Here's how I see it:
Ravens play in the AFC North. The most bone bruising, hard hitting, head splitting division. All 4 teams play this style. The Chiefs of 2024 belong in that division now.
But we're not actually that bad against those kinds of offenses. See how we handle the Browns who I'm willing to bet will play competitively with the Bengals and Ravens this year.
It's team like New Orleans we struggle with. The motion, the misdirection, the screens, the dual threat running backs. It seems they primarily play to avoid as much contact on the line as possible. Ala GB and Arizona last year. Altho I will say the run defense got wrecked. But not all run plays are the same too. There are different things the coaches do on the offensive line to get the running backs free as well. If you play to avoid Parsons like GB did, you can find success with our defense knowing they don't get better along the way. Just worse. New Orleans has to be the most finesse team in the NFL.
I'm not guaranteeing a win or anything, and I don't know about our offense and i dont know our offensive plan against them - but I think we should come after Jackson. Make him hoist up passes. See if we can grab a pick, or two. We risk him scrambling for 12 yards. But gotta take the good and bad. I say definitely blitz and play to hit and hard contact in case he dumps it off. I do think we have the players for contact. Ravens always play like that imo.
But also, they're 0-2.