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    Torrey's stats look poorer than Wallace, but Torrey also drew a large number of pass interference penalties. For example, see this article from 2015 from our very own Hensley.
    http://www.espn.com/blog/baltimore-ravens/post/_/id/17248/ravens-torrey-smith-is-king-of-drawing-pass-interference

    If one factors that in (and they should), there's more to Torrey than meets the eye.

    And while Perriman and Wallace will do that do, as someone said below, why not use one of our TEs in the slot and have three fast WRs. And that's not to say that Wallace cannot do routes. From what I remember, some of his best plays were on slant routes with major yardage/TDs after the catch.

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    The maths problem only requires the use of the Pythagorean theorem (a2+b2=c2) where a is the half of the rope's length (60 yards or 360 feet), b is the height of the man/building that must fit under the slackened rope (6 or 30 feet) and c is half of the slacked rope's length. So, it goes (figures are in feet)

    1802+62=c2

    32,400+36=c2

    32,436=c2

    180.1=c

    This is half of the slackened rope's length, which puts the total (slacked) rope length at 2*180.01=360.02; the original rope length is 360 feet (120 yards), so the required slack for a 6-foot man to fit under the rop is 0.02 feet, or abour 0.24 inches.

     

    For the 30-feet buliding, using the same principle, gives a slack of 4.96 feet.

     

    bioLarzen, your observations and critiques on this site are usually spot-on, and I am a fan. But in this particular case, I gotta say that the decimal places are really important *smiley face*

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    I doubt you can get into the top 20 without swapping a 1st round pick in return. I could be wrong, but I don't recall that happening in the draft anytime recently. You can probably move into the back end of the draft with that, but its still going to cost you at least a second rounder or two, and we won't have multiple second rounders.

     

    I don't think it changes much. You're still picking in the top 5-8 most likely, and the only way we move back into the first round would be to grab somebody in the 25-32 range that we really liked who we thought likely wouldn't fall into the mid-to-late 30s on day two.

     

    Other than that, they'd likely just be used to move up in the middle rounds for a guy we like, which we historically do quite often.

    Unless of course, the Ravens get out of their top 5 pick for a lower 1st rounder + future 1st rounder, and then trade the future 1st rounder to come back with another pick in the 1st. But more importantly, these have been our first 3 picks in each round since the SuperBowl win (I still want to give this year a chance). Elam, Art Brown and Brandon Williams in 2013, Mosley, Jernigan and Terrence Brooks in 2014. These picks need to be solid starters and we are only 50% there.

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