Cincinnati Bengals vs. Baltimore Ravens Review | PFF Grade Release Show

Cincinnati Bengals vs. Baltimore Ravens Review | PFF Grade Release Show

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Uh, on Baltimore side of things, defensive tackle Travis Jones a 90.8. He’s he’s hitting free agency coming up. He might get a bag in a couple of months here. Linebacker Rocoan Smith an 84.1. Offensive tackle Roger Rosenard an 80.0. Safety Loey Gilman with a 787. Then Kyle Hamilton uh with a 75.2. Quarterback Lamar Jackson this game a 42.2 overall grade. Um could I just start with the quarterbacks? I I think that that’s that’s kind of where I I want to start with this conversation. One, Burl. Burl was tough in I think it was the first quarter. We were talking about this before the show with the producers and I think it was the first quarter versus everything else or it might have been the first half versus the second half. But Burrow was elite in the second half. It was slow burn to start and it was his first game back. Shaking the rust off. It really did felt like like you you got a first half of shaking the rust off, but he was elite. Yep. In the second half. Elite. And we quantify that by plus accuracy throws or I’ll quantify it by plus accuracy throws here. So at PFF the way that we chart and grade throws is of course we have obviously like completion percentage adjusted completion percentage but we’ll even take accuracy scores a touch further. So obviously an accuracy score is if you throw the ball in a way in which your wide receiver should catch the football. That is an accurate throw. Then we have plus accuracy throws, which are throws that not only are accurate that your wide receiver can catch, but also leads them away from defenders in a way where they can get yards after the catch. That is a plus accuracy throw. Joe Burrow this week, first week back by the way, even with knocking off some rust at the beginning of the game, 35% plus accuracy throw percentage, number one in the NFL this week. That’s silly. I said to you last Wednesday as the preview when I picked the Bengals, the reason why I’m picking the Bengals is because I understand he doesn’t play linebacker. He doesn’t change the defense. And the offense has been okay. the offense hasn’t been the reason why the Bengals have been losing, but even so, there’s a difference between when Joe Bros out there and whoever’s out there. And 35% plus accuracy percentage is nuts. Now, on the other side of the coin, Lamar, who has struggled this year overall, but specifically kind of when he’s been coming back from missing a couple of games, 38.7 uncatchable inaccurate throw percentage, which was the worst in the NFL in week 13. Lamar’s just off. And to me, this was a story of there were other things that obviously went in this game. the the the Ravens turnovers are a big reason why they ended up losing. But these are two very opposite ends of the spectrum with how these two quarterbacks played this game. Lamar had a ton of inaccurate throws and Joe Burrow not only had accurate throws, but plus accuracy throws that gave his players the ability to get a lot of yards after catch and make some big plays for two good teams. Even independent of the turnovers, I think it’s a big reason why this game ended up being the way that it was. The Ravens in general, I’m going to go into that and it’s going to tie eventually into my most impressive here. The Ravens in general have a big big problem with their drop back passing game. Yeah, totally. It’s Lamar Jackson is the third highest graded playaction passer in the NFL. Okay, cool. That’s great. All right, you get Derrick Henry going a little bit. You get form heavy formations, the tight ends, the the good things we’ve been talking about with all the play action, the Ravens offense. Lamar Jackson this season, Trevor, without play action has a 45.5 passing grade. That is the worst in the NFL out of 42 guys qualified there. The lowest nonplayaction passing grade in the NFL. And it’s not just him. Their playaction passing or sorry, their drop back game right now. The timing’s off. It’s not creative. And the receivers are not separating at all. Right. right now aside from Zay Flowers and even him he’s not one of those high-end Justin Jefferson Jamar Chase type of receivers they are not separating on the outside whether that’s Rashad Baitman if that’s DeAndre Hopkins if they get TZ Walker going out there the tight ends obviously the tight ends put up good numbers in this game um Isaiah likely with the big game the Bengals can’t cover tight ends we know this but in general they really have not been separating one-on-one as much and Mark Andrews slowing down prevents them from putting him out in the slot and in different places where they’ve liked to put him in the past. This is a real issue. Yeah, this is a serious problem. The Ravens without play action, I’m going to go further on this because Lamar has the lowest passing grade without play action in the league. Offensive grade in general 29th, EPA per play 26th, yards per attempt 25th. Explosive pass rate 29th. Basically that offensive grade being 29th. I believe the three teams below them are the Raiders, Titans, and Browns. That’s what they look like when they drop back right now without play action. This is an issue. This passing game is a real problem. And the fact that the run game is not as dominant as it was last year and you’re basically solely reliant on play action, which you know, play action’s great obviously, especially from under center, but when you’re solely relying on play action for big plays, you have a problem. and you fall behind in a game like this, right, you have a real problem. And my most impressive on the other right on the other side of that, you saw three Bengals corners in the top five graded players for them was Dax Hill, DJ Turner, DJ Turner, and Jaylen Davis making his second career start in the slot. Bengals corners in this game, Josh Newton played a little bit, too. How about an 86.5 combined coverage grade, giving up six catches for 49 yards the entire game. The Bengals corners have been the one redeeming part of this defense. They’re now sixth in the league as a unit as in coverage grade. They have the same coverage grade as the Houston Texans. If Al Golden’s got nothing else right now, he’s got corners. Yeah. And then you get the game of his life from Joseph Osai. The linebackers are what they are. But the Bengals won not Jordan Battle forcing the fumble. Jordan Battle forcing the fumble. Biggest play of the game. Right. It was Jaylen Davis forcing a fumble way later in the game, too. I mean, you’ve got you got a group of corners you can live with. They just need to be respectable up front and maybe they’ve got a shot. And again, they don’t the Bengals don’t need to be the greatest defense ever, right? They need to be kind of like we talked about the Texans O line before, right? If the Bengals are 18th in a defense in all the defensive categories, they’re going to be awesome because they have Joe Burrow. Well, they’re they’re two games they’re two games out of the division lead right now. The Steelers look like they’re heading in the wrong direction. And we just mentioned the the Ravens have been turning around in around in the win column, but you you don’t feel great about it. The the Bengals have five games left. The best they can finish is nine and eight, but there’s a world where nine and eight wins this division. Oh, I think that nine and eight is going to be the record to win this division. But that’s what that’s and like they have an opportunity to hit it. They got stuck and they will I don’t think I don’t think they’ll own the tiebreaker over the Steelers, right? Because they split the series, but they they didn’t beat the Steelers as big as the Steelers beat them. Does that go No, it’s the next one would be it’s division record overall. The six games, whatever your division record is is the next one. So, what’s their division record? They in division. Oh, they’re three in one, right? They’re three and one and they have the Ravens and the Browns still left, right? The Bengals have a chance to not only get to nine wins, but even if they’re at eight wins, if eight wins is what is is what wins this division, they’ll they’ll own the tiebreakers against the teams that they’ll be going up against. They They’re another one. We got a few games like this. The Dallas game, uh, the Houston game with Kansas City and they’re playing Buffalo here in Cincinnati this week. All I’m going to say, if you’re the Bills, well, don’t let the Bengals Oh, it’s in Buffalo. Okay. Sorry. I thought it was here. All right. And then they come back here and play Baltimore the week after that. Okay. I thought they had two home games, but either way, in Well, in Buffalo is a tough task for sure. But yeah, but you got Joe Bro, you can beat anybody. Absolutely. He’s done it. He’s gone up there and won before. We remember that. I mean, if they if the Bengals mess around and go to Buffalo and win that game and then they get the Ravens back here in Cincinnati the week after, you have a situation. Oh, it’s going to be so fun. It’s a lot of if, but oh, this is going to We got a lot of big games this week coming this pre this preview. We’re going to have a hell of a lot of fun with this preview that we just we just mentioned the Patriots and the Bills coming down to the wire for who wins that division. Obviously, the AFC North, what we just talked about there, the AFC South, the Texans, the Colts, the Jags, who’s going to win that division? H it feels like the the Denver Broncos are probably going to win that division, but you know, it could come down to the very end. We just mentioned that Dallas is trending up, Phillyy’s trending down. Could Dallas even win that spot? We know that the NFC North is going to be a dog fight to the very end. We got Carolina and Tampa Bay playing in two of the last three games of that season to see who goes to the playoffs there. And then of course we got the Rams, we got the Seahawks, and we got the 49ers. This league’s wide open, man.

PFF’s Trevor Sikkema and Dalton Wasserman review the matchup between The Cincinnati Bengals and The Baltimore Ravens.

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