Ravens OC Gives Insight on Changes for Lamar Jackson, Offense

The Baltimore Ravens have a new offensive coordinator in Declan Doyle, who comes over from the Chicago Bears and was instrumental in guiding Caleb Williams. Now, he has the opportunity to do the same with Lamar Jackson.

Doyle's offense has been praised by Zay Flowers, who called the coordinator a "genius," while Jackson referred to the structure as "mind-blowing." With training camp now started, Doyle has given insight into some big changes. 

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When speaking about how Doyle plans to utilize Jackson, the offensive coordinator indicated he is seeking to put the quarterback directly under center as opposed to the pistol or gun manner of snapping the ball.

"I think he's very natural at it. Um, his quick mover, you know, he goes under there, you don't really notice it. You wouldn't, you would never notice that he hasn't been under there that much. Um, he has the ability to really do all three. He can be under, he can be the pistol, he can be the gun," Doyle said.

Jackson spent more than 60 percent of his snaps in the gun or pistol formation in 2025, but Doyle's expertise or leaning comes in the form of teaching his quarterbacks to snap the ball from directly under center.

Doyle did indicate that Jackson could be switching up all three due to his "versatility."

"It's a lot of versatility in his game. Um, you know, you want to be able to mix kind of all those things and make the defense have to deal with, uh, you know, a multiplicity of, you know, those sets as you can. Um, he provides us a lot of value in his ability to go under center and run some of, uh, the offense that way," Doyle said.

Jackson is already a dual-threat quarterback who can rifle off chunk yardage with his legs, while also gunning the ball downfield. Doyle may see that being evolved by moving the signal caller into different formations to throw defenses off.

Doyle also spoke about "stressing" players during OTAs and minicamp and he has brought that up once again. 

"We go and walk through in the afternoon and make those corrections. We watch the film. Uh and then we move on to the next thing and we move on pretty quick. But I think that that's part of the method here. We're trying to give them a lot. are trying to stress them and I think that's where growth is going to happen," Doyle said. 

Doyle clearly has a different way of teaching, and it has impacted the Ravens players in a major way already. 

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It is just the beginning of training camp, and Doyle did indicate that the Baltimore offense will be overloaded in a way that the coaching staff can see what works and how it looks from a general standpoint.

This also gives the new players the chance to adjust and be involved as well. Doyle made mention of utilizing every player, including rookies like Elijah Sarratt. There are a lot of moving parts to any team, especially for this Ravens offense.

With returning players, Jackson being asked to change up what he was known for doing in 2025, and a host of new talent, Doyle and the offense has its hands full with many elements to dig through for the next few weeks.