Organized Chaos No More

by KFJ-InvAZN on Nov 9, 2009 8:25 PM EST Comment 10 comments

The Baltimore Ravens are now a disappointing 4 - 4. Ravens fans are looking for the reason why we are 4 - 4 instead of a possible 7 - 1 or even a perfect 8 - 0. Hauschka can't perform when we need him, or we need bigger and better receivers to complement Joe Flacco's big arm. No one reason will or should take the whole blame for our so far disappointing season. However I would like to point out something that many analysts have failed to mention. Where is the Organized Chaos?

I realize that Rex Ryan had left and no one would be able to replace a great defensive coordinator such as him. Greg Mattison was questioned when he was promoted to replace him however everyone brushed the fact aside that his TWO years in the NFL would be a large factor. Halfway through the season our defense has had one stellar outing (Week 9 against Denver) and have put pressure on quarterbacks like pillows. We have seen multiple quarterbacks have god-awful amounts of time to throw the ball against our secondary. We have seen possibly the fewest sacks and turnovers forced by our defense since our inaugural season. We have seen our streak of 30+ games of allowing no rushers to run over 100 yards broken 3 times in one month, twice by the same player (Cedric Benson of the Bengals).

Greg Mattison obviously does not know how to properly run a pro defense and despite the friendship between Coach Harbaugh and Mattison I believe we must FIRE our defensive coordinators. There are other defensive coaches on our staff who deserve the chance to run our defensive schemes who have been coaching in the NFL longer and who have been with the Baltimore Ravens longer. We should wait til the end of the season to keep continuity however if the organization does not release Coach Mattison at the end of the season we, as the fans, will not have another Organized Chaos defense to look forward to anytime soon.

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I like what you’ve been writing. My thoughts as well. If you can’t stand toe to toe you better get creative. We did neither against just “decent” teams. If we simply dinked and dunked we’d have a better shot than Cams random deep balls when Mason rarely gets separation on deep balls. What was he thinking. Wasted downs.

by raven on Nov 9, 2009 9:25 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Yeah the offensive play calling has been questionable ever since the Patriots game. Cam Cameron has been either too run heavy or too pass heavy or too predictable. Watch the tapes the Ravens tend to run heavily on first downs and than call play action on second. They, in the recent weeks have switched it up play action on first and draws on second to (try to) confuse teams however no success. These play calls remind of Cams days in Miami which will be detrimental to the team if these trends continue.

- Dedicated Raven since 2003 -

by KFJ-InvAZN on Nov 9, 2009 11:36 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Football is all feel for the game at hand. Find your match ups and exploit them. We’ve yet to have an O-ccord who can put down the clipboard and see the game for what it is. Cam is doing things that don’t have to be done like rely on Mason every other play and throw deep on 1st down.

Just got done watching the Steeler game. We can’t touch them. No way. They have their stuff together. The Broncos are done. No way Champ Bailey is anything near HOF material. Even in his prime he was just good but HOF…no. Broncos are done.

Actually, it might work better for us if Pitt just beats Cincy and takes the division. Maybe we should hope for runaway winners in the AFC so all the runnersup slack off or fold. We might be able to steal a Wild Card game. Might be more important that the Bengals lose.

by raven on Nov 9, 2009 11:53 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

"Might be more important that the Bengals lose."

Agree with that and all the points you guys made about the offense and defense. Pittsburgh looked polished tonight in the second half even though they struggled some earlier in the game. Shows you how resillient they are all around.

As far as Mattison, a lot of the guys on the defense said they wanted him as DC and he has a good relationship with the guys. Greg Mattison has more experience coaching as a whole than he does in the NFL and with the Ravens. One year with the Ravens and two in the NFL.

I was a fan of DL coach Clarence Brooks as sort of a dark horse who has 3 more years with the Ravens than Mattison and 17 years in the NFL. I don’t know how well he would have transitioned but unless the defense establishes a solid identity again, I can see Mattison being demoted or possibly let go by next year.

Another possible guy Malor mentioned before is DB coach Mark Carrier who played 11 years and was a former defensive captain. The question is do we want to promote from inside again or go with a guy outside the organization? Hopefully it want have to be a question we address in the offseason.

"We don’t have any rearview mirrors in our car,"- John Harbaugh

by purpleonblack86 on Nov 10, 2009 12:21 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Pitt won like Pitt wins…They let you stick around keeping the game under control and then explode on your tendencies. Their games always go to the 4th quarter. They just deep down know that they are closers. They are the furthest thing from what we are.

by raven on Nov 10, 2009 12:38 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Give in and hire the Steelers assistant D-Coord. Just suck it up and implement their D.

by raven on Nov 10, 2009 12:35 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

It's not that simple

I don’t think we have the tools to just immediatley switch from a 3-4 to a 4-6.

I think our defense has some weaknesses being exploited, but the QBs who beat us this year are all pro-bowl level players. We still kill lesser QBs and force them to make game changing mistakes. The Cincy game on Sunday was largely lost by our offense. Allowing only `17 points to Carson Palmer, I’ll take it. Our offense started out way too slow. We should have been in the hurry up by the second quarter.

On the whole, our football team is sound, vulnerable to great QBs.

The stock market will never recover, our armies will never again be #1, and our children will drink filthy water for the rest of their lives - HST

by the fix is in on Nov 12, 2009 1:03 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Harbs has final say

in the game planning on offense and defense. If the playcalling continues to get vanilla as the competition increases, that’s on Harb’s as much as Cam. If the defense decides not to blitz and watches the opposition sit back and pick us apart week by week, that’s on Harb’s as much as Mattison. Wonder if Bart would have stayed as well as Ray if we had hired Rex instead of Harb’s. No harm wondering but it does no good now. Gotta dance with who we brought, right?

aka 'Rexx'

by Bruce Raffel on Nov 10, 2009 9:20 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

More like..."DIS-Organized Chaos!"

aka 'Rexx'

by Bruce Raffel on Nov 10, 2009 9:26 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

true…can’t go back BUT everyone stays if Rex was here. he knew plenty about Leonhard and Bart. i don’t think any other coach would have put that kind of money out there for those two. it was an inside job.

i wasn’t a fan of Rex because he couldn’t win the big ones and his record against the best stunk. he also went to prevent and 3 man rushes at key moments. i don’t miss the guy in the least.

by raven on Nov 10, 2009 7:52 PM EST reply actions 0 recs