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I think us being number one in the MMQB rankings is a joke based on what Harbaugh said.I can be a homer at times and even I wouldn't put us that high.I'd say we were a 9-7 - 11-5 team depending on health and the rookie seasons of Perriman and Williams.

I got a better one for you.Give Flacco Brown,Bell,Bryant,Wheaton and Miller and give Roethlisberger Smitty,Perriman,Brown,Forsett and Williams.Which guy is your heart telling you would have the better year?

I bet the same people who believe Joe isn't better than Roethlisberger are the same people who would give you a million down votes during the free agency period if you suggested trading for or signing a big name elite pass catcher.They're the same people who will cheer when we decide not to resign a WR like Torrey Smith for a measly 8 million a year.They're also probably the same people who were hoping we went cornerback in the first round of the draft.Yet they'll be the first to tell you who Flacco's not better than when he doesn't break 4,000 yards and 30 touchdowns.

I've only read page 5 so far so I don't fully understand the entire context of the conversation but I'm guessing you're saying the 30 year old Boldin we had and the 34 year old Mason we had were better than those three.If that's the case you're dead wrong.Emanuel Sanders played like he-man last year,Holmes was turning into a star before he was forced to play with Sanchez in the back half of his career and Wallace is basically a better version of Torrey.As far as class goes,all of those guys are on the same second tier level.At their best their all really good number 2's IMO but I gotta give Wallace and Sanders the nod because their in their primes.

I like this new change.It puts teams with bad kickers at a disadvantage and we just so happen to have the best kicker in the AFC and one of the top 3 guys in the league.

It would be great if we could get him signed long term before he prices himself out of baltimore.

Even steelers fans hate those ugly bumble bee striped uniforms.That article smells like click bait to me.

I wasn't a huge Maxx Williams fan neither but for some reason I still got excited when I heard his name called lol.I'm hoping the experts know something about him that I don't know.I just don't see the freakish athleticism everyone says he has.He's about the same height and weight as Pitta but he doesn't seem to be as quick or fast.Pitta was extremely quick twitch.He juked defensive backs both in college and in the NFL.Just look at the play at the 8 second mark in his video.Heap had the abiIity to make people miss too as seen in his second video.I'm still trying to figure out what Maxx's "thing" is.Gronk has size and athleticism.Graham has size and freakish athleticism.Vernon Davis has track speed.Tony G had basketball skills and was really good at using his body to box defenders out.What's that trait that's going to make Maxx special?

When we first drafted Upshaw my hope was that he would become our version of Lamar Woodley.He does good job in run defense and dropping in coverage but I'm not impressed with what he has become because he doesn't have pass rush skills.When you use what was basically a first rounder you expect a well rounded player.I don't really want to call him a bust but he kind of was.

I started to make a thread about this last season.I check out other teams forums every once in a while and everytime I go to theirs around the time that we play them theres usually a couple fans thinking they're our rival and hating on Flacco,Harbaugh,Suggs and Ray Lewis.One guy on this one titans forum even has an anti-ravens avatar lol.At first I didn't think of them as a rival because I was too young to remember those days,but ever since I found out how much they hate us I smile a little more when we kick their butts or when I think about those two divisional games.

Oh yeah I forgot to add that Javarius Allens highlight video on youtube is INSANE!

If we can't keep both gaurds then I think Osemele should be a priority over Yanda based on youth.Both are great players and both can and have played both gaurd and tackle for us but keeping Kelechi around will make us better for longer.It's the same decision the colts made at QB.They could've had Peyton for four more years or Luck for the next 15-20.Well we could extend Yanda(who has been difficult to negotiate with which is within his rights to do but still...) for four more years or we can hold on to Osemele and have a top level guard for the next ten years.It's an easy decision if you ask me.

If by top tier you mean super bowl caliber,then no,but we do have the potential to be one.If by some miracle we hit on both Perriman and Williams and they're both contributors straight out of the gate then we're tops in the AFC.If atleast one of them aren't CJ Mosley-esque right out the gate then we're going to struggle on offense.I'm not as happy go lucky about our pass catchers as everyone else on here seems to be.I'm happy focused on offense in the first two rounds,but neither of those two were high on my wish list before the draft.I don't trust Aiken,Brown or Camp to be able to fill Owen and Torrey's production either.If any of them reached atleast 50 catches and 700 yards with atleast 4 or 5 TD's on their own I'd be floored.I also would like to wait and see what Trestmans offense looks like.He could be another Caldwell,he could be another Kubiak or he could be anywhere in-between.We have alot of uncertainty on offense.We need to wait and see how it starts to pan out before anyone can truly say where we rank with out any bias.By the third week of preseason I'll know exactly what to expect out of this team.

You're about to be playing in front of the best pass rush you've ever played with before,Kyle.We don't need you to shut down guys for 5-10 secs.Just don't get beat immediately like the guys from last year and give Sizzle and Doom enough time to do their thing.

I hope he shuts down Sanders for us week one like patriots fans say he did for them. It looks like who ever was guarding Sanders did a terrible job but if he was one of the guys that held TY to 3 catches for 24 yards and 1 catch for 36 then I hope he does some of that for us.

We may not have a good record against them historically but we've won 3 of the 7 games that Harbaugh and Flacco have been here for.

Did anyone else read some of the comments on that rookie WR article on the NFL.com link?Apparently dolphins fans think Ryan Tannehill is a better QB than Joe Flacco.One dolphin fan said Tannehill was smarter,more accurate,COULD THROW MORE ROUTES and that Flacco couldn't run/scramble.GOOD LORD!Where did this perception that Flacco is an immobile/noncerebral QB come from and how many big runs must he for and defenses must he pick apart for it to go away?I kind of get the reason why people think he's inaccurate though.Alot of foolish people actually think completion percentage is a good way to judge a QB's accuracy.It's not!Some things can't be judged by stats.The only way to get a good idea of how accurate a QB is is by using your eyeballs and watching his ball placement.

Sugar Ray was before my time(he died a couple years before I was born) and I haven't seen any of his fights replayed on tv so I can't speak on him.I'm only comparing Floyd to other boxers skill wise.I know that a heavyweight would take his head off lol.Skill wise the only guy I can really think of that I've seen do some of the things Floyd do is Ali.I don't think it's a reach to go that far.He's 48-0,has never officially been knocked down and beats almost everyone effortlessly.What else does the guy have to do to reach that mythical status???

I think it's time for people to start putting Floyd up there with legends like Ali.This was the fight everyone pointed to whenever someone brings up Floyd's record and his dominance and Floyd went out there and made that animal look average.I'm a huge Mayweather fan and I was a little bit afraid that he wouldn't be able to do his usual ducking and dodging because of Pacs hand speed and aggressiveness.Last night he did what he does to every opponent and he made it look easy.I've seen every Pac fight dating back to 07 or 08 and nobody in that time frame dominated him statistically the way Floyd did.He just might be the greatest boxer to ever live.

Watching Javorius Allen behind this O-line could be fun.Hopefully our line can continue to open up some of the holes they opened up last year and Forsett can teach him to have patience.I didn't watch him in college but from the highlight video I just saw Allen is a PROBLEM in open space.If we can manage to work some screens and dump offs into our offense I could see him averaging ten yards a pop.I can't wait to see him 1 on 1 vs an NFL DB in open space.

This guy is nothing like Torrey other than the fact that they're both fast and have dreads(or had dreads in Torreys case).He's noticeably bigger than Torrey,his movements are alot more smoother and he stops and restarts alot better.Only time will tell if he can be a playmaker in the NFL like Torrey,but I could definitely see him becoming a better route runner than him.

I've been thinking the same thing.Except UCF didn't use Breshad on screens like Georgia Tech did with Thomas so I don't really know what he can do with screens.

The patriots were willing to give big money to both Gronk and Hernandez so I wouldn't say there's noway it can happen.

I saw the headline and didn't read the entire article on nfl.com first so I originally thought they were trading him because he's a headache.But even if he does want a new contract I'd still like Ozzie to trade for him.From what I heard and read he's not asking for more money.He just wants an extension on the two years he has left.

He's only a $4 million cap hit this year and a $6 million cap hit for next year if we trade for him.We can handle that and he's WELL worth that price.