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OTL: Winning Cures All, But Let’s Not Ignore the Problems

Tuesday, September 16, 2025 10:17
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With Week 2 in the books and the Ravens getting into the win column for the first time this season, we have a chance to do something that may still be a little early, but something that I feel is going to be worthwhile anyway: we’re going to talk about nuance and context.

It makes so much sense that, with this iteration of our Baltimore Ravens, those two posts are about the same game. If you only looked at the box score or the final line from the game, you’d assume that the Ravens came out and took care of business all day against an inferior opponent, beating them handily at home. However, to Morgan’s point, the first half performance would have you thinking something completely different, and it brings me to the point I want to discuss today.

Jonas captures the essence of what we see in a lot of football talk from fans and pundits alike. The NFL is a results-based business, and most aren’t going to focus on how you win, just how many you can stack in the W column. But as has been so often pointed out, the Ravens have a penchant for letting bad habits stick around, and it worries a lot of us for what it means the team is going to look like in big games, none more so than in the postseason. While it’s tempting to fall into the trap of feeling like winning heals all wounds, it’s a good way to get complacent when focusing on either fixing mistakes or continuing to make things work when they’re going well.

The adjustment to the air in the second half showed the versatility of the offense, and it’s nice to see them be able to beat a team multiple ways again. Sure, you can say “It’s only the Browns,” but through two weeks, they’ve surrendered the fewest yards of any team in the league. The Ravens having a few short fields certainly influenced that number, but the pass game’s effectiveness was much needed given that the run game was a non-starter in the first half. Derrick Henry was extremely quiet all game based on an insistence to continue running the ball to the right as the O-line struggled, but what I’m taking away from this more than anything is that the offensive unit is missing Pat Ricard badly.

Ricard’s injury limits the full depth of what your playbook can be, and we saw some of it in the choice by Todd Monken to gravitate away from option runs. The concern is feeling like the offense is less multi-dimensional, and if this game hadn’t been against an opponent that scored three in the first half and instead against, say, a team that they’re getting ready to face that put up 28 first-half points…

…you’re then in a situation where you have to throw the ball instead of playing to the strengths of the run.

Defensively, the second-half adjustments sending pressure paid off in spades as they forced multiple turnovers, but that unit isn’t without concern, either. There were a few situations where soft coverage once again gave up easy yards, a deflected pass was caught for a touchdown for the second week in a row, and as a team, they’ve still only managed to notch three sacks in two games, with Tavius Robinson’s strip sack the only one not credited to Nnamdi Madubuike. Beyond that, there’s the possibility that they’re going to be down Kyle Van Noy and Marlon Humphrey for the next game, two absences they can ill afford against Detroit’s big-time offense.

Understand, this is not me trying to be Debbie Downer the week after Baltimore beat up a division opponent. This is me trying to keep the focus on what so many had pointed out after Week 1 in that this is still very much an imperfect team, a work in progress that needs to focus on fixing the issues that carried over from last season, because it’s a long year, and it’ll only get longer if they put off the necessary changes.

The post OTL: Winning Cures All, But Let’s Not Ignore the Problems appeared first on Russell Street Report.


Source: https://russellstreetreport.com/2025/09/16/out-to-lunch/winning-cures-all/


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