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A total 762 words, and the first 340 were completely superfluous. Looking for a cheap way to pad your production numbers? This kind of stuff is why so many people think that sports and intelligence are mutually exclusive.

Name me a Ravens player that ever came back and played after being on another team?

Brandon Stokley

Trade Flacco for Smith.

Nothing will change that much. The offensive line and special teams are bad.

Special teams is bad? They had one bad game, but special teams has been perhaps the strongest phase of our game this year.

when Flacco doesn't have time to throw a crossing route, how can he go deep when he has no time for plays to develop......You have to protect your QB if you want to throw any mid range to deep routes.....Our backup LT, and LG were exposed, he had no chance on passing downs....I expect that to change with Stanley and Lewis back, and they get more games under their belts....JMO....

Part of the problem is that Flacco waits too long for things to "develop" when they were never there in the first place. Flacco consistently makes poor decisions and fixates. He makes the decision that he's going to throw to certain target, and when the defense has it shut down he waits for it to open up. In the meantime, routes that were open have now been sewn up. Everyone thought so much of Flacco completing 21 passes in a row. By and large, those were short to medium passes that Flacco got rid of quickly. This coaching staff needs to get it through their heads that looking for that one exciting play isn't going to win football games. We need to play smart, strategic, balanced football. Otherwise we're this is going to continue to be yet another mediocre year.

Splendid idea. Let's do more of what we're failing at. Flacco is missing deep balls left and right. I'm sure more incompletions will solve all our problems. Why can't these fools understand that expecting more from Flacco is the problem, not the solution.

So THAT's why they cut him. Took a gamble, and it paid off. Glad Forsett will have the chance to make some extra pocket change in reward for his loyalty.

Not sure that a couple of possessions really tells the tale, but IMO Suggs returning to this defense and being healthy enough to be the playmaker we're accustom to seeing ranks #2 on this team's list of must see outcomes, only behind the healthy return of Joe Flacco. The domino effect of his loss last year on this defense was devastating. 

Foolish. The return of Flacco is nowhere near as important as the improvement of the offensive line. Flacco is nothing without a great line. Our line is performing very well. The addition of Stanley is proving invaluable. All three Ravens QBs are performing quite well, thanks in large part to a very strong O-line. Flacco could retire tomorrow and everything would be fine.

I knew he wasn't going to make the team. The problem though is how come Ozzie and Harbaugh didn't? The only beneficial thing in this move is from a humanitarian standpoint - giving him an opportunity to try and jump start his career.

Sometimes you take a shot when there's low risk involved. You talk like signing him hurt us somehow. A potentially high talent at a low price. Nothing to lose, everything to gain. It didn't work out, so now we cut him loose. We have lost nothing.

Wait a second....since when did anyone take Amateur Football Focus seriously? All they ever do is create pop fodder content based on national craze. I'm not sure their people even watch football, I think they just look up stuff on Wikipedia and scrape together whatever nonsense they can manage. They're almost as laughable as that Sarah Ellison.

This does not surprise me either, he has not been a reliable O lineman for the last 2 years, but I do hope Ronnie Stanley will be ready to go come September ?

What surprises me is that a trade couldn't be worked out. I mean, seriously, what could the Giants have been offering which was less valuable than cutting him outright and getting nothing? Doesn't seem to make much sense.

Risky move... reminds me of when we dumped "Q" and came to bitterly regret it.

Actually, there's nothing in common about the two scenarios. Not a single thing.

  18 minutes ago, PalmBayRaven said:

On the bright side this just created a job opportunity for someone else. May the best man win. I'm rooting for Darren Waller. Size and speed and more durable 6th round pick.

Durable? He was placed on IR last season.

Yeah, so was Flacco.

  8 hours ago, trevorsteadman said:

I know fans were upset with this signing. But I knew right away this guy was going to be the best signing. This reminds me of the Steve Smith situation in Carolina 2 years ago. Panthers didn't want him. Chargers didn't want Weddle. Both from University of Utah. Both are not the ideal size for their position but make up for it with big plays, hard work, and being leaders in the locker room.

Maybe I missed it, but I don't recall reading about fans upset w/ the Weddle signing.  

Oh, I remember it happening. I'd bet it was mostly the same malcontents who were whining all throughout the draft.

Actually, I do need to argue with four Lombardi trophies: The man has built his entire career on a string of repeated cheating scandals. As for post season wins being an argument for Flacco's eliteness, that's even more stupid than calling Belicheat a great coach.

I'll buy Harbaugh being in the top 5 NFL coaches. But if you're going to write an article built on a nonsense premise like that, then don't even bother next time. Because, all you're doing is writing with the same superficial, unknowing lack of understanding and vision as the article you're complaining about. Just like USA Today, you're cranking out mindless fodder for the consumption of Leviathan feed stock.

Too many people are watching this draft and want Ozzie to make narrow visioned moves because they themselves can't be bothered to look at a big picture. And they'd rather lust after HOPEFUL superstars than build a rock solid team.

The truth is that the past few years where our team has been in a slump is BECAUSE OZZIE MADE YOUR MISTAKES! The organization has been obsessed and in love with superstar Flacco, and have ignored the rest of the team so much that we've been mostly losing since Ray Lewis retired, and even lost that superstar to a major knee injury. Ozzie's getting back to what he does, which is assemble a rock solid team. If you build a rock solid team and coach and lead them well, superstars will emerge.

If Correa and Kaufusi work out, Ozzie's a genius.
If they don't, he looks senile.
Won't know for sure till September.

Personally, I wonder if both will be Paul Kruger-esque types - slow to develop, finally mature into productive players, then ship off for big $$ somewhere else.

Except the timing would be a very different scenario at this point. Three to five years from now we'll be ready to sign a Kruger-esque player to a big contract, as Suggs and Doom are hanging up their cleats. I see these as being the correct big picture picks, period.

( personal attack removed) qWhen I said nailing everything, I was talking about the draft so far. Not the IR lists of the past two years.

But since you want to bring that up, the reason we've had problems with our secondary for the past two years is because almost the entire secondary has been out injured during that time. We've been sourcing DBs from local high school JV squads the past couple years, just so we could have enough warm bodies on the field to avoid a forfeit. I'm as irritated by the injuries as anyone, and I want the organization to get to the bottom of it. But what do you propose? We already have 7 CBs on the roster, and I believe 5 safeties. You want us to use early picks to draft even more!?! I realize that your knowledge of football is on par with your expertise in rocket sciences so let me clue you in....there's a maximum limit of 53 roster spots. We can't use 25 of them on DBs. Between Smith, Webb, and Weddle, and an assortment of decent B-list players, we're actually pretty well off in that department. We just have to keep them healthy.

Our biggest weakness the past couple years has been the offensive line. Even two years ago, when we had 10th stringers plugged in as starters, we STILL did a pretty good job of shutting down even the Patriots in the playoffs. Or don't you remember that they had to pull out trick play after trick play in order to win that game?

If we're going to have a $22 million QB, then we HAVE to have a line that can protect him. And since we couldn't afford to keep KO, getting Stanley was really the only acceptable option.

Alot of narrow visioned fans are [ objectionable content removed], but Ozzie has been nailing everything so far.

Also Jimmy Smith isn't "having another foot surgery"... he's getting screws removed.

Getting screws removed is surgery.

the RAVENS get a big safe c+,i know TUNSIL wasn't going,but he did bench 10 more 225 than STANLY,and BUCKNER rated 10 points higher on the draft scale,very disturbing,i think SAN FRAN was like,what?,ol my GOD, they didn't? wooooo! hooooo!

How many times have teams said "Whaaa?" in response to an Ozzie draft pick, only for Ozzie to be proven a genius?

There was never any chance we would draft Tunsil at #6. Or ever, for that matter. Well, maybe if he slipped to the 7th round.

There was never anyone else other than Ronnie Stanley that we were going to draft at #6.  At least, not as long as he was still available.  Our biggest need has been LT.  And in case some of you didn't know, we have a highly paid, allegedly elite QB who was sent to IR last year with a serious knee injury.  If you don't have a line, you don't have anything.

There was also never any chance that we would draft Tunsil.  It has nothing to do with that stupid twitter picture.  It had everything to do with Tunsil's injury problems and domestic violence history.  Tunsil was an impossible pick for Ray Rice's former team to replace Eugene Monroe.

I'd rather see us trade away the 6th overall than to waste it on someone who would be only be a marginal addition to our team.

Stanely.