{"id":416155,"date":"2025-10-03T06:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T06:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/416155\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T06:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T06:38:13","slug":"would-cooper-rush-change-ravens-offense-todd-monken-weighs-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/416155\/","title":{"rendered":"Would Cooper Rush change Ravens\u2019 offense? Todd Monken weighs in"},"content":{"rendered":"

The post Would Cooper Rush change Ravens\u2019 offense? Todd Monken weighs in<\/a> appeared first on ClutchPoints<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When news broke that Lamar Jackson<\/a> was sitting out his second-straight day of practice ahead of the Baltimore Ravens<\/a>\u2019 Week 5 showdown against the Houston Texans, it left fans in Charm City feeling less than confident about the showdown against DeMeco Ryans and company.<\/p>\n

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Sure, it is just Friday, and with another day and change to get his body right before the Sunday afternoon showdown at M&T Bank Stadium, but the Texans have already begun to prepare for a world where Cooper Rush<\/a> is handing the ball off to Derrick Henry under center, and the Ravens have likely done the same with the game fast approaching.<\/p>\n

Asked about how his offense could change with Rush under center instead of Jackson, offensive coordinator Todd Monken<\/a> told reporters on Friday that he appreciates the former Dallas Cowboys signal-caller as a player and would feel confident if he had to see the field<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cPreparation. [Cooper Rush<\/a>] is the consummate pro. From the moment he got here \u2026 He was here the whole offseason, and you can see why he has been successful,\u201d Monken told reporters. \u201cHe\u2019s played a lot of football in this league. You forget his record as a starter. It\u2019s outstanding. He did a great job. Everybody that you spoke to in Dallas, [their comments were] glowing about [him], and the guys that went \u2013 [Garrett] Nussmeier went to the Saints, and Kellen Moore, they loved him. He\u2019s been as good as advertised.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked if the Ravens will have to abandon the QB run with Cooper running the show instead of Jackson, Monken kept it somewhat candid, noting that the team will have a game plan ready to go for Week 5.<\/p>\n

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\u201cObviously, as athletic as \u2018Coop\u2019 [Cooper Rush] is, some of those things are not going to look the same as [when] Lamar [does it], but that doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t still be effective and efficient,\u201d Monken noted. \u201cIt\u2019s just a different way of approaching certain aspects of your game. That\u2019s obvious, but our staff and myself have enough background and history with guys that we can still play winning football. Otherwise, we wouldn\u2019t have signed Cooper. We wouldn\u2019t have put ourselves in that position, if we weren\u2019t confident enough to be able to build a game plan that would allow us to score and be really efficient.\u201d<\/p>\n

After watching the Texans struggle to get much going in the first month of the 2025 NFL season,\u00a0securing their first win of the season in Week 4 against the hapless Tennessee Titans after dropping three-straight to the Los Angeles Rams, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and the Jacksonville Jaguars to start off the season, it\u2019s hard to really judge where Houston is at heading into October. They might be a good team that\u2019s just slow to get the rust off, a bad team capitalizing on a worse foe, or something in between the two.<\/p>\n

But one thing is for sure: the Ravens are a very different team without Jackson at quarterback. If he can\u2019t play in Week 5, the Texans are right to expect something different from the usual, as Monken all but confirmed they will be ready to go for that possibility.<\/p>\n

Related: NFL Week 5 Fantasy Football injury report<\/a><\/p>\n

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