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Edelman is a product of their system and we don't run what they run.  That'd be a bad signing.

agreed. he is strictly a timing based offensive role player, and we never have, and never will be a small ball timing paced offense as long as joe is our qb, we will be a balanced, run to open the pass/vice versa big play offense. not a fit.

But then we'd have 2 pass catching TEs and not 1 rounded TE

i upvoted you to balance out that neg, youre right. moneys so much better spent elsewhere than owen daniels. hes a carbon copy of pitta but without the chemistry with the qb. what we need is one of the massive oaf's from the 2nd or 3rd round, the type of guy we can line up, hand in the dirt, every snap, is he blocking? is he running out? what the hell are we gonna do to cover a 6'6" guy who can jump through the roof? you need 2 types of TE's to run a 2TE offense, especially a ZBS stretch heavy scheme

FA's on offense? alex mack IF hes cheap enough, depth signings, and thats it. unless some amazing fit at WR gets cut and we dont lose a comp over signing him, then dont sign him. be patient, wait til summer to start signing everyone, and address WR and TE in the draft, try your hardest to re-sign our current FA's for as much of a bargain as possible and keep the continuity.

i fully welcome this, so long as he doesnt take snaps from arthur brown, which i doubt he would anyway because i see him becoming a full time starter. i think if we re-signed daryl smith and mcclain comes back, we would have a formidable 3 ILB rotation by midseason once mcclain were to hit his stride. honestly with a 3 man LB corps like that i would welcome having them as a 4-3 LB group as long as we would have the front 4 to support it. mcclain is still quite a talented run stopping LB and i was disappointed to see how his situation played out

No reason to do any of that; reason being: either a team wants a player at a certain price and is willing to pay or let the player go to seek his money elsewhere. Franchise tag is a double-edge blade.

it was a joke lol. doing all that would just be ridiculous

My question was more about how the slot - a generally multipurpose utility where WRs, TEs, even RBs/FBs line up - became solely WR territory/pay.

Suggs' distinction was pretty clear - was his hand on the ground or not? Graham/Pitta don't have that clear definition. Playing in the slot does not make you a WR any more than the shotgun makes a QB a RB.

i guess the nfl will have to rearrange position names the way they seperate FB HB and tailback and 3rd down back. now its gonna be TE, flex TE, h-back(flex TE that also lines up in the backfield?), SR(slot receiver) and Wide OUT, and now this way you can no longer take advantages of mismatches and make space unless a player is classified as a flex or h-back.. but you can only have 1 of each on your team..

 

the nfl is just a complete idiotic ball of poop these days. how anyone could consider dennis pitta a WR by position is beyond me.

While I would like to see the Ravens re-sign Dennis, it would not be the end of the world if we didn't. I do not think that his absence last year was the main reason we didn't make the playoffs. We need a Jeremy Shockey or Mark Bavarro type of TE. Pitta is not the physically tough TE we need. I give him the props he deserves for coming back from a potentially career-ending injury but we need someone like Gronk or Graham. If he gets tagged, he should get TE money period. He's nowhere close to being a WR.  

the TE's youre referring to can be found all over this years draft. ASJ niklas and friedorowicz fit that mold and WE NEED THEM! lol

Flacco needs to take a serious pay cut and resign Dennis Pitta, Daryl Smith, Art Jones. 

 

In that order.

leave. now.

don't get it mixed up, suggs isn't gonna take some major paycut, and why should he, he is our clear cut emotional leader. if suggs feels he is being lowballed, he will walk. and the sad part about it is, he probably will not accept any type of hometown discount, and unless we make him happy with a backloaded restructured contract, which will put us in a bind a few year from now, then he probably wont be a ravennext year. we need him, he is the last remaining raven from our prime years as a defensive team, but its not very likely in my opinion.

were running a west coast, I think its clear what WR we need to get in this draft. Jordan Matthews is the 2nd best receiver after Watkins, and hes gonna slip pretty far due to everyone reaching for big tall project receivers and a run on qb's. not only does he have the best hands out of all the receivers in the draft, but he is tough and physical and runs routes so well that he doesn't even need speed, he would be incredible in a kubiak system.

None of those sources said the Ravens were definitely going to hire all these guys. They said Ravens are "trying to assemble a star studded cast of coaches" that COULD mean hiring all these guys, as well as a number of other things. most of you are jumping to conclusions.

read the "coaching search rumor mill" top article. yes its a "rumor mill" but the sources of these "rumors" are ravens sources, not just fans making up rumors. and nobody said anything about "definitely" hiring anyone so why are you forcing words into my mouth?

nobody said we were gonna hire all three dudes, fans are making that up.

but we do have an opening for a QB coach as well as OC, so we might take two of them. might be trying to figure out who gets which job.

that actually was on te reports posted by ravens sources on the site.

 

now that I think about it yeah we need a qb coach AND a rb coach, idk if dennison is either but yea now that I think about it If they could keep the staff intact that would be awesome

why are they also gonna bring dennison and shanhan on along with kubiak? seriously didn't harbs learn last year too many chiefs nt enough Indians? having all these coaches around for no reason just causes confusion and bad calls on the sideline..

Well the reports indicate that the players hate Castillo. But I don't understand people pushing for Munchak either. He's a good ol coach and that's all he'll ever be.

early in the offseason the players liked him, they loved his fire and teaching methods. obviously when the o-line gets all the blame for the teams failures theyre gonna naturally find someone else to blame. its an accountability problem, winning solves everything, and if our run game was working and we were winning, there wouldnt have been a mumble about the players not liking him

Evans in the first, and then cooks in the 2nd or 3rd.. Not sure which round he's projected in. Then we get a slot guy and a second big body jump ball man to scare defenses when he lines up opposite maroon brown. Evans obviously is a bigger stronger and better catching version but 2 guys at 6'5" with a massive catch radius is enough to scare a defense, add a top 5 deep threat in Torrey, and an elite possession type guy in pitta, and a possible huge playmaker in the YAC dept if we could also get cooks, then BOY OH BOY we'd have a we corps incredible enough to make us cry when our passing game fails every week due to no pass protection. That being said, I think we should address offensive weapons HEAVILY in this draft and hope for a healthy KO, a respectfully productive rick Wagner, and hope for a cheap stop gap veteran center. Dream scenario I know but it actually is possible with the wizard of oz calling the shots. If we can fill just 1 hole on the o line before April then this should be a VERY exciting draft, we finally get to see some splash players in the first instead of conservative picks and trade backs!

before we get the receiver, give me a OC that can design a play to get him open!

 

but honestly what I would love more than anything is to get a randall cobb on this team and have them be bff's like joe and pitta and get them on the same page, teams blitz the hell out of us, so get us a playmaking slot receiver like cobb, call that hot route and abuse the blitz. I also would like to see someone who gets open for joe when the play breaks downs and joe has to leave the pocket, don't just continue your route because obviously the play is compromised, run with joe and make it easier on him(see: santonio holmes and big ben)

 

we just need a sure handed guy that is athletic enough to create separation in traffic, and sit in the soft spots in zone coverage, and stay on the same page as our qb. and when he delivers you a perfect ball, HOLD ON TO IT!

 

that's what I want in a receiver, we got the burner and a big body receiver(though kinda soft) and a TE that can do similar things to what I named, but that TE isn't as athletic as welker or cobb or Edelman, and that's the mold of a receiver that is missing from this team.

sadly, i see us keeping Caldwell another year. and kubiak is a strictly ZBS coach and it is clear that our o-line is not made for that, and i would prefer the complete scrapping of the ZBS over a complete o-line rehaul. we need a new center, and maybe a new RT, but more importantly, we need a new gameplan, and kubiak doesn't exactly offer that.

 

i like chudzinski, i think he is what joe flacco has been missing ever since he matured and cam began holding him back. we still are an explosive offense, with a gutsy, strong armed qb, and explosive receivers, and chud is one of those OC's that can draw up a route tree to get the ball in our playmakers hands, unlike cam nd Caldwell.

 

if you can make the nfl world think your offense can compete with brian hoyer at qb, then youre doing something right.

When did we get a running game?  I mean you're completely wrong about those teams running 5 wide and not having a running game as well, just our acquisition of one was something I must've missed.

your avatar fits this argument perfectly

Recognize this fellow?

his left hand isnt on his wrist... what a odd sight!

im in the minority but ive ALWAYS wanted so bad for the ravens to wear those unis with the frontside of the bird face instead of the winged shield for just 1 game a season as a "where we came from" type of thing. and that would also mean that these jerseys would be for sale, and you bet ur boots id buy one. the overall uniform is bad(mostly because of the black pants with the massive white stripe) but i do, and always have, loved those jerseys. as a every week thing? no sir, its way too typical 90's maximalist style, and it should stay there, but as a memories thing, it would be a nice addition to our fan experience to have a throwback game every year

born in baltimore, lakeland(between brooklyn and arbutus)

moved to pasadena at a young age, consider "the dena" my true hometown regardless of where i was born.

pasadena is ravens country, 12 months a year people got ravens flags on their car windows and ravens lawn decorations, and every sunday or monday between september and february, over half of the town is wearing some form of ravens gear. love this place during football season, its got a energy about it

seriously...the 49ers were a few plays short of winning the Super Bowl. I agree with some of the similarities but this really helps them to get back to the big game.

On a side note Crabtree and Hanningham are their deep threats.

crabtree is a possession receiver, he doesn't have high end speed but hes big and tough with sure hands and decent route running, strong comparison.. tj housh, just like we had that year.

san fran is the same team we were a few years ago. dominant defense, young and promising qb, top 3 rb, top tier tight end, and a boatload of possession receivers with no speed. ill bet their season turns out like ours did too, wild card, loss in the divisional round to seattle, just like we lost to pitt 3 years ago. im calling it!