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  2. ANNOUNCEMENT: Boards Closing May 5 (New Date)

    The Raven replied to Admin 3's topic in Ravens Talk

    Just about all of this is wrong. 1. The mods have always deleted posts and threads. Take that from a guy that's probably had a few hundred deleted in my time here. those rules were in place during this place's peak. 2. As for the idea that we're in a club and people stopped because of that, well, that's just reaching. That's moronic. The boards were always cliquey, even going back to 2009 when I started here. I feel like I've been one of the cliquey folks. That's not the factor. The thing is that most people came here for hot takes, engagement, and discussions with other Ravens fans. With the ever increasing prominence of Facebook and Twitter, that function mattered less, leaving only the people who came here for discourse deeper than knee jerk reactions and hot takes. And with the growth of other forums at RSR and Reddit, the already small presence of message boarders who enjoy actual discussion was spread thin and distributed between the forums. TL;DR? People like Facebook because they only have to read a sentence. When Facebook got even more popular, message boards, which require some level of literacyy, got less popular. We're not a society that values depth or complexity in discussion.

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    berad replied to K-Dog's topic in Off-Topic Forum

    Just wanted to check in and say a very fond farewell to everyone. This board has been around pretty much ever since I started watching football. Before it was, I was posting on the Ravens MySpace groups and LOL that was a riot. I was so young and knew next to nothing. But I learned so much, from everyone, all the other mods, @theFRANCHISE was an OG beast. All of the posters - @-Truth- @rmw10 @BOLDnPurPnBlacK @The Raven @BmoreBird22 @GrimCoconut @JoeyFlex5- who dive so deep in the draft and come up with legit, good info. Some more I'm definitely missing, the 'younger' posters like @ludy51 or @LosT_in_TranSlatioN who are so energetic and funny. Just some plain good people, too, funny people! Wise adults like @ellicottraven @K-Dog @cobrajet @PuRock @PurpleNurple. Some of them have been around as long as I have (I believe I'm member 33 lol), I remember some more like @flynismo @AwakenTheDemon @Ed_Reed20 @codizzle @1/28/01 @Militant X 1 being around very early. I'll miss you all, I'll miss this board. I'll miss the discussions we had, the wins we reveled in and losses we grieved for. The Dump Thread in its glory days. The incredibly inventive mock offseason game you all developed and have enhanced, that was truly an inspiration and something you should take pride in. I'll miss what the boards mean to me and how I've grown since I've been on them. I'm a bigger and better Ravens fan because of these boards and because of all of you. Thank you. You'll still find me posting on the articles, but it won't be the same. Sorry for the ramble.
  4. cool beans
  5. Literally had the exact same thought, great move by the ravens!
  6. Imagine if hooker fell to 16. I'd bet everything I own that we would have moved back lol Not real sure. Depends on how we had him graded. If he was there and so was Humphrey, I have no idea what we would have done. DeCosta said that he was surprised Humphrey (among others) were still on the board when we picked, so hard to tell who was rated higher. I don't think having Weddle on the roster would have impacted the pick though. He's on the back end of his career for sure.

  7. ANNOUNCEMENT: Boards Closing May 5 (New Date)

    jazz1988 replied to Admin 3's topic in Ravens Talk

    I agree .
  8. Would have made more sense IMO to evaluate what it would have cost us to move up to 14 for Barnett, that seems a more realistic move. Best guess based on draft chart is a 3rd round pick. So at the end of the day, you'd have to ask whether you think Humphrey + Williams is a fair trade for Barnett? And again, we're just assuming that Philly would be OK with that kind of deal. I would assume its far more difficult and pricey to trade with another team so you can select a player that they like themselves. No real knowledge behind this, but I assume most of the times these trades go through, the team moving up isn't selecting a player that the other team likely would have taken.

  9. WR that FO can target via a trade

    jazz1988 replied to RobertoBalarezo's topic in Ravens Talk

    I just think it's super risky to give up 3rd round pick for a receiver that had one good healthy season. I definitely wouldn't give up a second round for Lee at all.

  10. ANNOUNCEMENT: Boards Closing May 5 (New Date)

    atomicfront replied to Admin 3's topic in Ravens Talk

    If you have 50000 registered users and only 200 are posting I would say you would have to look what is not causing people to post as they had some desire t post when they first created their accounts. It is easy to say people are not posting as much in forums in general but reddit's forums seem very busy.

  11. Well Done

    BOLDnPurPnBlacK replied to rossihunter2's topic in 2017 NFL Draft

    Just go to the link and hit register.
  12. Halshayeji started following [News] Jameel McClain Hired In Ravens Player Development Department
  13. hes definaty here to mentor Tim Willams along with a few more young guns. Great hire. Best of luck Jameel

  14. WR that FO can target via a trade

    berad replied to RobertoBalarezo's topic in Ravens Talk

    They'll probably keep trying to find them in the draft, they're very reluctant to trade away picks. They're all about value. Good or bad, that's what they'll do. That's probably what they'll continue to do unless Ozzie retires and DeCosta becomes Mr. Wheel-and-Deal. edit - they're much more likely to hunt for cuts and/or unheralded guys, hoping for Aiken 2.0
  15. Well if you mean eventually... Crockett Gilmore is the most likely to leave after this year because his contract is up. I dont see Williams or Boyle being let go before their contracts are up as long as Boyle can stay off the suspension list and they both stay healthy. I wouldn't necessarily use the label "axed" to describe a player not being resigned after his contract is up though. And unfortunately not everyone that makes it to the NFL can be great, but I'm sure that's what their mothers tell them. I think Maxx has to make a much higher contribution this season to stick around beyond this season. Once you get to year 4 of a rookie deal, you pretty much know what you're getting. And he's done pretty much nothing for two years now. Crockett at least has shown to be an effective blocking TE and could be resigned for cheap. I think its a make or break year for entire TE core. I don't think both Watson and Pitta make this team out of camp, and whichever does survive is probably in the last year here anyway. Pitta will be 33 going into the 2018 season and carrying a $5.2M cap number with not much dead money... and its the last year of his deal. You got Pitta and Watson heading out the door, Gillmore a UFA after 2017, and Maxx/Boyle/Waller all in the final years of their deals in 2018, with no significant money invested in any of them. You could see some gigantic changes to the TE core after this season if we don't see some separation from the pack.

  16. ANNOUNCEMENT: Boards Closing May 5 (New Date)

    jazz1988 replied to Admin 3's topic in Ravens Talk

    Could be wrong but I think a message board can be busy with only 200 out of 50,000 registered fans. If so is the board really serving it's purpose if only 200 fans are actually involved with it out of thousands?

  17. [News] Why John Harbaugh Expects The Ravens Defense To Be Great

    RavenLunatic replied to BR News's topic in News

    Won't be hard for them. They're already hypocrites. They'll just pretend like they never said anything and pray that nobody calls them out for it. Plus in the past they usually hide in shame most of the time anyway. I'm a big supporter of Joe. But when has Joe ever been firing on all cylinders throughout the season? He's had moments, but has never EVER been a consistent QB firing on all cylinders throughout the season. I pray for it every year though. Correct, he hasn't. I'd argue you couldn't name a QB in the league that does either for that matter, but that's also irrelevant. The point is that when Joe plays bad, the trolls are out with their "told you so" signs, but when he plays great games, they run and hide like cowards. There's 3-4 consecutive game stretches in every season where we never hear from these folks, and I just want to know why. There are several QBs that are consistently productive, in the regular season. Matt Ryan, Tom Brady, Drew Brees are just a few. The difference with these guys and Joe is that they read defenses better and call better audibles. No one trolls when a team/player is doing well.

  18. 2017 Forum Mock: Discussion Thread

    rmw10 replied to rmw10's topic in Fantasy Talk

    Peace out to my forum mock compadres. If there's any reason I do reappear on a future board, it will be this.
  19. Well if you mean eventually... Crockett Gilmore is the most likely to leave after this year because his contract is up. I dont see Williams or Boyle being let go before their contracts are up as long as Boyle can stay off the suspension list and they both stay healthy. I wouldn't necessarily use the label "axed" to describe a player not being resigned after his contract is up though. And unfortunately not everyone that makes it to the NFL can be great, but I'm sure that's what their mothers tell them. Actually anyone who makes it can be great.... Its about talent, work ethic and what you put into the game. You put the time in early on, you can be great. I guess most people probably thought Brady wouldn't be great either, but he has put a lot of time into what he does, before during and after the season. Work ethic goes a long way
  20. Imagine if hooker fell to 16. I'd bet everything I own that we would have moved back lol

  21. WR that FO can target via a trade

    PurpleHorseman replied to RobertoBalarezo's topic in Ravens Talk

    Expecting something for nothing is a reason the ravens don't have any playmakers
  22. Would have made more sense IMO to evaluate what it would have cost us to move up to 14 for Barnett, that seems a more realistic move.

  23. Welcome to Baltimore, LB Tyus Bowser

    Halshayeji replied to rmw10's topic in Ravens Talk

    Loooooool ok il stop
  24. Reddick also makes sense. Yeah i think it's just speculation. Had a WR fallen past ten then this would be a real discussion lol
  25. What I heard was they tried to move up for Reddick but where did this moving up for a WR come up? Was it just speculation that if they moved up to get one of those receivers then it would cost this much, yada yada?? Plus in addition, to me, its clear to see why a trade up didn't work... Look at the teams they were probably trying to trade with. If they were trading in the teens (assuming this eliminates trading with NO at 11), that means trading with Arizona, Philly, or with the Colts (which means jumping right in front of them, which seems odd). So to me, its basically trading to 13 or 14. Well those teams pretty clearly coveted the same players that we wanted. All of them took defensive help, and all of them really could have used the same players we wanted. So unless those teams didn't value those players that highly, its pretty clear why a trade up didn't work. Realistically would have had to move up to like 11 to get our guy, and that's even more costly. And frankly, the way the draft was going, we probably expected one of those guys to fall to us. By the time the Texans traded up to 12, we've got at least 3-4 guys on defense we clearly liked still available, and only 3 teams ahead of us. Just didn't fall our way. If Philly took Allen instead of Barnett, maybe Barnett or Hooker is a Raven.

  26. WR that FO can target via a trade

    jazz1988 replied to RobertoBalarezo's topic in Ravens Talk

    I wouldn't go no higher than a 4th round pick for Lee. He may have dealt with injuries like Sammy Watkins but I think Watkins showed more on the field and was 4th overall pick in the first round.
  27. What I heard was they tried to move up for Reddick but where did this moving up for a WR come up? Was it just speculation that if they moved up to get one of those receivers then it would cost this much, yada yada?? "The Baltimore Sun’s Jeff Zrebiec shared what he believes the Ravens would have needed to give up to get one of those players" It was a hypothetical situation. It didn't have anything to do with the FO strategy on draft day.
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