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Seems like a waste of money to pay a kicker that much. Tucker wasn't even drafted. We can get someone out of college making the minimum. He might not be as good as Tucker but a high paid kicker is a luxury we can't afford with all the holes in the team we have.

There is zero chance we beat them with Claussen starting. Maybe if someone else starts and Big Ben gets injured early. I don't really see much chance of us coming out on top. They just beat the Bengals and Broncos in back to back games.

Less than 50 percent and a lot of those challenges would not be big deal even if we won. I guess coaches throughout the league challenge too many plays that they won't win.

Fire the coaches and get rid of all the guys who aren't performing. Take the hit this year. Let next year should be building for 2017. Cut Monroe, Daryl Smith, Pitta, Lavar Arrington. Trade Elvis. Let Tucker go in free agency. A kicker isn't going to put us over the top. We need to get young. We need a fresh approach.

It is just kicking the can down the road. I would rather just give up on next year and release guys like Monroe and Pitta and not re-negotiate Flacco. Get as much money off the books for 2017. Have another bad season in 2016 like we will either way.

We can use the franchise tag on Osemele. This past year franchise tag for an Offensive lineman was 12.9 million. This upcoming year will be more. We cannot fit that amount of money into our cap number.

So we lose by 30?

It is not just Allen. He has let go two returners because they fumbled.

Claussen has thrown interceptions last two games. Why not bench him?

I liked the pants. The highlight of the game was the new pants.

Every running back in the NFL has fumbles. Jamal Lewis fumbled 8 times in back to back seasons. Harbaugh is an idiot. Why not bench Flacco when he throws an interception. Sorry Harbaugh continually overreacts to a single play in a game.

Defense didn't give up 34 this week. Didn't you see the pick six and the fumble. Also if you aren't going to eat up clock and keep giving the ball back over to the other team the defense will eventually give up points. In the Seahawks game the Ravens defense played well the first half. Claussen is terrible and should never play in the NFL again.

Franchise tag for offensive lineman next year would be close to 14 million. Osemele isn't worth that and we don't have that kind of salary cap space anyway. Everyone just has to realize he will be on a new team next year and deal with it.

Neither. We are giving Jensen a chance to show whether he is a starting guard. Osemele is as good as gone. I am sure he will get a pretty good contract.

It has nothing to do with the lack of talent on the defensive end?

That is what I have been saying all along. If you end up being the worst team inn the league someone is getting fired. Part of the issue is the guys we have signed to big deals are not performing and don't look like they will peform at that level in the future: Pitta, Webb, Jimmy Smith, Monroe all have long deals that we will basically are stuck with. Plus the young guys have not developed. The defense is pretty healthy except for Suggs and the guys we have just aren't very good. Yet they mostly all have big contracts or were drafted pretty high.

I am responding to someone saying what players from the Super Bowl team would be useful. Tyrod Taylor wouldn't have stayed here he wanted to be a starter. I think affording Boldin is something that could have been done. We only save a couple million on him. The team made a lot of bad contract extensions. And picking the wrong players to release and the wrong to keep. The team isn't going to be good next year. There is no money to get good players.

If he plays well at left tackle there is no way we can pay him as he would make even more money than a guard. Franchise tag would cost way too much. There is no Cap room. He is as good as gone.

Well left tackles tend to make more money in free agency. Maybe if Osemle plays well at left tackle he will get a bigger contract from his new team and the Ravens will get a better comp pick.

I think it just gives you money to sign your draft picks and other late cuts.

Yeah but you would have to sign Osemele before cutting Monroe. It is not like he is going to be around until June 1st.

Torrey Smith would be useful to us. Adding Torrey and Boldin to Steve Smith and Aiken would have given Flacco plenty of targets. Also now that Flacco is injured Tyrod Taylor would be an upgrade over who we have at QB.

We probably can't afford Osemele.

I don't know but we will probably drafting in a good position in 2017 as well.

Yeah even if we drafted a left tack in the first round it would be worth 2 million to have a back up tackle that could step right in.