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Keep in mind that we're talking about college, not grade school. If you're in college, you should already have all the basic math skills that you are ever going to need in life. Unless you use it in your profession, math beyond basic algebra(which I took in 7th grade) is not applicable to life at all, and you are going to forget all of it as soon as you walk our of your last class.

How is Flacco overrated? He set all kinds of records for winning and put up historically great playoff stats, and people always make up excuses not to give him credit for it. That's UNDERRATED. There is an example of that in your post. His team would have made Tebow look good? He didn't even have a legit #1 receiver. Manning had two #1 receivers for most of his career, and Brady has never put up big numbers without the most dominant pass catcher in the AFC, but you're discrediting Flacco because he had Boldin, Torrey, Jacoby, and Pitta? How logical is that? If Manning never came close to 11-0 with Wayne, Harrison, and Clark, and Brady never came close with Moss/Welker, Gronk/Edelman, how can an "average game manager who can not be trusted to take the spotlight" do what Flacco has done with much less talent to work with? Besides 2012, Flacco has mostly had aging veterans, late picks, and practice squad castoffs to work with. The way people talk about Flacco's "inconsistency", you'd think none of the other great qbs have bad games. ALL qbs have a terrible game once in a while. Aaron Rodgers had several of them last year, but no one calls him inconsistent.

Perhaps he might just want to put something positive on this situation. Something that some fans can't or won't do. Nothing positive about perriman being on this roster......he's taking a spot that someone can actually take!! You don't cut a first round pick because of a couple knee sprains. There isn't a single doctor that specializes in sports medicine that thinks a couple knee sprains are career threatening. Not to mention that cutting him would cost more than keeping him at this point. Professional GMs don't get paid to overreact based on emotions. And having a guy as big and fast as Perriman on the roster is absolutely positive.

Maybe the doctors who treated Perriman know something that the others don't. Otherwise, I have no idea why Harbaugh would say he should be back by training camp. That just puts Perriman at risk for more criticism from the fans and media if he's not ready by then. Not that any of that outside noise should matter, but no one wants to be a disappointment to their home fans, and I don't think a coach should risk setting up his young player to be publicly bashed like that.

I disagree with both points, especially the one about him panicking under pressure. Flacco stands strong in the face of pressure as well as anyone. We have had years where he has no pass protection, yet he doesn't ever get rattled or skittish when he gets pressured. A good example is the game winning pass to Aiken in Pitts last year. He knew he was about to get smashed, but he stood in there and fired a strike to put us in FG range.

How is the health of Jimmy Smith not listed in the top reasons the secondary should be better? After shutting down everyone he faced in 2014, he was absolutely horrible in the first half of the season last year, and mediocre in the 2nd. If he can return to anything close to his pre-injury form, that alone will make this secondary a lot better.

I think it's a great sign when someone really has to reach to find a position group that took a step back. We have a single position, not a position group, that took a step back, and thanks to the depth we have at LG, drafting Ronnie Stanley, and Wagner being another year separated from Lisfranc surgery, the O-line should actually be better than it was last year.

That will depend a lot on whether or not Suggs can return to form and if the young pass rushers can make a significant impact. It doesn't matter what the scheme is, if you don't have multiple players capable of consistently winning their matchups and getting into the backfield, you're not going to see organized chaos.

I think the FO is finally building the team around Joe Flacco, but I wouldn't expect a mediocre defense. We had one of the better defenses in the league in the second half of last season, and that was without Suggs, and Jimmy Smith was still pretty much in recovery mode. I think Ozzie made more additions to the offense simply because there were more holes there. The offense had no speed whatsoever besides Perriman, who has never played an NFL snap. We lost KO, and Monroe was not worth his contract, so we needed a LT. The defense didn't lose any significant pieces, and besides Weddle, we added a CB that will get significant playing time and possibly even start.

If we could get a pick for Monroe and someone would take on his salary, that sounds good, but I don't see the point in cutting him right now. We don't need the cap space this year, so we might as well keep him for depth, kind of like how we kept Bryant Mckinnie for depth during the SB year. Also, if we wait until next year to cut him, it will save us a lot of cap space in 2017.

Absolutely. The injury happened about a month and a half earlier than last year. He started practicing after about 9 weeks last year before he retore it. Just because he had a setback last year doesn't mean he'll have one this year. It would be silly to expect things to happen exactly the same as they did last year. Every injury is different, and what happened last year was extremely uncommon.

Well, Wallace(and potentially Moore) should at least put enough fear in defenses to back them up a little, which is something we didn't have and desperately needed last year. Is there someone who is still available that pits fear into defenses?

You are Soooooo wrong. He cannot know it's over - just like you cannot know it isn't... We all pretty much know that it isn't. The Ravens aren't going to cut him, and there is an extremely small chance that he will retire right now.

Except Tucker. The rest of them have a look on their face like, "this is kind of lame", but Tucker has a look like, "this is the greatest night of my life!"

I'm not buying the Kamar Aiken hype. Even Steve Bisciotti said that if you told him that Aiken would have over 900 yds, he would have told you that there must have been a lot of injuries. Aiken did not play well at all as a #2 when Steve Smith was healthy. He disappeared too often. He only started making catches consistently when Smith got hurt and we had no one else to go to. He's not an explosive threat, and he won't draw double teams to make anyone else's job easier. I think his route running and hands are good enough to keep him in the rotation, but not enough to keep a game changer off the field who can stretch the defense and open things up for the rest of the offense. The only way I see Aiken starting is if SSS gets hurt or can't return to form because of age and injury.

I really don't see how they can put Pitta's situation in the "questions that have already been answered" category just because he is practicing. He was practicing last year and couldn't get clearance, and even if he does come back, we have no idea as to how he will hold up in NFL games with violent contact.

Tomlin should not be ranked that high. The Steelers have 1 playoff win in the last 5 years, and it was against the Bengals, so that barely even counts. When you have a franchise qb and the talent they have, and all you have to show for it in the last half decade is one Wild Card Round win, you should not be in the top 6.

Not necessarily. Sometimes, it's just a matter of genetics. Camp had injury issues in college as well, which is why he lasted until the 7th round.

There's no reason to worry about that. With this type of injury, even thought it lingered for a long time, once it's healed it's healed. Keenan Allen took a similar amount of time to recover from the same injury, and he hasn't had any issues with the knee at all since then. I can't think of a single NFL player to have long term complications from a PCL sprain.

You do realize that Joe played in playoff games BEFORE 2012 correct? Go back and look at some of his earlier one's. Go back and look at what he did in his rookie season playoff performances (well below average by any possible standard). He gets credit for 2 wins that year. I don't even care if you look at the stats... just watch the games. He's as forgettable as anybody on the field in those games. Go look at his first playoff game in the 09 season in Foxboro, when the Ravens beat the Patriots 33-14. Go look at what Joe did in that game. Literally nobody on this planet could argue he positively contributed to that victory. Again... given credit for a win for that. For 30% of Joe Flacco's postseason victories, AT BEST, you could argue he was a replacement level QB, meaning there were many, many backups in the league that could have done exactly what he did and had the exact same outcome. Now, since about late 2010, he's been great in the postseason. No debating that. But he hasn't always been great in the postseason. There's just no evidence to support that. Last five years... absolutely. One of the best postseason QBs probably in history in the last five years. And yes, Tebow is a "winner", because everywhere he plays, his team wins. He won a ton in college, and he won a large amount of the games he started in the NFL. But at least you made my point for me... "winning" doesn't get you a second contract. Production does. NFL teams don't pay for winners. If they did, they wouldn't hand out $15M a year contracts to DTs and pass rushers who have never won anything. They do that annually. How many wins does Tebow have as a starter? About 8 or 9? Calling someone like that a "winner" is a complete joke. Even when Flacco was a rookie, he led the team on a game winning drive, on the road, against one of the best defenses in the league and the top seed in the AFC. He wasn't great early in his career in the postseason, but he knew how to finish games and WIN. The Ravens certainly weren't winning in the postseason without him, and since entering his prime, he has been consistently great in the postseason. Tebow and Mark Sanchez won in the postseason early in their careers, but they have never done it consistently or without a great defense. Players absolutely do get paid to win consistently. Otherwise, Flacco would not be making well over $20mil/year.

He was on pace for about 4,500 last year, and that was with an injury depleted receiving corps that wasn't great to begin with.

I think PFF gets way too much respect. Does anyone really think that Kamar Aiken is a better player than everyone on our starting defense? Is Zach Orr really our best middle LB?

Cutting commercial breaks is not going to happen! As a matter of fact, it probably will introduce even more commercials. TV is so saturated by them now that it's hard to remember what you were watching by the time they come back from break so most shows will show you the last 2 minutes of what you were watching when they come back, to remind you. Everything is about the almighty dollar. They wouldn't really be cutting commercial breaks. They'd just be replacing change of possession commercial breaks with replay commercial breaks, so the amount of commercials they get in would be the same, as would the time of the game.

Well I will be the first and not the last to tell you the NFL will not do away with commercial time. It's too valuable to their product. Point is if you get your challenges every game, what does it matter what plays you can challenge. Each challenge is going to take a break out of the game no matter the play. I agree there is need for a small handful of plays that should not be reviewable such as rules for allowing an official to keep control on the field. It would be counter productive to potentially overrule an officials call to keep order. I'm not suggesting that the NFL do away with any commercial time. I'm just saying that they usually go to commercial during reviews, so if there were an excessive amount, you could just replace change of possession commercial breaks with replay commercial breaks, so they would still get just as much ad revenue, and you wouldn't be adding any extra time to the game.

Why not just have an official in a booth or studio somewhere that's in charge of replay reviews? That seems more efficient and could shorten the delays. Also, if there are excessive replay delays, they could cut out some commercial breaks between change of possession, so it would even out.