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Offense, defense have your say. Gary Kubiak won that game. Period. Yes of course Von Miller. The names on both lines were like a Who's Who of the recent drafts. So when someone mentions Brandon I have to wonder without second guessing Ozzie why hasn't our defense looked quite like this one? The sort of dominance and physicality the Broncos showed with few penalties was not so much amazing as surprising. As the clock dwindled down I kept waiting to see the All Mighty Yellow Flag thrown on Denver to give Brady a reprise. They just kept churning out the plays even after a late drive. That's teamwork. That's coaching. That's desire. Can they repeat against the Panther's? I wouldn't bet on it. But it could be the best swan song Peyton will ever get. When I think about the way the Baltimore defense has looked stats don't mean a thing. When the other QB throws do u feel the end of the world is coming? When Brady threw it wasn't the same dynamics we're so accustomed to. Both QB's must have thrown more ground balls and one hoppers and out of bounds passes than any other combo before. I'd like to see that type of defense back here in Baltimore. But balance wins not one of the other. Of all the names the two that stuck in my head were Brady Roby and Cody Latimer. Big Ten players. Late first and late second round picks. Adrian Branch, Malcolm Brown,Jamie Collins, Hightower, Malcolm Butler, Ty Sambrailo, FA's Evan Mathis, Owen Daniels and Darian Stewart. Contributors. Not just big name playmakers.

To keep or not to keep Givens is another way of asking what is the drafting strategy going forward. The falling off of the draft results over the last seven or eight seasons reflects a change in personnel policy. I don't believe that's Ozzie's input. Things took a bit of a turn whether different voices had more power, or simply the turnover in coaching or scouting diluted the formula. There's also a lack of a strategy in terms of the team identity. To even be discussing Givens like the '16 season depends on him, or on Campo is ridiculous. Treadwell? I can't imagine an easier decision in Florida than the one where everyone said not after last year. And not before we get Perriman on the field in a game getting balls from Joe. The first thing they do is figure out if they can keep KO after Joe's contract is renegotiated. Then they can figure where they get an offensive lineman because Hurst is not the answer. Then they need corner. An OLB for the future even if Za' played well. They're not getting younger out there. A DE. This is all obvious. I just hope Oz gets back to the way he used to run the show and the rest of them settle down.

If Ramsey is gone they can consider trading down as far as the Rams or pick a DE/OLB.

This article sounds like they're not really looking to grab Ramsey were he available and they don't have to take Hargreaves because he's not a six on the mocks so far. Easily can wait for a Mackensie Alexander or maybe Kyle Fuller in the second. Brings up the story about there's no play maker at six so trading back with the Rams while picking up their second round pick has merit. There's any number of pass rushers available at fifteen plus the second round opens up possibilities for a WR or OT or whatever on top of whoever u choose with your number 36 like Alexander who looked good in the playoffs until a game ending injury. Just a thought.

CSN's mock 3 has Lawson who in the championship game played with a minor injury but he's gutsy. But their mock also had Bosa to Cleveland, and before the Ravens they assigned Buckner, Stanley and Ramsey. All the regular early picks on the popularity polls. Meanwhile Walter Football has some insight from unnamed sources that Ramsey is over rated as a cover so as a CB he's not a top pick.With Webb in the backfield with less stress on his physicality I am guessing the contract he has and the view of the head coach will not be voting for a corner. The view from sports pages all season long has been they lack the pass rush with the absence of Suggs. Well he's back but now they suddenly think he may not be up to the task. I think they need a starter. Darn if Shazier didn't get better. I'm glad they'll pick ahead of the Steelers. Those bums almost got to Foxboro but that senior citizen in Denver held it together. Thanks Fitz!

According to Hensley Ed wasn't coachable! That's so funny it's a shame to even put that in print. It must have been tough to be overshadowed by the future HOF for a lot of coaches.

Ed Reed moves onto Rex's Bills as assistant defensive back coach.

They let Darian Stewart go and they pick up Lewis and Arrington. Even on this site let alone RSR the production from Lewis and Arrington has been unsatisfactory. And Stewart is the leader for the Broncos secondary. Someone keeps making the same mistakes on talent.

It's unfortunate they contracted an average starting LT at the market rate for a superior LT. In retrospect had they put KO there when the need opened they could have saved themselves cap space.

Highlight of the Cincy game was DeCastro shoving Burfict into the end zone. Minor interest in seeing x-Ravens John Simon, Jah Reid (starting guard and sometimes shifting to tackle), and Fitzgerald Toussaint throughout the day. I was surprised how easily the Steelers ran on Cincy. While stats can be tossed around and misused to prove an invalid point there have been loads of stories documenting the evidence about the Ravens production this year. Bring in Ken Burns for this show! Anywho not surprisingly the blogs are filled to capacity with memories of the secondary tripping over their heels and three stooging it up trying to bring down AJ Green. Then the presser fulfills my expectations that all is right in the Castle after a late season surge in stats for the defense. That volley is met with reasons not limited to the level of QB they faced - Wilson and Smith notwithstanding. Be that as it may I felt it was a lost cause to prove much and going with the W-L columns was proof positive for Parcells so why quibble. Then staring at me on ESPN smack dab on the Raven%u2019s page are the stats for points for and against for the division. I thought it gave another perspective to the argument that they were inches from going to the playoffs and laying to rest the dreaded injury curse. Two teams in the playoffs have subs at QB. Houston has used four QB's quietly tying the Ravens season record. Back to the stats the Ravens are how shall I say humbled by the numbers for points for and agin'. About 100 points on both ends. They scored about a century fewer points and gave up about a Benjamin's more over the course of the season. That's a 200 point spread. I've heard Ozzie speak of things like how many receivers they want and Joe campaigning for offensive weapons like he's going to work at Lockheed-Martin%u2019s Skunkworks. If they want fans to believe they'll do more than "find" someone in the sixth round they believe has promise akin to sixth rounder Antonio Brown than they need to be forthright and come up with someone whose skills are adequately demonstrated in college by more than a pair of fingers crossed. I can overlook the first round for a pass rusher. But things start to slip fast after the second. BTW I disliked to a greater degree watching three quarters of the Cincy-Steeler's game than I would have enjoyed watching the Ravens trounce them. There was some virtue in Marvin and his cast falling short again. But not much. There's something stinky in Pittsburgh and it's not the smelting of steel.

You cut the bum when it costs u the least - after June 1. You back up your bet first by drafting Ronnie Stanley or Taylor Decker. The downside is if u think your team evaluates an OLB like Floyd or a DE like Buckner or a corner/safety like Ramsey or Alexander even more. Leave it up to the big boys who carry the weight and bring home the millions to figure this out.

A reason for creating the ultra high contract numbers is it inflates the value of the team on paper much the way equity in a corporation does that. Another more important reason is contracts generate interest simply because the numbers themselves are astronomical. The entertainment industry creates its own headlines. If fans thought their players made average wages they might not bother pay hundreds of dollars a year to see them in person, buy their jerseys and generally participate in hero worship. You're not in Kansas anymore........

Eight points is misleading. Key words: spectacular catch; pass interference; play reversed; tightly contested; diving interception. The Ravens unfortunately were on the wrong side of those plays. As Clifton Brown of CSN Baltimore said the positions of need are less important than getting a playmaker - a difference maker in the draft.

There are only two tackles in the draft ranked first rounders. Tunsil is out of the question. Stanley is a long shot regardless of the outcome on Sunday against the Bengals who may have to call in a favor from the Ravens to find a QB- lol. But two tackles who've garnered attention are MSU's Conklin and OSU's Decker who are potential round two picks Contract talk is premature but they made up their minds a long time ago that Jimmy is their man. KO appears gone but IMHO so is Monroe. I'll guess that it may be very hard to hold onto KO even if the stars aligned and Eugene were jettisoned after June 1. As far as I can tell they'd save substantially on dead money, over six million. That would open up possibilities but with all the PR for KO including this video on the page of the pancake he still had a negative PFF. For what it's worth they'd be better off sending KO on his way. From the moment he arrived fans around here predicted overnight Pro Bowler. He's good but with all their needs including the need to be cap space friendly u let him go for a big boy from the Big Ten. Besides Jensen has that same crazy look in his eye that Yanda does. U gotta make room for receivers and corners who become available in FA. They need someone who can play a role for a year or step in right away for Suggs in the first. Too many guys like Hargreaves have come and gone and never really mattered. Wait til the third for a gem corner.

Hekker should be embarrassed to be out there.

Paying Monroe his base alone under circumstances similar to this season or the last two when he didn't suit up for seventeen games is no better than dead money. It's dead player walking if u will. The post June 1 cut suggestion is certainly doable if u can use the cap savings towards someone else. I can live with 2.2 million in dead because suggesting paying millions to Monroe is ludicrous.

Potential picks around eight are nothing to sneeze at:

Emmanuel Ogbah, DE, Oklahoma State

Ronnie Stanley, OT, Notre Dame - I can't see the franchise going this way but I think it's a winner!!

A'Shawn Robinson, DE/DT, Alabama

Jaylon Smith, LB, Notre Dame

Jalen Ramsey, S/CB, Florida State - can still be on the board

Loved that after the play bravado from Buck. Look at how Jimmy came back. Is this the real Jimmy? I sure hope so. Jerrnigan in on tackles taking names. Juice. Givens won't go down on the play called back to where he was downed! It was great. Mathews up in the air in the EZ! When was the last time a Ravens receiver leaped up for a handful of football for a score like that?  Somehow this is the Ravens and the past few months was just a bad dream.

The organization may have taken a different cue with the duty of managing the everyday team assignments crossing over into the roles of drafting and contracting. I don't think Oz has lost a step that other managers never even had.

Fourth and nine at the Baltimore seventeen always, always, and let me emphasize this again with big always fake punt. As the announcer said Koch needed to run 21 yards because he's backed up a dozen to punt. Odds of a successful outcome? Sample size too small to calculate with any accuracy. You call that aggressive? Hmmm.

Stop the PR hurricane with KO already. First u don't have enough money for his new contract after Marshall got his and now u want us to believe u do. Clear the cap space and get a first round LT like Tunsil. Mocks have Tunsil going to Tennessee and moving Lewan to the right. An unlikely double down. If the Ravens remain at number four in the draft they need to protect Bisciotti's QB. If Joe can score and he's proven he can with sub par receivers and good runners why wouldn't u want to protect his blind side? You improve the secondary and make it cap friendly and find a Byron Jones, Ronald Darby, Mathieu someone with guts who plays smart, fast and angry. You don't have to pick another Gator just because the need is glaring. KO is not as good at guard as Marshall is at Tackle. I would not want to pay him and expect Marshall to forget about it. There's no one on the current roster who can step in at LT. If u start the leaf blower publicity windmill and float Ryan Jensen or John Urschel u'll have a repeat year. Let Bosa go somewhere else. Is he Kalil Mack? I don't think so. Is Hargreaves ready to be a shut down corner. Right now u need to protect the pocket.

The website home page of Steve Sr. and Jr. in "Toyland" is the best picture of the year. Thank you!

Pro Football Focus: "Smith has a negative cumulative coverage grade this season, having allowed 62 percent of passes to be caught, six touchdowns surrendered, and a QB rating when targeted of 102. On the other side, Webb also has a negative coverage grade and is giving up 66 percent of targets to be caught, seven touchdowns surrendered, and a QB rating of 113.7. The Ravens need to re-tool the secondary."

Last week Wright was rated much higher than the contract committments for Webb and Smith who ranked in the 50's. If a top tier free agent in the top ten can command big bucks and you're paying your corners like u r than u need to address that situation and stop the bleeding. The longer u continue to pay for something and get little return on investment the worse your long term returns are going to be. It's not something u need Urschel to explain to the finance arm of the team.

As much as KO came in with the fan crazed description of beast he's ordinary at best. He excels at times and gets his job done most of the time but he's not a top tier guard or tackle. He's replaceable. Why make the same mistake u made with Monroe albeit KO has a better reputation for showing up. Rip the band-aid now.

Let these three go and u clear up several million in free agency money. So u don't get three players in return. But what do u get if u keep them? The money is accounted for regardless so get something for it. Reminds me of accountancy theory where u own a piece of bankrupt corporation. Or at least one facing chapter 11. You hold onto it because u fell in love with the dream. Accountants will tell u to dump it and take the money and find something better. NO u won't have the seven million right away. But u might get someone who shows up and fits in. What you're doing now is not working. And stop the injury tears. For goodness sake it's a violent game. Stop reporting the excuses. You either win or lose on the field.

Staying fixed to a man on man coverage sounds too inflexible. Zone basketball works best against certain plays if I follow what retired UConn head coach Jim Calhoun has to say about it. Given those ingredients if followed strictly u need a combination of ball players who are alert to the change up and a scheme which gives them that latitude. Of course u don't want to miss a man who breaks out uncovered. In other words there is always a defensive maneuver to protect your side flank as well as proposed deterrents in the event of a change in plans. I'm not addressing the pros and cons of man vs zone. I'll leave that to experts. But the addition of play making athletes who know the game well, who communicate, who get themselves in the right position and who play physically hard appears to be something they can work on. I'm not convinced they have the top flight players at this point. Nor am I convinced they are flexible in their planning to address the changes during a game. But when u define a system that is not capable of change on the fly u will leave yourself open to the offense which can basically fool you. If that weren't the case changing the defensive "look" before the hike wouldn't be a problem for inexperienced QB's. In any event they need both strong armed players with speed and brains. What we used to call someone who is a natural athlete. Someone like a Melo Trimble. But I respect the opinion of all. It takes more than coach speak to fix these issues.

Basketball players pick up the man on the switch. But that's another story. Video of Patrick Peterson up on Stefon Diggs http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-highlights/0ap3000000598848/Patrick-Peterson-vs-Stefon-Diggsshows how he dogged Diggs all game long. He used to his hands and never feet and never had to grab a jersey or cling onto him.