JamesA119

Marshall is sort of a team wrecker. He's usually good for one year, then things start to go downhill. If we sign him next year, we should make it a one year deal and make a run for the championship and see how things go.

Why should we care about what Flacco did 4 yrs ago? If Matt Ryan wins the Super Bowl that should inspire Flacco to play batter. That's what a Ravens fan would rather have than protecting a stat. Can we try and live in the present?

Imagine that! 9th ranked Oline and all the "apologists" did was blame the Oline for Flacco's ineptitude. Many a QB could take a 9th ranked Oline deep into the playoffs I just get tired of hearing"Joe needs this, Joe needs that" I guess we need 10 starting first team pro bowl players on offense around Flacco to make the playoff. Its 9th ranked by PFF... who, while are very valuable for individual player ratings, seem to vary wildly on the OL ratings as a whole. Yes, #9 ranked, but we never ran the ball so their terrible run blocking didnt bring their grade down as much as it should have. And, i believe the #9 ranking is the rating of the 5 starters together - so Stanley, Lewis, Zuttah, Yanda, Wagner.... who played a sum total of 4 games together. 4 wins by the way. So, actually, yes. thanks for pointing it out - with a #9 ranked OL Flacco does win. It's when you have to put out 8 different starting OL combos in the other 12 games with guys like Hurst at tackle, they struggle. And not just Joe, the run game as well. The 9th ranking is for the season. It ranks in game performance as a unit over 16 games. This was not a ranking based on potential of the "starting 5" Oline men as you erroneously stated. Flacco can't win without superstars around him. There's no doubt about this. It's already been established.

Imagine that! 9th ranked Oline and all the "apologists" did was blame the Oline for Flacco's ineptitude. Many a QB could take a 9th ranked Oline deep into the playoffs I just get tired of hearing"Joe needs this, Joe needs that" I guess we need 10 starting first team pro bowl players on offense around Flacco to make the playoff.

Marshall is a team wrecker. I don't see him in Ravens' uniform. He is nothing like Smith Sr. Smith Sr May be feisty but he is a great team mate.

Remember Michael Singletary. It just ate him up.

I think that it would be very difficult for an all world superstar hall of fame player like Ray to be a coach. There is no doubt that he can teach anybody the game, however it would be torture for him to stand there and watch players under perform while he is helplessly standing on the sideline.

My opinion is that a team only needs one GM. This article insinuates that DeCosta has been making the decisions on our recent drafts, and Ozzie is in a more or less supporting/supervisory role. So who is directly responsible for the less than stellar drafts we've had recently? I think that DeCosta needs the Ravens more than they need him. He is quite lucky to have a kind owner like Bisciotti. If DeCosta had accepted a GM position several years back, there's a high likelihood that he would have been fired by now.

They play 10 non divisional games but only 6 divisional games. They usually win 13 to 14 games a year. Rarely 12 games. I never know them to win 9 or 10 games

I do not subscribe to your argument that the reason the patriots have been very successful for almost 2 DECADES is because they are in a weak division, and that being in a weak division is equivalent to a 3 - 4 game mulligan. This year they went 14 - 2. 5 - 1 in their division and 9 - 1 against non divisional opponents. Patriots usually win 13 to 14 games year in year out, so that should put that argument to rest. I have to tell you that I never root for the patriots. I will root for any other team playing the patriots any day and twice on Sundays, but you have to agree that they are the most focused, most serious, most over achieving team in recent memory. What worries me with your line of thinking is, it's that same line of thinking that makes excuses for Flacco, and Ozzie. My dad would say to me when I brought a bad grade home "that kid that excelled in the test does not have 2 brains" It sounds like we are giving the Ravens an excuse for not being as great as the Patriots. You can see that winning just seems to mean a little more to Brady than Flacco, or Belichick than Harbaugh or their front office than ours. We won't come out and say that, but what we put in, be it the QB, or the coach who gets out-slicked by their coach. Just how many times have you seen our team try a flee - flicker? Or our QB quicken the snap count to catch that defender before he runs out if the field, or before the entire defense is set? I mean there are multiple examples of one team using every thing within their power to win, while the other doesn't.

When the Ravens play the browns, which team do you root for?

So why are you on the Ravens website?

They said they"Believe in running the ball" "They said they believe in running the ball" I guess not on Sundays lol

I just can't root for the patriots. There's no team playing in the NFL today that I despise more than the patriots and their fans. I hope those fans cry tonight.

The RB's we have now are good enough if the coaches use them correctly Dixon was carrying steelers on his back 10 yards down field and he will be a lot better this year and west also Agree with both point of views. We clearly didn't use our RBs nearly enough or even put them in advantageous position when we did. Granted drafting a phenom could force Flacco to get out of that back yard football mentality of "every body go long" that we've seen so much of since 2013. However at what price? We have holes all over the field on both sides of the ball. CBs, safeties, pass rushers, ILB, WRs, potentially Center, RT and return specialists. Drafting a RB in the first round is very risky, not unlike a first round WR. If our scouting department is what it's cracked up to be, it should find that game breaker of a RB in later rounds. That would make a whole lot of difference given our limited picks and cap space this year.

"RBs ... combined for only six plays for over 20 or more yds" A very disingenuous assessment. Put simply, we didn't run the ball much last year. The RBs didn't get enough opportunities. This is so emblematic of this coaching regime. They never look in the mirror but always puts the onus on the players. There were many games this last year when they started the game with a pass and never stopped passing. There was so much lack of feel for the game. It happened all over the field but especially in the red zone. It seemed like they were in such a hurry for Flacco to throw that TD, that they throw on 1st and 2nd downs and usually all incomplete passes and we are left 3rd and goal, then a dump off pass behind the line of scrimmage. End result? Tucker field goal! It doesn't matter if you have Elliot, if you don't use him, he is not gonna produce.

Ok, we do have WR2 in Wallace, I'll give you that. I was exaggerating a bit with that one. But if you truly believe we are nice and set on all the other positions then you are naive optimist. Perriman should not be considered a starter until he shows he can regularly catch passes when wide open. Even if Doom returns for another year we still need much more production from starting pass rushers. Maybe we already have an in-house solution in Z. Smith or Judon. But the fact remains, we need upgrade at OLB. Claiming we have a RT in a situation where he's about to hit open market is just ignorant. By that logic we also set with our D-line by having one of the best DTs in football. Do you want to say that we should not prepare for the situation where he decides to go after more money? I consider the chances of both Williams and Wagner leaving over 50%. If I was pessimistic I'd throw Juice into that list as well. But I think there's higher chance of him resigning with us than Williams or Wagner, which is why I didn't add FB into the list of imminent needs. All that is called being realistic, something that can't be seen too often from our fans. I think Juice leaves, esp listening to him about how excited he is to test FA. And he just made the pro bowl..he's gonna cash in and leave. To be honest, I hope he does. No way we need to pay 2+ mil for an overated FB. He played hard for us, but I hope he cashes in elsewhere. The FB position is overated, unless you have a true Vonte or Lorenzo Neal leading the way. I'd rather have an extra TE on the field....and Pitta shouldn't even count as a TE Insightful. Boyle could be a capable replacement.

"ultimately he didn't give any indication where he can play and be effective." It seemed like they were liking him at ilb, but Orr was just better. Team wasn't expecting it. Wanted to get Correa on the field so started working him outside. High learning curve for Correa, learning 2 spots as a rookie, when his really not a "smarts" player but an instinct/motor guy. Should do better this year. Insightful comment but I think the drop off between Orr and Correa is too much for Correa to be the replacement this coming season. I still don't know how Correa looked so good in college and appear so overmatched in the NFL. Look Judon was a 5th round draft pick, which means he didn't look nearly as good as Correa looked in college games, but he comes in and makes a quick impact.

The hit keeps on coming. Ozzie's job just got a bit tougher. We had that position secured and now instead of focussing on CB, safety, pass rusher, Oline and WR, we now have to worry about ILB. Salary cap space is minimal, and only 7 picks in this draft

Harbaugh's lack of a great network (being a special teams coach and because he has only coached on 2 NFL teams) and the fact that he is fiercely loyal even if at the cost of improvement means he'll promote from within. Seriously? Pretty sure almost anyone in the NFL would recommend one of their guys to work under Harbaugh, and he's worked with or for many of the best/well connected coaches in the league. Kubiak, Roman, Pees, Caldwell, Leslie Frazier, Steve Spags, Trestman, etc... all guys from outside his immediate coaching "tree" that have come to work for him. In several cases former HC's coming in as assistants or position coaches just to do so. Add to the fact that Belichick recommended him for the coaching hire here and his close relationship with Andy Reid, plus all the guys that have been promoted to other jobs after working under John... Harbs is probably just as well, if not more connected throughout the NFL coaching circles than anyone else. Connection to Spags means hes got connections to the Giants and the Coughlin tree. Connection to Kubiak he can tap Denver. Caldwell and Teryl Austin in the Lions. Pagano to the Colts staff. Reid to the Chiefs staff. Pederson at the Eagles. Belichick and Pees for the Pats. Frazier now gives him ties in Buffalo. Not to mention he can lean on Ozzie and the FO's connections for relationships with Hue Jackson and the Browns, Marvin Lewis and the Bengals so by association Gruden and the Redskins as well as Zimmer and the Vikings; Del Rio and the Raiders, Mike Pettine, Rex Ryan, Mike Smith , Jim Schwartz at the Eagles, Ken Whisenhunt, Mike Nolan, and a slew of guys present and past both pro and college like Mangini, Cam Cameron, Neuhisel (sp), etc... Include his brother Jim and his connections from both playing days, coaching in the NFL, and NCAA which go nearly as deep; plus his father whose contemporaries/buddies influenced an entire generation of coaches -- Harbs is easily one of the most well respected, well liked, and well connected guys in the league. He could make a call into almost every NFL organization and a wide range of the NCAA game and get the blessing to interview who he wants, or be able to talk to a trusted confidant to get a recommendation. Your response is just a massive brainstorm. You are essentially saying that everyone in the NFL is connected to everyone. This is somewhat true however the previous posters were making the point that Coach Harbaugh went from being The Eagles special teams coach to a head coach with the Ravens. That Eagles job was his first job in the NFL. There's no doubt that he has hired more people connected to the eagles than any other franchise. Would it surprise you to know that Frazier and Spagnuolo all were with Harbaugh in Philadelphia. We all know about Juan Castillo. Harbaugh even loves Eagles players even the washed up ones like Jason Babin whom he chose over Dwight Freeney. In terms of connectivity the senior Harbaugh was never in the NFL. He was at Western KY university in Bowling in Green as a head coach and an assistant to Bo Schembechler at university of Michigan. The Harbaugh family is an excellent family, and a great great football family, but in NFL sense as a coach, John Harbaugh is the most accomplished. In my opinion I think he had too much affinity for everything eagles, and that's not using the full breadth of the NFL

This is one of those instances where stats doesn't tell the true story. His accuracy was inflated because of dumpoff passes - remember the New England game lol. Also most career passing yards. Last season the pass run ratio was something like 70:30. 70:30!!!! Imagine that. Garbage yards.

Well this upcoming year is when we find out. He has been called out by both the owner and the head coach. If he struggles a change could be made.

I'd draft a good prospect if one is available. We don't have to struggle with Flacco till his contract runs out. If the new guy can play why not play him. How much money you make doesn't legislate that you are actually on the field. Flacco can ride the bench till such a time that we are able to move him.

The makeup of this team right now is stuck in the mud of mediocrity. Unfortunately true.

You can see the fire in every Qb that made it to the playoffs.Flacco looks like hes going to a funeral . ah, that's because they made it to the playoffs. Joe is just fine, I'm sure you could go out there and throw for 4100 yds after coming back from a torn ACL. but hey, you are something else right. And you only want the Ravens to have Brady, is that it? You want a cry baby? You want a Falcon team who couldn't field a defense for 8 years? you want a Green Bay team who by the luck of the green Irish 4 leaf clover got just enough out of James Starks to put them over the top in 2010. Sure Rodgers is a gunslinger but it may take until Lacy to get back to the big show we will see. And we turn to Piggy Ben, well, well, Mr. extend-a-play he is something its like a Cave man on Steriods and then his band of merrymen always seem to bail him out...except when it comes to Tomlin. This is where Kaos meets pride and the two collide in a foolish looking way. So get me a 1000 yard runner, give me Joe, Pitta and a couple WR's with the team we have and I say we get to the playoffs. Adios QB dreamer The way Flacco is playing, the only thing keeping him in Baltimore is his contract