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    different opponents who do different things on offense.

     

    its not really that hard to understand TBH.

    I didn't mean to make that a slight on Harbs I like him as a coach a lot.  I didn't know the OC/DC had as much say but still, then there's some disconnect between Harbs and the coordinators. Also I know it's different opponents but good players play against anyone, so I think it would be good to see if the young guys can dominate the player in front of them.  I don't think starters in the NFL change very often depending on the opponent, but that could be wrong.

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    Brooks has looked good enough to earn more reps. Urban has been a major impact and still not getting very many reps.

    Can't remember if I saw it on this website or somewhere else, but I thought I saw an article saying Urban got like 25 snaps against the Seahawks and only 12 or so against the Chiefs even though Chris Canty is on IR.  I don't know if Harbs had some reasoning behind that but at least just from an outside observer, I don't see any good reason for reducing a guys snap count who seems like he's only done things to earn more time

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    My biggest issue with Osemele is he's another player who plays at a very high level, when he's actually playing.  Since his rookie year he's missed 7 games his second year, 2 last year, and 2 so far this year.  Even with the games he's missed, I feel like he's had nagging injuries more often than not.  I think he's a great player and without taking into account the money to sign him and all that, Osemele makes me extremely nervous as another top end talent guy with injuries who the Ravens might sign to big time money, and the player only gets hurt.  Obviously you can't anticipate big time injuries, but Jimmy and Webb and Pitta were all guys that the Ravens knew had injuries before.  Also you can't anticipate guys without an injury history then getting hurt often (Monroe).

     

    I'm not suggesting any hard and fast rule of never signing a player with top end talent who has had a major injury because there have obviously been plenty of players who have not been hurt again.  It's just Osemele is another guy who sort of fits the potential script we've seen before of a high talent guy who's been hurt before, and then gets hurt again after a big contract.

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    The dead money coming off the books doesn't effect next years cap at all. The dead money was never on the books for the 2016 cap, so it has no effect on what we can do next year.

    With that being said there are some things we can do to free up some cap space like restructuring/extending Joe's contract.

    But resigning Tucker and possibly KO could eat up quite a bit of that.

    I imagine that with reworking Joe's contract and other cap saving moves we'll be somewhere between $10-15 mill to sign Tucker, maybe KO, Aiken, Givens, other ERFA's and RFA's, and our draft picks.

    With all that included you're probably only looking at $2-7mill tops to sign other FA's. If you want to shop for top tier FAs you're only getting 1 maybe 2 guys.

    Did not realize that didn't make much of a difference, just looked and Ravens are only estimated to have about $5.5 million in cap space before any moves next season 

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    I wonder if with a lot of dead money coming off the books and with the possibility of reworking Joe's deal if Ozzie actually splurges a little bit on a skill position.  With the seemingly very high draft pick the Ravens will have, plus the number of picks they'll likely have, a very good draft and a couple higher end free agents could really put this team back to competing. Plus this might not be a bad year to do so, the Ravens top free agents for 2016 are (in no particular order):

     

    Tucker, Upshaw, Osemele

     

    Assuming we resign Tucker...that would only be a possibility of two comp picks anyway, so maybe Ozzie will let one of those potential comp picks go away and sign someone a little bigger named than his usual M.O.

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    Yeah the O has had its struggles but I actually think they've been pretty solid considering the unit. Its why I don't really get the Fire Trestman stuff.

    I agree, I don't think Trestman should be fired at all. If the Ravens get a few playmakers at WR I think Trestman can help this offense.  The Offense actually seems they can make progress with just a couple pieces although the revolving door at WR is very concerning

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