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there are so many names to add to that list. Matt Elam Perriman Arthur Brown Upshaw Cody Ed Dickson Kindle Jah Reid Brooks Carl Davis Maxx Williams KC All 1rst, 2nd, and 3rd round picks. Not only are none of them even close to sniffing pro bowl talent, but most of them can't even contribute to a win or stay in the league. This is just the past 7 years. Coincidentally since Harbaugh put in his wonderful influence of drafting "high character and high IQ football players" GREAT. Don't know why this AWFUL staff is still "leading" the Ravens. It's discouraging at best. And yeah, awesome time to raise ticket prices. I laughed so hard out loud when I saw that and couldn't wait to read the comments Name another team that doesn't have as many if not more "busts"..... Again, learn the football business - the HC has little to no impact on the players we draft. Sounds good, I'll go through the first 3 rounds of 31 NFL teams of the last 7 years and check that for you. No I won't. But I would bet maybe half the teams half whiffed like we have the past 7 years, give or take a few teams. I'm not gonna waste my time and find out what teams, but we both know there are a handful of teams that have drafted significantly better than us the past 7 years. 7 years. Thats a long time. That's left us as a mediocre team. No way around that. Just wondering what happened to the "in ozzie we trust". Haven't heard that in about a decade. " again, learn the business" LOL, ok tough guy! LOL You are the ignorant one if you think Harbaugh has had little to no impact on our drafting. Every franchise does it differently. lol wake up The whole discussion on "draft whiffs" is rather short sighted. Think about it. Not including undrafted free agents ( 436 players), each year there is an absolute minimum of 224 rookies drafted (actually 253 in 2016). Given a 53 man roster and 32 teams there are collectively 1696 players on the active rosters. Strictly by the numbers, over a period of 3 years (just enough time for a decent rookie to become a good/outstanding player or be deemed a "bust"), collectively the NFL teams have drafted 45% of the total number of players in all of national football (again not including the 1300 UDFA). That should say something. "According to the NFL Players Association the average career length is about 3.3 years. The NFL claims that the average career is about 6 years." Either way it suggests that most of the new draftees suck when they get to pro ball. It also suggests that picking the right players is just as much a crap shoot as it is experience. The median age of members of the NFL (based on team) is 26.16 yrs old. Assuming players graduate at 22 yrs of age...it all fits. Most younger players don't last long; not from injury but because they suck. In the end, I will pick passion over college records. Passion breeds records; not the other way. I would rather have Steve Smith's passion to play good and hard football each and every week than to have Perriman's speed and college records. You can teach good fundamentals; but the passion to play and play hard comes from inside and will eventually distinguish a good player from one that will not be in the league by the 3rd-4th year. I am not here to question whether or not Pita is worth the money...but the tenacity to work hard, come back and play well is what to look for in a player. Same thing with Steve Smith. I shutter to think what our record would have looked like had they not come back to play. Tom Brady was a 6th round draft pick. Ever see him on the sidelines after a botched play...he is livid....banging heads...throwing helmets, etc. Ever see Flacco....he mopes to the bench and sits there until the next time the offense take the field. Hell, he can't even run a decent 2 minute offense because of lack of passion. He wastes more time being "cool" then running the offense Anyway, JMHO

When Harbaugh had better players he was indeed winning....year after year after year...in the playoffs. Now all of a sudden the coaching gets blamed for loosing and with substandard play? Granted, there were some questionable calls, but they did not cause our defense to melt in every 4th quarter loss. You can only make lemons into lemonade if you have some sugar. Second, younger end rushers are clearly needed; however, even the best of them can be countered by double teaming...problem solved on the offense. A good CB can defend against anyone. In all our fourth quarter losses, end rushers would not have negated the result against good quarterbacks. They tore our secondary apart. The only way we could have won was by a turnover/interception...which we could not deliver. You can get to the quarterback once in a while...but he will through the ball on every down during a two minute offense. Be that as it may, it is amazing that a team with the poor/mediocre record we have has so little salary cap space. Indeed, the Ravens have among the smallest of cap space in all of football. Until we can get out of the Flacco hangover (2020 at the earliest), we will be settling for substandard players and letting go of the good ones because we cannot afford them (Ngatta, Osemele, Bolden, Smith...). The list is long of what we sacrificed for a middle-of-the-road (at best) QB. I could see this if we had a Brady, Rothlesberger, or Prescott, but the Flackman has regressed and this has been over years. I get tired of hearing that this is all related to his injury over a year ago. Until Joe starts to understand the relationship between his salary and his team expectations, this fiasco will continue. And please spare me talking blame for poor play after each game. If he played better, he would have to beg forgiveness. And please someone do not blame his receivers. When Joe looked beyond the line of scrimmage this year all he looked for was "88". If the defense bumped Pita off the line, Joe got flustered and either threw a lousy pass or got sacked. There are a lot of things wrong with this team; one can be solved by better CBs; the other we have to live with for years to come.