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Wow it's that bad huh. Haven't visited any of those in weeks.. just got tired of reading "cut him, trade him" when these people don't understand salary cap lol

Why does this say Joe Flacco instead of The Ravens lol. When I talk to people about football or my favorite team, I don't say Joe Flacco came so close this year and that year. I say the Ravens were so close. Like a week ago I was saying it's funny the Steelers in playoffs because we couldn't get one stop basically. Then I went on a tangent about how in 2008 S.Holmes catch was ruled a TD even though the ball never crossed the end zone line, that gave them the division and playoff home field. I felt if it went our way things would have been different. 2011 - People still don't give Sterling Moore an ounce of credit for getting his arm in there and slapping the ball out smh. Lee Evans didn't just drop it. I generally think of Cundiff blowing a short routine FG.

Wow great job by Ravens staff. Orr said if they wouldn't have decided to give him a CAT scan also then it would have went undetected still because his condition wasn't noticed in physicals or MRIs.

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Wow congenital neck/spine condition that's unfortunate for Zach Orr. After a breakout season too. I missed most him speaking at the presser. Im just in shock because when or how did this come about.

Where did this come from? I just got this notification about Orr and I'm trying to remember when was he injured! Wow.

I'm huge on Corn Elder, not sure where he's currently projected but I think he will be a steal for some team. Just the development Elder made in the last two seasons since he switched to CB from RB has been huge. He's been strong in press coverage too and he's a solid tackler. Reminded me of how Sam Shields switched from WR to CB at Miami then got with GB and flourished.

I was thinking this way last year, and even though we hit on T.Young, during the draft I was annoyed that so many guys got past us even in the third round. Like when I saw M.Alexander & K.Fuller falling deep in the second round I was hoping they could fall to us at the top of third or maybe trade up a few spots for either.

Thats probably the easiest thing to answer based on this season and some of these "fans" constantly bashing Perriman. Those are the same people that would be screaming about Myles Jack from mountain tops had he been picked and suffered any type of setback. * every time I would ask those "fans" what were their realistic expectations statistically of Perriman in what was basically his rookie year and he still hasn't had a training camp practice! Then the crickets start chirping lol.

Although I believe Smith's leg will be fine based off Sean Spence recovering from similar injury multiple ligaments and nerve damage. It's the nerve damage that makes Jaylon's Smith worse. Myles Jack candor let teams to think he would immediately need microfracture surgery but that has since been dismissed. https://www.google.com/amp/www.sbnation.com/platform/amp/2016/4/29/11540586/myles-jack-knee-injury-nfl-draft-surgery?client=safari He may still have an injury in the future but that can be said for anyone, problem is if Jack goes down people will scream "told you so".

I wanted Myles Jack badly at that pick, and I read an article that doctors no longer fear he will have a degenerative knee but the Jags still slowly put him into the defense. We basically played Correa as if he was the one with massive injury concerns. With that said all together trading out the pick with the Jags, led to a second trade with dolphins and got the team : Pick #42 K.Correa (from Miami ), #107 (from Miami ) C.Moore, #146 (from Jags) M.Judon Judon seems like he will become a contributor to the defense going forward, C.Moore actually made a contribution with his special teams play, limited WR target, Correa tbd. Honestly the second trade is more questionable for me because either CB X.Howard picked 38th (by Miami) or DE/OLB Noah Spence picked 39th (By Tampa) would have been good additions to the defense.

Completely unrelated but since you mentioned being a VT alum. I really like that sophomore LB Tremaine Edmunds 6'5" 236 that kid flies around the field and he's really physical. I'm a Hurricanes fan and the way Tr.Edmunds impacted that game this year reminded me of how Jalen Ramsey kind of made a few plays to fuel FSU over Miami his sophomore year. If that dude doesn't get mocked highly next year I'd be shocked

CB is deep this year, it's crazy as the college season went on Desmond King and T.White seemed to disappear on mock drafts. Teez (Jalon)Tabor is a solid first rounder, so is Quincy Wilson the player opposite him. I really like Sidney Jones from Washington, very good man coverage skills. If we don't get a corner in the first or second round this year, then they don't want to improve talent or depth at the position.

First I gotta say I'm not a fan of Pees mostly because every year we've seen this team lose games by blowing 4th quarter leads. The defense did improve a lot statistically this season, and I was happy to see more turnovers as well, but a Top 10 defense should be able to make some of those critical game winning stops. Pass rush wise, we just need guys that occasionally beat their man one-on-one, its good to see different blitzes but ultimately guys have to win some battles in the trenches. Early in the season Jernigan was killing it, getting QB hits, pressures and sacks and didn't see as much from him down the stretch as far as impact plays. Suggs was playing with one arm all year and still was the most effective pass rusher, still getting double teams ( which only strengthens the argument that the other guys opposite of him need to win their battle occasionally. ) Dumervil obviously was never himself this season with the injury and explosiveness. Judon- shows potential, but he wasn't played enough early on during the season. Z.Smith - I don't know if he lacks the power to beat blocks or if it's all poor technique but he seemed to regress. It still irritates me that McClellan got so much PT defensively and Correa a 2nd round pick barely saw the field. If McClellan was an edge setting like JJ or Upshaw I could understand.

When I read that I found it interesting because I remember in the offseason they altered the Strength & Conditioning program and had several articles about injury prevention involving Campanaro and Jimmy Smith. http://m.baltimoreravens.com/news/article-1/Ravens-Altered-Training-Program-To-Prevent-Injuries/ea8aac83-de75-4fc3-8e0d-cbbf684ff195 now this is April 19th, 2016 says newly hired Director of Performance and Recovery Steve Saunders. But the person just fired Director of Strength & Conditioning Rob Rogucki So maybe the writing was on the wall for this move already I'm not sure.

Fair enough. I read somewhere, (can't remember where exactlymay have been Adam Schefter's Facebook or Ravens Facebook) that the Ravens set a franchise low for rushing attempts this year. Earlier in the season I complained about not establishing the run game early in games, especially when Flacco was still trying to get his confidence in his knee and shaky oline too. Anytime an olineman is interviewed whether it be NFL films, mic'ed up, or ex-players they talk about how much they love to run it down a defenses throats and control the line of scrimmage. They talk about how driving someone off the ball just gets them pumped while demoralizing a defense. Starting 2 rookies Stanley and Lewis let's throw it 40+ and really test these kids. Injuries missing two or three linemen who cares toss that rock until Flacco can't stand up anymore. Even when everyone could see Flacco was uncomfortable in the pocket not trusting those guys tossing it off his back foot seemingly every play, they still weren't running it to help things out.

So we gonna qualify Caldwell as the new OC although it was his playcalling through the Super Bowl run. Birk Retired, McKinnie only played half the season with passion anyway and Oher had 1 more year as a raven 2013 before he left for the Titans. 2014 Kubiak's year was when Oher was gone. And the team ran for a total of 2019 yds vs the other 3 years with Castillo minus kubiak 1328, 1478, and 1463 ( this year ) and I'm willing to give a bit of pass this year with the new cut block rules. Its undeniable the impact kubiak had on this team's rushing attack and oline. James Hurst actually looked serviceable in the 5 games he started as Rookie undrafted FA in 2014 and he's never looked anything close to that since lol

Everyone's entitled to their opinion, but since you mentioned the 2012 SB run let's recall Juan Castillo was not apart of that he was Eagles DC then. *he became the Run game coordinator in 2013 and it was widely reported he was running the show as oline coach from behind the scenes. Regardless as the Run game coordinator the team regressed significantly in Rushing in 2013. 2014 - was all kubiak 2015-2016. Back to back abysmal rushing attacks ( some could be attributed to play calling ) I'll give him credit for developing Wagner and having a hand in KO's. *

How is it when Castillo was the oline assistant and they underperformed he got promoted? And now the unit struggles and Castillo keeps his job while his assistant is the scapegoat! Ridiculous run game struggled with this guy 3 out 4 years the one exception being when Kubiak actually coached it all! How many more years of Pees defense giving up 4th quarter leads before there's some pressure on him or will he have to decide to go coach in college like Mattison for us to move forward.

Again relating to B.Perriman please tell me what your expectations were for him statistically considering this man never even had a training camp to prepare for an NFL season... Did you really expect a man that has barely had practice time to walk onto an NFL field and catch 80 balls for 1300 yds? Perriman actually put up better numbers than Funchess, S.Coates, N.Agholor, Green-Beckham from his draft class and others from this current draft class and perriman wasn't even getting snaps the first couple of weeks.

When did KO prove he could be a LT? He played what 3 or 4 games at the position during a meaningless stretch of a 5-11 season. He got paid LT money but he's still a LG even in Oakland. Now I've got nothing against Eli Apple I liked him as a prospect last year but when the Giant drafted him that high it was a bit of a reach since he was thought to be a mid to late 1st round prospect. If your scenario plays out and KO was the future LT then I would have expected a more aggressive attempt to get Ramsey as the pick rather than trading back.

You don't see any CB worth pick 16 but you see WRs? T.Tabor, D.King, Q.Wilson, M.Humphrey, S.Jones, A.Jackson , J.Lewis there are plenty of 1st round quality corners in this draft they may not all go in round 1 but I bet there will be more corners than WRs drafted in round 1. I hope all these analysts continue to hate on WR JuJu so he falls to 2nd round maybe we can get lucky and snag him there or trade up a few spots.

Ozzie, Decosta and Harbaugh all need to do much better jobs of addessing these needs. After all, these are the same re-occurring needs for 3 straight years now. They said we needed to improve the secondary 2 years ago but didn't make any moves outside of Kyle Arrington, Kendrick Lewis both terrible signings and wrote a million fluff pieces about how Rashaan Melvin looked strong and would be an excellent starter opposite Jimmy after an offense of improving. Fast-Forward one year the narrative becomes Shareece Wright is the bookend opposite of Jimmy he's had the strongest camp of anyone has ultra confidence himself and he's poised for a breakout year. Webb is the answer at safety - Webb did play very well second half of the season. Tavon Young was a pleasant surprise, the kid play great. No one knows what was the deal with Correa I'm sure this guy didn't even play 10% of the defensive snaps. Even with Mosley and Dummervil both out this kid didn't see action.

I literally just wrote this on Facebook post for this article. I wrote Aiken's most likely suitors would be Browns, Bears, 49ers and Rams outside of them he's back to a special teamer and 4th option. It really surprise me how people are arguing on there as if Aiken is an All Pro. I envisioned Aiken, being a chain-mover on third downs having a role similar to Kelley Washington back in 09'.

👆👆. Said perfectly.