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Yeah I thought this myself made me think of E.Monroe first how he had never missed a game in his career then came here became Unbreakable character Elijah Price. Or when we signed D.Foxworth whom had been mostly healthy then boom ACL and career was over. The one thing that makes this different is Carr is clearly a stop-gap player that could play himself into longer tenure.

Find a way to keep them is exactly how a salary cap works, yep it's that simple.. In 2016 Franchise Tag for DE was 15.7M, if Jernigan were to put together a Pro Bowl season next year the franchise tag would cost about that amount above. Perhaps a long term deal could be 13-14M/yr. If Jernigan has an average year at minimum I'd assume he'd get over 10M/yr similar to what the Steelers paid C.Hayward or the 9M broncos paid Wolfe. Mosley will get a 5th year option picked up, but the team needs to try and sign him to long term deal early, before they have to pay him more than kuechly And Stanley is only in year 2 of his rookie contract so he's irrelevant to this particular conversation currently. Like my original comment said B.Will is a valuable player I like him a lot, but people cried when they let Ngata walk away thinking B.Will wasn't ready to replace him he's done well. I think Pierce could have done something very similar.. Sam Adams & Ted Washington have to be sick to their stomachs that they aren't playing now lol.

Again 8 years and two years with good numbers as a pass rusher... he's not a good edge setter by any means so if he's not getting to QB consistently what good is he. He played how many years in Houston in a 3-4 defense? Conor Barwin's pretty darn good year was in 2014... and that's basically a career outlier aka an anamoly.. His one good year is no different than the one year Kruger had with us before being a free agent

Yeah I'm with you. We all love Williams but my gosh that's a lot for a NT. What are they gonna do if Jernigan has a Pro Bowl year next year. Let him walk a presume.

Wow 10/yr for NT. Just wow I love Brandon Williams but seriously he's not Ngata in his prime! That could have been Alshon jeffrey! With Pierce stepping in and hope C.Davis mans up.

Just read the Ravens interested in Morris Claiborne. I'm not real high on him especially due to constant injuries.

Smh. Go get him for what dude literally has had 2 really good seasons with sacks nothing else. 8 year career with only 2 seasons over 8 sacks. And he's 30 going on 31 in October.

Lol.

I'd actually like that myself.

Why haven't they traded at least one of these tight ends for a 5th round pick? We've got Pitta, Boyle, Gilmore, Waller, M.Williams and Watson ( whom hasn't played a game ). Read reports they approached Pitta about a pay cut and he seems reluctant. There's no reason they can't move on from at least two of these guys. Maxx is still young wasn't getting used enough prior to injury maybe he could fetch a 4th round pick.

I'd take Wallace over Torrey smith... the only issue is Wallace is due 5M+. But he had instant chemistry with Flacco, made more plays than I expected upon the signing. His numbers could have been better if Flacco wouldn't have been stuck on Pitta the latter part of the season.

There's still a chance they could grab VT FB Sam Rogers in the later rounds. Also I want to see Jefferson's and Woodhead's contract numbers as well...

Lol... you basically reiterated what I said about him and his role... his role has always been that of a Receiving RB/ slot/ gimmick guy.. Camp has injury concerns yes we all know.. but we can't pretend that a 32 year old player Woodhead coming off of ACL injury will be dependable either Why on earth do you think that's all Buck Allen is good for when he had 800+ total yards his rookie year only to be Healthy scratch weekly this year. We just saw T.West play 16 games most as the starter and he just barely got 1000 total yards this year. And even if Woodhead is perfectly healthy will this coaching staff use him correctly still remains to be seen. All I'm saying is this could be Speedy Noil or Greg Ward in the 6th-7th round. Or it could be K.Reynaulds as well for Returns/ versatile weapon. He's here now but wow one of the first signings lol

I don't really understand this signing at all.. Woodhead is coming off injury, Dixon and Allen are both good receiving backs... Campanaro has a similar role already, as a returner/ slot WR/ trick play guy. And I'm just not confident the coaches will even use Woodhead properly similar to the Patriots or Chargers. Probably could have filled this void through the draft in the later rounds...

I'll check it out ... 👍

Yep that's exactly what I'm talking about. And rather than reply directly to someone on FB I've written my own comments. Responding to how Boldin, Torrey or anyone else lost wasn't ideal at the time but it's hard to still complain and justify given any of their productions since and that's a laundry list of guys. There are Ravens that left and played good or even better like B.Grubbs , D.Stewart but it's tilted towards most underperforming their big contracts the Ravens couldn't match and that fact goes completely over FB fans heads lol.

I'm so annoyed I just read Jason La confora say there is a very very strong likelihood of Torrey Smith returning. Seriously even if he's on a dirt cheap deal we need WRs that can run routes and open up the field for Perriman, Moore and Wallace ( if he returns ). Torrey smith hasn't improved since leaving the Ravens...

Pro football reference is one of my favorite sites.... man I love that for all sports Thanks for Pro Football rumors never heard of that one before.

I totally agree with this. I think articles were better before Hensley moved over to espn to take over AFC North news. Downing and Mink have always come across as fans that lucky to me as well lol. I guess that's why it irritates me to watch Mailbag videos because there's never anything insightful on there regardless of the subject.

Yeah it's a pain to comment on the team's Facebook, because people with little to no football knowledge will just jump on and disagree with name calling lol rather than legitimate sports talk. Also sometimes the forum was nice to read for a little rumors others picked up on elsewhere.

I realize rather quickly why I don't usually comment on the team news on Facebook. It's just as bad as ESPN comment sections full of people throwing insults for no reason. Here there are disagreements but it never amount to petty name calling with no sports talk.

Nice having you Wagner, but as competitive an offer the Ravens may have made 9M/yr is All Pro tackle money. Compensatory pick on the way... Wonder if the Ravens will ever begin to Trade guys that they know they can't extend or don't want to extend because of cost... It would be nice to trade a few guys similar to how the Patriots have done to gain 2nd and 3rd round picks. Year after year we have some quality players that leave and we basically are left looking forward to 4th and 5th round comp picks.

Wow this sucks... I wish there could at least be a gameday thread still. I really enjoy having gameday with other Ravens fans. Rather than venting randomly on Facebook lol.

Yep you hit all those bullet points perfectly.... While it'd be nice to keep those guys because they're all solid players, none at the moment could justify taking up a healthy junk of the team's future salary cap. Thats the way it's gone for several years in a row now. We have guys that are contributors but can't tell if they will become Pro Bowlers or All Pros worthy of a second contract and a big pay day. Its just too bad we never trade any of these guys and spin them into 2nd round picks like the patriots. We just lose guys to free agency and hope for compensatory picks.

I've loved Juice as a player for quite sometime now. I complained last offseason that signing Watson was stupid because Juice could also be in the TE rotation or used as an H-back and get creative. With that said if the team fails to retain Juice then I hope they can get VT- FB Sam Rogers in the 7th round as a backup plan.