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      2 hours ago, JetLife94 said:
      4 hours ago, harfordravenfan said:
      4 hours ago, JetLife94 said:

    Will next years comp pick for osemele be negated?? Because we signed Watson whom is UFA?

    If upshaws signs somewhere, it would negate the Watson signing

    Thanks!

    Doesn't look like the ravens want to sign upshaw. And to be honest cant blame them. Love the guy, but meritocracy has become a theme lately.

    In fact tell me one play maker on the ravens that isn't coming off a severe injury. Can't name one. And the coaches that have left haha. Of course Pagano, Rex Ryan , and Mrvin Lewis. But its not them. When you have Reed, Ray Lewis, Nagta, and Suggs it will make any coach look good. Havent seen too many coaches signed since than. And Bernard Pallard, what a play maker, unlike Hill, but of course Harbough did away with that, he wanted a coach able team. Well now u have it, and without your iconic payers, see how you do now. The Ravens are soft. Hope it changes.

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    Sounds like sour grapes to me. I think he felt offended that we didint offer him what he wanted. After we signed Yanda last year he should have seen the writing on the wall. Most players are only in it to make as much money as they can while they can. A few select players around the league find a home and love their teams. We broke NGata's heart by trading him away while people like Kruger or KO could really care less where they play. Good luck to KO while he kills time in OAK before moving on to the next place in a few years. Money is great but time and memories are more valuable.

    We never broke Ngatas heart, he was by far the most greediest player I think the Ravens ever had. I mean he held out on his rookie contract lol and then two more times, I think we had to franchise him twice. As much as people may hate me for saying this, but I was happy when Ngata left, all he cared about was money.

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      32 minutes ago, Matty G said:

    Are the Ravens back to pushing money down the road. Impossible to fill all the holes this year and I hope it is not at the expense of the Ravens future. One restructure is one thing, but two? I guess they want the most COMPETITIVE TEAM, but the Ravens seem like a two year project not one (maybe, maybe playoffs, but realistically I doubt we win the AFC North, so I don't understand the restructures now, given this has to be looked as a rebuilding year). This does not make too much sense......but what do I know

    There is nothing wrong with freeing up cap space and pushing the cap hit down the line. Realistically you only do this with players that you believe will be good down the road, as the typical outcome is usually an extension being worked out to flatten the cap hit. Ravens are not the only team to use this tactic, but as I said you only really see this move with 'safe' players, who's value will still be there down the road.

    Yea, I mean I understand they want to free up cap space and if the Ravens were a legitimate contender with a shot at a Superbowl run, I would be all for it, as so they can put the best team on the field. But with the amount of holes the Ravens have, it just doesn't make sense for them to do it at this time. They are going with a win now approach, but unfortunately we are short too many pieces and 14 mill isn't going to solve the Ravens problems. Trying to be as unpessimistic as possible but sometimes it's hard hah

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      3 minutes ago, Matty G said:

    Are the Ravens back to pushing money down the road. Impossible to fill all the holes this year and I hope it is not at the expense of the Ravens future. One restructure is one thing, but two? I guess they want the most COMPETITIVE TEAM, but the Ravens seem like a two year project not one (maybe, maybe playoffs, but realistically I doubt we win the AFC North, so I don't understand the restructures now, given this has to be looked as a rebuilding year). This does not make too much sense......but what do I know

    I guess we have to trust in our organization to do the right thing. I'm sure they know what they are doing by this time. Don't you?

    Hope so

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    Are the Ravens back to pushing money down the road. Impossible to fill all the holes this year and I hope it is not at the expense of the Ravens future. One restructure is one thing, but two? I guess they want the most COMPETITIVE TEAM, but the Ravens seem like a two year project not one (maybe, maybe playoffs, but realistically I doubt we win the AFC North, so I don't understand the restructures now, given this has to be looked as a rebuilding year). This does not make too much sense......but what do I know

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    I don't know who most of these "Draftniks" are but if Tunsil is there at 6 you will see us running to the podium. If there is one thing we know about mock drafts it's that they are always wrong. I'm still hoping someone will trade up to pick a second QB ahead of us. SD could also surprise and take a OT. That could make 2 OT and 2 QB's taken ahead of us. Wishful thinking

    Yea supposedly this guy Tunsil is a stud, maybe if he is there at 4 the ravens move up to get him, assuming we won't deplete too many draft picks doing that. Not sure if Stanley is worth #6, they say he could be a minor project whereas Tunsil would be a plug and chug.

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    He's decent, he played decent. if we get better, he's a good sub. I'm sure we didn't over pay. I want us to get a CB in the first round. Let's get Alexander. He's a play maker. If you want someone that could be a star, I believe he will be available , even if we trade back a few. he's a first rounder, but not going to be the first CB taken. If we could trade back, get Alexander and get another player too, win win.

    Yea supposedly the Ravens are very high on Hargreaves and should def be there at number six. Would love to get a pass rusher, but with the holes on the Ravens, the best player available scenario seems to make sense and we need more corners. With Jimmy, Hargreaves and Wright playing for at least 3 more years together would be pretty cool. Hopefully this defense see's a little light, since it has been dark times since Ed Reed and Ray vacated.

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    now, slap 2nd rounder on AIKEN, re-sign GIVEN- he will breakout since all the attention will b on PERRIMAN/SSS/AIKEN. our WRs should be fine next season, with SSS, aiken, perriman, butler, givens, mathews, d.brown.

    Not really. Right now Kamar Aiken is our number one receiver. We have no idea how SSS is going to come back from injury and Breshad Perriman is still unproven. The rest of the list is mediocre at best. If they were any good I am sure we would have seen it. Companaro is great in the slot, but is not healthy ever, and is still unproven in my opinion.

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      23 minutes ago, Matty G said:

    I am not sure why people keep referring to the second half of the season as being a success lol What happened to the first half, I would have to say last year was the worst defense in a very very long time. All in all good signing, I am glad to see the Ravens are signing their own free agents and hopefully we can keep Monroe. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if the Ravens took this guy Hargreaves, supposedly the Ravens have him ranked extremely high, and that would be great to have those 3. And maybe we keep Arrington, and use him where he excels (not the outside Pees) although Webb was such a liability that I guess they felt more comfortable having Arrington on the outside, which says what about Webb? Hopefully we could get a free safety. Love Webb, but you have to at least count him absent for at least 4 games of the season. At least that is what his track record has been. All in all sigh hah, so many pieces, guess we can really only address one at a time. I am ready for draft time.

    Assuming you meant KO??

    Yes......my bad

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    I am not sure why people keep referring to the second half of the season as being a success lol What happened to the first half, I would have to say last year was the worst defense in a very very long time. All in all good signing, I am glad to see the Ravens are signing their own free agents and hopefully we can keep Monroe. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if the Ravens took this guy Hargreaves, supposedly the Ravens have him ranked extremely high, and that would be great to have those 3. And maybe we keep Arrington, and use him where he excels (not the outside Pees) although Webb was such a liability that I guess they felt more comfortable having Arrington on the outside, which says what about Webb? Hopefully we could get a free safety. Love Webb, but you have to at least count him absent for at least 4 games of the season. At least that is what his track record has been. All in all sigh hah, so many pieces, guess we can really only address one at a time. I am ready for draft time.

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      17 hours ago, thecommish said:

    Upshaw is worth more to the Ravens then just about anywhere else. Not too many teams are going to be willing to pay him top $ to be a 1 dimensional LB.... The Ravens however are more then happy with what Upshaw brings to the rotation. Upshaw needs to re-sign here and drop 10-12 pounds and light it up next season.

    its all about the dollars

    I really doubt other teams would offer Upshaw more than 3 mill average a year. I mean he is a situation player and his value is def worth more to the Ravens than any other team. And I really hope we can keep KO, Im sure this is priority number one for the Ravens. Losing KO would be a real bummer for sure

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      22 minutes ago, Matty G said:

    Come on you little jerk, just sign a long term deal. I would think the process wouldn't be overwhelming given the highest paid kicker still makes peanuts in comparison to other positions...........but we could use a little more cap space

    You do realize the franchise offer he's getting paid this year is probably less than what he would get if he had a long term deal.  

    So him signing the franchise offer helps our cap situation better than a deal.

    Haha, I was just joking. And a long term deal is way better for the franchise than a franchise tag. The hits get spread out and only a portion is guaranteed. Also, by paying him this year we save money, cause I am sure his value goes even higher next year

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      6 hours ago, jravens13 said:

    That's how they should have structured the first deal after the SB. Inflation adjusted with cap increases. We can work with those numbers but they would be lower if we did things right the first time.

    Joe's cap hits for the first three years of his post super bowl deal were $6.8M, $14.8M, $14.5M.

    Why on earth would you want to strap us more in years with a smaller cap than the current one by making his capnumbers north of $20M all three of those years instead? How would that have helped us back then?

    There's no question that when the time came Joe would be ready to negotiate a new extension, so why would you NOT give him a backloaded contracted to maximize your cap space and go after more trophies?

    We did do things right the first time.

    Are you serious? Then we would be back in the same position we are in now and would end up paying more in the long run. So so happy this contract is not backloaded. Remember you can't just buy a team. Besides, the holes the Ravens have, we could have a 100 mill in cap space and still have holes (hopefully I am wrong of course)

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      10 hours ago, BR News said:

    No more contract restructuring will be necessary. Flacco could retire a Raven.

    Technically true, but he's still probably gonna get a new extension in 2020. $28M on a single player is a steep price no matter who it is, always wanna smooth that out if you can. 

    I don't think so, his cap numbers seem pretty even, and 28 mill this year is a lot of dough, but three years from now I don't think will be bad at all. Also, I think his final year carries zero dead money which I think is interesting. All in all, def happy with this contract.........happy it is not back loaded, and there will be no more surprises

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    I was thinking 2.5-3 mill max a year would be a good number for Upshaw. Can't really see teams paying more due to his sack numbers. And I am hoping Kelechi doesn't want anything north of 9. I think the Ravens would def bring him back at 8-9 mill a year. I am curious of what their previous offer was. It would be great if we could resign all of our important free agents and try to keep this team together.

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      10 minutes ago, merryjman said:

    Wrong on all counts! This was designed to be a 3-year contract all along; both Flacco's agent and Ozzie said so. The backloading is what kept our salary cap manageable for the first 3 years, and that's what the extension does too. So this was actually the smart way to pay the Super Bowl MVP the money he demanded.

    Well, yes and no.

    It was always designed to be a three year deal, but the whole concept of keeping his cap numbers small in the short term backfired, considering it didn't really help us from a W/L perspective. We've been basically a .500 team in the three years with low cap numbers, which wasn't the goal when we set out to do it.

    The new extension will have much higher cap numbers across the board, and you certainly won't see anything near the large annual increases that we've seen in the past. He will have cap numbers north of $20M every year from here on out... something he's yet to have in his entire career.

    Well I always bashed the Ravens organization for the back loaded contracts, and cap situation. But I learned Flacco is different. It wasn't the Ravens that wanted really low cap hits and then a huge spike, that was how Joe Flacco and his agent wanted it. It is a safety net for Joe and his agent, because they know in 3 years they are both getting more guaranteed money, and zero possibility that Joe would get traded or released. With Ozzy saying he may eat the money this year........which by the way, is not what Joe or Linta wanted, which is why they scheduled the contract this way, I am hoping for more even cap hits, even if they are north of 20 mill a year. Looking at what couzins and Bradfor just got I guess noone can really complain.

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