SCirish843

My Ideal draft:

Round 1: WR Corey Davis
Round 2: OLB Carl Lawson
Round 3: CB Teez Tabor (Whatever CB falls)
Round 3: RT Roderick Johnson
Round 4: RB Kareem Hunt
Round 5: C Tyler Orlosky
Round 6: QB Brady Gustafson

What I think the Ravens will do:

Round 1: OLB Takkarist McKinley (or RT Cam Robinson on trade back)
Round 2: CB Kevin King
Round 3: DE Tanoh Kpassagnon
Round 3: C Ethan Pocic
Round 4: RB Brian Hill
Round 5: RT Darrell Williams
Round 6: WR Deangelo Yancey

I don't think we run enough zone to utilize Tabor. His stock plummeted after he ran the world's slowest 40 time and I don't think that dismisses his amazing game tape but I do think he put himself in a Joe Haden situation where he'll need to be in a lot of underneath cover 2 looks. I think he'll be better than people are expecting but I don't think he fits us well. I do love Kevin King though, super high on Tankersley and Awuzie as well.

Just please for the love of God have Pocic with us after the darft!

Yes.

  20 hours ago, SCirish843 said:

  21 hours ago, GENE2407 said:

Simple: the first 3 rounds make or break your draft. 95% of your best players are had in those rounds. For some reason, Ozzie is now in love with his multiple 4th and 5th rounders that turn out to be neat kick returners or special teams contributors. 1-3 is now reserved for "safe players" who are academic scholars and go to church 5 times a week.

That's a pretty gratuitous over-simplification of a team. The first 3 rounds make or break your draft because of the resources that go into those picks, but "95% of your best players" don't come from those rounds. The Ravens roster is built like all the others, 80% of starters are rounds 3-5 guys. If you take a guy in the 1st or 2nd and he's not a starter you're setting yourself up to fail as the guaranteed contract on those guys will haunt you. Ozzie, like a lot of GMs, are far more comfortable taking 5 or 6 shots in rounds 3-5 than take 1 shot in rd 1.

And 98% of them pan out to be nothing. At best, you got Jarret Johnson or Bart Scott. Those guys don't win you championships. Ogden, Lewis, Reed, Suggs, Sharper, McAlister, RRice, Flacco, Heap..........those are the guys who bring home the trophies. Ozzie needs to get over his stupid comp picks and hoarding of junk round picks (4th-7th) and get back to successful top picks. He was the best for 24 years. Since 2010, he's been awful.

You have no idea what you're talking about. 98% of them don't 'not pan out' just like 95% of 1-3rd rounders make up your team which is another ridiculous claim you made. You realize you have to be bad to draft the guys you named? Ogden-4th overall, Mcallister-10th overall, Ngata-12th overall, Suggs-10th overall, Heap-31st overall(a 1st rd TE might as well be a top 10 pick at CB or DE value wise), Flacco-16th overall. The Ravens have been drafting in the mid-late 20s for the better part of the past 15 years. When we do have top half picks recently Ozzie has nailed those as well (Stanley at 6 and Mosley at 16). Getting HoFers like Lewis and Reed in the 20s is an extreme outlier and for you to assume we should just not draft the bad players and take all the good ones shows you know very little about scouting and development.

I posted a mock yesterday similar to these with Barnett in 1 and Moton and either Henderson or Zay Jones as the 2 3rd rounders. I did have Pocic as our 2nd though, I highly doubt he'll be around in the 4th. He 'should' be the first center off the board.

1st round-Barnett if he falls, Reddick if he's there. If not trade back and take Charlton. Wouldn't hate Lamp either.
2nd rd. Pocic
3rd rd- We've got 2 in close proximity (74 & 78) obviously barring somebody dropping far and taking BPA I'd like to see 2 out of Taylor Moten-OG, Chris Wormly-DE, Dujuan Smoot-DE, Raekwon McMillan-ILB, Justin Senior-OT and then 1 out of the group of WR whoever is available out of Zay Jones, Dede Westbrook, Carlos Henderson, and Chris Godwin.

I think a lot of people confuse the fact that Ozzie letting players go doesn't mean they weren't good picks. Baltimore runs circles around the rest of the league in regards to collecting compensatory picks. Just because a guy signs somewhere else after 3-4 years doesn't mean it wasn't a good pick, it usually means the exact opposite as another team is willing to pay them significantly more than we were. We save money and get a free pick in the same deal. Osemele, Wagner, Jernigan, Kruger, Jones, etc, etc were all good picks.

Simple: the first 3 rounds make or break your draft. 95% of your best players are had in those rounds. For some reason, Ozzie is now in love with his multiple 4th and 5th rounders that turn out to be neat kick returners or special teams contributors. 1-3 is now reserved for "safe players" who are academic scholars and go to church 5 times a week.

That's a pretty gratuitous over-simplification of a team. The first 3 rounds make or break your draft because of the resources that go into those picks, but "95% of your best players" don't come from those rounds. The Ravens roster is built like all the others, 80% of starters are rounds 3-5 guys. If you take a guy in the 1st or 2nd and he's not a starter you're setting yourself up to fail as the guaranteed contract on those guys will haunt you. Ozzie, like a lot of GMs, are far more comfortable taking 5 or 6 shots in rounds 3-5 than take 1 shot in rd 1.