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#2 Don "Wink" Martindale
Next up is the guy who’s team just handed BB and the Patriots their first loss of the season. After Dean Pees retired as DC in Baltimore before returning for that job in Tennessee, former linebacker coach Don ‘Wink’ Martindale took over play-calling duties. Like his mentor this defense excels due to the multiplicity they show every week.
While they don’t quite have the same amount of fronts they run, they like to involve everybody in their blitz packages and run a bunch of coverages behind it. The Ravens can play big with almost 1000 pounds by their three down-linemen in Brandon Williams, Michael Pierce and Brent Urban, which makes them almost impossible to run against, but they can also leave Williams and Pierce on the field in nickel packages with two outside linebackers lining up wide.
In the secondary they keep you honest with single- and split-safety looks and then roll them high and low, play combo-coverages or use one of those safeties as a robber. What has kind of become Martindale’s staple is putting seven defenders at the line of scrimmage and bring as many as all of them, but also as little as three or four and playing coverage behind it.
Their problems have really come when they are missing one of their highly paid big guys up front and they are much better when having cornerback Jimmy Smith in the lineup.
