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still got waller and boyle for the preseason i think

i definitely voted for brown when this poll first turned up just out of hope that he could finally make the leap and win the starting job - but obviously that doesn't look like its even a remote possibility - it looks like he isnt even earning any rotational reps - when you're missing a starting ILB and a couple of safeties are noticeably getting reps ahead of you then it looks like the answer to the question who will start is "anyone but arthur brown"

as far as im aware, Harbs isnt an idiot - onwuasor was really being that reckless or dangerous something would have been said or he would have been sent from the practice field or he would have been sent packing by Ozzie - the fact that none of those things appear to have happened leads me to believe that the hits were fine which would suggest they are the kind of hits i want more of as a ravens fan

It is scary to think what might have been if belichick had been in Baltimore from the beginning. Considering the number of drafts the patriots just completely tune out of when they don't like the draft class - you have Ozzie tuned in and giving him consistently good classes and you might have had golddust.

johnny... is that you?

what's more likely to come up with points? a 55 yarder as time expires or a hail mary as time expires? harbs should just keep doing what he's doing

Bold Prediction: not one journeyman or rookie will become a preseason darling this year

oh prophet, what will the rest of our record be - i'm gonna be busy most of the autumn so can you tell me who wins now so i dont have to find time to watch?

our special teams unit was the best in the league last year, and what did you expect the offense to do without flacco - and btw shaub isn't on the team anymore

no way - he'd get the money of an elite interior pass rusher and that's way too expensive even for one of the best nose tackles in the league

to be fair daniel brown did show something when he made it to the active roster at the end of season last year

I really feel for tunsil though, he was primed to go really early, was probably reading all the stuff that the media was pushing about him being the best oline prospect in years and then he had multiple bad things come out all at once and we have to remember that these are young guys still. I do feel sorry for him - at least until I remember how much he's getting paid. very much still glad that we got Stanley in stead even if it's just because he's charismatic. I'm personally going to temper my immediate expectations because I've seen how most of the recent rookie left tackles have struggled on entry but I'm hopeful that because he has such good footwork that he'll learn quickly and be able to recover well

jeez, until i saw the red i thought you were talking about price lol... i was just about to go "here we go again"

i guess though what this all really comes down to is my intense hope that campanaro can earn himself one last chance because i love watching him play when he's healthy

that's fair, but I think that this is a team that has quite a deep roster with usable backend of the roster types who are useful on special teams or as good depth - i don't think this will be a year for example where someone like terrance magee, who has absolutely no chance of doing anything significant, makes it normally i'd be with you on phantom ir but i think that this year there are too many intriguing prospects + i always get scared (most of the time irrationally) that other teams will poach our late round projects off waivers or off the practice squad because we normally draft well

i agree that i'd rather talent just come through - but it has worked in small ways at least in the past year if you look at jeremy butler for instance - i think it comes down to the fact that so many players improve drastically just from having longer in a system - ir candidates can still do the mental stuff and watch tape and be in the room - they just can't train if the other option is letting them go to another team and star there, i'd much rather them have a year off the field in the room and the system

well he must have been because that's who we picked

of course it does, but would i rather have camp take up that spot (someone who we know is a contributor and potential game breaker when healthy) of course i would, especially if reynolds isn't as likely to be used as much this of course is in the hypothetical situation that camp (or another wideout like butler or daniel brown or chris mathews) does well enough that reynolds could end up on phantom ir which in my eyes is the ideal scenario - because it means that someone won a camp battle against the odds rather than being gifted it

as was said above though, the actual route running skills and the art of being a receiver can be learned outside of the 53 - there's no point him being a developmental guy if he's inactive if a lot of his weekly work is going to be learning a position timing is important but he needs to get the position down first a lot of his timing in practices isn't going to be that useful anyway as he'd mostly be running not with the 1s so he'd be receiving passes from mallet or a ps qb

he may be able to work out timings etc. but what's the point - he'd be a gameday inactive most likely or the returner - and then what use is that chemistry... i agree that if he's beaten out by camp etc. then the best place for keenan is on phantom ir

what makes you think bradford is even close to flacco let alone better and cutler and cousins are definitely behind - flacco is a franchise quarterback, if the redskins thought cousins was as good as flacco they'd have paid him rather than franchised him, if bradford was as good as flacco he wouldn't have changed teams and the eagles wouldn't have drafted his replacement and if cutler was as good as flacco he wouldn't be labelled the coach killer for getting all his head coaches fired. At worst, flacco is around the 10th qb spot.

Hurst, not Jensen. And even then he accidentally fell after the whistle.

You're assuming there that no other team takes salary cap or anything into consideration. Otherwise we would never have allowed players like McPhee or Kruger, or Torrey go. Just because he was let go doesn't mean they wouldn't have confidently started him if he stayed.

Judon, Henry, Lewis, Reynolds will not make it to the practice squad that is why they will either make it on the roster or injured reserve - they are too interesting for other teams not to claim on waivers

Always looked forward to this article, I'm glad it's still going