wcowden

Boyle is a mauler at TE and has great hands plus speed.

"he is like Ngata in his prime, or better, we need him bad" I am not trying to take anything away from Brandon. He is a good player but not as good as Ngata. Ngata was a force to be reckoned with in both the run and the pass game. He was much more agile/athletic than BW in his prime. BW is going to get paid well, and most likely too well, which will take us out of the bidding for his services. He is going to be this years KO (I think we have a better chance of signing him than we did with KO). I am sure there are many people like you who have already checked the "indispensable" box, and i am sure there are some people who think resigning him is a given, but I don't think thats true. One of the biggest reasons why we will let him go (besides the price tag) is Michael Pierce. Pierce is playing at a remarkably high level considering he came from a lower level of competition (BW was only activated for 6 games in his rookie season). His potential is much greater than BWs because he is such a freak of an athlete. He matches or beats every one of Ngatas combine scores. Now, there are guys that tear up the combine and put up ridiculous numbers that turn out to be busts, but MPs rookie year has shown that he is the real deal. He is only going to get better from here. And when BW takes the money I am sure you will chastise him for being selfish and you will criticize the team that he goes to, just as you did with KO (K.O. is selfish, KO is going to a terrible team a "black hole") but hopeful Michael Pierce will be able to make that bitter pill a bit sweeter. Defensive end and secondary is where the money should be on defense...We do great at drafting run stoppers...Pierce and Jernigan can fill the void when B. Williams gets overpaid...We need to get a pass rusher soon...Sizzle and Doom are almost done playing the game

I don't find the advantage though. The opponents of the dome teams would have the same opportunity every time they played in the dome. They would just have to be as skilled as the kicker of the dome team. Would they have a higher accuracy? Yes. But their opponents would have a higher accuracy when they played inside the dome also just like on field goals. Justin Tucker hit that 61 yard field goal against Detroit in the dome. He had the same advantage as the Lions kicker.

Good I am not the only one to see this error make it to the press. He said if we defeat the Dolphins and the Eagles at home it will push the win total to 8...he just worded it confusing

The 20 million quarterback has to go. Flacco has no competitive he just meekly walks off the field, like he didn't get his ice cream for desert. Ravens, it's time to reward Justine Tucker with a good contract, now, don't let him hit the open market, lock him up NOW. Tucker got his contract over the summer...Where have you been?.. Also it is Justin and not Justine and, for everybody else, it is Judon and not Juden.

Another thing we lack is durability. We drafting and signing guys that are often injured Sergio Kindle was a special case in that department and what a waste of a draft pick that was. Perriman has been a waste of a pick and he continues to not get any separation. Stanley hasn't held up well for a rookie tackle. The rest of the offensive line besides Zuttah have been injured. Wright is often hurt aside from being garbage. Jimmy Smith is often injured. Dumervil has zero stats this season. None. Correa has been missing in action a bunch. Webb has been injured consistently since his big deal. Lorenzo Taliaferro has not been available most of the year due to injury. Pitta hasn't held up well . Finding Max Williams on the game field is harder than finding Waldo. Crocket Gilmore has been often injured also. That's three tight ends right there that rarely touch the field. Add the fact that Nick Boyle keeps pissing hot and our 6-7 tight ends becomes just hobbled Pitta and Darren Waller. And this list pales in comparison to last season.

Too early for all that control our own destiny stuff. Technically, the Bengals control their own destiny in the division also, even though they are 2 wins behind us.

Interested to see who gets cut from our deep running back, tight end, and wide receiver positions

Name one game or even 3 to 4 games where a better offensive tackle would have helped us win and get to the playoffs last year??? We went 3-7n with Flacco and 2-4 without. All adds up to 5-11. Offensive tackle was not our problem. We know and everyone else in the league knows it was our defense. You do realize that the Ravens defense was the second rated defense in the last half of the season, right?

Don't believe everything the mock drafts suggest - for a lot of times those who make the mocks are in the dark just as much as we, simple fans are... It was not at all sure that the Browns would have picked a QB - if that was their real intent, they wouldn't traded the #2 pick, would they? And anyway, more and more draft analyses concluded that the Browns would have much more probably picked one of the real stars of the class: Tunsil, Ramsey or Jack - maybe even Elliott. I do believe the Browns were going to pick a QB, but all GMs listen to deals and they got a blockbuster one. We all like Joe Flacco, but if the Falcons called and offered Matt Ryan plus Julio Jones and a fourth round pick, I'd wish Joe all the luck in the world in Atlanta.

Easy...Catch 8 one year and 7 the next or catch 6 one year and 9 the next...it's an average number...Mike Wallace had 10 his first year in Miami and 5 the next, hence 7.5 average.

Just because Ed Dickson is on a winning team does not mean he is worth anything as a player. You can hide a Waste products among a bunch of diamonds and the diamonds will still be valuable. We won a Super Bowl with Trent Dilfer as our quarterback, so Ravens fans know about hiding our weaknesses. I do believe Flacco won MVP in a Super Bowl with Michael Oher blocking for him even though Oher was ranked dead last among all tackles in pass protection that season and that list included 79 tackles.

Really? From what I see, Dickson has 15 catches on the entire season for a measly 121 yards. Dickson has 10 games this season with 0 or 1 catches. Javorius Allen had 12 catches for us against Miami alone for 107 yards.

Pittsburgh is almost dead last in defense in passing yards allowed...Cincy is 20th and has an injured backup playing...I expect to beat Cincy this week if we can hit AJ McCarron a few times early, but that doesn't give you a real measure of how good Mallett is if he wins against a bad pass D and an injured and less experienced backup

Your option would be to trade Joe if he doesn't restructure? That's cool. It would only cost us 26 million against the 2016 cap for a player that isn't playing, which saves us basically nothing as his cap hit is pretty close to that number.