TheConquerorWorm

Except they passed on Sammy Watkins and now Josh Gordon is gone for the year.....

1. Torrey Smith 2. Steve Smith 3. Marlon Brown 4. Jacoby Jones 5. Dennis Pitta 6. Owen Daniels You don't think those players are good enough? You think a rookie WR is going to play more than those guys? WR & TE are NOT a need for us to compete this year. Sure, it would be great to get a young guy for the future, but drafting for the future is far from drafting a "desperate" need at WR (See Carolina or NY Jets) or TE.

I don't think they made solid moves. They passed on Sammy Watkins at 4 - that would have made one heck of a WR duo. They selected Gilbert but could have gotten Dennard at 22 and then traded back up to get Carr/Bridgewater/Manziel

Let's see. Ozzie said he tried to trade back - no takers. Maybe the "professionals" knew that Pryor is a SS and Dix would be a bust? You say it's a bad pick but you offer no alternative and think we should draft a player by need. Keep in mind that both Sergio Kindle & Terrence Cody were both "need" picks. So if Dix is a bust, Pryor is a SS and Mosley is a top 10 talent on your board, what do YOU do?

If you think a rookie can come in and play FS then you don't know NFL football (Ed Reed had the most dominating defense in the history of the NFL in front of him). Pryor is probably better suited to play SS, that leaves Ha-Ha, who in my opinion is the OVERRATED Alabama player. Yes, Saban's system puts out players but Mosley was the QB of that defense. Who knows, maybe the Ravens have Ward or another safety rated higher than Dix. Anyway, I'll side with the Ravens FO with a Hall of Fame player and Hall of Fame GM than some guy on the message board (myself included).

Solid pick. Daryl Smith is somewhat a liability against the run and another year older. The Ravens need a tackling machine and now may have two in Mosely & Brown.

To be fair, that was before the re-alignment when the Titans and Jags (Eddie George vs Ray Lewis) were our biggest rivalry.

You overpay him and you make most of his guaranteed money in 2015-2016. If the Browns match, then they may not have enough money to sign their FA like Joe Hayden, Phil Taylor, Jordan Cameron & Josh Gordon.

We just got Steve Smith on basically a 1 year $3.5 deal with an option for more. And quite frankly, we need a slot receiver, Nicks is not that. Plus, Nicks did not want to come to the Ravens - we were not on his list of teams.

Ice Up, Son!

The Browns have more than enough cap room to match any front loaded deal. The key is not to front load the offer but to make most of the guaranteed money come out next year (and the following year) when the Browns will have to try and resign Joe Haden, Phil Taylor, Jordan Cameron and then Josh Gordon

The Ravens could easily give Mack a deal similar to Monroe's. His SALARY CAP number this year is only $3.2 million. The Ravens had $15.6 million. I would guess that The Smiths take up about $5 million of that. The Ravens draft picks will take about $3 million. That leaves about $7 million. Easily enough to get a Mack deal done. The Ravens can free up another $1.6 million when they bring in another punter and release Koch. (That probably won't happen til the end of pre-season) Best part of all this is that the Ravens do not lose any comp draft picks - should still get a 4th for Jones and a 5th for Graham.

Extending Suggs, Resigning Pitta & Monroe already makes this offseason a success.

This year the Ravens will probably get 2 x 4th Round picks (Kruger & Ellerbe) and 2 x 5th Round picks (Cary Williams & Reed). Easy to see why they were willing to give up a 4th & 5th for Monroe. Any Free Agents lost this year will get us picks in next years draft (Assuming we don't sign more free agents than we lose). Based on his contract, Art Jones will probably get us a 4th Round pick next year - that can go up or down a round based on his performance.

To all the Harbaugh/Ozzie naysayers.......say your sorry! Really like this hire and I think Dennison will be groomed to take over once Kubiak leaves for a HC job. Ball so hard!

Rick Dennison would be a good choice. You've seen what his offense did with Arian Foster the past few years. Outside of last year when Schaub completely fell apart, the Texans were one of the top teams in the league. Dennison or Shanahan - I'm good with either of those guys.

Reports that Cam Cameron might be the Browns new OC

Norv Turner & Kubiak want to be Head Coaches again. That will probably happen next year. Why waste all the time & effort of bringing them in, having the offense learn a new system, seeing them leave after next year and doing this all over again? Or maybe they just declined. Kubiak was too busy interviewing for the Bucs and the Lions Head Coaching position.

Not counting the stashed guys in pre-season or the guys during the play-offs, the Pats only had 5 guys go on IR during the regular season.

That's misleading....check the dates. Most teams stash guys on the IR before the season starts.

That's not exactly how it happened. 4 out of the last 6 years of Billick being head coach, the Ravens failed to make the play-offs including 3 years with losing records. Ravens record under Billick 1999 8-8 2000 12-4 Super Bowl 2001 10-6 Lost division round of play-offs 2002 7-9 2003 10-6 Lost wildcard game 2004 9-7 2005 6-10 2006 13-3 Lost division round of play-offs 2007 5-11 Billick was fired because he invested in Kyle Boller. The one year the Ravens went 13-3, we had McNair. What did Billick do the next year, go back to Boller - which is what caused all the strife in the locker room. As a fan, I couldn't take any more of Boller so I can only imagine with how frustrating it was to the other guys on the team.

Both Turner & Kubiak want Head Coaching jobs. Why waste time talking to them, bringing them in for 1 season and then seeing them leave after next year? That makes no sense. And I don't understand why everyone wants Norv but doesn't want Hostetler. Hostetler played QB in Norv Turner's system. Norv recruited Hostetler to help him when he was in Frisco. I would say if there was anyone in the NFL that knows Turner's system, it would be Hostetler. Big deal, the 49ers were terrible and had NOBODY on offense the one year when Hostetler was the coordinator. It was a lame duck job and year - everyone knew Hoss would only be there for a year as the 49ers were looking to make wholesale changes after Norv left. And when did being loyal to friends and an organization become a bad thing? I don't care if Harbaugh hires his dog-walker's dentist as long as he keeps winning. The Ravens have NOT had a LOSING season under Harbaugh. 5 Straight years in the play-off, 3 AFC championship games and a Super Bowl win. C'mon give me a break. Harbaugh is money. So is Ozzie and so is Stevie B. I'll trust their judgement on what this team needs over anybody posting on this site. The moment that the Ravens start listening to their fans to make organizational decisions is the moment when we become the Dallas Cowboys.