For awhile now our offense looks explosive when we are up but once the game is close we play safe football and don’t play risks. For some reason we think safe plays that result in 3 and outs is better for a win than just going for an actual TD. If the team is decent and we are only up 14 John harbaugh will play to not lose almost everytime but we always end up losing and when we don’t lose it’s this gut wrenching game until the last 2 minutes where everybody knows we are gonna lose and our coach just don’t take risks. It makes perfect sense how in the first half we dominate and then the other team adjusts and then harbaugh panics and just plays safe football. I’m not calling for his head but I can’t be the only one who thinks we as a unit should abandon safe football unless we are up like 21 points with 10 mins left so sick of the entire second half being safe football.
I don’t think we got conservative at all. We were still passing. I think the browns defensive front ate our lunch and we couldn’t figure it out.
Ignore the downvotes. You’re completely spot on.
This sub complains when the offense goes conservative and loses. The sub complains when we throw a lot and lose.
The players failed. It’s just that simple. Watson didn’t throw a single incomplete pass in the second half. They scored on every second-half drive. The defense got no pressure against a backup offensive line. Lamar committed yet another horrible 4th quarter turnover.
The Ravens lost because the players failed. It;'s not complicated.
Part of the problem is that we were effectively wasting 1st down the entire 2nd half. Gus up the middle for 2 yards CLEARLY was not working.
I mean I guess we have a lot of double digit losses dating to last year and everytime we played scared so it was like a pattern to me at least
“Playing scared” isn’t a thing. The Ravens lose these games mostly because of backbreaking late turnovers. That’s the common denominator.
Like when we threw it, the ball bounced off a Browns defensive player’s helmet, and then was returned for a TD?
That conservative ball?
Holy shit, someone get this guy a head coaching job!