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"General Manager Ozzie Newsome’s decision not to use one of his seven draft picks on a receiver is a sign that the team has high hopes for Campanaro and Moore. “The Ravens will still add a receiver at some point before the regular season. However, they clearly believe that Campanaro and Moore are ready to become bigger pieces on offense,” Zrebiec wrote."

I sure as hell hope so, because I would LOVE to see that this team has gotten the monkey off its back as far as WR depth is concerned.

"Bowser was Baltimore's best pick"

Way too many Super Mario jokes to be had from now on.

Admittedly Humphrey wasn't my first choice, but since the others I was hoping for got taken already, I can't complain. Now that should hopefully be the end of our CB questions, at least for the moment.

The suspense is too much and we only have 6 hours to go. Personally, Corey Davis, Mike Williams or Derek Barnett would be cool picks with me.

I'm still sold on taking either a WR or a D-lineman because we desperately need both in case the other guys we have don't cut it.

I'd be quite happy with either a WR or good pass rusher for our first pick, at this point.

I just noticed the Steelers have 4 straight primetime games in the 2nd half of the season. I've never seen that before, not even the Pats have back-to-back primetime games.

On the plus side WE GOT A HOME MONDAY NIGHT GAME!!!!

In regards to Flacco and Wallace, in terms of wide receivers we have 8, which on paper sounds terrific. The problem is only a fraction of them have shown enough offensive production to be considered good weapons, them being Wallace himself and Perriman. Campanaro is decent but he's played in a total of 11 games in his 3 years here and only notched 2 TDs. Chris Moore has had a couple good catches but his only TDs were on special teams. Chris Matthews has only scored once in his entire career. Vince Mayle is on his 3rd team in 2 years. And both Kenny Bell and Keenan Reynolds haven't done anything.

Now it's entirely possible that one of those guys might be the diamond in the rough we're looking for, and that's the scenario we all want to happen. It's not a guarantee which is why picking a WR in the draft is more than necessary.

5 minutes ago, axisofeeble said:

"IF POSSIBLE" can Ozzie trade Flacco,our 16th pick for Brown's #1! picks,then sign Kapernick or even Cutler as stopgap till next year's QB rich draft? #1 PASS RUSHER,CB at 33?

Yeah sure. Let's trade away our highly paid QB for a one-year deal with someone else and then start from scratch the following year with QBs who may or may not be what we expect, and all with an immense cap hit.

Smart.

Skip Bayless actually praising Flacco? Maybe we are living in the end times.

It's kinda sad hearing that Art Jones didn't pan out the way the Colts were hoping he would.

Much as I liked Aiken and thought he did well in 2015 when we had no one else, there's still a reason for why he's now on his 5th team since 2011.

Yes, please cut out the commercial switches after every single change of possession.

Guess we'll be drafting a wideout when the draft starts, huh.

Seems like Brandon Carr will be wearing purple and black instead this year.

He never played a full 16-game season and has only 4 INTs for his career. Not a good look IMO.

54 minutes ago, billiejean said:

How would you rank these 2013 draft classes

Pitt
1 Jarvis Jones
2 Leveon Bell
3 Markus Wheaton
4 Shamarko Thomas
4 Landry Jones
5 Terry Hawthrone
6 Justin Brown
6 Vince Williams
7 Nick Williams

Denver
1 Sylvester Williams
2 Montee Ball
3 Kayvon Webster
5 Quanterus Smith
6 Vinston Painter
7 Zac Dysert

New England
2 Jaimie Collins
2 Aaron Dobson
3 Logan Ryan
3 Duron Harmon
4 Josh Boyce
7 Michael Buchanan
7 Steve Beauhrnais

Ravens
1 Elam
2 Brown
3 B. Will
4 Simon
4 Juice
5 R Wagner
6 Kapron Lewis Moore
7 Aaron Mellette
7 Marc Anthony
 

Really, look at all the players in the draft that year and count how many showed some good production. Even the Seahawks don't have any picks from that draft left on their roster, and they won the Super Bowl that year.

Whether we re-signed Williams or not, I wasn't terribly worried about what to do with our DT position.

I'm pretty happy with this but i still want to see more Gillmore, Boyle, Waller and/or Maxx Williams this year. I'm expecting Pitta to do a little more now that he'll be 2 years removed from serious hip injuries.

Also, some editing is really needed. This sentence, "The Ravens tight end has reportedly Joe Flacco's favorite targets," makes no sense.

Webb's gone now.

I feel much better about free agency now. I still do wanna see more from Pierce, Henry and Carl Davis this year, though.

Color me surprised when I heard the news and I was certain it would happen, but then I was never that worried about our DT position, and I'm a lot less worried about our defensive backfield now, too. Still need a pass rusher, CB and wideout though.

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Last year the defensive front seven was one of the deepest and most talented in the NFL and won a lot of games for us. The secondary let us down especially when the china doll ( Jimmy Smith) exited for his regular stint at polishing the pine. Also accept that Suggs is done...no longer a dominant player and now barely effective. Cut or trade Suggs and Smith. Arrington and Wright were appropriately cut as should be Dumervil and Webb. 

8 sacks, 35 tackles and 3 forced fumbles is "barely effective" for Suggs now? Only just a year after season-ending injuries?

Our secondary just got a little bit scarier.

Let's go Judon, Z Smith, Correa and Kaufusi!