What would be your scheme to gameplan for Lamar Jackson?

[NoMoreWhiteWoman2020]

Problem is Lamar runs away from contact so it’s tough to hit him. He will run out of bounds with no hesitation.

As long as you holding him to 3-4 yards at a time I think that’s a good strategy. And put a safety deep to take away the long ball

 

[FaTaL]

once you get rid of the ball you can't hit him. that's 15 yards. Those add up too.

He’s not protected on those plays since it’s a option run

 

[RubioTheCruel]

You've got to be aggressive on offense; get an early lead on the Ravens(10+ points). Force them to be one dimensional and abandon the run to a degree(see KC's win vs them in Week 3)

 

[Don Dada F Poppa]

All of this sounds good for what y’all been saying but real talk, there’s isn’t a defender in the league you can use to “spy” on Lamar, there isn’t one as athletic as he is rn (unless you gonna use Jalen Ramsey to spy on him ). When you start having more than one person get eyes on Lamar you’re leaving yourself successible to the play action deep shots that he’s been so great at this year. You blitz him he’s gonna make you play, you set your ends at wide 9’s power, iso and veer gonna eat the defense alive.

Bring the 8th defender in the box, stemming and stunting the d line dependent on where the jet motion goes (which most of the time is used to block the force/alley defender). Make him give the ball, the explosive play happens when he keeps it, force the give

 

[klientel]

There is nothing anyone on the forum can think of that will work or hasn’t already been tried. The only thing that will stop him is an injury.

It’s going to take coaching staffs an entire off season to figure out Roman’s scheme and learn to neutralize it.

 

[PortCityProphet]

Spying is pointless cause he outruns the spy. You dont have a DE/LB quick enough to do anything with him in space.
Safety aint gon hit Mark like that cause they too lil. So extra saftey in the box aint really working unless he a thumper. That's why teams haven't gone back to what the chargers did last year in the playoffs cause they're a power running team now.

I guess I'd try some kinda combo coverage but keep my safeties deep caise they like those bombs
Idk theyre a really well built team for what they do

 

[010101]

stick him in an offense not built to his talents word dirtybird#7*

 

[King Poetic]

It’s hard this year because he has Ingram at running back

if they didn’t have Ingram I would play more defensive backs than anything

 

[Leasy]

Jim Johnson scheme that he used against Vick in the NFC championship game 04.

Johnson built strong game plans when he felt the opponent needed something special. The best example of that is the NFC Championship Game against the Falcons after the 2004 season. Johnson was at his best attacking passing quarterbacks, but Michael Vick and the Falcons were all about running the ball.

Johnson came up with a simple, but brilliant, twist. He moved Kearse from left end to right end and flipped Derrick Burgess to the left side. Vick was a left-handed quarterback and was at his best when he took off running to his left (the right side of the defense). Having an athlete like Kearse at right end took away Vick's advantage. Most defensive ends stood no chance going against Vick, but Kearse was called The Freak for a reason.

 

[Pressure]

Stop giving them the short field.

Score when you have the ball.

Limit Mark Ingram.

 

[Chrishaune]

Right now he's faster than a lot of the players trying to catch him, especially in the first few steps. We've seen this in college though. For the zone read part of their offense you have to send linebacker or cornerback blitzes. The problem is you don't know exactly when they are going to run zone read. The Ravens have to continue to be unpredictable on offense. They also have to develop the passing game more.

But as far as Lamar, you're going to have to blitz on zone read and when you get an opportunity, just like with any quarterback, try to rough him up.

 

[Sghost597]

Saints Crush Rush, but they just lost two of their best run defenders.


I think Jackson got the league on lock with all the dline injuries across board.

 

[NotAnFBIagent]

It's actually the same as playing Madden.. You have to have your DEs play the outside to force middle, have a LB spy, play man to man.. Do not blitz, do not play zone...

But he's also a good passer so then you have to pray your DBs aren't getting beat. Not to mention your lack of a run defense here

 

[gangreen]

Belichick got something for him next time around

 

[Leasy]

Jim Johnson scheme that he used against Vick in the NFC championship game 04.

Johnson built strong game plans when he felt the opponent needed something special. The best example of that is the NFC Championship Game against the Falcons after the 2004 season. Johnson was at his best attacking passing quarterbacks, but Michael Vick and the Falcons were all about running the ball.

Johnson came up with a simple, but brilliant, twist. He moved Kearse from left end to right end and flipped Derrick Burgess to the left side. Vick was a left-handed quarterback and was at his best when he took off running to his left (the right side of the defense). Having an athlete like Kearse at right end took away Vick's advantage. Most defensive ends stood no chance going against Vick, but Kearse was called The Freak for a reason.

Johnson also had his ends come off the ball under control against the Falcons. He didn't want them attacking and getting out of position. He wanted them to focus on stopping the run and keeping Vick in the pocket. The Eagles were going to dare Vick to pass, which wasn't his strength.

Beyond that, Johnson wanted to confuse Vick with pre-snap looks. The Eagles didn't blitz much in the game, but did use a lot of eight-man fronts. Johnson had the extra defender come into the box at the last moment so Vick would have less time to read the defense and make a good initial read.