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Impossible. We don't accept those types of opinions around here.

A true Flacco Hater This "Flacco Hater" just stated that Flacco does not deserve to be the #1 highest paid QB in the NFL. Since you obviously disagree, I suppose you think Flacco is the best QB in football?? Now, Flacco is not the best QB in the NFL, not by any standard whatsoever. Therefore, I'm only left to conclude that either you are delusional or you are labeling people as "Flacco haters" without paying any attention to what they are saying.

I could think of about 7-9 reasons as to why this happened.

Not only that; the article states that basically Romo's cap hit is higher than Flacco's. What has Romo done? How many playoff wins does he have? Championships? Talk about overpaying and underperforming - Romo is the poster child for that!!! Yes, the article states Romo's cap hit is higher, but the implication is that Flacco is getting paid too much. What does it matter what Romo has done?! We are not paying Romo, we are paying Flacco. And ever since getting his big fat payday, with the exception of 2014 when he indeed did deserve his salary, Flacco has done next to nothing for us. At the same time he is holding up very valuable cap space that could be spent on players who actually might do something for us. Again, please stop talking about how Romo or Cutler or whoever hasn't done anything either. These players are not playing for us! Flacco is. Our only concern should be Flacco's salary compared to his playing level. That's it.

Just to beat a dead horse as I am on record for saying there is no way in this world Flacco should have the highest cap hit in the NFL, here is a guy who has finished in the bottom third of qbs in the league for several years in a row. Bisciotti and Ozzie totally blew that contract by giving him an extension and pumping it up even more. The guy is stealing. He is robbing the ravens blind by taking that money. We are talking about almost a million dollars a touchdown that he threw last year. Ozzie needs to sit him down and let him know that he is destroying this teams ability to sign quality players by holding on to that money he doesn't deserve. He knows he isn't that guy and he knows he should be giving some of it back. The Ravens need to let him know that if he chooses not to take a salary cut that they will draft or sign a free agent qb and get him ready to take Joes spot in two years when they can finally afford to cut him. By then he won't be worth much and no one will go out of their way to sign Flacco. When I think of how Ozzie missed on Elam, Arthur Brown, Max Williams, Terrence Cody, etc... I think his biggest mistake as GM by far was the Flacco contract.

We draft well and train well at linebacker so I wouldn't waste a free agency pickup on linebacker. If we are going to do anything in free agency, lets get a position that we have trouble developing like a top notch wide receiver, or a shut down corner, or a coverage safety. I would take any of those in free agency over Barwin, Especially at 8 mil. You could get a pretty darn good receiver/corner/safety for that money. BUT, if we could get Barwin for between 1 and 3 mil for a year to see where he is at, I would sign off on that... I don't think we should cut Domervil if he is healthy. I think if he has truly recovered from his injury, and we have no reason to believe that he has not, then I would go with his numbers when he was healthy which were pretty good when he played opposite Suggs. Doom needs a producer on the other side and without Sizz, he was double teamed and chipped and nullified in the pass rush and we had no one else to step up so offenses could concentrate on Doom.

If it was my choice, i would definitely rather resign Wagner. Continuity at the OL would be great

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Missed on kicker for about 2 seconds. Ah well, there will be one in free for all. Either that or Billy Cundiff

Would we cut Webb then?

The flacco contract definitely is hurting us. In fact I would say that probably no other contract in the NFL is handcuffing their team worse. But I still would not call that Ozzies biggest mistake. IDK... Boller comes to mind. Allowing Harbs to bring Dean Pees in comes to mind... The Webb contract is up there. The Pitta contract is also up there. All the guaranteed money on the Ray Rice deal hurt us badly over the past two years. Sergio Kindle hurt us... But Flacco has produced (albeit not up to his contract) but he has produced. So... as much as his contract holds the team hostage... I cant call it Ozzie's worst move... but its top 10 for sure!

Not much we can do on his contract.... it is just a bad deal. Joe is clearly not a top 5 QB and yet paid like he is Tom Brady or Aaron Rogers. Nonetheless he has us and the best that we can hope for is that he gets close to being a top 10 QB- With that being said.. we need to put whatever pieces in place to help him to be successful!

I am surprised that for the short hours I've been in charge of the Browns, Haslam hasn't decided to fire me even before this game starts.

At least it's better than being the guy after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after him.

I can promise you filling the stadium is not an issue, we had 100% capacity last year. Every position cant be a play-maker, that's just not realistic. I can also promise you we have never signed someone based on the possibility of attendance increasing. A simple google search can reveal a lot of info, like... I don't know...facts. From 2008 on (I didn't go back further) we have been basically at a 100% attendance. http://www.espn.com/nfl/attendance/_/year/2008 We have no issues filling the seats. I am with you on the first paragraph, I have no issues bringing in older vets that know how to do their job and provide that veteran presence. Imagine if we could of got SSr about two years sooner. So yea, I am with you on most of that paragraph. The next paragraph, not so much. We have plenty of people that have no issue calling people out because they haven't done their job, I have seen Joe do it numerous times. But here's a news flash, Joe is not Tom Brady, he never will be. And this whole overpaid thing is just not accurate, like many have discussed on here, as do I, its called "market value." The only other option was to let Joe walk after he just had the best post-season of a QB in NFL history (tied with Montana), I don't know how you could justify that. Also didn't help we got rid of his favorite target in Boldin and expected Pitta to step up more, and got hurt. I am one of the people that think the FO has not done a sufficient job at give Joe weapons around him. The moment he would of hit FA he would of most likely got paid more by teams like Oakland, Cleveland, Jacksonville, etc...its simple economics.

The 49ers have fired Jeff Fisher

The 49ers have hired Jeff Fisher

I have the feeling that if Corey Davis falls out of the top 10, there are gonna be teams that will trade up to one of the 11-15 sports and take him. A true day#1 playmaker WR is simply too enticing. But I'll gladly be proven wrong :)

Will require a good enough to player to be there when we pick. We have about 10 positions where you could easily justify using a first round pick on, as we need playmakers at just about every level. OL, WR, pass rusher, CB, Safety, MLB, even RB or TE are all positions where we could easily use an upgrade. Last thing we want to be doing is picking a position instead of a player.

Except a productive player on social security is a short term fix. All that does is keep you competitive for the short term. You don't build SB champions with a team full of short term fixes. You have a blend of short term players with a primary core of young, productive players and players in their prime performing at a high level. Basically, the 2011-2012 Ravens. Its not like anybody thinks that Ray and Ed were the best players or the most productive players on those teams. The leadership thing is a bit overrated, especially on defense. You've got Suggs and Weddle, who are as big a leaders as you can find in this league. I agree that offensively we don't have an identity, but that's not from a lack of leadership. Fans only see what the cameras show them, which weakens the argument.

That is actually a fair question. The FO had basically 2 options, both of which had risks: OPTION 1: Sign Flacco to a hefty contract, hoping he will be able to pick up where he left off in his playoff run and carry this team pretty much on his own. Risk being that Flacco fails to live up to the expectations and ties up much needed part of the cap space. OPTION 2: Refuse to pay Flacco the top dollar and let him walk, hoping you can find and effective replacement for him, in the meantime keeping the rest of the team balanced. Risk being that Flacco keeps playing on high level somewhere else and completely justifies his big payday, while we struggle to find true franchise QB. Of course everyone is smarter in hindsight. And I'm sure FO did what they thought was the smartest decision at the time. I'm not blaming anyone for the decision to resign Flacco, never have, though I'd love to know more about the thought process that went into the decision. I respect the decision, albeit as it turned out it wasn't the best one. However, it irritates me when people act like Flacco's contract is not the problem. It is very big part of the problem! I would not be, if he were to play as was hoped under option 1 described above. But he is not playing well enough. He needs serious help to play well. We can not afford help, because we do not have the money, big reason for that is Flacco's salary. It's more than just hindsight here with Flacco and his salary. First, people are forgetting that two very important things happened that altered the success of the Ravens the following year. (1) Ray Rice was expelled from the league - we lost our pro-bowl caliber RB so there went our run game that we were so dependent on the previous year and (2) Boldin was offered a contract according to the value the Ravens deemed he deserved, as such he refused and ultimately was traded. Then (3) Pitta went out with a broken hip. So while we want to say Flacco hasn't lived up to his contract the truth of the matter the entire team failed to live up to their expectations. I really wish people would stop with the Flacco bs; In 2014 Ngata's cap hit was $14 million - did he produce at $14 million - NO!!!! Is that Flacco's fault, NO!!! IN 2015 Ngata's cap hit was $7.5 million and he was playing for Detroit!!!! Flacco's fault, NOPE!! IN 2014 Ray Rice's Cap hit was $6 million and in 2015 his cap hit was $9 million - paid him $15 million to not even play!!!! Is that Flacco's fault, NO!!!! There is so much more going on with this team than just Flacco and his contract.

Agreeing with you up until this point. The Ravens had a very good rate at avoiding 3-and-outs. Of their 192 drives, only 35 ended in a 3-and-out, which is an 18.23% rate and good for 6th best in the league (LINK). That's in front of teams like the Packers, Cowboys, Steelers, and even the Patriots who were bottom 6. Also, the Ravens had a positive TOP on the year and were above-average (12th overall) for the league (LINK). The defense blowing leads had less to do with the offense and was more on their own failings. Losing Jimmy Smith really seemed to tank that unit and Pees could not adjust adequately - didn't help that some prolific offense came through, too.

Or I just have common sense and am educated on the subject matter.

Yes it was. So when you get paid 28, and you're cap hit is 14, what do you think is going to happen in future years? Do you think that difference is just going to disappear?

The Ravens need about 2 cb's out of this draft taken in the top 4 rounds. Don't care how they do it just do it!

Joe's contract has always been a sore spot to SOME fans , but not me, do I wish it could have been a smaller number, for cap reasons yes, but Joe is better than what any other QB we could get at this point, Those who think Joe is not the answer, look at- Philly, Washington, Minnesota, Chicago, San Fran, Rams, Arizona, Miami, Buffalo, Jets, Jax, Houston, Cleveland, Bengals, Denver, KC, San Diego.. Now tell me do you really want to get rid of Joe? I would like to Draft a QB, but this team needs a lot of youth in other areas first.

No! I refuse to even think that Flacco would have another season like last season. Flacco may never be a top 5 QB but he was regularly top 10-15 and caught fire in the playoffs. theres no way Flacco has another down year like last. He'll show up and his value will seem just fine.

Won't happen. If Joe keeps playing like he has do you really want to extend him beyond the two years? Well, we wouldn't be extending him, since he's already under contract through 2021. So in short, yes. If he played like he did last year, I see no reason to move on from him. If fans actually took the time to look around the league (and specifically the College game) and look at the alternatives, it would scare people into loving Flacco. Its that bad. I mean you don't really think teams think that guys like Bradford and Osweiler are really good QBs do you? They just know what the alternative is. Or just pick any franchise that hasn't had a respectable QB in over a decade what they think. The old "o just go get somebody in the draft or FA mantra" doesn't seem to be quite so simple then...

I have been hearing this since the day Joe signed his contract. "You just wait until the next QB signs his deal, then you'll see Flacco is only getting the going rate for NFL QB's". Well it's been 4 long years and every QB in the league has signed a new contract since Joe in 2013. Not one, not two, EVERY QB IN THE LEAGUE. But your right, I'm sure Romo and Cutler will be the highest paid QB's in the league this year. Wow.

It could be sooner than you think. http://nesn.com/2017/01/steelers-battling-flu-bug-ahead-of-patriots-game-15-players-reportedly-affected/

What is viral reality? Are we going to make the opposing team sick or something?

It wasn't the o line as much as the coaches not calling the running plays or not calling at the right times Not buying that. We had a makeshift O-line for 75% of the games....The games where we had our starting o-line, we were 4-0. If you have a shaky o-line that can't run block, why would you call run plays? That's like throwing a jump ball for Mike Wallace or calling a long bomb to Crockett Gilmore. The Guard & Center are the most important positions for running the ball - we had Zuttah, a hurt Yanda playing out of position and Old Vlad - sound like a good o-line to run with? The Cowboys had the best running game because they had the best o-line & best RB - had little to do with the coaches....

Lack of QB consistency It's irrelevant if Flacco is a great playoff performer if he can't get the job done in the regular season.

God bless y'all. on another note, is it me or are mods 2 and 3 everywhere? You are allowed to sleep every once in a while lol

The Ravens have announced the signing of a dream medical team consisting of Dr. Doogie Houser, Dr. Leonard "Damnit man I'm a doctor not an NFL member" McCoy, Dr. Helen Cho from Avengers Age of Ultron, and Arwen and her elves from Lord of the Rings

Because I'm a human being with feeling and couldn't stomach the thought of being either of those teams lol

Send out the smoke signal, @CalvinSmoke is up!

We are all happy you didn't get the Ravens lol

And Crush going for another challenge this year, after dealing with that mess called the Saints last year.

Then please pick the Steelers or Patriots. I BEG OF YOU

Looks like @Ravensfan23 is online.

This new tagging feature is top notch.

Why wasn't I informed about multiple correction officers this year? @Mt. Crushmore

Don't dare and ever post in the sign up thread again

Our Free Agency is a perfect example for a economy lesson. Supply and demand haha

We trade our draft picks and good players to rmw10 for minimal return a lot here? Guess I've been doing it wrong all this time.

I think they said if you get to 15 posts or above... That's how it was for me last year. I think you'll be fine. But it's up to the Coco