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One can only hope. Its an awesome opportunity to grab some real top tier talent on the offensive side of the ball for once and finally actually stabilize our offense for a while to come if Breshad pans out as well. For the next 5 years at least we'd have a franchise QB, two outside weapons, at least one elite offensive lineman and a decent RB or two; we'd finally have the foundation of a great offense and wouldnt have to worry about it being traded, retiring, or hitting free agency at the end of every season. We can actually be dangerous, maybe claim some division titles and a bye or two in the playoffs. sidenote: i like the new comments UI.

Daniel Brown only has 6 nfl catches to his name for 64 yards. Chris Matthews only has 13 for 151. Neither of these dudes stat sheets even appears on the first page of their google results.... Givens no less than tripled both of these dudes' output this season and the career resumes are not even close. Your post doesnt make any sense. "Nevermind all these circumstances beyond his control and bad players he's dependent on to perform. Facts and reality are overrated anyway. he should still be good regardless. I'm not gonna hold the scrubs below him on the depth chart to the same standard though" yeah....compelling argument if i've ever seen one. By the way: despite our patchwork O line, mediocre receivers, and revolving door of backup quarterbacks, the The Ravens actually posted the lowest team drop percentage in the league in 2015 at 2.2%. They own the second least amount of team drops at 15. Seattle only had 12. http://www.sportingcharts.com/nfl/stats/team-receiver-drops-percentage/2015/ if youd like to see who owns each of our 15 drops look here: http://www.sportingcharts.com/nfl/stats/drops/2015/ spoiler alert: Givens only has 1.

no actually Wade Phillips has the recipe to beat Belichick. And its the same one Rex and Pees already use.

you have it backwards. he cant be a player and a coach at the same time.... he never got released. his contract ran out, there were negotiations, he chose a more lucrative deal with Houston in free agency... ...dont even know what you're talking about here, sounds like you're making things up... as a player. His career as a player was rightfully at an end. Nobody shouldve been signing him... defined "passed up on him." Nobody in their right mind was going to make Ed Reed a DC when he has zero coaching experience, so thats a moot point, you dont make any sense. no he wouldnt. And he doesnt have to be on the roster to mentor people... half of this is fairytales, and the other half is irrelecant nonsensical banter from an enthusiastic fan who is having trouble coming to terms with the reality that Ed Reed's days as an elite or even servicable player have long been over, so outside of how active your imagination is: it tells me nothing.

i dont need to google coverage schemes...im quite well read and way better at football than you, i promise. That's why i know you're contradicting yourself and making even less sense than you did before. Catching passes over the middle is about timing, windows come and go fast. So if he's supposedly so bad against the press and cant get open then again: WHY would you choose that guy to run into the part of the field with the most defenders in it? Antonio Brown plays all over the formation because he's extremely versatile, a matchup nightmare, and the best player on their team. Its in their best interest to put the ball in his hands and moving him around is one way to create more opportunities to do that in addition to making their offense harder to predict. they put him in the slot when they need a play or want to expoloit a matchup against an inside guy or force an outside guy who's usually tough but not very good at slot play (like Richard Sherman) into the slot. Its called attacking the holes in the defense. Snead's their slot guy most of the time. Cooks is their playmaker, they use him the same way the Steelers use Brown. and Brown and Cooks are actually functional slot receivers...Givens is not. Not sure what point you think you're making by comparing Givens to a bunch of guys with skillsets different from his. None of this has anything to do with you trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. obtuse and facetious hyperbole isn't going to make your point either.

just think what he might do if we get him a competent and consistent offense like those other three ALWAYS have

i have questions: 1) what is this obsession you people have with receviers going across the middle? 2) do you not realize that every receiver cant be in the middle? Chris Givens is an outside receiver that usually only lined up on 3 wide sets. if he's "going across the middle" then where, pray tell, are the tight end, running back, and slot receiver supposed to go? yall dont make any sense. why would you waste speed like Givens' by sending him into traffic where he has little shot of getting open no matter where he goes? you cant outrun anybody in the middle of the field, thats where ALL the defenders are. 3) Where do you people get this stuff from anyway? Chris Givens' splits: http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/splits/_/id/15078/chris-givens of his meager 19 receptions with the team: 3 right side 2 middle 1 left side 2 behind the line of scrimmage 8 left sideline. (deep shots...which, as Matt Schaub seems to have trouble learning, you dont take down the middle of the field because thats a surefire recipe for a pick.) of course, the locations of his receptions (read SUCCESSFUL targets) and the locations of his (overall) targets are two different things. But again...its a moot point because if we run every receier through the middle every down, we'd never move the ball. thats not how football works. There's a number of decent arguments you can make both for and against resigning him, but this is not one of them.

his rookie season was only 3 years ago....

this is fan fiction. can we not stir up this kind of non sense again?

Most natural born legends arent. His un-coached (and consequently unpredictable) approach to the position is what made him dangerous. Plus, coachability isnt much of an issue anymore when you're supposed to be the coach.

its fallacious to frame the Bengals behavior as a mere reaction. The talk is all about the Bengals because they (particularly Burfict) have demonstrated such behavior unprovoked before. All this stems from the game in November when (you guessed it) Burfict knocked out Bell. Steelers felt then that the Bengals were playing dirty. If anything, you'd have to call the Shazier hit a 2 month delayed response to the Bengals antics. The refs weren't policing, Marvin isnt controlling his players...everybody left it all up to the Steelers players to stand up for themselves and they did. c'est la vie. anyway: im done defending steelers and bengals, this is nauseating lol.

Given that he has no history of law trouble and there's nothing about the NFL that prevents him from being a career criminal (see Aaron Hernandez): that's a very asinine and prejudiced presumption.

cant believe there are still people to this day, mad that we didnt get Burfict. he's more trouble than he's worth.

Not the same thing at all. first off: JJ didnt go for Ward's head. second: Ward was actually the intended receiver. It was a screen pass. JJ's hit served a purpose. Maxx wasn't even in that play. Burfict's hit was gratuitous.

Step 1: find somebody for Joe to throw to.

for what? and he's only making $5M next year.

good decision. We need help back there he plays in the slot all the time anyway Safety coverage will be be less demanding on his body after so many years of fans trying to put him at safety, that move finally makes sense now

1) Webb has already taken some serious pay cuts 2) Nickel corner is not just the 3rd best guy in your secondary in 2015. its harder to defend than the outside because you have no sideline to help you, and many teams put their best receiver in the slot in situations where they need plays. Webb is in the slot because he's the most versatile DB we have. 3) Webb's also playing some safety. There's no doubt Webb isnt quite the same guy he was before all the ACL tears, he's still important to the defense.

I'd like to see us spend it on another Receiver. Maybe an OL, Left Tackle specifically, but definitely prefer a receiver. With Maxx and Boyle combining with Gilmore, we have an awesome set of tight ends, a literal stable of RBs, a good transition playmaker receiver with Smith Senior returning, Receiver and O line are the only spots we got questions about the future at. This is our chance to put our offense in position to be on par with Pittsburgh and Cinci. We do need some DB and LB help too, but We've always been able to turn out useful players at those positions from later round picks or people who werent drafted at all, receiver is our weak spot. Picking high doesnt guarantee a playmaker, but the odds of finding one are significantly higher when you do pick near the top, and receiver is the position we need that higher probability at the most.

Unless you draft somebody and they turn out to be really dope in training camp, Mallet has to be the backup. Going back to Schaub doesnt make sense. He's shown us he's still the same guy from Houston. Quality of weapons aside (i know what he was working with), he's still gonna cost us more than help us. Clausen is just not as good.

thumbs down on that fan design. The all black looks ok, but way to much white in those other ones. Plus: there's supposed to be a THIRD Pant color, we already got black and white covered.

Nobody ever said Aiken wasnt good. He's just not good enough to lead a passing attack. and came along a little too slowly to help us out in the end. We needed him to be good last year.

good. best use of the rest of the season. Put these guys with all this "Potential" in some real games, see who can actually deliver, and get rid of the rest so we know what we need next offseason and dont go into 2016 hoping that a band of middling (at best) talent is going to magically step up and help us win after not doing so for however many years.

Well thats not surprising. Most of the guys that deserve a nod are on IR, and since we're awful this season, our popularity has dropped which hurts the exposure for guys like Brandon, Koch, and Yanda who play low profile positions in the first place.

he was never a "star," he just had a good day. Hasnt been heard from since