OUravensfan

I'm worried about Mixon, Ross and Billings on the Bengals, they are once again loaded on offense. I hope their O line continues to struggle

It's how the draft fell, our defense better be great, I'm excited for it no doubt.

I know I always complain about lack of weapons for our QB on here, I understand how the draft played out in regards to offensive playmakers available when we were drafting, I'm ok with picking the best available defensive player based on us not willing to trade up for an offensive star. This defense needs to be elite, if we can build something similar to what enabled Denver to win the super bowl a few seasons ago we will do well. I'll come back and eat crow (on Reddit I guess? ;( ) if this defense pans out. But, so far (caveat), we have spent the majority of FA and now the draft on the defensive side when we saw severe flaws in our WR depth and O line play, our defense was the better unit last year overall albeit it contributed to losses by breaking down at the worst of times as it has so often without Lewis and Reed. All I can say is it better be great.

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

I'm hoping AJ Green gets fed up and decides he wants to play for Harbaugh lol

I complain a lot about it since I watch both teams every week, but it makes me sick to see the plethora of weapons they surround Dalton with compared to what Joe is given. Until recently he even had dominant lines too, that may be their weak point but you never know what can happen year to year, it's looking like Dalton will be spoiled again while Joe will get blamed for WR and run game incompetence. Could you imagine the media outcry if we drafted Mixon, my god.

How good are Mixon and Ross going to be, it's so infuriating that that team always gets offensive playmakers when they have down years. I wish some other team sacrificed their fake morals before the Bengals did so the guy wasn't in our division.

That's really funny. This still sucks that the boards are closing

Honestly they run the ball 3x after Jones insane catch and they win, total coaching incompetence. And for the record I'm not sounding off about building an elite defense, I'm countering the claim that we really tried to build around our QB, the level of effort our FO put towards that initiative is not even close to many other teams.

For rule #2 thankfully our pro bowl center is gone lol

If not for total coaching incompetence Atlanta would have. The Bengals are competitive with an awful QB because they surround him with endless talent, Dallas was pretty good last year. Still makes me sick the Patriots were handed two Super Bowls based on incompetent coaching from their opposition. If we can have an elite defense I won't complain, but I mean elite, not give up the game winning play after a late minute comeback.

When did we try to build around Joe? Look to Atlanta and Cincinnati to see how you build around a QB. This is BS

Dalton needs all the help he can get

Yea for real, but let's all just forget the offensive playmakers Ben, Brady and Ryan have been surrounded by, pretty stupid to blame one player when shortcomings can easily be explained by contrasting the surrounding cast to these other QBs.

If the defensive picks pan out to a top 3 unit then I'm fine, but it's very annoying to see more weapons added to Dalton's arsenal while their fans complain he has no weapons, then when his weapons start producing for him all the analysts will rank dalton ahead of Flacco. Tired of this joke

Same. I knew the Chargers would get Williams

I'm hoping this is a draft tactic to discourage WR needy/wanting teams from trading ahead of us

Wow, that's awesome. Finally some love from Skip.

And for that to happen we need consistent blocking, better YPA on runs, better WR separation and less drops overall , and not constant turnover with OC and philosophy.

Shutting down the team's official message boards?

That awkward moment for Aiken when he slowly begins to realize his role may be biggest on the team he chastised for limiting his role the previous year. Id take him but he is not the answer, id also take Boldin but he is not the answer either. Mike Williams is the answer IMO

Which I'm ok with, as long as we get Mike Williams, a big-bodied WR that can make Boldin like catches for Flacco, just what he needs. Of course we still have the whole O-line situation, pass rush situation, Orr situation and CB situation..... One things for sure, draft day will be exciting.

Mike Williams would be amazing.

At least if you're wrong there won't be a select subset of this forum's population that trolls him heavily after every mistake he makes in a game blaming every loss on him. Then again, this forum won't be around anyway and I'll miss arguing about Flacco with you Virginia. For the record I'm pretty pumped about Dixon as well and think he could be special, i'm hoping, I'll try to spin this particular violation as a positive and say it keeps his legs fresher for longer / gives someone else on the roster a chance to step up.

Yes, Mike Williams. Enough neglecting Flacco, don't worry though, he'll be long gone , probably another weapon for poor Dalton and we'll draft some DT or LB.