TheConquerorWorm

Completely false "The Ravens’ Terrance West and Kenneth Dixon combined for only six plays of 20 or more yards" Stats don't lie. Terrance West - 67 Rushes for 1 yard or less Terrance West - 26 Rushes for 2 yards That's 93 of his 193 rushes that went for 2 yards or less..... And only had 19 rushes that gained 10+ yards. Isaiah Crowell, playing behind one of the worst O-lines AND whose offense ran the ball less than the Ravens, had 26 rushes of 10+ yards.

Tired of seeing "West for No gain" or "West for 1 yard". He's a plodding smash against the wall RB. Dixon has some wiggle and some toughness - hoping he takes over the lead back. But the bottom line is none of these guys are on the level of a Zeke or Bell - they're not even on a Thomas Rawls, Spencer Ware level. Let's face it, if you lined up all the RBs in the NFL and picked them, these guys would be at the bottom. Just look at the play-off teams - they are not there because of their secondary or defense, it's because of Ben/Bell/Brown; Ryan/Julio/Freeman; Brady/Edelman/Blount; Rodgers/Montgomery/Jordy.

a meteor to land on gillette stadium....lol

Played like a Raven......

Agree 100%. Onwuasor is a big hitter and a converted Safety - so we know he can cover. My guess is that KC is used in blitz packages and Peanut is used in coverage packages.

Harbaugh's lack of a great network (being a special teams coach and because he has only coached on 2 NFL teams) and the fact that he is fiercely loyal even if at the cost of improvement means he'll promote from within. I think you are failing to consider both his father who is well entrenched and his brother, who is still getting NFL coaching offers, then yes he is limited. But he has already shown he has no problem hiring people who coached for both his brother and his father which opens up a number of quality coaches in the NFL. It doesn't matter, to the naysayers, Harbaugh could have gone to the playoffs 9 years in a row and won a super bowl and some of these so-called Ravens fans would want him fired because he only won one super bowl in 9 tries. Everyone wants to win every year and if the fans had their way, only Bellicek would have a job and 31 other coaching jobs would be terminated for lack of production. Thank goodness the fans don't run things. He has brought in coaches who worked with his father like Greg Mattis and he is where he belongs...in college. He is too loyal to guys who have won nothing. Belichick is the only current coach to win multiple Superbowls. He knows what he's doing and it's not just luck. Harbaugh has not gone to the playoffs in 9 straight years that again would be Belichick. Harbaugh has missed the playoffs 3 out of 4 years. Do you see the difference? My point is that Harbaugh has been given a pass long enough. The talent on this team is good enough to be in the playoffs. I think coaches are supposed be at least as good as the talent they have. Great coaches get more out of their team than the talent allows. C'mon man.....talent on this team? There is no Zeke/Dez/Witten, no Bell/Brown, no Brady/Edelman/Blount, no Julio/Freeman/Coleman. West, Dixon, SSS, Wallace are #2 or #3 guys on those play-off teams. And you're grading a coach against one of the best coaches in the history of league in Belichick. That's like saying Weddle has to go because he's no Ed Reed. Great players raise the players around them so it's Weddle's fault that Wright sucks? We missed the play-offs cause Wright couldn't cover Michael Crabtree and Antonio Brown.

It's an away game. Ravens have it in their lease that they must have 8 home games at M&T.

tell us what you would do?

so if we get another safety/LB how does that make us look any different than the last 4 games if Smith is hurt again. And a #2 rookie CB is not going to stop a # 1, 2 or maybe even 3 nfl WR. Most cases it takes a couple of years to develop as a CB. Unless you are agreeing that no matter what , we must pick up an experienced CB, then I like your plan. But only one LB, we need young T, C and G, even a QB if there is a decent one available to invest in. A 2nd Round CB in this year's draft would be a 1st Rounder in any other draft. Getting a Lewis, Tankersley or Adoree would boost our CB corps tremendously. Add in Peppers playing in the Big Nickel package to cover the Gronk/Eiferts of the NFL and it makes us a whole lot better than last year, even if Smith is hurt. Assuming Canady is improved in his 2nd year and the Secondary looks really good: Smith Young Tankersley (2nd Round) Canady Weddle Webb Peppers (1st Round) Take C Tyler Orlosky in the 3rd and WR Malachi Dupre or Zay Jones with the 3rd Rd Comp pick. 4th Round - take a T like Erik Magnuson or a small school pass rusher like Via Munuma Finally take QB Brady Gustafson in the 5th....

I thing we have in house replacement. No need to waste a first rd there. I think your right. Onwuasor, Patrick, McClellan, Albert, or Louis, Lamar. adding KC to that pool. This year was his first year as ILB. I think the kid is not a bust and will turn out to be a good Raven player. We had Zach as starter only in the last year of his rookie contract. I think ILB is not need. Onwuasor can easily replace Orr. He did it in the last game against Cincy. And he hits HARD. Plus, he's an "alpha dawg, bad boy" that had off-field character issues in college - that means HOF to some on here....

Peanut is more than capable of filling that spot and I think has a higher ceiling than Orr. And he hits HARD. Plus, he's a "bad boy, alpha dawg" with off-field character issues in college - that makes him a HOF player according to some.

It's a product of the 3-4 defense. In the 3-4, the d-linemen 1st responsibility is gap control and control LOS (tying up O-lineman). It's not to get to the QB or generate pressure. That's why we are good against the run but you don't see much penetration - its not their primary responsibility. What that is designed to do is to stop the run with basically 3 lineman and allow 1-on-1 matchups with the OLB. To me, it's there that we have a significant problem. Suggs & Doom were hurt so it's hard to judge them but we need more production from that position, period.

I think LeVeon has been smoking too many of those left hand cigarettes....

Need a WR & DB coach with coaching experience, not a guy that played in the NFL (no matter if he is a HOFer). The reason the Squealers and the Pats always have great WR - look at the resume of their WRs coaches.....

Now get us a WR & DB Coach with a strong resume.....

Did you forget 2014? Yup, quick L, easy to forget. It was like playing musical chairs and being the first one to get eliminated because you lack real talent and a GM that can notice it. They went into Heinz field and beat the Squealers then went into Foxboro and had 2 x 14 point leads. It was only trickery and skirting the rulebook (what they did is now illegal) that the Pansies were able to win that game..... I know, it doesn't fit your troll agenda that Harbaugh & Ozzie suck...SMH

It makes absolutely no sense to assign positions to rounds in the draft. There are to many factors that can't be determined until youre on the board. But if one were to do that, I don't think it makes sense to take three interior lineman in the first 4 rounds. I dont think it makes sense to draft two interior lineman in the first 4 rounds. I am not saying it couldn't happen because of the unpredictability of the draft. If we were to draft G in the second and somehow when we are up in the 3rd and there is another G there that we had a high 2nd round grade on then yea take the guy. But its all situational. We would have to really be in love with a guy (or think the guys is a great value) to take two in the first 4. The best example of that of course is Ben Grubbs, Marshal Yanda. We just have so many other needs this year and you have to diversify those high picks. Another factor obviously is what becomes of JZ. d'onta foreman in the 2nd rd. would be very nice. and we need a big powerful center 3rd Round - C Tyler Orlosky - mean & nasty just like you want your C to be.

Draft QB Brady Gustafson from Montana.....

We had 9 different starting O-line combinations this year. And yes a bad center can wreck an o-line (pressure up the middle destroys any offense) Because Juice is a horrible run blocking FB. Good pass blocking, good at catching out of the backfield. horrible at run blocking (See 4th & Goal vs. Giants or Safety vs Pats) You call the plays based on game situations. 2nd & 3rd and long because of penalties - you don't run the ball. Down by 20 in the 1st Quarter to the Browns, you don't run the ball. Down by 17 to Brady in the 2nd quarter, you don't run the ball. Defense has 9 guys in the box, you don't run the ball. Defense is run blitzing, you don't run the ball. It's not until the game is over that you see the stats. No team runs just one scheme (just like no team plays just a 4-3 or 3-4 defense). We ran plays in a Zone scheme & a Power Scheme.

have to agree flacco is not a top qb. he only average and should be paid as average. wake up, if hes dissatisfied let him test free agency he'll never get close to what hes getting, hes is only one dementional longball and that's not accurate. LOL, Brock Osweiler is getting $18M in FA and Kirk Cousins is probably about to make as much or more than Flacco. If Joe were a FA today, he would get more than what the Ravens are paying him. Exactly. Matt Ryan, Matt Stafford, Derek Carr, Jameis Winston & Marcus Mariota will be FA over the next 2 years. Joe's contract is going to look like a bargain....

We will owe Flacco $47 mil next year (dead money) if we trade him or if we let him go and he decides to sit at home and watch the Ravens on TV. "Guaranteed" money is guaranteed. Even if a player retires they are entitled to any money they were "guaranteed" in their contract. Hell, we let Eugene Monroe go in June of 2016 and next year we will still owe him $4.4 million against the salary cap. I will happily stand corrected if wrong; however, that is what I understand of the cap structure and the concept of dead money. If a player is guaranteed a set amount of money over the life of the contract, the guaranteed money (and only the guaranteed money) is payable when the contract is terminated. Flacco is guaranteed to receive $47 mil over the next 4 years...this is independent of his yearly salary. From a salary cap perspective, yes, those amounts count against the salary cap for the team. But the player doesn't actually get "paid out" those amounts. The salary cap amount and the amount the player gets paid are two different things. For example, Joe's cap hit was $22.55M last season, yet we actually paid him $29M ($25M bonus and $4M salary). In 2017, regardless of whether he is on the roster or not, we will pay him $15M. If he's on the team, he will make $21M. That's not really true either. The entire signing bonus is paid in full the day the player signs the contract (thus the term signing bonus) - the amount is just spread over 5 years for salary cap purposes. Joe's cap hit was $22.55 million in 2016 ($ 4 million salary, $4.75 option bonus, & $13.8 million signing bonus). He got the signing bonus when he signed the contract, so, we actually paid Flacco just $8.75 million for this past season. Next year, we pay Flacco $6 million in salary with a $4.75 million option bonus. Which means Flacco is actually getting paid $10.75 million next year in straight cash, homey. That's why the big contract number ($120 million) doesn't really mean anything - it's the guaranteed money that counts. Flacco actually got less money when he signed his extension ($51 million guaranteed on the original contract, $44 million guaranteed on the extension).

Just media clickbait. The Eagles save very little salary cap space if they cut or trade him. Add in the fact that he was still a highly productive player and there is no reason for the Eagles to move on.

Agree but Eric Berry, LeVeon Bell, Chandler Jones & Kirk Cousins are all expected to get the Franchise tag.

Noah Spence is not that good....5.5 sacks this year - Za'Darius Smith had 6 his rookie year. Didn't look that good on his college game tape either - he would rush the passer and if he couldn't get there or the play went the other way, he just quit.

The only problem is that if you're in the Baltimore area, you don't get the Ravens games with NFL Game Pass (same with the MLB package - no Os). Ridiculous. But I have a digital antennae and get the Ravens over the air. The NFL is way behind us cord cutters. A good work around - if you have a Verizon phone - is a mini hdmi from your phone to TV and use the NFL Mobile app.