Dear diary,
We are 0-2 and i can’t say I’m surprised I’m more disappointed. We faced two very good users and had opportunities to win both games but our inability to put a complete game together with this 2023 ravens is becoming evident .i believe I’m suffering from success and I’ve started to ask myself what is going on and after watching the tape I’m feel like i have the answers
- I’m playing too conservative when i pass the ball . All last season what made me so dangerous is i Made sure to read and go through my progressions and ever since i loaded up to play in my first Super Bowl I’ve become scared to make mistakes which has led to uncharacteristic mistakes. When you try to play to be perfect passing the ball you start to anticipate , OK I’m gonna give it to this short route right here for sure because I know this will be good and I will not mess up, If I just make sure I give it to this person right here and then you snap the ball and that person you anticipated given the ball to isn’t open yet or might not never become available but you hold the ball and you wait and then they finally become open so you throw it late and it’s an interception or you never get it off and you get sacked . I gotta get back to who I am, and that’s not given a f*** which makes me so dangerous because I trust my eyes after the snap not making a determination pre-snap where I know I won’t be able to snap out of it.
- I’ve lost my love for the run game. I was the number one rushing attack last season because I loved to run the ball. I loved to demoralize my opponent by smashing them in the mouth which is a lot like my personality I like to smash people in the mouth. I like to beat up on people, mentally and physically and running the ball, and Madden gives me that same feeling of having a man on his back with my hand around his throat, punching him over and over in his nose, cheek and mouth until he becomes unconscious and then knowing you got one or two more punches before it could become a grave situation so you let up on them look at everybody watching and scream to make sure they know they can get nex…… my bad I forgot we were talking about madden I started to have flashbacks forgive me. Yeah I need to get back to running the ball.
- Realize that my identity is in my defense. I take pride in being able to get stops ,being able to talk s*** and being able to take away your best player . I’ve done a great job on D for the most part especially in my week two game only giving up one touchdown to the offense. The problem is I get on offense after a great defensive stop and act like I’m Sean McVay when that’s not the truth. I have the Bill Belichick mold in me. Great defense and I scheme offensively to my strengths I need to realize that
- I need to stop relying on my rookies to make an immediate impact and do exactly what I did last season. Last season I understood the formula to be effective in PML and that formula is don’t depend on rookies because stats don’t get a lot XP so instead sit your rookies and play the best players put attribute request out for them and let them get XP from success. I was able to AR rookies while they get XP from my team success which brung the Baltimore ravens from 82 overall to 85 overall while losing my third best player to retirement.
In closing I feel that if I do these four things I can get back to winning and being a threat every time I load up but it’s gonna take focus , effort and humility to do that. Playing franchise teaches me a lot about myself and now I’m going to be able to see firsthand when I go back and read these diary submissions of mine at the end of the season if I made the necessary adjustments to win or did I just played a have fun .
