The Baltimore Ravens entered the 2014 season with a new offensive system under offensive coordinator Gary Kubiak. The former Houston Texans’ head coach was the longtime Denver Broncos’ coordinator prior to that, making his offensive systems familiar at this point.
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You will see stretch running plays. Play after play you will see “one cut and go” runs from the guys in the backfield. That is meant to gain yards in the ground game, of course, but also to set up play action.
Those play action calls set up deep passes as well as short passes. When a Kubiak offense gets down around the goal line, you see an awful lot of play action to the tight end, with the defense biting on the run and a big lumbering target roaming free in the back of the endzone.
It was a classic Kubiak-offense moment, then, when tight end Owen Daniels got loose for a wide open touchdown from Joe Flacco to give the Ravens a 7-0 lead over the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The Ravens’ offense struggled to get things going last week against the Cincinnati Bengals. It looks like they might be off to a better start Thursday in a key divisional game.
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