A Commitment to Run
When the Ravens hired Marc Trestman as their offensive coordinator (“OC”) for the 2015 season, I wrote a piece titled “Balance is Key in Ravens Offense”. In that piece I provided statistics that showed a correlation between the Ravens W-L percentage and Joe Flacco’s passing attempts per game.
After a simplistic analysis the main take away was that when Joe was asked to throw more than 35 times over his first 7 seasons, the Ravens chances of winning decreased.
The bottom line is that Joe needs a balanced offense – a balance he had when Cam Cameron was the OC from 2008 on through 14 games of the 2012 regular season and a balance he had more recently when Gary Kubiak was the OC in 2014.