dirtybird10

I think it's more the fast and bad hands aspect. Hopefully we will find that is all hearsay and he comes to camp a well rounded receiver that we can rely on not to stall a drive. As someone else posted earlier, it does look like he snatches the ball, and does not let it hit his chest. I have yet to see him really high point a ball yet, but from the highlights (take them with a grain of salt) he always caught it away from his body.

Perriman and Marlon Brown in Redzone packages should be pretty nice.

Be interested to see what happens here, but what did Bount run for? 150 yards and 3 td's? Probably wouldn't have made much of a difference, Colts laid a big egg in the Championship game. What stings the most is that we could have been there.

always good to have options, I'll be happy to see us give Mcclain another shot, he just better be willing to put in the work and act like a human being if he wants any shot at coming back.

I don't understand this Bama/Ozzie, thing. Over the last 10 years I can only think of 3 Alabama players we have drafted and none of them were in the first round. We drafted Upshaw in 2012 in the second, Cody in 2010 in the second as well, then I think the next was LeRon McClain in the fourth round of the 2007 draft. Why do people keep saying he will never learn and keeps drafting Alabama guys? In the last 5 years he has drafted two guys in the second round from Alabama. Doesn't seem like the biggest pattern in the world.

I'm afraid your right, unless we are just willing to get it done like we did with Joe, we will have no choice.

Yup, that would suck, but at least with the cap increasing that much, most of that would be freed up from the cap increase alone. Hopefully even if we tagged him we could lock him up with a nice 8-10 mil deal that can work for both sides.

Yea unless we are willing to pay Monroe $10 mil per year. Maybe with the additional cap this year we might be more willing to lock down the LT position. Its more than I want to spend, but it probably is the most important piece on our team right now. Any idea what the Tag hit for him would be?

Just saw on nfl.com that the Dolphins are very interested in Monroe. That does not bode well for the Ravens sadly, as I can't see us getting into a bidding war with them. http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000329319/article/dolphins-reportedly-very-much-like-eugene-monroe

I would love to grab Gresham if he were available, but I still find it hard to believe the Bengals are going to let him go. Are they in bad cap trouble?

Yea that would be awesome if we could lock up Arthur Jones too. Really it would help us to do that, as we would have more flexibility with Ngata next year. If we were to cut him, we still have to find more quality D line help. Having Jones would certainly ease the pain of cutting him, not to mention give us a little more leverage if Ngata is willing to take a lower salary or be extended.

That would be cool, although it probably will just mean the people we sign will cost more, because other teams have more to spend and compete with our offers. Good news none the less, ans the Cap should certainly go up because we know revenues are certainly not declining.

No doubt, Pitta is no Jimmy Graham. However, this is also just negotiations. His agent is going to try and get him paid, it doesn't mean that is what he will get. Shoot for the moon and settle in the middle. That is hopefully what will happen. I can't see us over paying for Pitta. We probably won't get a discount, but if we sign him, it will be a fair deal for a good, solid tight end in his prime.

Yup, we made the deal, we live with the consequences. The Ravens have literally 0 leverage on Haloti right now. Cutting him hurts us, I doubt we want to extend him right now, and he doesn't have to budge. Next year will be a different story, and maybe he will be willing to do something then.

I doubt Pitta will be "giving" anything. He has been paid as a late 3rd rounder up to this point. This is his first and possibly only shot to make a big deal. Suggs' deal does not benefit the Ravens anymore than it benefits Suggs, however, he already got his big payday. You cannot expect Pitta to leave much money on the table just for the sake of the Ravens. He is going to want to get paid.