Baltimore Ravens Star defends coaches amid defensive struggles

The Baltimore Ravens‘the defense has been a big surprise this season, but not in a good way.

What was the league’s best defense a year ago has become one of the best the worst this season. The front has played relatively well, but the secondary is shockingly allowing the most passing yards in the league. Bloated coverage, dropped interceptions, you name it, things probably went wrong for Baltimore.

Now that the defense has dropped off dramatically, so do many pointing the finger at first-year defensive coordinator Zach Orr. The Ravens promoted Orr following the departures of defensive coordinator Mike Macdonald (Seattle Seahawks head coach), defensive line coach Anthony Weaver (Miami Dolphins defensive coordinator) and defensive backs coach Dennard Wilson (Tennessee Titans defensive coordinator), but the results just aren’t there been yet.

In fact, they even brought back former defensive coordinator Dean Pees as a consultant earlier this season, but that hasn’t yielded much visible improvement either.

However, Orr’s players still believe in him with all their hearts. After Wednesday’s practice, star safety Kyle Hamilton gave a strong defense for Orr and the rest of the defensive coaching staff.

‘I don’t think there is necessarily a loss of talent’ said Hamilton. “I feel like we’ve kept a good number of people in our (defensive) room – players and coaches – and I don’t feel like the room feels very different from last year.

“It’s just about execution, and last year we were executing. I can’t give you an exact answer as to why that’s not happening now, but that’s still something we’re trying to figure out from, (and ) we’re trying to perfect. We’ll never get to that point; no one will get to that (getting to perfection) process of working out the kinks right now.”

Of course, that doesn’t mean everything is sunshine and rainbows. The Ravens still rank last in pass defense, and no one in the building is happy about it.

“I’m angry to see it because I feel like I’m one of the leaders in that room,” Hamilton said. “I feel like I take a lot of the blame for that – guys not being on the same page and not executing. Obviously, especially if we had guys in the room who couldn’t do it, it would be a different story. story, but we have everything we could ever want in that room, so we know we have all the answers in the room. We just have to find them.

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