ESPN\u2019s Dan Graziano wrote<\/a>. “But in seven playoff games over that same span, they’ve turned it over 10 times. Only the Chiefs have more, and they’ve played 16 playoff games over that span. Baltimore’s regular-season turnover margin over the past five seasons is plus-15, which ranks seventh. Their postseason turnover margin over the past five seasons is minus-8, which is the league’s worst.<\/p>\n“There doesn’t seem to be any systemic reason why these devastating problems come up in January when they don’t in the regular season.”<\/p>\n
Graziano noted that Head Coach John Harbaugh has taken a unique approach to address the two-fold problem of turning the ball over and the lack of takeaways in the postseason.<\/p>\n
“All around the team facility are large-screen TVs that, in past years, would have shows on them. ‘SportsCenter,’ stuff like that,” Graziano wrote. “This year, those same TVs are showing practice tape. But not just any practice tape. Harbaugh and his coaches pick out specific highlights from each day’s practice and cut them up to fit into different categories.<\/p>\n
“They grade each player in each practice in each category and designate the day’s ‘winner’ in each. So if a player is stopping by the cafeteria to grab a bottle of Gatorade on his way to a meeting, he could look up and see his or one of his teammates’ highlights from the previous day’s practice presented as an example of what coaches are looking for. \u2026 On and on it all goes, in an endless loop all day. It’s on in the meeting rooms as well, with everyone’s grades from the previous day in each category.”<\/p>\n
Harbaugh explained the thinking behind the initiative.<\/p>\n
“The whole thing has been about the idea of intentionality,” Harbaugh told Graziano. “Be intentional. We’ve talked about it before, but we’ve taken it to another level. These screens here, these are all intentional plays from practice. So they run on different screens around the building. I want it to be, in the biggest moment, not thought about. I want it to be just the way they play and the way they live. I want it to be in the background noise. Because we were really good on turnovers last year and then we turn the ball over in the divisional game.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Looking at Ravens’ Unique Approach to Solving Turnover Problems in Playoffs Committing turnovers has been a recurring issue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[257,2593,2589,349,99],"class_list":["post-60763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-general","tag-homepage-latest-headlines","tag-late-for-work","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}