Browns: 3 Baltimore Ravens to gameplan for in Week 14

Lamar Jackson

Lamar Jackson has proven everyone right; he really isn’t a good passer. Jackson is served well by the fact that he might be the most athletic quarterback the league has ever seen. As he’s such a threat running the ball, oftentimes teams bring up their secondary and try to have a linebacker, or thre,e spy on Jackson. This allows Jackson to basically be a perpetual play-action threat, as one simple foot forward could bring the entire secondary down in an attempt to contain him from breaking a big run. That’s when Jackson lobs a duck to the open man and off they go to a touchdown.

Defensively, the Browns don’t have anything to write home about to stop him. Myles Garrett can make plays but who knows what he’s going to be like in Baltimore. He was a non-threat in Tennessee after coming off of the Covid list and even if he were playing as well as he was at the mid-way of the season, Garrett’s not fast enough to contain Jackson alone.

So the team’s best course is to try and cancel out the run and go from there. The Browns were able to handle Derrick Henry in Week 13 but many feel that was more of an issue with the Titans, with not as much credit goes to the Browns. So the best bet is to try and keep the Ravens offense off the field entirely, which has been the Browns’ best gameplan all year.

Limit the time and opportunities the opposing offense gets, and you’ll be able to amp up the stress more and more, making each drive matter way more than it should on its own. When a team feels that sort of pressure, eventually they crack. Yet, the defense will still need to take away Jackson’s lanes and force him to throw eventually. Otherwise, this is going to be a wild west shootout.

Which would be new, and weird.