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you can keep telling yourself that if you'd like, but the way you're beating a very dead horse says otherwise. Ray Rice very obviously isnt the wolf in sheep's clothing you keep trying to make him out to be, and anyone with eyes can see that. relevant. just wanted to tl;dr this for you, in case you missed it earlier. browbeating people is easy. Try humanism if you're ready for a new challenge.

go figure what? i dont stand for passive agression, say what you wanna say. Ray Rice's life is very public, Janay Rice clearly has never come to harm in the past as a result of her relationship with her, and aside from all that....you shouldnt run around operating on the assumption that nobody you talk to has access to Rice. You have no idea who i know or hang out with. In case you havent noticed, that's Lardarius Webb in my avatar. You're just a jaded person hell bent on nitpicking extreme outlier possibilities. pretty miserable way to live, but have fun with that i guess...

the likelihood is slim to none. It already took an incredible confluence of unfortunate circumstances (unwanted surprise trip, unwarranted jealousy, alcohol consumption, etc) to lead up to that incident of what is very uncharacteristic behavior from him. Resist the urge to criminalize and let a guy who actually deserves the benefit of the doubt, have it.

that's it.

simple. in order to make a shallow example of him, the NFL already burned their one witch hunt pretending that Rice was a monster rather than a guy who (as rare as this kind of thing is in these situations) made one very uncharacteristic mistake in a blurry situation. Now that they did that, and screwed it up royally with that whole double jeopardy thing, they dont have that card in the deck anymore to use on a guy who seems to really deserve it. to the league's credit, they were at least gonna put him out for 10 games. The players union wrecked that.

ha. that's funny. dont know what he did to get on everybody else's nerves, but hopefully we turn their loss into a gain for us.

Ray RIce should be upset Hardy is playing because Hardy actually IS the guy the NFL and the rest of America tried to pretend Ray Rice was.

what? what are you talking about? how is Joe's contract tied to a bunch of dead money from other players? What "really good" players do we have to cut? we dont have that many of those anymore. Yanda just got an extension. J Smith is in the first year of his new contract. Suggs is signed through 2018. Dumervil si signed through 2017. Web already took an outright pay cut. Mosley, Taliaferro, Allen, Williams, Jernigan, all the TEs are all on rookie contracts. Monroe is signed through 2018 IF we still want him. if we dont, we can cut him and save $2M. Daryl Smith signed through 2017. Every receiver we got is expendable unless Smith Senior decides not to retire, but we have him signed for cheap already. only guy we gotta try and sign is Osemele. He's a guard, they dont cost that much and with Yanda hanging around, he dont have enough leverage to front load his contract. Yanda's 2016 base is 6.2M, Kelechi aint getting more than that. Probably wont get close to that. Who I'm missing? Flacco's cap hit in 2016 is nearly $30 million. when he signs his inevitable extension, it will be significantly less. No more than $20M, most likely somewhere between $14M - $18M. That's at least $8M right there, which is a comfortable amount. I didnt say we would have $20M to spend, i said we would have enough cap space. $20M is just what all those players are costing us right now. But it isnt at all far fetched that we could have that much space, especially after the cap increases to a projected $150M from its current $143M and change. The minimal savings from Joe combined with that increase gives us $15M alone. And i know you dont think everybody on this team right now is staying. Obviously people's cap hits increase as their contracts progress and that will eat into the savings from some of these cuts and contract moves, but it wont evaporate it. We'll have space. so you wont bother to explain it anymore? you havent explained "it" at all. you've yet to make any sense.

no they dont. and besides that, they're being brought into to replace the crappy "weapons" that arent working out for us, so start there obviously. Marlon Brown can go. Darren Wallaer can go. Jeremy Ross can go. Jeremy Butler can go. Raheem mostert can go. You dont need to clear an astronomical amount of cap space either. Who said we had to go buy somebody from the free agent market? Theres a rookie wage scale. The draft is where we always shouldve been building from to begin with. Plus even if you did go after somebody in free agency: after this season, we get $20M or so back from Ray Rice and Ngata and other people who dont play here any more. there will be plenty of cap space. Nobody on that depth chart is so precious that they cant be replaced. Just go pick up some more late round and undrafted kids to handle it. The quality of your depth is always going ot be vastly inferior to you starters, thats WHY they're depth. Anytime you get into a situation where you dig this deep in your depth chart, your season is over, it doesnt matter who yo have. that's a moot point.

unlike the fans, who have noting better to do than sit around at their desk jobs and scour nfl insider sites and social media, John is busy doing things like conducting tryouts, overseeing practice, etc. dude got cut yesterday afternoon, he heard this morning. makes perfect sense. especially since he's not a scout or a GM.

for what???

no. that doesnt even make sense. how did you come up with that from what i said? you asked who we were supposed to cut to make room for new weapons. Over half the guys on the teams are more than suitable candidates.

maybe theirs are. i have actively been predicting this inevitability for years.

Jones was a cap casualty. he's nearly 30 and the packers were bringing in new talent and taking of Nelson and Cobb. he just didnt work out in Oakland as they opted recharge with some younger guys for Derek Carr to work with, and the packers picked him right back up when Nelson went down. James Jones' performance has never been the issue with him, its just economics and his age workign against him. Nicks is differnt. He's only 27, but had a million injuries, tried out for half the league inclduing his old spot where he had the most success and not even they want him. He aint the same guy. cant be.

you think $6M for the lead receiver of a superbowl champion team is overpaying? also dont know if you heard, but they just benched their starting quarterback...for BLaine Gabbert. MIGHT have a little something to do with that...

i sad so many things like this last year, and the year before, and the year prior to boh of those, and pretty much every year for about a decade +/- 2.

there are 53 men on this roster...not even half of them are key playmakers.

hard to have confidence in Nicks, he's getting passed on so often for a reason. dont know how i feel about continuing to bring people in, kind of a moot point. Ravens top 5 receiver? in no order in particulary: Quan, Mase, Smith Senior, Torrey, easily then pick one out of Jackson/Ismail.

ive given up on explaining these things to people. most are pretty determined to not subscribe to reality.

Thats not a criticism on Trestman's creativity. thats a criticsim on the difficulty encountered in finding plays that work for these other targets because of their limited talent.

we brought 90 men to our camp this year just like every other team. we got 8 guys on our practice squad just like every other team. what are you talking about?

if you guys actually paid attention to teams and the plays they run through out the season, you'd think eveveryone was "predictable." if you understand the game, you know there're only so many different things you can do to begin with. Nobody calls 40 unique plays per game every season....

they had 13 seconds left, two backup OLs in the game, and a 5 wide spread of practice squad receivers. you say "live to play the next down," i say "delay the inevitasble." Throwing the ball out of the back of the endzone there doesnt help us win the game, this is the mootest point ever.

the NFL isnt a monolithic skill tier. Many players are far better than others.

does it really even matter?