Alexir

Confused am I.

Hell, 3 million with a crap ton of incentives would be fine with me.

If you can beat 'em, join 'em? 49ers got a lot better and we now have a huge question mark at our number 2 WR spot. 6th? It's better than cutting him but dang, that pick is almost an early 7th. Maybe we can package it to move up in another round? Trying to find the bright side.... If we are trying to stay young, let's sign Ellerbe, Pitta and Dickson. Let Reed walk.

How is he making an effect in the run game? I saw a couple "Big hits" this year but I saw a guy who couldnt tackle too..a guy who every missed tackle would act like he was injured.

Agree to disagree.

I love Ed Reed, I agree, he is one of the best safeties of all time. All good things must come to an end, we can't afford a one dimensional player, especially when we are revamping our inside linebackers. Reed doesn't attack the box on run plays and lead our team in missed tackles with like 15. He isn't worth 5 million. He got his ring, I wish he had retired like Ray.

You need complete players to win, that's why I didn't forget Ed Reed...I just don't know if he is worth the money. He is old, injured and we need to see what our young guys have.

We would still have Haloti and Terrell. Ed is going to want around 5 million and while he is good in coverage, he isn't exactly the ball hawk we had 2-3 years ago and you can tell he is playing injured.

Guys on the team call Omar Brown "Baby Ed Reed"... I would love to see competition between Omar and Christian.

Another option we could go with is keep Boldin, Leach and re-sign McKinnie (or a FA LT) and Pitta (maybe Dickson. I want to keep our whole offense together as much as possible. Let's build the defense up through the draft. Let's look at the needs of defense: DE-NT-DE DE:Art Jones, Pernell Mcphee NT: NEED, Terrance Cody DE: Haloti Ngata, Bryan Hall I think we need an elite NT so we can raise the level of play with guys like Ngata and McPhee. If we have a force at NT, they will get better matchups and be able to excel in run defense AND pass rush. OLB-ILB-ILB-OLB Rush: Suggs, NEED Will: Albert McClellan Mike: Jameel McClain, NEED Sam: Upshaw Ideally we want to draft an ILB. But we have seen these guys play and it would take pressure off of signing Ellerbe to a lot of money. We could get an inside linebacker or OLB in the 2nd, and get depth in the 3rd. CB-S-S-CB CB: Lardarius Webb, Chykie Brown, Asa Jackson FS: Christian Thompson, Omar Brown SS: Bernard Pollard, NEED CB: Corey Graham, Jimmy Smith Yay, Webb will be back! We look pretty solid at Corner. MAYBE add another one in later rounds. Pollard is solid. Free safety is the biggest hole and we will see what we have with Omar and Christian. While I am not saying this is going to be the best defense for us, it let's us have the cap space to put forward the best offense. As many of you might now, I am a huge fan of defense. I love defense. But I think it would be best at this point, to put the money in the offense so they can stay consistent while we replace Ray, Reed, Ellerbe (in this option), Cary, Ma'ake and Kruger. Again, I trust the front office, but this is something that could help us keep the guys we want (with exception of Ellerbe).

I don't know if I'd put Boldin ahead of Boldin there at number 4... Or vice versa, that's a tough one

Basically, we need to re-sign McKinnie and Pitta.

He would get at least 5 million, he isn't worth 5 million. Boldin > Reed. I want to keep that offense together as much as possible.

Well everyone sent that at the same time....

His cap number is like 7.5 million, actual salary is 6 million. So we would save 6 million I believe. Like I've said before, don't pursue Reed and see if you can restructure either Ngata or Suggs.

Ok, I'm sorry but 7 Million dollars has nothing to do with "this is what happens". It has to do with the large amount of money that we are giving Suggs and Ngata. Not saying they deserve it or not, but a QB making 7 million this year is awesome and clearly not the issue.

Gonna break the Bart Scott record

Joe Flacco also has to target him. Q makes his living attacking the middle of the field, Cam didn't understand this fully.

Prior to the playoffs, Joe under performed as a 5 year veteran. A lot has to do with the offensive line and play calling as you can see that Joe and Q were on fire in the playoffs. Torrey is the true number 1 on the team hence the double teams.

True. Just spit balling, trying to see what we could do instead of cutting the catfish. To this team: Boldin > Reed Boldin > Ellerbe (a guest of Harbaugh's doghouse) Boldin=McKinnie (a guest of Harbaugh's doghouse) Ellerbe is good but I don't know if he is worth the loot we will be forced to give him. I am hearing the Eagles want him really bad. Boldin would be the better priority. As for Big Mac, why pay a QB 120 million dollars if you are going to put turnstile Oher at LT to have him taking hits and not performing to the best of his ability. Either Gabe or Arnie, did a thread about how going for Terron Armstead at 32 might be a great idea. If we can get McKinnie for a year to have Terron play behind, that might be the best option.

Him or Graham for sure.

They are still talking.

Call up Mason?

http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/baltimore-ravens/cap-hit/ Here are the Cap hits for the Ravens. Nothing against Haloti, but instead of cutting Boldin, why don't we try restructuring Ngata's contract? Why don't we save a million by cutting Ayanbedjo or Cody? Michael Oher is getting paid 3.5 million this year, where this draft has the deepest level of offensive tackles. Should we look to move him before he is a free agent next year? Just food for though, I get that the older guy goes. I do. I just don't see us doing well with out that possession guy and Reed/Doss are not the option.

Flacco gets the house, kids, dog, cars, bank account. Boldin gets a crappy studio apartment with a fridge with a six pack of Schiltz beer after a hard days work. This divorce is getting ugly.