he signed with Baltimore?’
For the third time in a row, Henry responded, “By being humble.”
Los Ravens They have been equally consistent on the field, with historic performance. The offensive of Baltimore has totaled 2,722 yards, the most in the NFL and the most after six games in franchise history.
Lamar Jackson is putting together another MVP-worthy season, throwing for over 300 yards in consecutive games for the first time in his career. Zay Flowers He looks like a No. 1 wide receiver, posting a career-high 132 receiving yards, all in the first half. The tight end Mark Andrews He had his biggest impact in the passing game, posting a season-high 66 receiving yards and scoring his first touchdown in nearly a year. Henry became the second player in NFL history to total more than 600 rushing yards and eight or more touchdown runs in his first six games with a new team, joining Eric Dickerson (1983 with the Rams).
“It’s definitely what I expect from us because we’re capable of it,” the offensive tackle said. Ronnie Stanley. “We have all the right pieces. Smart, physical players who can do their job at a high level.”
For a franchise that has long been defined by Hall of Fame defensive stars like Ray Lewis and Ed Reed, the Ravens have been among the highest-scoring teams since Jackson became their starting quarterback midway through the 2018 season. Jackson continues to be the catalyst this season, becoming the only player in NFL history NFL to produce more than 1,500 passing yards and 400 rushing yards in the first six games of a season, and he has done it twice. The other occasion occurred in 2019, Jackson’s first season as NBA MVP. NFL.
But Jackson doesn’t have to do it all. He can get the ball quickly to Flowers, who recorded the first consecutive 100-yard receiving games by a wide receiver in the Ravens in eight years. He can get the ball to Henry, whose 704 rushing yards lead the league.
“I think we’re extremely versatile in what we’re doing,” Andrews described. “We are going to take advantage of this game and improve and continue like this week by week to become the machine we know we can be.”
Lamar Jackson He is one of the best passers in the league. He is one of three quarterbacks to throw for more than 1,500 yards and 10 or more touchdowns this season, along with Joe Burrow y C.J. Stroud.
It’s hard to stop Jackson when he’s distributing the ball so much. Nine Ravens have caught at least one pass and seven have made touchdown receptions.
When Jackson sees the defense in man-coverage, his first thought is, “Who am I going to throw to?”
“Because I know whoever gets the ball on that play, someone is going to come back and say, ‘I was open,'” Jackson said. “It’s like, ‘Dude, there’s only one ball.'”
The passing game has been set up with a dominant running game. The Ravens are the first team since the 1971 Raiders to have 150 rushing yards in each of their first six games of a season.
Two weeks ago, in an overtime game in CincinnatiJackson threw the ball to Henry, who ran 51 yards to set up the game-winning field goal. On Sunday, at the end of the fourth quarter, Jackson threw the ball again to Henry, who ran 27 yards and put Baltimore in position to win the game.
Like Henry, Jackson downplayed an attack by the Ravens which averages 29.5 points.
“[Estamos] showing that we can win games,” Jackson said. “[Estamos] playing Ravens football right now. I don’t think that really showed that [somos] the best offense. “There is always room for improvement.”
