The offense is (mostly) horrible:
The offense is dragging the Ravens down. There is just no other conclusion to this conversation. When you sit down and take a look at the Ravens on a regular basis, the truth stands out. You don’t need to look at statistics to understand that the Ravens have the worst passing game in football. You don’t have to know the stats to know that Marty Mornhinweg’s guys aren’t doing a good enough job.
Joe Flacco is easily the most inefficient quarterback in the NFL. He’s thrown it 319 times and he doesn’t have 2,000 yards to show for it. It’s not like he has enough weapons, but he is frustrating to watch. Breshad Perriman keeps finding new lows on the football field. Jeremy Maclin is a nice piece to the offense but he didn’t solve the Ravens receiving problems. Mike Wallace is the only receiver catching a fair share of deep passes and he only has 24 receptions on the season.
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Running game leads to little success despite racking up yards:
It’s nice that Alex Collins and the Ravens have put up a productive running game. It even deserves a standing ovation when you consider that the interior of the offensive line has been shuffled so much. Collins and Buck Allen have led one of the best running games there is. The fact that Collins is picking up five yards per carry is a testament to his running style. The opponent knows what’s coming and Collins squirms for a good run almost every time. The offense can do one thing well, but it doesn’t lead to points on the scoreboard. Six of the Ravens 22 touchdowns were scored when the offense wasn’t on the field.
If Baltimore could just have an average offense they could be an unstoppable team. The offense doesn’t have to do much to win games. In the Ravens’ five losses, the offense put the defense in impossible situations and the damn broke each time.