KidNme

With all the Joe bashing going on here, all I can say is "Make your words soft and sweet because you may have to eat them". Going to be really hard for some of you to come back here during the season and then praise Joe when he starts firing on all cylinders.

The rich keep getting richer. My "emotional investment" is only tied to $100 jerseys, $350 seat tickets and $9 beers I guess but I can guarantee you that many of the Suite holders and lower tier 50yd line seat holders sit on their hands during games. If you want emotional investment, sit in the endzone seats! Those folks are passionate! Where's the love for the Decibel gang?

I hope these guys are quick learners. I'd like to see us disguise our Defenses like we used to, with everyone moving around until the ball snaps. Never knowing where the rush is coming from. We have the tools but do they have the smarts? We'll see.

The Ravens have actually been quite good at picking up aging vets and getting production out of them. I would dare say, there hasn't been a miss in that department (Maybe Doom). I fully expect to see another aging vet on our offense before it is all said and done. Remember, we did pick up Woodhead, Tony Jefferson and Brandon Carr so with our track record, I'd say these guys are going to help a lot! We also got enough defensive players in the draft that we should be able to shake out a couple really good players to make an impact and at the least, add some depth with a few until they are ready to start. We also have some first and second year PS and bench warmer guys that everyone has forgotten about too such as Nembot and Tavon Young, who I think are going to be really good players for us. Canady, Kafusi come to mind as well. The sky isn't falling. The FO want to win too and they have more at stake with it than we do so here is reason to be optimistic IMHO. Our defense is going to be scary good.

Also, We averaged 21 points a game and our opponents averaged 20 points per game against us last season. Even though our record didn't get us into the playoffs, it tells me we weren't that far off from having a few of those games fall our way. Now that we look to have an even more awesome D, what will be our opponents average points be against us this season? 20 per game avg? looks that way on paper so far. That's just stopping them from reaching FG range one time more per game and I think we'll do far better than that. Now our offense doesn't HAVE TO score 30 points. Ya, I'd like to have 4 WR's that catch everything that's thrown to them and an O line that doesn't allow anyone to get to Joe ever and open huge holes for our RB's but you can't have it all. As far as I see it, our D will help our O and that's the next best thing we could hope for with the way all the projected top flight O guys went off the board before we could get to them. The Ravens know how to shop with the best of them. Luck also plays a part and that has a way of going around the room.

We're gong to be Stellar against the pass AND the run. Our new pass rush guys are very good at breaking up plays, run or pass, setting the edge and plenty of speed and tackling ability, not to mention, hassling QB's as their #1 job for which they were picked. Folks have been crying about getting back to a great defense and after last seasons late game lead losses, this is great news. As far as our WR's, we do have some talent there. Chris Moore is going to be something special I think. Perriman has shown some clutch ability and if he can start catching the easy ones, he'll be here for quite a while. Wallace will get the job done and will help our receiver core get better. We also have a couple TE's on our roster as well as Woodhead to catch passes too. We're also not done adding players and adding veterans to fill the left over holes when this is all said and done, will help bring some of the new guys and PS members from last year up to par. With the way the draft fell for us, I really can't see doing much better. You can't be too mad at the FO the way I see it, we're a lot better than last year and all those #1 guys picked by our competitors in this draft still have to make the transition AND stay healthy. I guess the moral of this story is, don't be mad at what we didn't do, be happy for what we DID do.

The Ravens know what they're doing but I am a little surprised at us picking a CB first with so much talent still on the board. Having said that though, they have a lot more info on these guys than I do. If they think Humphries was the BPA then, I can't wait to see him on the field breaking up passes and returning a few. This just makes rounds 2 and 3 even more interesting. We will have a scary secondary so I hope teams don't run it down our throats now. We also won;t be putting up many points if there's still 3 gaping holes on our O-Line PLUS, only having Suggs, Judon and Smith to rush the passer, we better have a great secondary. Won't know for sure how this pans out until these guys start playing anyway.

I like everyone on this list. Any of these guys will make us better! Can't wait!!

It's like Christmas! Can't wait to see what we get. I know Ozzie and DeCosta will work their magic. Man, I would love to be sitting at their table tonight!

The draft room is going to be hectic and fast paced, just the kind of thing DeCosta likes. I really don't care "Who" we get because I know we'll get at least one stud of a player, regardless of position. Everyone else will be a, wait and see as usual. I'm actually looking forward to what guys like Moore, Kaufusi, Young, Nembot and of course, Perriman will do after a year in our system and more opportunity to play.

That was funny!

I think Sanders is one of the best things we've done for our team. Can't wait to see how it plays out during the season but having our guys in better "football" shape can only help us.

As we get closer, I do believe we'll go O line first. Nothing else can improve if we don't have a dominant O line, in my opinion. Most of Joe's issues come from when he's being hurried into throwing. A dominant O line will help that a lot, not to mention helping the running game.

A fight? He repeatedly smashed a guys head into a brick wall. He's lucky he isn't in prison. Ya but, if we could harness his "enthusiasm", Oh boy!...............

I guess they only had 10 seats left on the plane.