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Camp is on the IR, and Lewis is a better safety than Brooks (coverage-wise).

Gonna start the season with only two healthy backs, and one of them (Buck Allen) is average at best. Also, thought Brooks was sure to make the team, and Butler too especially with Camp on the IR. Don't get it.

Good for Orr. He has worked hard and earned a shot to start. KC will have a year or so to develop into a starting ILB or OLB and can be a disruptive sub this year. Glad to see that guys like Brown, Elam and Brooks all looked "better" this last preseason game, but they are each so far relative busts if they can't crack a starting lineup by their 2nd/3rd year.

KC looked pretty good on the outside, with a couple of QB hits and he really stood up the TE when they tried a sweep to his side. I was hoping to see more of Ochi...perhaps they are trying to hide him.

Stop chugging the kool aid buddy. I rather have 1 stud RB than 4 mediocre RBs like we seem to have. West's 2.8YPC and Allen's 1YPC yesterday was nothing to rave about. Our defence still has no punch. We still look like a 6-10 / 7-9 team at best. Considering West had two goal line carries, he didn't have much room to rack up his YPC stats.

Ravens have a wonderfully difficult choice to make with the RB position. Heck, event the #6 guy on the depth chart, Houston, looked quick running off right tackle. At this point, I'd say Tally is a roster casualty, and the Ravens will have to keep 4 RBs which will impact other roster needs. The real bright spot here is the offensive line. Stanley looked really good at LT, as did Alex Lewis. Vlad Ducasse also got some shove up front and Hurst is much better at guard than tackle. I'm still not sold on Zuttah at center, and Jensen or Urschel may push him for the starting job. I'm really most intrigued by Nembot, who is very athletic for a dude of his size. I hope we can hang on to him.

Sounds like a buddy cop movie from the '80s. Which one is the renegade loose cannon with an attitude who gets the job done? We need that guy.

Ozzie & Co. found gold in the 4th round of the last 3 drafts, with all the guys starting or getting significant playing time (how did we let John Simon go?). Now how does the high number of lower-round guys making the team correlate to wins? Lately, it hasn't.

They might keep him where he's at and have him be an edge-setting OLB guy to replace Upshaw.

Some of us have been hanging out at the AFCN corner of thesidelinereport. Lower-class clientele that are demented and sad, but social.

Ravens really stocking picks in the 4th, which would make sense if we were rebuilding like the Browns. Too many folks to make the roster, for sure. Best case, one of them hits, and the rest make for a really solid practice squad that gets picked over by injury-depleted teams throughout the season.

Careful, Biscuit, or the league will sandwich a London "home" game between west coast road games.

Without knowing the draft outcome, I think Orr would be perfectly fine and hope that Arthur Brown can develop into a situational pass-rusher.

Agreed that these older free agents make the Ravens better on paper, but they are an indictment against the team's recent ability to draft and develop players worth starting or retaining during Harbaugh's tenure as coach. It is uncharacteristic of an Ozzie-run team, which begs the question of how much influence Harbs has on draft day or how well the coaching staff prepares or schemes for the use of talent they do have.

Wow, he left (or was allowed to leave) for just a 1-yr deal? Won't be much of a comp pick there. He wasn't a dynamic pass rusher, but he did set the edge dependably and was rarely hurt. There's been a worrying trend during the Harbaugh era of draft picks not working out or sticking around past their rookie deals. As a result, the team has gotten older at key positions as they backfill with veterans. I sure a player like Dwight Freeney may be on his way to Baltimore to add depth behind Upshaw. In a way, he'd be the anti-Upshaw; older and one-dimensional in favor of the pass rush vice the run.

Why not? He's 2 inches taller and only 10lbs lighter than Dumervil. If he were to play outside permanently, he'd have to get bigger and stronger. Can't coach speed and athleticism, though.

Rex Ryan would know exactly how to creatively use this guy. He could be an Adages Thomas type. Some say that, if not for the knee injury (which was minor compared with an ACL) he's be a top pick.

he could easily play nickle corner or play deep with weddle in cover 2 for instance. we play nickle and sub packages a lot. $9+M is a lot to pay a possible nickel CB (who got torched covering the slot last year). At this point, the Ravens may cut him to nab the $3.6M in cap savings, even though the dead money hangover would be tough to swallow for a couple of years.

So because we had money invested in something and it wasn't working out we should ignore it? great way of upgrading your roster No. I'm suggesting that adding additional resources to what looked to be an at least average safety situation doesn't make sense if it comes at the expense of bolstering a below-average left side of the OL and suspect WR corps. The secondary actually showed signs of improvement last year down the stretch yet we again start a season with numerous question marks surrounding our massive investment in Flacco.

With Weddle, the Ravens will have further increased their NFL-leading commitment of $17M in cap money to the safety position. Now they are really out of whack. Where does Webb go now? He's too hobbled to play corner any longer, and the dead money tied to his contract should he be cut is too high.

This really highlights some of the recent failures of the draft to develop players at needed positions. With Watson, who seems serviceable though aged, the Ravens will have committed over $17M to the TE position. It's turning into the same black hole as the safety position, where the Ravens have committed over $13M. These should have been two positions effectively and affordably covered by mid-round draft picks, but that has not been the case.

Between the excessive (and so far underperforming)at safety and tight end, the Ravens are digging themselves a hole in shoring up other positions. Glad they are looking at bolstering the O-Line as well, but one wonders why they allowed the prospective KO in waiting, "Quadzilla" Myers, to get snatched away from them twice?

KO did well at LT for 4 games...but those games were not against teams with elite edge rushers. If he can play LT at top-5 Guard money, that would be a bargain, though. At least he won't get bull-rushed and chucked into Flack's knee like Hurst, or be lazing away on the trainer's table like Monroe.

Injuries aside, there seems to be a major disconnect between Ozzie and Pees in terms of talent selection and fit for scheme/coaching for technique. Either the talent isn't up to snuff, or the scheme is flawed and/or the coaching is suspect.

I'd like to see Pags or Schwartz replace Pees. Schwartz built the Bills into a #2 Defense, which Rex then turned into a bottom 5 unit.