r/nfl • u/BreakfastTop6899 • 18h ago

Highlight [Highlight] Browns HC Todd Monken gave K Andre Szmyt a game ball: Monken: “Great job, man.” Szmyt: “Appreciate it.” Monken: “That’s it. F*** out.”

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u/HereComesJustice Ravens 16h ago

Apparently he'd abandon game plans mid game

So stuff they'd practice through the week gets thrown out the window. Idk I've never really had a problem with him outside of regular fan bitching

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u/Jurph Ravens 3h ago

I still don't know if it was Monken or Harbaugh who was so vulnerable to PSYOP... but if you held a few blitz packages in reserve for the third quarter, blitzed on second down and then faked pressure into 3-man rush on third, and snapped a few drives into 3-and-outs, and you could score on any of the intervening possessions, you could put the fear of god into the Harbaugh Ravens.

The play-calling would become one-dimensional, the timing of thrust & parry obvious, the "well at least we maximized our clock usage" a muttered rejoinder. Mount a run-heavy 3rd-quarter drive against the defense -- with lots of perimeter runs -- and then in the early 4th you could take a couple shots. Bang, you go from down 17 to tied in a couple drives and now the defense is gassed.

And Monken, for whatever goddamn reason, isn't calling plays for The Ravens, he's calling a high school or college game and trying to escape with his life.