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I really love this guy.

I want to see Caleb take a big step forward next week and play his most complete game of his career!

Maye is a specimen.

Listened to Patrick Mannely tonight, he praised how great the oline has become at run blocking, working together, and the RBs are showing the results. He said teams will now have to respect the run and play 8 in the box or different personal. This is the type of offense that allows BJ to mix it up and start attacking with formations that show run and are pass and vice versa. Once he has defenses guessing, then the TEs can start slipping out into the seams

He might be trying to break him from that instinct of running. I noticed when he bailed the pocket, he tried to loop around back in to it. That gives him the whole field instead of half on finding a open receiver. All good things I think.

Caleb needs 108 passing yards to hit 5K for his career, and 1 TD pass to hit 30. If he does that on Sunday without throwing an INT, he will be the only QB in NFL history to throw for 5K Passing Yards, 30 Passing TDs, 500 Rushing Yards, and fewer than 10 INTs in their first 24 games to start a career. The only QB close is RG3 who threw 14 INTs. No other QB is under 15 that has the other 3 stat categories. RG3 had 32-14.

I am wondering if Johnson has told Caleb to throw the ball at all costs instead of scrambling, even when he has space to run? Why do I say this: The last two games, 4 rushes, -2 yards per game, with kneel downs accounting for 3 rushes for -4 yards total. So he has only rushed 5 times for 0 yards in the last two games in total. Going back since the start of the 4-game winning streak? 21 rushing yards in total. In the first two (both losses), he averaged 43 yards per game rushing. So he has dropped 38 yards per game on the rushing side between the 2-game losing streak and 4-game winning streak. That just seems like too much of a coincidence to not be purposeful. He has never had a streak of 4 games like this rushing the ball.

I do find it interesting that the Bears have the 9th highest rated team in PFF while the Ravens are 29th. Their D-Line is no longer elite, so they rely on Kyle Hamilton to make plays all over the field.

4-2 8 @ Baltimore Ravens - TOSS UP (Allowing a league high 32.3 ppg) 9 @ Cincinnati Bengals - WIN (Only scoring 19.4 ppg AND allowing 30.6 ppg) 10 New York Giants - WIN (scoring 21.9 ppg AND allowing 25.3 ppg) 11 @ Minnesota Vikings - TOSS UP 12 Pittsburgh Steelers - TOSS UP 13 @ Philadelphia Eagles - LOSS 14 @ Green Bay Packers - TOSS UP 15 Cleveland Browns - WIN (Only scoring 16.1 ppg) 16 Green Bay Packers - TOSS UP 17 @ San Francisco 49ers - TOSS UP (Only scoring 20.7 ppg) 18 Detroit Lions - LOSS 7-4 with 6 toss-up games, split those for a 10-7 record.

I would love for the running game to hang another 150-200 on the Ravens. That would more than likely equate to a win.

PFF Grades are always amusing. For this game, only two players on the entire team had a below average grade (below 50.0). Benedet had a 43.2 and Turner had a 29.7 on 10 snaps. The top 5 on offense were: Swift - 83.6 Dalman - 74.8 (kind of funny considering the snap issues) Monangai - 73.8 Thuney - 72.7 Jackson - 72.1 (he is slowly getting better and better, you don't hear his name called much) Top 5 on defense: Edwards - 86.8 Wright - 85.9 Jackson - 83.9 (only 14 snaps, but he seems to always be around the ball) Dexter - 76.6 Gordon - 74.1 Funny Grades: Edmunds - 53.6 (he was all over the place making plays, this is a ridiculous grade) Williams - 62.4 (for the first time ever, I think they gave Williams a higher grade than he deserved, accuracy alone puts him under 50.0, so I don't know what they are looking at.

With Roquan coming back to practice, it still may be a couple of weeks for him to rev up to 100%. Playing the Bears he will push to play. Best way to handle Roquan is run right at him.

Sorry, but they’re not going to call that often. He’s hitting the A-Gap and getting squeezed into the snapper. Arm on the snapper’s back? Sure. But 99% of the time that’s not getting called unless it’s worse and more direct with the snapper. Also, like I said before, there is no timing mechanism to the protection rule. Not one, two, or ten seconds. It’s all based on the officials’ perception of whether or not the snapper has had enough time to defend himself. Some players at lower levels, along with their bonehead coaches, think they just have to keep their head down for an extended period and that automatically results in indefinite protection. That couldn’t be further from the truth.

Maybe because young people make bad decisions at a greater rate than older people? Or maybe you haven’t heard everyone under 25 saying “six seeeveeeen” nonstop? Remember tide pods? Etc. I will be one of the many using halftime to get food and take a symbolic dump.

Fired = Demoted 100% of them have extensive connections and officiating networks. One does not advance to the NFL without such connections. When they get fired or demoted they go back to a D1 conference unless they’re ready to retire or they did something outrageous like a crime. The lower you go the easier it is to fire them. I know someone who got fired from a D1 conference because they were accused of drunken towards a female employee in the hotel lobby where they were all staying. Keeping them wasn’t worth the risk.

Roquan just started practicing so he'll make a difference in their run D. However, he's never been a guy to take on blockers his game is built on running around them. If we can get a hand on him he can be moved out of the play.

The next two games are against teams that have so far this season struggled against the run. Swift and Monangai should be able to take advantage. Rushing Defense rankings. (Last column is rushing TDs allowed)

Right. Narratives are stories that persist above the facts. If you win three games with a last minute scores then you're the "Cardiac kids" and then people expect the pattern to continue. Reality is bumpier than that, and neat little generalizations always fail to capture the full truth. If we keep winning, then eventually the story will change about us, and then theyll say we are better than we are, and that any bad moments dont fit the new story. And it'll be BS then too, but more fun to read. But in the end, it's all nonsense meant to allow a causal observer of the NFL to feel part of a story line thats easy to understand and full of absolutes. Simple and neat, and easy to repeat at a bar to seem like you know football. We here who spend more time on this than that, know that even the best teams have bad plays and games. This is gonna be a bumpy road, but the 4 game view should always be trending upward. So far so good.

The writers built JD up after his ROY and playoff season. They are not giving up on his performances yet when his top two targets are banged up. For the narrative to change with Caleb, he needs to win and be more consistent. Caleb has been carried by the Ds turnovers but hindered by penalties (his cadence partially to blame) and STs (huge return differential). Caleb is on his way to flipping the narrative just by winning. If he/O can clean up the pre-snap Ps and throw on time, the sky's the limit. I think we all see he has some boxes to check and I expect BJ to get those fixed.

Clearly BJ is fixing problems on the run. He got the running game going and playing a lot better against the run. He will work into the offense the TEs. Its a work in progress , we are just the tip of the iceberg. If Caleb becomes more consistent it adds to the number of O plays a game and that adds more options for other weapons to the get touches.

Well if Baltimore is as putrid as you think they are then it should go to reason. Unless somehow Monangai supplants him and does better with his opportunities. The only things I see changing the running game from its current domination are Caleb doing better at passing (overall) and the involving of Kmet and Loveland more than they have so far.

He hasnt all of a sudden turned into Barkley or Robinson. He is an above average NFL back that has a OL that is jelling. BJ and Beiniemy has lit a fire under him and he is productive. With the threat of a good passing game, the other teams arent loading the box to stop the run. Now if Monangai takes off, we have the two back game DJ is looking for. Caleb gets his act together and we have the offense BJ wants to see. We are scoring over 21 points in every game. I cant wait to see where that goes once the offense goes into cruise mode. Every game takes on its own script. Balt is dangerous because they are 1-5, had the bye week and getting some injured players back. I expect it to be a close game and we have a chance to win, but this is a must win for the Ravens . That may be the edge they need. IF we stay physical and can run the ball, we will stay in every game from here out.

Since the bye week, Swift has been a different back than Id ever seen from him before. If he continues like this, it's easy to say we should keep him. That doesnt mean we wont draft a better prospect, or that Monangai wont challenge him for RB1 - anything is possible, but on his own merits, Swift has been a completely different back than I'd ever seen from him before. It's great to see unexpected growth from players, especially unlikely from veterans, and i think it speaks loudly about how effective our coaching staff is.

I know it is asking a lot, but I want to see it for at least one more game. Why? Because Swift never had 3 great games in a row. It is really baffling. Here are his games before and after 100 yard rushing games in his career: 2020 - 22, 116, 27 2021 - 27, 130, 136, 0 2022 - 144*, 56 *-Week 1 2023 - 3, 175, 130, 56 2024 - 91, 129, 51 2025 - 38, 108, 124, ? His highest total in any of the 3 games that follows a 100-yd game is 71. The most likely yardage for him following a 2nd 100-yd game is 53. He has never had 3 straight games with 75+ rushing yards in his career.