I think my point in saying they made no attempts to adjust what they were doing was not to say they should go pass happy, but rather to say they needed to stop running the same thing over and over and expecting different results because clearly Pittsburgh was all over it.
Dobbins ran for 93 yards on 17 carries. But 4 of those runs went for 15, 17, 12, and 22 yards for a total of 66 yards. Three of the 4 runs were to the outside. The other 13 carries resulted in 27 yards, an average of just 2. Most of those were up the middle. Gus Edwards had a total of 3 carries, 2 of which were for no gain up the middle and both came on the same 3 and out series. How can the coaching staff not see that Pittsburgh was clogging the middle all night long.
The passes they were throwing were all to TE's. Two catches for WRs. Now I get that the WRs they have are bottom of the barrel, but you have to at least keep the defense guessing. They only had 130 yards passing and 100 yards went to Mark Andrews. Add in the 24 yards that Huntley had and 217 yards of their 240 total came from two people plus QB scrambles. Did they attempt any screens? Any draws? I don't remember any, but maybe they did. Did they go deep at all? You have to at least try once or twice.
Counter that with Pittsburgh's offense that featured two backs with over 75 yards, and Pickett completed more than one pass to 6 people. Five of those six had over 20 yards in the passing game, Harris had 12. And Pittsburgh's offense wasn't exactly an unstoppable force.
I just thought the Raven's coaching staff threw down a game plan of this is what we are going to do all night long and even though it keeps being stopped, we're not going to change it up in any way.