The Raven

Lmao, you were more than fair with me

@berad thanks for the shout out. Wishing you the best. Thanks for your tolerance. You're a good dude. Going off of that, I want to give a final, and sincere, apology and thank you, to the mods, particularly Berad, @Moderator 3, and @The Mom Gene. Y'all are good people.

Just about all of this is wrong. 1. The mods have always deleted posts and threads. Take that from a guy that's probably had a few hundred deleted in my time here. those rules were in place during this place's peak. 2. As for the idea that we're in a club and people stopped because of that, well, that's just reaching. That's moronic. The boards were always cliquey, even going back to 2009 when I started here. I feel like I've been one of the cliquey folks. That's not the factor. The thing is that most people came here for hot takes, engagement, and discussions with other Ravens fans. With the ever increasing prominence of Facebook and Twitter, that function mattered less, leaving only the people who came here for discourse deeper than knee jerk reactions and hot takes. And with the growth of other forums at RSR and Reddit, the already small presence of message boarders who enjoy actual discussion was spread thin and distributed between the forums. TL;DR? People like Facebook because they only have to read a sentence. When Facebook got even more popular, message boards, which require some level of literacyy, got less popular. We're not a society that values depth or complexity in discussion.

I think you're a little far down the rabbit hole with that one. I don't think that's it at all.

Follow up question: Why close the board if it wasn't a financial decision? I can understand closing a slowing board if the financials were a burden, but if it wasn't a financial decision, why do it at all? Further, if the issue is human capital, shouldn't there be less time/effort spent if engagement is declining? Are mods not volunteers? I don't want to minimize what they do by any means, but it is volunteer work that they choose to do. Frankly, I don't see how much thought went into this at all. I'm not seeing any good reason to close this.

Okay, gotcha. Thanks. Was hoping we got a guy that was more of a potential single high, but a sixth round pick for Anthony Levine isn't a bad deal.

So what's the skinny on this guy?

Oof. Good luck and take it easy man.

Lmao, same, tbh. And ya know, I still can't make sense of inside zone Oh how I wish quality, intellectual discussion (as intellectual as football can get) was rewarded and not killed.

That's a brilliant idea. I feel capable of doing DT's, too. But hey. Who's got WRs? Hell, if you do good enough for the forum, Ozzie has a job for you.

Today, on this idea, I read an article that said, "Every coach that wants to base their run game around a non-power scheme will undoubtedly start by justifying how he can do so while still bringing a physical approach." And ya know, as the article hinted, it's just difficult to bring a physical approach to zone. Without physicality, you're not striking fear into the hearts of linebackers. But if you bring the hurt, those linebackers think twice about that whole "run stuffing" thing.

I've already signed up for BmorePupnBlackwhateverhisname's board. Hope to see all of you there (except for like half of you honestly lol kidding but only kinda)

And even as someone who played and had an overwhelming compulsion to study the game and watch film, I frequently learn from folks like @BmoreBird22 and @JoeyFlex5 who know infinitely more than I do in some subject areas. I didn't know the first thing about coverages until Bmorebird got here.

Oh I've seen it. I just don't consider myself knowledgable enough to opine on a backer's coverage ability. Corners, maybe, but definitely not backers or safeties. I know sort of what to look for in a corner. Not so much with a backer or a safety.

If we're being technical, power is in the gap blocking category. Power isn't really a scheme. It's a play, or a small handful of plays, in the gap family. The phrase "power blocking" is kind of a misnomer that's applied to gap schemes because it sounds sexier.

I kinda feel like Bowser is finally our mulligan for what Arthur Brown was supposed to be -- a true coverage backer that plays almost like a safety. Arthur had the moves but not the head for that. He was always lost

Gap and power go hand in hand if you ask me. Same basic principles apply to both. That is my concern with him. Not the best at locking on in space. Not sure why either since his combine numbers are good. Maybe it's just crappy footwork. He does have a tendency to lunge and reach, in line and on the move. Both are bad traits but are correctable.

Wow, so you're sustaining the part of the site absent of real discourse, while eliminating the only place discussion occurs? Good thinking. Thanks for your contribution to the dumbing down of society.

I've read that he's considered by some to be the top coverage backer in the draft class.

You're not wrong, but there's nothing inherently bad about valuing the things that you can't teach in the NFL, like speed, size, and tackling. You can teach routes and awareness. Can't teach speed or size, and contrary to popular belief, you can't coach tackling either. By the time you're in the NFL, you're a finished product in the tackling department.

Just popping in to say there's not really a correlation between passing scheme and blocking scheme in terms of man vs zone. Coryell can work with zone as it did with Cam in 2011 (when we actually started the wide zone) and west coast can work with power as seen by the Jim Harbaugh era 49ers and the Patriots. The difference between Coryell and west coast is more so with the splits and footwork. You'll see deeper, vertical sets with longer/larger linemen in the coryell and you'll see more horizontal, aggressive, short sets with more mobile/compact linemen in the west coast. Also don't waste your time with Jazz. Rarely knows anything at all.

I do, primarily because he's got the size to compete from day one. All he has to worry about his technique

Torrey as a rookie still put up better numbers than Perriman did in his first active year. Just sayin'. And Perriman was supposedly more well-rounded with better hands. What gives?

Many of Pitta's catches came on five yard button hooks or flats. Easy catches to make. Easy to get open when you sit down in front of the zone. People will say that we were easing Perriman in, but I do not think we used him enough last year. Not enough snaps. Not enough crossing routes. Not enough timing routes. We underused him across the board, and I'm simply not sure how he'll adjust as we give him a fuller route tree. We're gonna need him or Moore to be the Boldin/Steve type, because Wallace isn't filling that role.

I do think that, unless Perriman steps up, the Super Bowl group was better than the current group. Pitta now is terrible in comparison to what he was, and Boldin made tough catches that nobody on our roster makes now. If Perriman steps up bigly, we'll get close, but...