Before the firing of offensive coordinator Scott Turner was announced, Commanders head coach Ron Rivera and general manager Martin Mayhew made it clear it was their “philosophical belief" to be a run-first offense and that Washington must “control the tempo of the game” with the running attack to win football games.
With the architect of the Baltimore Ravens' great run game, Greg Roman, looking for a new job, would it not make sense for Rivera to hire the maestro of a ball-control, run-first offense? Team 980's Kevin Sheehan had Bobby Trosset, co-host of the Ravens Vault podcast, to give the Baltimore perspective on Roman and whether he would be a good fit with the pieces of Washington's offense.
Listen to the conversation here:
"Greg Roman would, I think be the perfect guy for what [Rivera and Mayhew] told us they want to be," Sheehan said Wednesday. "He's probably going to cost too much for where they are now. I think they're looking to spend as little as possible, especially since they're still paying Scott Turner."
Trosset could see Roman working out better in Washington than he did in Baltimore because the Commanders have receivers who scare teams when the Ravens did not.
But, Trosset added there could be spacing and alignment issues that carry over from Baltimore to Washington, but the results from the run game are hard to argue against.
Roman has also had most of his success with a dual-threat quarterback, and despite Sam Howell's (and possibly Taylor Heinicke's) mobility, neither are seen as traditional dual-threat quarterbacks in the mold of the previous passers who had great success with Roman.
Of course, Sheehan sees Pat Shurmur and Ken Zampese, the Commanders' current quarterbacks coach, as the two front-runners for the position. Both have already interviewed for the position among several other candidates. Roman has not been interviewed.
Listen to the full conversation (which also touches on Lamar Jackson's future with the Ravens) from The Kevin Sheehan Show above.
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