There are some NFL teams that have a plan.
You may not always agree with elements of the plan, but even then you can see the plan at work. Every step is consistent, made the same way toward the same goal. Week after week, season after season, things are done the same way.
The Baltimore Ravens are one of those teams, and on Tuesday, general manager Ozzie Newsome went to a familiar call from the playbook that's made the Ravens one of the NFL's most consistently competitive teams of the past 15 years.