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Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh made a bold move after the 2022 season when, in the midst of a lingering contract standoff between the team and star quarterback Lamar Jackson, Harbaugh fired offensive coordinator Greg Roman and hired Todd Monken from the college ranks to replace him, as Monken had just helped Georgia to back-to-back national titles as the Bulldogs’ offensive coordinator.
Though many Ravens fans and pundits were on board with Harbaugh’s decision to dismiss Roman, believing the team had grown too averse to calling passes in his scheme, it was still a gamble since Jackson had won an MVP with Roman and had yet to sign a new contract with Baltimore. But Jackson ultimately did just that — and then won his second NFL MVP in his first year in Monken’s offense. (Roman was also recently hired by Harbaugh’s brother Jim as the Los Angeles Chargers offensive coordinator.)
The Ravens finished with the best regular-season record in the NFL, ranking sixth in total offense and fourth in scoring offense in their first year with Monken running the unit. Though Baltimore fell agonizingly short to the eventual Super Bowl-champion Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC title game, comments John Harbaugh made this week at the 2024 NFL Scouting Combine may put some fear into the rest of the NFL.
“We’re just starting,” Harbaugh told reporters, via ProFootballTalk. “We’re one year into this thing. There are so many things that I feel like, looking back on it now, they actually were baby steps. They were hard steps for us to take, because it was a sea change in terms of offensive philosophy, but they were baby steps looking back on them. We have so, so far to go.
“I met with Todd. I met with all the coaches individually. I met with Lamar a couple of days after that. I met with different players, and we have a direction right now on where we want to go. We want to be tight. We want to be locked in. We want to understand how this offense applies to Lamar and our players,…
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Publish date : 2024-03-01 02:22:15
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