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perriman with a full offseason and coming in healthy and in football shape rather than rehab shape, getting some actual developmental reps rather than trying to master the playbook, getting to be a top target rather than an afterthought in the playbook because hes stuck behind 2 high performing veterans. seriously, my hype for perriman is at an all time high, even more than seeing him week 1 this year, i expected a very slow start and possibly thought i would even be disappointed, but his presence was felt and he outperformed my expectations and now im expecting a big leap and i cant wait. dixon who was my 2nd favorite back of the draft and i had him as an early 2nd round talent, and he played like a man possessed once he got healthy and caught some steam. hoping marty feeds him the rock because he is probably the best talent out of all of our offensive skill players. cautiously excited about maxx williams, really hoping he can get healthy and break out. matt judon and tavon young, these guys could be special. if judon can get his conditioning better he is gonna be an excellent 3 down player.

Frankly, he's just 1) bummed out that people all calling him out for playing so badly in the playoffs and 2) "hurt" from getting beat so badly Sunday. He wants sympathy and people to beg him to come back. As many others have said: drama queen.

He is WALKING away from the game. I would suggest he is amazingly over the top lucky.

Why not have Perriman watch all of Julio Jones' games and Flacco watch all of Brady's games too then??

That would be idiotic draft

I know we're coming off a heart breaking season... but why are people acting like we're so far off? Making statements like we cant field a contender with Joe's salary?? Can anyone really say with a straight face we're that far behind Pittsburgh? We mopped the floor with them once and wouldve a 2nd time if not for a 4th qtr collapse on defense.... and they're in the AFCCG. THE AFCCG PEOPLE! Is there anyone that can tell me with a straight face that we couldnt have beat Miami in the WC Round and then beat the Chiefs given the performance they put up? I'm not saying it's perfect, or that all is rosy. There's plenty not to like, and plenty to be fixed. And that only furthers my point... with all the flaws that we've pointed out time and again, we're still just a couple inches behind the team thats in the AFCCG this coming weekend. So - we dont even necessarily have to fix all the flaws. If we improve, we should be in a good spot again. And we will. We've got about $16m in cap space right now; with another $10-15m likely to come off the books in the offseason. With $20-30m in cap space we should be to resign the guys we want, make the additions we want, and with any luck we'll get contributions from drafted players along with other guys currently on the roster stepping up/improving... and we'll be right back contending next year. With literally no run game to speak of, and an incredibly inconsistent pass rush we're literally about as even as can be with the team in the AFCCG right now. Right.... but we cant ever win with this QB and his salary. GIVE ME A BREAK

Well, actually, it does cut it. Look at the history of the NFL and tell me the team that is consistently good all the time. I mean literally pick anybody. We say that the Patriots are good all the time. Yet, for about the first almost 30 years of their existence as a franchise, they weren't that relevant at all. No SB appearances for the first 31 years in the NFL, and only two Conference Championship appearances in their first 26 years in the NFL. Stop and think about that for a second... how would you like to have a franchise that didn't play in a SB for 30 years straight? You guys freak out over 3 years. Most of you would have jumped ship after like year 10. Same thing with the Steelers. Viewed as this great, consistent, historic franchise who has the most SBs. Yet, they had a 26 year gap between SB appearances (never played in one in the 80s or 90s), and had only one Championship Game appearance in that same period. One Conference title game over 26 years. Can you imagine how you would react if that happened to a modern day team? Again, you'd have jumped ship long ago. Its called perspective. The best of the best franchises over the course of time win a Lombardi maybe once every 8-10 years, and literally all of them have 5-10 year stretches at least where they are largely irrelevant in the league.

Prior to now, Ryan has been no different than Dalton, all about the regular season.

Zuttahs making the pro bowl.. Time to end the pro bowl

Next year I am rooting for you guys to make the playoffs. Our only chance is if you eliminate the Patriots for us.

The Ravens are STILL the only AFC team to not crap their pants when they have to play at Foxboro in January.

Ugh ... I hate revisiting this play. But this is spot on and I remember Carter's comments the next day on Mike and Mike. Not only did he try to land on both feet, it looked like he wanted to turn up field. You are in the end zone ... where else do you need to go? A receiver that knows how to catch TDs envelops that ball and there is no chance for a defender to poke it away. So - semantics ... it was not a "drop", but it was a play that absolutely should have been made (not that there was a lot at stake ...)

If I am being honest, it is Joe. I really feel like this summer is going to be a brainstorming session to get things in place to help Joe excel.

Id argue that Dixon absolutely has the potential to be one of the best running backs in the league.

Yep, and while Ryan has been working on getting better, Flacco has already won a Super Bowl. Seriously, if we can be patient this long with #2 pick Ryan, I think we can still hold out hope for Flacco for a bit longer.

Julio Jones... Can't help remembering the YUUUUGE pack of picks the Falcons gave up to trade up and snatch Julio Jones. And the chances Ozzie will ever even consider such a trade... Never. I'm not saying he's wrong - it was a huge risk of the Falcons that could have crippled their development for years if Jones doesn't turn out to be the star he is now. I'm just trying to gauge the chances of the Ravens getting an elite WR through the draft. Our "luck" is that the year we had a top-10 pick was the year where there was no elite WR in the draft... And even if we got a WR like Jones... with the dismal offensive play calling we saw this season, he would hardly be anything close to what he is in Atlanta... And talking about Atlanta... another thing I can't help remembering is how we could have had Shanahan as the new OC replacing Kubiak, but went with Trestman instead...

I'm excited to see what Marty M and Greg Roman will be able to build around Joe Flacco.

Doesn't any AFC team ever watch film of when we face the Patriots? That's the blue print of how to be competitive with the Pats but yet it seems they ignore it and get blown out by the Patriots instead.

i will say this - there is one rule for pass interference for nfl corners and another for pats corners

In foxborough? nah Their fraudulent selves got FG'd to death

now or never for perriman and maxx i suppose.

I suspect a lot of our newer posters have no clue who Ogden is and what he meant to this team. Damn turf toe!

hahaha, yea, this basically says it all. Are you a scout for the browns?

lol at the analysts who don't know the team and think the low rushing numbers means we have a RB problem. Sidney Jones would be my ideal realistic pick.

I'd be upset with taking cook, honestly. I think cook is an incredible prospect, I love his style of play being powerful enough to hit all holes and stay on his feet after contact but having breakaway speed and great elusiveness. I just wouldn't be happy taking a rb in the first. Hell I'd rather trade back and take feeney and then hope to land pocic and run with Dixon who I think has top 5 potential. Dixon and cook are incredibly similar backs anyway so it's not like we'd be adding diversity to our backfield with him.

That it might be time to stop writing off QBs before they either totally self-destruct or finish their careers? That ranting to trade Flacco or draft his replacement might be premature?

Forgot to post this but the compounding problem is that the Steelers would never even consider picking up Ozzie's call LOL

He's just dramatizing, like he usually does. Just like he hurt his shoulder foot ankle a couple weeks ago. He'll be out there and, if he's not: welcome to the division, Landry Jones!

Zutah and Dalton made the pro bowl, complete joke.

Poor Cleveland.... On the other hand they did a great job helping the Falcons and Patriots reach the Super Bowl.

Playoff Joe > Playoff Ben (WHO HAS ANTONIO BROWN, no excuses)

Thats my stance on it... see if you can extend him an additional 2 years, so 3 total - and try to even out the cap hit in the $5m range. It'd be great in theory, but after the production he put up he may think he can make a lot more in the open market and take a hard stance... pay me the $8m or decline the option and let me hit FA. In that case I would hope the rest of the NFL has wised up and will view his years in Miami and Minnesota as closer to what they'd be paying for than this one year in Baltimore.

He got a $4.5M signing bonus last season, which was prorated over the two years. So if we don't pick the option up, he would still count $2.25M against the cap, with $5.75M in cap savings. I personally think that IF we are open to bringing him back, it might be on an extension after declining the roster bonus. While I don't think an $8M cap hit is necessarily prohibitive, that's also more than double what last years cap hit was, and I'm not sure we would be looking for that kind of production again anyway.

Hey, at least we're the only team to beat NE at their home when they were leading at half-time, and the only team to beat them at their home in the AFC title game. Let's be honest here, we're a spoiled rotten fan-base. I get that NE and Pitt are as well, but the fact that we were the only ones to do that, c'mon man, no one can take that away from us. Makes me so proud of this franchise. I love this team so damn much man.

Yup, nothing on the Chiefs says they can win in foxborough. Nothing tells me Alex Smith can play as well as Flacco did in 2011, 2012, and 2014 and while I like their defense, they won't score enough points.

Fixed.

this years playoffs

Catches it with his hands, wraps it up immediately and Moore never has time to strip it. Not turning and just falling down would have worked as well. Ball game and on the the SB. Worst play in Ravens history. If I remember correctly Boldin dropped a TD late in that same playoff game against the Steelers where who's your momma dropped the 4th down pass.

I just can't put Cook over some of the defensive talent that's probably going to available at 16.

Can we bring Rex back? He just got fired

No matter who you feel is better Ryan or Flacco, the fact is that the Falcons have put together a highly effective mix of skill position players around Matt which has helped to raise his level of play and to produce some gaudy numbers. To state the obvious, it ain't just him that has improved. But the proven formula for consistent offensive(and defensive for that matter) success remains in building an effective line. For me signing Mack as the anchor of an already solid group is what has put them over the top.

Coaches/Player votes must've put him over. Pretty sure fan voting didn't even have him in the top 10.

Screw brady and patriot fans.

Ozzie can't catch a break with you people sometimes: --If he takes a gamble on a receiver and misses (Clayton) he was an idiot for trying. --If he picks a solid, no-gamble starter (Stanley) he was an idiot for not trading up to get a more dynamic player like Bosa or Ramsey. --If he trades out of the first round entirely to accumulate picks, he was an idiot for not staying put and getting round 1 talent. --If he trades up to get a projected good talent (A Brown), he was an idiot for wasting it on someone we eventually waived and who never started. --If he doesn't trade up, he was an idiot for it. --etc. Isn't it more fair and more accurate to admit that drafting is really difficult, and subject to the same laws of probability as everything else? Ozzie gets love because ON AVERAGE he does better than a lot of other managers, not because he's infallible. Best kicker in the league? Undrafted rookie. Our starting O-line? A 4th round pick and a 5th rounder in there. Osemele and Williams, late 2 / late 3 got so good we couldn't afford to keep them! -------- And this idea that Ozzie has been whiffing on first round picks lately is ludicrous. -Stanley will be a perennial pro bowler if he stays healthy. -Jimmy Smith was such an important part of our defense, we couldn't win without him. -Perriman had a couple great catch-and-run plays just like Julio this season, so who's to say he's a bust at this point? Injuries are basically random. -CJ Mosley is a seriously good player, and is only going to get better. -Matt Elam sucks, no getting around that one. But everyone else in the league thought he was a great pick at #32, so what you gonna do?

What people should be debating is if we should have gone after Alex Mack when his agent was pushing us to do so. Either the first time when he stayed (Browns kept him on matched offer) or the second time.

I see a lot of Cheetahs fans are already going down that road, pointing to Goodell attending the NFCCG and not being at Foxboro. I'm picking the Falcons for this one - like Denver's defence last year their offence is just too stacked and playing too well. How Belicheat prepares for Shanahan's WCO system will be the big factor imo. Teams either seem to have mastered the art of stopping it (and often do REALLY well against it as the AFCS teams did against us in 2014, for example) or they haven't. Granted they did really well against Gary Kubiak's Texans but I think these Falcons are better than we were in 2014 and we were able to move the ball around quite well in Foxboro. Time to buy a Julio Jones jersey and hope for the best.

I think the Chiefs would have beat them.

They should have. Packers decimated with injuries and the Steelers defense are papers Champs. Also have said for a while that Ben's been playing awful the past few games of the season. Been covered by the Bell going lights out and the holding allowed by their OL.

Perriman and Dixon. Both should be pivotal players in the offense next year. Hopefully Stanley continues where he left off and stays on the field. He's an all pro tackle when healthy.

I do love helping raise the next generation of Ravens fans. Sometimes I wish everyone would remember they were all new once, though. People are not always as kind to noobs as they should be.