 We respect the Colts, but we did not fear them. Sound familiar? You too, Team Keep It Clean. What's going on? It's Aang Raven here with another video. And in this video, we're here to talk about my post-game thoughts from the week nine matchup between the Ravens and the Colts. Now, of course, you all know we do the post-game live streams after every Ravens game. And those can go on for an hour and a half, two hours, three hours. And we have a lot of fun in them, but not everybody can be a part of those. And not everybody can rewatch those two and a half, three hour videos. So these are the more condensed versions of everything that we thought about the game. And just to jump straight into it, let's start on offense. With the Ravens offense as a whole, just in the first half alone, I continued to tweet about it that it wasn't like they were just awful. It wasn't like they were just terrible. The play calling was not bad. It was just simply that the execution was just not there. It was not there early on. And shout out to Coach Defense. Let's not forget that. Coach Defense, they were holding it down. But Ravens offense, they were just a few minor things away from this offense really moving forward. And I saw that. Like early on, Patrick McCarrey, he missed a block on a third down. Bradley Bozeman, he got pushed all the way back on either second or third down. Lamar hit Hollywood in the hands. Hit him in the hands. But Hollywood dropped it on a third down. And it was like the Ravens were, they were stopping themselves. Now, Colts played a big part too, because their run defense was amazing yesterday in that game. So again, shout out to the Coach Defense. We cannot take anything away from them. But the Ravens, they were like right there. And then Lamar Jackson, he threw two picks. They obviously both got dropped, thank goodness. But he threw two picks. One of them was intended for Hollywood, where he tried to fit in between all these Colts defenders. And it just, it didn't work. It didn't work. But the Ravens offense as a whole, it was just like, they were right there. They were right there, but they just couldn't finish the job. And they were held to zero points in the first half of that game yesterday. Now, thank goodness for that Ravens defense. Because if the offense was going to be an indicator of how it was gonna be all game long, thankfully it wasn't in the first half, then it would have been a long day for the Ravens. But the defense continued to do what the defense has been doing a lot of times throughout this season, is really having the offenses back. And really putting them in positions to have success. The defense, they were holding the Colts. The Colts early on, they had been moving. They had been moving that ball. They were getting off some chunk run plays. Now, the defense throughout the first half and really the entire game, they didn't give up any deep plays again. So that's two weeks in a row against one good quarterback and one decent quarterback in Phillip Rivers. He's not bad, he's not great, but he's decent right now at this stage of his career. But the defense, they didn't give up any deep passes. Like, none. So that's a beautiful thing. That means that they are continuing to jail together. And this was without Marlon Humphrey. This was without Marlon Humphrey. And real quick, kudos to the defense for this game because as we know, there were so many guys that couldn't even practice throughout the week because of the whole situation with Marlon Humphrey and the other guys being high risk. A lot of them guys couldn't practice throughout the week. So with them not practicing throughout the week, they had to do a lot of film study. They had to pay extra attention with their film study, picking up the Colts' tendencies and whatnot. And it was just a beautiful thing. But anyway, in the first half, Marcus Peters, he was like, man, my boy Marlon, he ain't playing, but you know what, I got him. I got him today. I got him. So with Marcus Peters, he did the strip. Did the strip. I think it was Jonathan Taylor, it was the Colts running back, who was running, running, running, running, running. And he was on his way down. And again, Marcus Peters, he learned his lesson from that Eagles game a couple of weeks ago to where Deshaun Elliott didn't give up on a play. And Deshaun Elliott played all the way through the whistle. Marcus Peters, he sort of slowed up on that long run by Miles Sanders from the Eagles. Like that 74, 64-yard run half along it was. Deshaun Elliott, ran him down, knocked the ball out. And if Marcus Peters wouldn't have slowed down on a play, he could have possibly recovered that fumble. Marcus Peters was like, you know what, I learned from that. And I made a mistake that week, but I'm not doing it this week. I'm not, I'm playing through the whistle. So Jonathan Taylor was on his way down, but Marcus Peters was trying to strip that ball out and then he ended up getting it out. Fumble, Chuck Clark picks it up. Hurdles over one defender. Then Phillip Rivers does. I don't know what Phillip Rivers was doing, but Phillip Rivers, he jumped over him too. And Ravens ended up getting the only touchdown of the first half on defense. And again, this, hey, some games gotta be like this. Every game is not gonna be so pretty by the offense. It's not. And I mean, we've definitely seen that this year. So this is why it's a group effort. This is why football is the ultimate team sport. So that was a real nice play by Marcus Peters. Real nice play by Chuck Clark, because everything came together perfectly. Everything did. So that was huge in this game. And Coates ended up, they ended up kicking a field goal besides that. And then they, of course, they did get the touchdown too. Where I think it was Jonathan Taylor where he jumped over the pile on at the goal line. But for the most part, the Ravens played good defense. The Coates played even better defense in the first half in both teams. It was a slug fast, man. 10 to seven, going in the halftime. And I was like, cool, okay. But I was confident. I was confident in the Ravens because again, I had seen that their offense was right there. They were right there. So then in the second half, they came out and they turned up the tempo. I've seen rumors from different people, a team keeping clean saying that, oh, it was John Harbaugh calling the plays in the second half. I haven't seen any confirmation of that. So I don't know if that's true or not. But regardless, that up-tempo offense, it showed out because they came out in the second half. Lamar was stoned it all over the place, getting the different guys involved and they were moving quickly down the field. And again, this is against a really, really, really good defense, one of the NFL's best. And they were moving that ball quickly down the field, up-tempo, Lamar was making quick decisions. He was throwing that ball all around and it was just a beautiful thing. It was a beautiful thing. But unfortunately on that drive, Gus Edwards, they said, hey, let's run the ball. Here you go, Gus. Hey, okay, I got it. Run it, run it. Bow, fumble, fumble. And I was hoping it was gonna be one of those plays where because he fumbled it and I think Darius Leonard, he recovered it but then he stopped bobbling it and then he dropped it and then I was hoping the Ravens would recover but it's all good because the very next play, Phillip Rivers, he tried Marcus Peters. He tried them. He really tried them. And Marcus Peters played it perfectly. Initially live, it looked like a drop. It looked like an incompletion. And then hardball through the challenge flag and I was thinking, wait a minute, hardball's throwing a challenge flag for that? Like what's going on? But then when they showed the replay and I looked at it too, I did see Marcus Peters, he caught the ball and once he maintained possession, once he got possession, if you look at his feet, because that's what you gotta do, you gotta look at the feet right away. Once they maintain possession, it's all about the feet now. So he took like two or three steps. So that's, I think it's gotta be two football moves for the BA completion. You know, of course, the rules are wacky with what a completed catch is and what a completed catch isn't. But he did make two to three football moves. So that will make it a catch and then a fumble. The rule is crazy. It's a lot of different interpretations with the rule but it is what it is. I understood why they overturned that call. It was a very close one but I understood why they overturned it. And it made sense, I was like, wow. Before they overturned it, I was like, wow, John hardball, he really got a case. He got a case for this one. And it obviously worked out in the Ravens' favor because they got the ball back and then they went down the field and they got a touchdown. Now, this is something that was very important because the game of football is a psychological battle because you are trying to outsmart your opponents. Your opponents, they're trying to outsmart you. You both are trying to pick up on each other's tendencies. This is why you need to establish the running game because especially situational football, this is why it's so crucial and critical on that drive. That drive after Marcus Peters got the interception, they went back down the field again. So again, and I said it, often I could tell they were right there. They were so close to waking up in the first half but they were just missing on a little few things here and there but in the second half, they were getting it. They were getting it. But on that drive after the Marcus Peters interception, they moved down the field again. And with them moving down the field again, Gus Edwards, it was on like, I think it was like on a third and short, close by the goal line. Third and short gave it to Gus Edwards first down. Okay, first down, what you gonna do? Gave it to Gus Edwards. I thought he scored a touchdown. I don't think his knee was down. He didn't think his knee was down but they were like, oh no, he didn't score. Like, okay, cool. Thought they might challenge it but they on the goal line, they didn't wanna risk you losing a timeouts. So third down, third and short, you gave it to Gus Edwards, got the first. First and goal, gave it to Gus Edwards, didn't get the touchdown. Second and goal, gave it to Gus Edwards, didn't get the touchdown. Third and goal, okay, you can start to think, okay, what are we gonna do here? We gonna try to make it a little bit tricky, try to throw him off with some crazy, some kind of gimmick. New, straight up, gave it to Gus Edwards cause they could see he was close to getting there. They knew he could get in there. Third and goal, gave it to Gus Edwards, touchdown. And the reason that I say it's a psychological battle between the two teams is because the next drive, well, either the next drive or maybe the next drive after that. But a drive later on in the game, Ravens are on the goal line again. They moved the ball downfield, they got to the red zone, got to the goal line. I forgot what down it was, but they in goal line formation. So Colts are thinking, oh yeah, we remember Ravens last time they were down here, they ran this dude Gus Edwards four times in a row. He's their goal line back. They're going to give it to him. What did Ravens do? Said Lamar faked it to Gus Edwards, kept it himself, touchdown. And we haven't seen it work like that all season long. We haven't seen it work so perfectly all season long because that run game has not been established like that consistently. But see, this is what happens when you don't try to outthink things. You don't try to outthink situations. You don't try to outsmart yourself. Ravens kept it simple on that goal line. They didn't try to get pretty. They didn't try to get fancy. They didn't try to bring in all the tricks and all that. They kept it simple and it worked and it was effective. So this time the Colts, they weren't looking for Lamar Jackson. There have been a lot of times throughout this year where Lamar will fake it to the running back but he'll keep it himself and the teams will be all over it. They'll be all over that. Like, oh, we know you ain't gonna give it to that running back. They'll be all over it. But there they weren't. And again, very good defense. They weren't all over it then. So shout out to the offense for really making those adjustments with the execution in the second half and then picking up the pace too. Now with the defense, well real quick, special teams, Justin Tucker, you know him. He did his thing, of course. Sam Cooke, you know him. He did his thing, of course. So shout out to those two. They just, the expectation is there for them. We know what they're gonna bring. But now to the defense. One thing I noticed in this game, especially in the second half, was that the defense wasn't biting. They weren't biting. A lot of times you've seen this defense just bite on some stuff and guys will be out of position. No, they were sound. These dudes were sound, especially in that second half. And I mean, they didn't give up a point. They didn't give up a point in the second half. But they were sound like Philip Rivers were fake to the running back and the defense, they would be like, okay, cool. We see it. Okay, what you gonna do now? And even especially where the defense was the most sound that, now they did still give up some yards on some of them because of some missed tackles. But they were especially sound in the second half on those screens. Oh, that was big, man. I was so proud of them. I feel like a proud uncle or something, man. I was so proud of that defense when it came to the screens because we've seen it time and time again against lesser opponents, against greater opponents. Ravens with the screens. Oh my goodness, it is one of the most frustrating things because these guys will get these chunk, chunk, chunk plays on the Ravens when it comes to the screen game. Happened so much time, so many times. And, but in this game, especially second half, they weren't with it, man, for the most part. But they would see it and they would attack it. Again, sometimes they were missed attack on and the coach players would get nice chunk of yards. But Ravens, they were on it in that second half. And again, like I said earlier, no deep passes, no deep passes, some intermediate ones, but no deep passes. So they did a very good job of adjustments. This game, that's all it was about. It was about the adjustments. First half adjustment or second half adjustments from what happened in the first half. That's all it was about because again, they didn't need to change anything too much. They didn't need to do anything too crazy. They didn't need to get wild or anything. They didn't need to overthink it. They just needed to play their game and execute. And they did just that. They continued the same type of game plan, but they upped the tempo and the execution was a lot better. So that made all the difference. Simplicity, but efficient simplicity. So it was just, it was a beautiful thing. As far as the running backs, they couldn't really get going, get going. Cause again, this is a really good run defense. It's a great run defense. But the passing game had to be a lot more effective. Lamar didn't miss a pass in the second half. He completed all 10 of them in the second half. And that's all he needed, 10 passes. And that lead got extended. So shout out to the Ravens. They overcame being down at halftime. This was the first time in what, 20 games I think? Something like that, that they were down at halftime and they actually won. Cause they said for like 20 games in a row, the Ravens have been down at halftime and they lost every single one. And it's not like these dudes are just down by halftime by such huge margins or huge scores, anything like that. But if they down at halftime, they lose. They had a lot going against them this week, but they overcame it. They had a lot going against them. It was that them being down at halftime, they had never, ever beat the Cotes in their stadium before ever, ever. And I saw James and Hensley put the stat from this year. The only two times that the Ravens have trailed this year were against the Steelers and the Chiefs. And we saw how those two games ended up. But they trailed in this one and boom, check it out. They overcame it. And then of course everything that we talked about earlier with Marlon Humphrey and all the guys being high-risk, Marlon Humphrey being out. They lost Calais Campbell on the first drive. First drive, they lost Calais Campbell. You know how big that is? Like run defense, they felt it. They certainly felt it. But I was really proud of them for the way that they took care of business against the Cotes. That was a really good game and it just showed that effort and it showed that heart. So shout out to the Ravens for handling business. Shout out to the Cotes, super tough team, man. Super tough team. They brought it. They brought it. But again, it was all about adjustments. And the Ravens made a few more adjustments than the Cotes did. And that's all that matters. So anyway, Team Keep It Clean, appreciate y'all. I love y'all and I'm out.