“Lamar is making excuses”: Shannon Sharpe Calls out Lamar Jackson For Blaming Ravens Play-calling

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Lamar Jackson recently told Eisen on the Rich Eisen show that opposing defenses know the Ravens plays. Jackson believes that play-calling needs to improve.

Jackson speaking out about this raises a major concern for the Ravens. Their offense is still one of the highest ranked in the leagues, but this points to perhaps a bigger issue.

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Lamar Jackson on the Ravens’ Offense This Season

A year after the Ravens broke the single-season rushing record for a team, it appears that defensive coordinators have caught on to the Ravens’ scheme.

The Ravens offense features a lot of designed quarterback runs, read-options, RPO’s, and multiple-back sets. This helps take advantage of the speed the Ravens feature.

Last year, this scheme worked as Jackson would routinely decimate defenses with his running capabilities as the Ravens led the league in points scored.

This season is a little different, and here is what Lamar Jackson had to say about it:

“They’re calling out our plays, stuff like that. They know what we’re doing. Sometimes stuff won’t go our way if they’re beating us to the punch.” 

Moreover, the predictability of the Ravens’ offense has cost them the most in the passing game.

How Has Jackson Been in the Passing Attack?

Jackson’s numbers are way down from last year. Consider that over the last five games, Jackson has only completed 59.56% of his passes for 187.4 passing yards per game, along with just seven touchdowns and four interceptions, and you can see why Jackson is concerned.

Last year, Jackson had six interceptions total for the whole season. However, it’s not like these numbers are incredibly horrible.

The standard is just higher for a quarterback like Lamar Jackson, and that’s why his comments, if anything will only improve the Ravens’ offense going forward.

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Ashish Priyadarshi

Ashish Priyadarshi is The SportsRush's content manager and editor. Ashish freelanced for 1 year in the NFL division before taking on an editorial role in the company. He then tacked on managing content while adding on a writing role in the NBA division. Ashish has been closely following the NFL and NBA since the 2012 season when the Patriots lost the Super Bowl and Derrick Rose was at the height of his powers. Since then, Ashish has focused on honing his knowledge for both leagues in, even writing crossover pieces. In his free time, Ashish is an avid basketball player, he loves to watch movies and TV shows, immersing himself in the cinematic world. Ashish studies computer science and data science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and would love to mesh his love for sports with his technical skills.

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