It’s no secret that final season the Baltimore Ravens’ passing assault at occasions appeared like somewhat brother wildly swinging at air whereas his older brother holds his brow. There may be loads of blame to be handed round for the Ravens’ struggling passing offense. Common Manager Eric DeCosta gave a solution about it that didn’t sit proper with huge receiver Rashod Bateman.

DeCosta was requested by the media about evaluating huge receivers. Throughout his response, he admitted that the group is just not as robust because the group would really like.

“If I had a solution, meaning I’d in all probability have some higher receivers, I assume,” DeCosta stated. 

A member of the media who was there —Sarah Ellison, cohost of the Ravens Vault podcast — tweeted out that sentence and one other during which DeCosta stated that whereas the group has drafted productive gamers they nonetheless haven’t hit on an “All-Professional sort of a man.”

Bateman noticed the tweet and it clearly obtained him in his emotions. He tweeted out a response calling out the Ravens for the rash of accidents the workforce has suffered during the last two seasons and the group as a entire.

Bateman later deleted the tweet and despatched out an apology.

Earlier than Bateman went down with an harm in 2022, he gave the impression to be on his option to a breakout season. The Ravens’ 2021 first-round choose averaged higher than 25 yards per reception in every of the primary three video games of 2022. He suffered a foot harm in Week 4. Bateman returned to the lineup in Week 7, however by Week 9 he was dominated out for the remainder of the season with a Lisfranc harm.

That is the second vital harm that Bateman has suffered in his two seasons with the Ravens. He missed the primary 4 weeks of the 2021 season after needing surgical procedure on an injured groin throughout coaching camp.

Twitter was in all probability not the very best place for Bateman to vent his frustrations, however he does make a degree about accountability. It’s the Ravens who determined to advertise Greg Roman from inside after Lamar Jackson’s rookie season.

All of the progress that Jackson made as a passer in his two seasons at Louisville has been stunted since he has been with the Ravens. Roman’s offenses have primarily revolved across the working recreation when he was the coordinator for John Harbaugh’s brother Jim, and Rex Ryan. It was no completely different with the Ravens, and after Jackson’s spectacular 2019 season, the offense has struggled.

The Ravens offense additionally may be higher if the gamers might keep wholesome. Bateman isn’t the one participant who has missed vital time. There was a purpose that the Ravens appeared so good in opposition to the Bengals of their wild-card matchup this previous season. Outdoors of Jackson and Bateman the workforce was largely wholesome. Accidents blew up their 2021 season, and in 2022 they performed in a playoff recreation with out their finest quarterback and huge receiver after a season during which their offense began sizzling and finally rattling close to froze stable.

NFLPA participant report card outcomes

Within the NFLPA participant report card that was lately launched, the Ravens gamers gave the group’s energy coaches an F-minus. And, it simply so occurs, the Ravens fired their energy and conditioning coordinator lower than two weeks in the past.

In studying DeCosta’s complete response to the query about huge receiver analysis, he takes little accountability in why the group has struggled. He stored harping on that he believes of their scouting system and that they will maintain attempting. Why didn’t they attempt to get within the receiver free agent bonanza final offseason. And if their scouting system is so robust how did they not choose a single one of many many productive huge receivers in final yr’s draft?

In fact Bateman shouldn’t have made his frustrations public, however I do perceive why it bubbled over. DeCosta talked rather a lot concerning the Ravens’ shortcomings however didn’t take sufficient accountability as to why.