ExtremeRavens Posted 12 hours ago Posted 12 hours ago So much for not saying too much, as running back Derrick Henry offered last week. It turns out that it was Ravens coach John Harbaugh who came up with the “hurricane” play — the fake “tush push” in which tight end Mark Andrews lined up under center against the Cleveland Browns on Sunday, spun around and turned a critical fourth-and-1 in the fourth quarter into a 35-yard backbreaking touchdown. That was according to Baltimore cornerback Marlon Humphrey, who let the cat out of the bag earlier this week on his eponymous podcast. “I go up to an offensive coach, I’m like, ‘Dude, who came up with that play? I’ve never seen that. We ran that in practice?” Humphrey said. “They’re like, ‘Man, Harbs came up with it.’ I go up to Harbs after the game and I’m like, ‘Hey, you a bad man. You’re a bad freaking man.’ He said he came up with it. He said obviously, it was a team effort on how it was going to work, but he came up with it.” Indeed, multiple players, including fullback Patrick Ricard, said after the 23-16 victory in Cleveland that the play was just put into practice last week and run only a few times. Harbaugh also said Wednesday that “everybody” was involved in the play and there was “a lot of conversation” about it. He acknowledged, too, that it was born out of Baltimore’s Week 6 loss to the Los Angeles Rams. In that game, the Ravens were trailing 10-3 late in the second quarter and had a second-and-goal from the Rams’ 1-yard line when they twice in a row ran a tush push with Andrews to no avail. Then, on fourth-and-goal from the 1, Henry was stuffed for a 2-yard loss. Los Angeles eventually went on to win, 17-3. Short-yardage situations have been a problem for the Ravens all season. They rank near the bottom of the NFL in both goal-to-go situations and red zone scoring. So that has forced coaches to get creative. Clinging to a 2-point lead and faced with a third-and-1 from the Vikings’ 14-yard line in the third quarter in Minnesota two weeks ago, Andrews lined up under center for what appeared to be another tush push. Only this time when he took the snap he moved to his right and tossed the ball to quarterback Lamar Jackson, who picked up 3 yards on a sweep to the right. Then came Sunday’s touchdown against the Browns, on which Andrews reached 20.09 mph on his way untouched into the end zone with fullback Ricard and tight end Charlie Kolar helping clear the way. “When people over-exaggerate defending the quarterback sneak, and you’d hope that plays like that, or the Lamar play [in Minnesota] — the toss play — would be plays that would loosen people up a little bit in the quarterback sneaks,” Harbaugh said. “So, we’ll see how that affects that part of it, too, moving forward.” Andrews, meanwhile, said Wednesday that he has seen the play ad nauseam since it happened. He’s also ready to move on from it. “I was telling Harbs, I was like, ‘I think I’m kind of tired of seeing it, man,’” Andrews said. “I’m ready to move on and make the next play. But it was obviously an awesome play, and everybody did their job, and it was incredible. So, it was really, really cool.” It also might not be the last weather-related play Baltimore uses this season. When Harbaugh was asked why it’s called “hurricane” he said they have other plays with weather-related names as well. Said Harbaugh: “Tornado and monsoon are both in the hopper. They are, oh yes.” The Ravens’ next chance to use one will come Sunday at home against the New York Jets. Have a news tip? Contact Brian Wacker at bwacker@baltsun.com, 410-332-6200 and x.com/brianwacker1. View this post on Instagram View the full article Quote
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