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Since there were guys with a 0% first down rate, I doubt he had the lowest figure...

http://russellstreetreport.com/2017/05/03/street-talk/ravens-wise-pass-o-j-howard/

Sources close to the Giants organization almost all say Cruz has nothing left in the tank, and is no longer anything like he was in his better days. His case is similar to Dwayne Bowe's, formery of the Chiefs: a permanent fixture for years, productive, reliable - but his body has broken down and his athelticism has gone. It may be worth bringing him in for a look... but I don't think it's wise to expect anything. His NFL career may very well be over.

They have a pretty good record of winning it in Feb as well. 10/10

Put away the games, like scoring to go ahead in the last miniutes only to see the defense give up a late game winning drive leaving no time for a rebuttal drive? Like the Raiders game, like the Giants game, like the Steelers game, like the Redskin game, etc Joe needs to play better and he will with an improved line and run game, he got better as the season went on which was encouraging. Camp doesn't stay healthy and has barely played, as it stands there is no possession WR on this team, I guess Pitta Sorry, our Offense lost most of our games last year. The Defense won more than half of our wins. Look at the scores. We failed to score 20 points 7 different times. The number would be higher if it weren't for garbage time TD's against prevent defense. That doesn't mean we shouldn't draft the best players and stack our defense. Flacco can't consistently win without a dominant defense or a stacked offense. Better to have one than none right? The Raiders game, the Giants game, the Steelers road game - in all three the O put the Ravens in the position where all we needed was the D to stop their O one more time to win - and they failed. And if the Eagles don't go for 2 at the dyiong seconds of the game, the lowly Eagles would have put the game to overtime too. Yep, technically this is still less than "most" of our losses, but it's not true that all the other 5 losses were due purely to the O. I would say the true image was that we had a rather pedestrian O that could seldom rise to the occasion and a very good D with a knack of giving away close games at the very end.

There was not one moment I wished Burfict was a Raven. Not one.

Yep - hugely successful businessmen are notorious for being content with mediocrity...

Well, since there is no prior experience to lean on... It's kinda hard to base any trust on anything... The sad truth about Reynolds is that he got way, way waaaaay more publicity and limelight than his projected role would have indiocated. He was a 6th round pick converterd to a position shich was new to him... and yet, he was dealt with like a first round pick... Of course lots of fans though he'd be something special on the field... only to be disappointed when he was cut (and then resigned to the PS). The truth was that while he is truly a great guy, one to look up to and edmire, on the field he is a totally, wholly unproven WR with no experience in the position. And as soon as all the stardust settled as the season went on, it became quite clear that he would more probably than not, end up being no more than a return guy. That's in no way against him, you see. It's against all that fake limelight he received when he was drafted. That's what shouldn't have happened. Players like Willie Henry who's still projected to become a more substantial player than Reynolds, got a fraction of a fraction of the limelight and publicity... Pierce, who became an impact player from a nondescript UDRFA virtually overnight, got less publicizty than Reynolds in those few months... Sad, but there's your media today: to make a sensation out of anything possible. Even out of a 6th round pick and treat it like the steal of the draft... Instead of not puttiong any unnecessary extra weight on him, and tzreat him like what he was: a project player who could even become a role player one day. I guarantee you Reynolds himself would have preferred that way...

One cannot help wondering... just how hard is it for any fan to grasp the notion that the draft is NOT the last chance to add players to the roster? How hard one must ignore news to miss all the sea of news every single summer that this or that team added new guys to the roster - months AFTER the draft? How removed from reality one must be not to know that a roster is as far from its final, finished version in the first day of May, 4 months before the start of the season, as it can be? Who doesn't know that Steve Smith, Owen Daniels, Jacoby Jones, Vonta Leech were all added to the roster WELL AFTER the draft - just to name a few key late additions? Who worries that all 53 players ending on the Ravens final roster in September, are already on the roster now? Yes, one doesn't have to know the intricate details to be a fan. But we're talking about basics here...

Mr Woodlawn I can't tell you how disappointed I get when I hear the argument that Flacco carried us to the Super Bowl on his back. He surely played well (11 TD, 0 int) Did you watch Peyton Manning's post game interview after the mile high miracle? Reporters asked him why he didn't throw long much of the game. His response? " ... with #20 back there .... had to be careful with pushing the ball downfield ..." The mile high miracle pass was awesome. It was really just short of a Hail Mary pass. That game ended on an int by Corey Graham a defensive player. The AFC championship in New England: we held the Patriots scoreless in the second half. We were down 17-7 at the half and won 27-17. People always down play the incredible play of the defense because of Flacco's offensive out put in that playoff run. With all due respect... In 2012 Manning was no longer in the physical condition to just "push the ball downfield"... As the cold weather set in, he was reported to experience a numbness in the tips of his fingers which admittedly bothered him when throwing more longer than short passes, for example... And I don't think it's even fair to start analyzing if it was the O or the D which took the Ravens to and then won the Super Bowl - it was the combined effort of both. That's what I would say. But there are fans who literally think that Flacco put on his cape and told everybody else "... come ride with me.." That my friend is delirious. Sure, that is quite far from the truth, too.

Ah, I hoped we'd haul in LB Ben Boulware (he signed with the Panters) - wouldn't it have been the perfect throwback to have Siragusa and Boulware back in Baltimore? :D

As far as I can remember, he wasn't really a factor in Tampa Bay...

I saw where he is gonna sign with the 49ers Oh, i see. Thanks for the info.

It was the defense that kept the Patriots at 13 points in the AFC Championship game, with a big goose egg for the entire second half... So yeah, it wasn't a very bad defense...

Mr Woodlawn I can't tell you how disappointed I get when I hear the argument that Flacco carried us to the Super Bowl on his back. He surely played well (11 TD, 0 int) Did you watch Peyton Manning's post game interview after the mile high miracle? Reporters asked him why he didn't throw long much of the game. His response? " ... with #20 back there .... had to be careful with pushing the ball downfield ..." The mile high miracle pass was awesome. It was really just short of a Hail Mary pass. That game ended on an int by Corey Graham a defensive player. The AFC championship in New England: we held the Patriots scoreless in the second half. We were down 17-7 at the half and won 27-17. People always down play the incredible play of the defense because of Flacco's offensive out put in that playoff run. With all due respect... In 2012 Manning was no longer in the physical condition to just "push the ball downfield"... As the cold weather set in, he was reported to experience a numbness in the tips of his fingers which admittedly bothered him when throwing more longer than short passes, for example... And I don't think it's even fair to start analyzing if it was the O or the D which took the Ravens to and then won the Super Bowl - it was the combined effort of both.