Nelson Agholor Reveals Ravens Team-First Attitude: 'Don't Care Who Catches It!'

The Baltimore Ravens offense has an abundance of weapons, but the driving force behind the success is the selfless attitude of every player in Todd Monken's unit.

Football is a team game, and with the Baltimore Ravens offense, this is being hammered home. With an embarrassment of riches on the offensive side of the ball, quarterback Lamar Jackson can slice a defense apart with anyone at his disposal.

But what makes things easier is when players don't care who gets the targets, who gets the catches, and so on. This has been preached all offseason and through to the first two games of the year.

For free agent acquisition, Nelson Agholor, being in that "team-first" mind set, is what has and will hold the Ravens in good stead going forward.

“No, it’s not hard,” Agholor said. “All you got to do is train hard prepare, and the ball will find you. Once you start thinking about anything else, you’re not positive towards what we’re trying to do. We’re trying to win games, and if we can prepare everybody to take advantage of their opportunities, we’ll be hard to defend.

“I know at the end of the day, the ball doesn’t care who catches it, and the quarterback doesn’t care who makes the play; he just wants guys that run fast, get open, and give him the easy throw.”

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With the Ravens offense still coming to grips with Todd Monken's new vertical scheme, naturally, there will be some ups and downs as the team works its way through the season.

The season opener against the Houston Texans was clunky from an offensive perspective, and Monken stated there was a lot of "drag," but in Week 2 against the Cincinnati Bengals, we could see things starting to click.

For Agholor, it has been brutal learning the offensive scheme and highlighted the amount of work the players put into learning and getting comfortable with the system.

“We worked out butts off man, it was tough,” Agholor said. “We were just out there trying to get better from Week 1 to Week 2, and we did everything we were supposed to do.”

With the Ravens now seemingly coming to grips with Monken's scheme, with the host of weapons at Jackson's disposal, getting everyone on the same page doesn't bode well for opposing defenses - especially if no one is bothered with who gets the ball. 

Things are slowly coming together for the Baltimore offense, with a team-first attitude being the major reason things are starting to heat up.