Ken McKusick

Um, Mike Tomlin is, has been the, the kind of the North star of cowardly punting over the last couple of decades.

I don't know if you, if you follow that at all, but, but he, yeah, he puts all the time on fourth down.

So fourth and one, fourth and a half, fourth and one and a half kind of thing is, is a punting down mathematicians that drives them crazy.

Oh, it's, uh,

Yeah, Harbaugh's been better than that, but I wouldn't say he's at the top of the league anymore.

We can talk about those in a second, but I think the overall philosophy of Todd Munkin is what you're going to really love about him is that he's...

He said, I think an offense is balanced when you're forcing the defense to defend every blade of grass or the widest possible area.

And so he makes really good use of space.

The Ravens offense, largely under Monken and previously under Roman as well, is largely a misdirection based offense.

So basically the fuel for the offense is what Lamar Jackson can do out of the mesh point.

So that's always been, during the Lamar Jackson era, what's really worked.

Now this last year with Lamar Hurt, it didn't work.

All their misdirection value was gone.

Other teams felt like they could crowd the line of scrimmage.

Lamar didn't hold the balls long and get rid of it.

But he doesn't have to have as many individual concepts when his quarterback is so good at getting linebackers to move off of their proper spot.

And that's really what is it, outside linebackers and inside linebackers both.

Lamar gets them to make mistakes, and then he takes advantage of it.

And a lot of their concepts are built to do that, of course.

Their schemes that come out of the mesh point can involve a throw to a tight end or a quick out to somebody if they're crowding the line of scrimmage.