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I think it's because he looks so angry all of the time! He seems like a hot headed laddie buck.

lol Steve would end up turning into a Howard Hughes. Oz's successor is in place and I bet he is paid like a GM already, or he would be long gone.

Now this.....this is funny.

Don't leave home without him.

Yeah, I thought about this as well. You gotta know they have been thinking about Jim's replacement for weeks.

I like the idea of going with a proven veteran OC with a track record of success rather than experimenting with a young start up.

Not sure if you read this or not, but it affirms my point. http://www.baltimoreravens.com/news/article-1/Defense-Needs-Confidence-In-Crunch-Time/77c8c30e-a8f7-4fe7-9751-bfbb29a14d36 But I'm with you, I think it's fact that the D squad was a much better and talented group in 2013.

Agree for the most part, but there were times when the offense did get things together towards the end of games, put us in a position to win only to have the defense fail. I just don't buy into "if we had scored more earlier it wouldn't have mattered" deal. Say if we do score more early in one of those close games. Who's to say the opposing team doesn't play more aggressively and scores more themselves?

As a whole, the D was better in 2013. Showing up for the critical stops? they usually folded. Dude is right. Even though they sucked for the most part, at times the 2012 squad tightened when they had to and contributed to us winning some close games.

Right. And no matter how you have performed the rest of the game if you have a chance to win and don't do your job at the end of the game when it counts most, you have failed.

While you have a somewhat valid point, it's not wrong to think that you can suck during the course of a game(low success rate/turnovers), but pull it together at the end to pull out a win. We did it time and again in 2012 and winning those types of games is what got us into the tournament. In 2013 that didn't happen. We lost three or four close games where there the O caught stride towards the end giving the Team a chance to win, only to have the D allow long, time consuming scoring drives. While it's true that events during the course of a game do have an effect on the outcome, if you do not perform at the end of a close game, none of what happened earlier means squat. The score when the clock reads 00:00 determines the W/L. Agree and I don't think anyone could rationalize that the offense didn't suck and failed miserably in the red zone on a regular basis. But there were games where they recovered and put things together at the end of games, only to have the D fold like a wet paper bag.

Another interesting and obvious fact; There is generally an ebb and flow to any game and the score at the end of the game is what determines a win/loss. If you screw up during the course of a game there is always time to recover and win. But if you fail at the end, you usually lose.

Just to expound on this........... Myth - The offense is solely to blame for our .500 record and for the Team missing the playoffs. Fact - The D folded late in many games and failed to give the Team a chance to win some of the close games that were lost. It can be said that if we win 2 or 3 of those close games early on we would have won the division and made the playoffs.

I agree that we may be able to find a center/O lineman somewhere other than the first round of the draft, but fixing the O line is PRIORITY ONE, not only for the pass game, but the run as well and the offense as a whole. Any other needs take a back seat.

Agreed, a la Stokely, Welker.

I'm kinda' thinking the present core of Torrey, Marlon and Jacoby can be those types of guys if we have the threat in the slot, TE and a decent running game. It may be that what we perceive as their deficiencies were exacerbated by opposing Ds knowing they were basically our only options.

I'm torn. One part of me wants us to get the big, fast beast like Evans, Benjamin or even Coleman(project) who could be around in the second round. The other part wants a compact, quick, tough possession type guy that can move the chains like Beckham or Cook. How about both? The bigger need seems to be in the slot. The OP is right. We are missing that quick possession type guy that seems to be the common thread for big passing game success.

Just get The Flacco into the tournament............ :-)

I don't know all of the particulars, but the cap penalty they had for the past 2 years will most likely handcuff the skins for a while. I'm guessing they had to restructure quite a few to delay hits to account for the $36 mil. penalty. Stating the obvious, a healthy Pitta on the Ravens roster provides for one less issue to deal with. I hope he remains a Raven.

LMAO! I was just thinking of posting something similar. It is getting out of hand and ridiculous.

The O line issue is definitely what killed the running game as a whole, but RR would fall down before contact in the open field! You really can't attribute his problems to line play. I hope he gets straight.

Watching RR play this year I think it would be hard to not recognize it is a fact that he totally sucked. Last Sunday, I was beside myself watching him just fall down before contact. He played very little in the game and should have been fresh. I just don't get it. Moving forward, it doesn't mean he can't fix whatever the heck the issue is(fingers crossed!), but he was a total bust this season.

Pitta has the surest hands on the Team. And he's a baller. It would be foolish not to keep him as long as he is healthy.

Boldin's trade had more to do with rebuilding the D than anything else. Flacco was getting his deal with or without any move with Q. This is fact. When you find a franchise QB you pay him as one or he goes elsewhere. Simple supply and demand economics. When a guy has had consistent PO and Championship success you don't let him go. No savings in doing anything with RR or Haloti. Suggs' contract is where savings could be realized..

I was thinking more of play at the end of games. It just seemed that last year they stiffened up at money time and this year they usually folded when it mattered most.