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Monroe's value is diminished by his dead money/ cap savings ratio, and Hurst's unacceptable play. A backup to become a future starter at center looks important. First round again loaded with DE/DT/LB - both ILB and OLB. The question is who is the best player available per round with the greatest ROI and four year potential. I'd be real careful climbing the rope when the low hanging fruit is picked. Pick players not contracts. Givens looks good right now. So does Kamar. Gilmore may want to learn how to fall without breaking his shoulder before it's too late. Williams is not the brightest bulb in the pack. Congrats to Joe for a good performance under pressure. Kudos to Ross. Wagner has his moments and Yanda is the best player by far on the team. He's their leader on offense without a doubt. And that's not a knock on Joe. Joe is consumed and understandably with finding openings with this group and this line makeup. Play those corner shots Joe!

The weekly conversation has turned to refs. Even the numbers belie a big change. But if u want to control the outcome it's an easy way to do it. It's a multi billion dollar adventure set with heroes and villains. U make sure u know who is going to win and throw in a gambling league that inspires everyone to become millionaires! What a gimmick. Why cry about it unless you lost your money? It's the sports entertainment business. Add it to the boxing and thoroughbred racing industries and u have the trifecta.

Just to keep sane and healthy looking up some bad draft picks not made by our Ravens. http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/25137781/worst-first-round-nfl-draft-pick-for-each-team-since-1990 So if u think Elam was bad Mark Barron was grabbed in '12 by the Bucs who could have had Luke Kuechly. Then there is the hilarious description of the Jags receiver picks who failed. Of course who can forget Gabbert being picked right before JJ Watt? Falcons overlooked Patrick Willis and Marshawn Lynch in '12. Dolphins passed on Revis in '07 for Ted Ginn. The Bills picked local Maybin from PSU who never reached his expectations having left school for the big return. Horn blowing time: My son actually started at the other OLB position with Aaron in an all star Baltimore metro game back then. Fortunately he decided on grad school and engineering. The list goes on and on like the '95 Eagles passing on Warren Sapp. Take a look and enjoy life a little bit further back from the edge.

The safest thing to do in the draft is secondary and linebacker. They can wait on the interior line. They could replace KO with someone less costly. Defense has to be bolstered. Stock with talent. If they can find a decent WR in the third round they'll be on the right track. And find a business manager to take over the job of Moriarity and DeCosta. There's too much inbreeding and follow the leader.

What is the finer point of putting an otherwise ineligible receiver into the game and casting him as eligible if the refs going to announce it? The secret is out. I suppose if the defense is slow witted maybe it will work. Instead get yourself an actual receiver who can hold onto the ball the way Smith Sr does. When the March Madness craze starts every expert with a blog goes on ad nausea about the eye test for a marginally qualified team. It's another way of polling for possible votes from the sport representatives. So based on last nights performance alone the Ravens do not pass the eyeball test. Not without a new prescription. They fail to get the TD and settle once more for a FG in the first series. Palmer turns around and four plays later the hilariously funny early lead is gone. I will say the defense was in there clawing and scratching. Wagner and Yanda are fighters. But look up the cap space occupied by the likes of Zuttah and Monroe not to mention the two corners still chasing the receiver the next morning. Number one draft pick? I gotta see what they do with it. As for the refs and the league u gotta look closer at the website leagues owned by ESPN, Jerry Jones and Robert Kraft. If they weren't wearing suits I'd say they were crooks.

What amazes me is that some of these guys are getting paid a half a million dollars for under achieving. Never mind Smith's poor tackling. I can almost live with that. And poor Webb. They look like they're in hot pursuit of the ice cream truck. How on earth are they being paid the numbers they get and then the team lives with them because of dead money. Well they won't change the terms of the labor agreement but the ownership needs to take responsibility for the outcomes. You've got football players who apparently decide on how to spend an operating budget of $150 million dollars like they're at Disney World. Get a business consultant already. Change the scope of the jobs they hold. It's no joke thinking Bisciotti's team probably lost a few hundred million in value this season alone.

All signs point to another loss but the Ravens weave their own magic - Caw-Caw 2-5.

I would have picked someone in the secondary one of my first two picks. The top grade receivers were gone.

I thought I'd laugh and see who the Ravens could have picked just last year in the first four rounds. Byron Jones was just one. Quinton Rollins and Karlos Williams a couple more. The '14 draft was the one stacked with wide receivers. I noticed the Bengals picked up Josh Shaw in the fourth round despite the fact they're loaded at corner. Could it be they'be been building for the future instead of like the Ravens who've been trying to recapture the glory days on the cheap. Hey the Saints are in a cap snare too. You may have seen the tweets from a local sports guy on this site. He listed the WR's picked since Torrey was drafted and did the same for corners since Jimmy was drafted. It's eye opening. There never was an attempt to keep the Ravens future in tact. They were focused only on the present season without regard for the cap either. The disservice done by the Ravens media team that never let go of the branding thinking fans would never realize their idols made mistakes. The single biggest stumbling block to the Ravens future outlook is themselves. They're so sure they're right all the time having repeated the '12 season over and over in their heads. The system is the problem. Once they figure out what they should have been doing they can make adjustments. Maybe they will. But organizations are best known for sticking to their culture. It got them here.

Pees prepared for Kaepernick's legs. How else do u explain nine or eleven men at or near the line with no one at least ten yards back? I don't buy that Harbs yelled at the corner on the missed play because whoever set the players positions has got to go. Jimmy? I'd rather have Torrey for the contract number and let all the nay sayers scream about his best asset is getting interfered with. As far as I can tell Kaep had no problem hitting Torrey. Since when is Jimmy Smith Revis?

With all the problems Joe face except for the time Q was a teammate Joe hasn't really had or taken the opportunity to throw much over the middle. Add Dennis to that duo too. It seems from an unenlightened POV that because Joe has the canon arm he is restricted in his advancement as a QB. Everything he does is always phrased with he's got all the throws and his arm is the best in the league. His development has never reached his potential because he has, perhaps, been held back by the coaching schemes to have his long arm do all the work and let the team depend on the running attack and goal line defensive units. That sort of thing worked when Jamal played. Bottom line: Joe does his best with the schemes he's given and that INT directly to the middle of the field had "demoralized" written all over it. As they usta say in Brooklyn, wait til next year.

The Ravens ownership has to look at all the front office personnel. No one is above the team. No one is sacred. As soon as u make someone indispensable you need to erect a statue, shake their hand and wish them good luck in retirement.

Just now on NFL Live congrats to Ravens for resigning Yanda to a 4 yr extension. Meanwhile on the same show for those who still have a sense of humor and can put the game in perspective what do Kapernick, Stefon Diggs, and you guessed it Pernell McPhee have in common. They're all picked to be game changers in their upcoming respective games this weekend. Stefon was a game changer at MD though some poo pooed him here for being too brittle.

They have seven games they should win and a steal or two and suddenly we won't have to read about what the experts in the stands think.

Three calls back vs 64% completion ratio at almost 15 yards per successful pass. And that includes big plays they'd like back? It's their call but it sounds like they're butting their heads against a brick wall. The QB rating of 122 alone sounds like the film room has a different game than the one that was played if they still believe they're doing it right. Hey, good luck and let's play some more like that.

There are a lot of different players being sent in on secondary trying to find the magic answer. That doesn't help. The guys need to know what their players instincts and patterns are so they can adapt from habit. A step off and suddenly you're not defending the ball you're chasing someone up the sideline. And the more Harbaugh scrambles the rotation the worse it gets. Joe is able to spread it out more successfully then the whole defensive team including coaches can.

How did the Ravens get here? Pratt Street. On a similar subject of how the Ravens will get away from here just now on NFL Fantasy Live TV the moderator predicts the Bears are looking to trade Golden Tate. Anyone in Baltimore listening? R U There?

This is the beginning of a Raven return to the winning ways. When almost everyone has jumped off the W wagon onto the L wagon than things will turn the other way. Eleven more games 6 or seven wins is not out of the question. Grabbing 8 would be a long shot from here but anything is possible.

Speaking of Waller's block in the back I never understand what is going through a players head when they do that. The ref is watching the ball carrier so it's the focus of attention. It's like when u shove a guy further when he's already out of bounds. Isn't knowing where u are on the field a precise detail drilled into your mind from the first day you play a sport. You'll never see Steph Curry take a step back out of bounds. Never. And those late hits on the QB? Do they think they're sending a message? As for Babin? If I were a wagerer I'd say he's packing up as we speak. The rest is just sore gums pouring over the same mindless incidentals on a team which is run by a businessman who has no business owning a football franchise.

It's no joke when the Cleveland Browns QB is on the front page of the NY Times! The Times last covered a story of the Browns much less on the front page .... never.

While Harbaugh's math was hypothetically the smart play at 27-22 it turned out it may have in hindsight been a sounder choice to take the easy one point conversion. At 28-22 Pettine's choice to go for two which was successful in fact would have a been a moot choice since the Ravens Tucker later scored three which again hypothetically would have been a final 31-30. Just the way it goes sometimes.

For the last few seasons they played their cards like they could repeat as long as there was tread on a few players from the old days. Even the SB year was that pattern. But u can only do that for so long before literally age catches up to you. I think they should reconsider their draft needs and play for the future not for yesterday. That doesn't mean give up on this year or any game any year. Just be smart about what you're trying to achieve and find a better way to get there.

It's time to figure out how to put together a game plan with the elements you're given. Hasselbeck walks in and has a man standing alone checking his text messages before receiving the TD pass.

Phil Simms on NFL Insider talked about how the Packers, Patriots, Cards and Falcons have avoided QB TO's by virtually eliminating the pass rush. The QB gets rid of the ball quick. They're not always looking for the big gain,but are smartly taking what the defense gives them. Precisely what Brady did last year against the Ravens. Obviously this requires teamwork. But it does also tell us something about the impact on the secondary.

Torrey had 50 receptions for 841 yards and a Ravens rookie TD record with 7.