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What the hell are you talking about? We don't give up any home games at all let alone one to Pittsburgh

How cute.

DAMN. hahahahahah

I would absolutely hate him or any other running back at 16 this year

They get so creative with these schedules don't they.

Rey is the offspring of Yoda. Bank on it.

If you read what the report said via score mobile, he said something along the lines of that he is not a people pleaser, he is a coach pleaser. After a few coaches mentioned him possibly weighing in too small at the combine, he then drank a bunch of water and ate a bunch of food to the point he almost threw up to get a heavier weigh in. Luckily Ozzie is in the shoes to get the full reports on him. I think he goes round 1. I would be ecstatic with him at #16.

the NFL is so stupid with this garbage. His piss is too clear? So he loses millions before he even gets a chance to earn it? Garbage system. Fall to Baltimore Please.

you typed this wearing high heels and nothing else, didn't you?

Going by Elam's Twitter feed I think he was already ruled out by LiT's criteria.

Ozzie better be prepared to be roasted.

obviously the Ravens will go 16-0!!!..... i reserve my right to adjust my predictions on a week to week basis once the season actually begins

I don't get the hate on Barnett here. Have you guys seen him bend around the edge ? His hands skills at this point are VERY good for a very YOUNG age player. Add some training from NFL coaches he'll be great. Yeah he's not the most athletic freak but I mean this guy is very cerebral on the field as well.... he's not getting faked like hell or he doenst seem lost on any play. He understands the game. In my mind he's a top 10-15 pick so when I see some fans here not wanting him at 16 I'm like come on. Best realistic case scenario at 16 : -Barnett -Corey Davis -Forrest Lamp. I know once again some of ya'll don,t like O-Line but this guy reminds me a bit of Yanda in term of tecnique. He plays such a sound game. Not a flashy pick I know but he would anchor the Right side for years to come. What is the new trend in the NFL ? Pass rushers on the left side playing versus RT that can't block. Von Miller, Mack, Watt, J. Houston. Thats why the Lions gave that much money to Wagner. And I'll be real honest with you, I'm a defense guy with a defensive mindset. But can't get over the facts that the Ravens need a playmaker WR and they need to add either a Guard or RT depending on where Lewis plays next year.

The Ravens could go 0-16 and Ozzie has a job next year. People are assuming a hot seat where there isn't one.

I like this mock Butt i think i like your sense of humor more. I may be higher on Cam Robinson than most here and i would think of him as more of a "smart" or "safe" choice. I just think he will start on any teams offensive line regardless if he plays either G position or RT. Plus hes a mauler and we want a bigger oline so i wouldnt be against the pick. Would you be ok with Cam if we ended up with Butt at some point? lol

It was a diluted sample I believe. I think we absolutely draft him at 16 or maybe even draft down into the low 20s' if he sliding and still draft him. He's a generational talent and a good kid who'll be a great complement to Mosley for the next decade.

I beg you NFL. No more season enders in Cinci.

And 2nd, 3rd, and 4th round draft picks. Which is the solution.... but only if they come from this draft? Makes sense.

For me there are two on the field: A football player off the field: A law abiding citizen

Man you just gotta letigosometimes, especially when wrong. lol

Wow. Chickening out already?

Joey 'went off' because you stated Oz cant find mid round picks which is something that is considered his most successful area by almost everyone. Hell, even on here, haters of Oz have even said might as well trade our first and second so we can stack up the mid rounds where Oz kills it. I get the point your trying to make and I think others do, but then you say stuff that's just not true or contradicts your points. Once again, who said we have an elite QB? Does anyone on here even think that? Im a big Joe supporter....he is not elite. And I don't get how we aren't sniffing the playoffs, sometimes there is a difference between being optimistic and realistic, but I believe the Ravens making the playoffs falls into both categories here and I think its harder to argue that we have a lesser chance than more of a chance.

I'd love to be able to be in our draft room just to watch it all happen.

Exactly and Foster is on a whole different level than Ray.

Sign Kapernick? WOW and we could have Ryan Leaf as back up!!. The Koo, Koo train has just pulled in.

Don't be matt Elam.

He won't pass our #16. I bet he still goes top 20 if not way earlier.

Are you including the postseason? ;)

I worked hard for my six pack. No alcohol for me. Ever.

Ladies and gentlemen... a good schedule! As for the particulars: let's divide things into four categories: Great/Good/Bad/Very Bad. Very Bad: - Weeks 3-6 with the two interplanetar trips sandwiching the Steelers game. That stretch is brutal. Bad: - The GB trip in mid-November. It's gonna be cold there... I was hoping for a fall trip. But hey, it's still not December, so it could have been worse... - A road opening game. Not a tragedy, but it would have been nicer to kick it off in the Bank - especially that Week 3 will take us accross the ocean... - Most of the "easier" games packed together in the middle of the season. It would have been better if they're spread out more evenly throughout the season... but once again: it' nowhere near a tragedy. Good: - A SNF game in Pittsburgh. It's gonna be 10 Dec, more than 7 months away - and still we can be sure it's gonna be a classic one, maybe even deciding the division... Who would it any other way? - The Texans as our MNF opponent. Playing the MNF game in a currently-hot team's place has gotten kinda very old if you ask me... - Two of our 3 prime-time, nationally televised games are gonna be played in the Bank. Nuff said. Great: - A home MNF game??? Am I dreaming? - CIN Week#17 - but in Baltimore??? Am I dreaming? - Mid-season bye. Week 9 would have been the perfect one, but Week 10 is also good. - The home/road rhythm is very good. No 3-game home/road game stretches, only one 2-game road stretch, and even that is wrapped around the bye - and two 2-home-game runs, both in the second half of the season, including 2 home games to close the season out... compare that to last season's end with road games in PIT and CIN... Or compare our schedul with that of the Pats who have a stretch (W10-15) with 5 of 6 games on the road... fankly, that should be illegal ... or the Bengals who will have a 3-game road run followed by a 3-game home run (W9-14)... that's also quite far from perfect... So, to sum it up, with only one really unfriendly detail, I don't think we have much to complain about...

Id be most upset if we drafted b@rossihunter2 or was it d?

I do believe that Moore and Perriman will break out this season by being our 1 & 2. I'd like to see our O line get better as it is the key to everything we want to do. Protect Joe and open running lanes. Our current WR's can get the job done. We need a center we can count on too.

Great idea... we wouldnt even be able to sign our draft picks at that point because all of Flacco's guaranteed money would accelerate as a dead cap hit this year and put us WAY over the salary cap. Brilliant.

If Davis isn't available at 16 then we should trade down. There isn't anybody there that we couldn't get him/equal player later. And could really use extra top50/top90 picks

Dalvin Cook. It think itd be a waste of a pick and id be really disapointed in the organization considering hjs off field concerns. Especially the dog incident

I hope this goes virtual.

imo don't think we will draft him but at this point who knows anything can happen between now and the draft can't wait 6 more days

What is your definition of "sniffing" the playoffs? Bc im pretty confused. And citing one matchup with a division rival is a dumb argument. If the Steelers are so good and make the playoffs all the time, how come theyre, what, 5-1 against us in the last 6 match ups and that 1 win took a last second TD drive to barely beat us? Case closed. Were better than the Steelers. And the Steelers are better than the Bengals. And the Bengals are better than us. Which means..... dumb argument. The NFL is cyclical. Its literally designed to promote parity. If youre really, really good you can beat the system for a little while.... but it eventually catches up with everyone. We had an almost unrivaled stretch of success in modern history. That means we had the deck stacked against us (in terms of replenishing talent) more than anyone else over a long stretch as well. We're feeling the effects of that now. But, with a cpl down years and nice draft position; Oz will prove hes still got it and restack the deck for another run. You dont have to believe that.... but if you dont understand how the NFL works and just how difficult the draft is, and how good Ozzie has been at defying those odds - i dont know what to tell ya. Most NFL GM's would tell you, if you get 2 starters from a draft its a huge success. Anything more and youre killing it. Around here -- we look at a draft where we only get Brandon Williams and Ricky Wagner as a complete bust of a draft. Unrealistic expectations, and no sense of what its actually like with other teams. Look at the Bungles now. After a run of drafting top 10 for 10 straight years they had a really talented roster on cheap contracts... now after a cpl years of success they're struggling as everyone leaves for bigger contracts. Look at the Seahawks... rose to prominence on the back of really solid drafting. Same thing, contended for a couple years with star players on cheap deals. Now that theyve paid the main guys, talent is leaving left and right and theyre falling back in a big way. Be thankful that our down years, we're still in position to win the division with 1 or 2 games to go.... and we're only ever down for 2-3 years max.

They need to let that go, Ray Rice wasn't even a bad guy...he just made one big mistake

I disagree he is a top 5 talent he will still likely go before the Ravens pick. If he is there at #16 his name will be on the card. No advisor told him anything he did this on his own. 5 pounds sometimes does mean a lot to a team. It sounds like the drug test is a one and done thing at the combine from what I read. It all just recently came out too and the combine was over a month ago.

on point #1.... Yes, anyone who says Orr was better than Mosley is delusional. But to do the opposite, and completely ignore the season Orr had is ridiculous too. Orr and Mosley are different players - just bc Orr struggled in Mosley's role doesnt take away from how he played along side Mosley. Yea, Mosley opened Orr up to get the glory, but he still was a play maker, sure tackler, and was good in coverage. You can say Mosley made Orr, but Orr also made life on Mosley easier - knowing that he didnt have to try and do too much... he had a guy there he could count on to make the plays next to him. Both could stay within the defense and perform their role. On point #2.... Whether you put any merit in the draft pick value trade charts or not; the value of swapping our 3rds and moving up 25 spots is greater than the Eagles 4th round pick outright.... and way more valuable than a comp 4th. When you consider the depth/quality of this draft it's even more so. So to say youd have been happy if we had just gotten the Eagles 4th but this pick swap was terrible, is just ignorance to the value of picks. Youre basically saying you would have been happy had we gotten less in return, but since we got more its a bad trade. Point #3 - Ever consider that part of the reason Jernigan has been able to be a good run defender is because he's had Williams next to him clogging everything up and occupying multiple blockers? Much easier job when youre always 1on1 or completely clean and able to make tackles. Its essentially your Orr argument. You knock Orr for benefiting from Mosley doing the dirty work and keeping him clean, but fail to recognize that was the case with Jernigan. Jernigan was already losing snaps to a guy like Pierce... who's much much cheaper, a far better fit for the defense we play, has more years under team control, was a better run defender in a limited sample, and a more productive pass rusher on a per snap basis. Granted it was a somewhat limited sample, but the coaching staff knows these guys better than we do. If they feel like theyre going to get close to or a better return by playing Pierce, AND get draft compensation heading into one of the better drafts in recent memory -- then why wouldnt you? It was clear by the end of last season that Jernigan's role was diminishing greatly, becoming basically a rotational/role player. So if youre not going to keep him beyond this year, and youre not a hands down SB contender where Jernigan could be the difference between winning a SB or not; you move him and get the best return. Point 4. Again. Youre saying the Eagles paid pennies bc they didnt have to give up a pick... just moved down in the 3rd. They probably offered their 4th and we pushed for the pick swap.... bc it has more value. Lets say on draft night we wanted to move up to the Eagles pick (74) and we offered our comp 3rd (99) and our 4th round pick; guarantee its not enough to get it done. That 74th pick alone has more value than a comp 3rd and the Eagles 4th. And much more value than keeping our comp 3rd and getting a comp 4th next year. We got a better deal than getting just their 4th. Especially when you look at the quality of player likely to be available early 3rd, and that wont be around late 3rd. Jernigan was likely to be an issue this year had we kept him. He was already complaining about his role diminishing, and even had we kept him i guarantee the plan was to give Pierce more snaps. And I'd put money on the fact that we plan to use BWill and Pierce together at NT and DT and Pierce has a season as good as any we've gotten from Jernigan. Both against the run and as a pass rusher. Because even if he doesnt get home or put up as many sacks as Jernigan did.... he will demand double teams. You almost have to double BWill and Pierce which is going to leave our edge rusher 1on1 with a T and TE. And if they dont, and they try to go 1on1 with the interior guys; we're going to win those battles more often than not and put pressure right in the laps of QBs.

No you stop it! He trolls and you bite. Don't respond to nonsense like that and maybe just maybe he stops lol

Sorry for the late response. But no... Just no. 1. Zachary Orr was far and away the most overrated defensive player on the team last year. I know that everyone here loved him, but as @-Truth- and @BmoreBird22 pointed out, Orr got a ton of those tackles because Mosely ate the blockers and allowed Orr to run free. Orr was a decent ILB, but my god was maybe the most undeserving all pro I've ever seen. If there's on thing that pisses me off more than the Jernigan trade, it's the fans who say that CJ Mosely is "just another guy", and Orr had a better season. Nope. When Orr was thrusted into the #1 ILB spot because of CJ's injury, he struggled mightily. There's no surprise why. CJ made the defense work. He's our biggest asset going forward and there's no question about it. He's gonna be a Raven for life. 2. There is no way in hell we would have gotten anything less than a fourth rounder from Jernigan comp pick wise. Even with his inconsistencies, a player with his talent would easily command $6.5 million on the open market. Which btw, given that our cap situation is significantly better next season, we could have easily afforded to keep him. That obviously wasn't in our plans(which is foolish and I'll explain why in the next point), but the return absolutely SUCKED. If we had traded him outright for that Eagles third rounder and not given up our own pick, you would hear 0 complaints from me and I'm a huge Jernigan fan. In my eyes, that'd be a solid trade. 3. Sorry. But we picked the wrong guy. Timmy Jernigan was an inconsistent pass rusher, but was a consistently excellent run defender who fit the defense well and was young. I'd rather have a guy who is very inconsistent as a pass rusher like Jernigan, but when he's hot he turns it on, then a guy who only plays 80% of the snaps. Given that the nfl has evolved into more of a passing league, Jernigan's ability to play three downs makes him, at least in my eyes, a more valuable commodity. I know he flat out dissapeared at times, but it's not like he was getting any help either. If we had more of a pass rush, I think we would have seen more pressures and sacks from the man. He's not an all pro, he's not even a pro bowler. But finding a defensive lineman who can rush the passer at a decent level is harder than most people think. And we just traded away our proven/best guy. For pennies on the dollar. 4. Finally, the returns are idiotic. Timmy Jernigan playing next to two very good pass rusher is probably gonna have a season where he gets 6-8, possibly 10 sacks. The Eagles would probably be inclined to sign him again afterwards, for a sizeable contract but one that'd be well deserved, and they suddenly have one of the better defensive tackle tandems in the league, and they basically gave up nothing to get him. I don't give a damn if he is inconsistent, trading up 20 spots and giving away your best pass rusher, even if he is a locker room problem, is a HORRIBLE return. It literally makes no sense from a logical standpoint. The Eagles paid pennies for a dude who as a total package is an above average player, and they move down and still get to keep a pick in the round. I can personally guarentee you that Timmy, especially as a proven commodity thus far, is going to be better than at least 90% of the players drafted in the third round this year. I could go on and on about why this trade was totally and utterly idiotic, but honestly, it's post 4/20 in the state of Colorado. I'm going to bed lol

I think there are worse picks to make at 16 than Cam Robinson

Hopefully the bengals or saints take him so we dont have to worry about that lol

the ravens have a good chance to win 10 games this year

Looking over the schedule I have to say I think its fair. Observations 1, They gave Harbs&Ravens the later bye week they like. Week 10. 2, No prolonged road trips or home stays. 3 straight weeks to a month, on road or at home. Its a balanced Schedule, Every other week is Home/Road until the last month finishes 2 road gms then 2 home gms 3, Toughest Stretch of season on paper Packers, Steelers away, Texans, Lions at home directly after bye

I have also cooled a bit on Harris like many others, but still like him. I have heated up tremendously on Haason Reddick and Forrest Lamp just over the past couple weeks.