Back to the Drawing Board

by Jbyrd923 | 4 years ago | 1 Comments

Before getting this article started I'd like to apologize to league members again for having my stream fxcked up during a super bowl and not realizing in time to fix it.

After a 13-3 finish to the season the Baltimore Ravens found themselves at the 5 seed and ended beating the Patriots, Raiders, and division rival Browns in a series of close games to clutch a super bowl appearance. But when the time came for head coach Uzumaki to finish out the season with a Super Bowl victory he came up short. Uzumaki was previoulsy 2-0 in super bowls before this game but the other two were not quite like this one. In previous victories Uzumaki's super bowl champion teams started off the games strong and played with a lead mostly throughout or went back and forth, but that wasn't the case this time around. After recieving the ball to start the game Lamar Jackson and the Ravens drove down to the goal line and rookie RB JK Dobbins caught a pass in the flats for what should've been a walk in touchdown but he failed to stay in bounds. On what should've been an easy call to make next and set up to take the 3 points in a super bowl, the offense stayed on the field and ended up not converting which was a huge stop for Green Bay who ended up putting a drive together right away and punching in a touchdown, but missing the XP making it 6-0. The Ravens got the ball back on the kickoff and managed to drive down to the red zone again but Lamar Jackson threw a pass in what seemed like to be an open window but the route was jumped by a GB defender who made a nice play and ended up taking the interception all the way to the house for 6. From then on the Packers had all the momentum going forward. After going up 13-0 the Packers defense was playing strong and stopping Lamar and the offense from making any big plays that they wanted, on the defensive side the Ravens couldn't find an answer for Aaron Jones and the Packers took advantage of that and kept their playcalling unpredictable mixing in great passes that kept the chains moving while Aaron Jones was hot. By halfitme the Ravens had 3 redzone trips but had only came away with 3 points. The Ravens were able to find the end zone late in the 3rd quarter and made it a 24-17 game. By the 4th Quarter the Packers went up 27-17, it was obvious Jackson was looking too much into making big plays to try and tie the game up rather than trying to put together methodical drives, forcing passes deep resulting in interceptions there were no more points to be found for the Ravens who went on to lose 27-17.  We caught up with Coach Uzumaki to see what he had to say about the loss.

"This is my first time experiencing putting in all the work to get the big game and losing, and it sucks, especially when we know we didn't go out there and play our best football like we have all season. As head coach I need to take responsibility for not keeping my composure and making the right calls like taking our points and instead being aggressive in a big game like this and it costed us. From the start of the game after going down to the red zone twice and coming up with 0 points it definielty made me feel like we were playing catch up all game and made my play calling desperate and made us try and force a lot of things instead of keeping my composure and being smart with the gameplan after going down early. Got to give credit where it's due to Green Bay as they played a great and had a good gameplan on both sides of the ball to secure the victory. You're not going to win a Super Bowl throwing a pick six and not taking your points, especially when you're facing a seasoned vet coach who has multiple Super Bowl victories they're not going to give you a chance to win the game. I'll defineitly use this game as a teaching moment for my career going forward, sometimes you need a loss like this to really show you where you need to improve at, and what not to do in future situations. We're going to improve the roster in this upcoming FA and draft and try to make another run at it. But for now we just have to learn from our mistakes."