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Almost certainly Sammie Coates is the odd man out but they'll keep him as long as they can before cutting him because of the drugs tightrope Bryant has to walk - also there's no way the steelers trade within the division unless they know Bryant's about to fail a test pittsburgh has Antonio brown, martavis Bryant, Eli rogers, juju smith-schuster as their top 4 and I think Sammie Coates was overtaken by a couple of others because he couldn't catch the ball so we aren't getting Bryant and I'm not sure Coates is worth anything given that we have enough deep speed guys with reliability concerns at the moment (not saying they won't improve)

surely not given that this is a 1 year thing... no team is giving up a 1st round pick for only 1 year of an injury prone guy... btw this is not me advocating us picking him up in a trade

Campanaro - I say it every year and hope it's true, he's still on the team (just about) so why change it this time? On a real note, it was nice to see him and Flacco together on the first day in Coach Saunders's training regime - when healthy Camp has always seemed to have the upside of a nice 3rd down safety valve and Flacco has always seemed to like throwing to him in his limited availability. Anyway, that is my hope for the coming year. If it comes to fruition... great but it hasn't yet.

This is the part of the reasoning that bugs me the most. Because there has been no evidence that they do actually value our "avid" support. And this unfortunately is the bit that feels almost disingenuously undervaluing the mods. Yes the mods may be dealing with more trolling and having to put in hard work but without them this board would essentially be a "budget" facebook - it is the mods taking away the trolling that allows conversation to take place - no one on this forum (I don't think) is debating that trolls are omnipresent but the reason none of us will talk football on facebook is because the mods cannot police it. The whole point is the users don't see the inappropriate comments etc. because that allows the community here to flourish. These are the things that I cannot get my head around still - the greatest thing about this forum is its access to intelligent discussion (for the mostpart) for literally all comers from anywhere in the world. Now not to stereotype but there are a lot of people on these forums who do have access to people with whom they can discuss the NFL and the Ravens but almost all of us foreigners and I imagine many US Ravens fans don't have access to discussion like that and communicating with fans on Facebook and Twitter (as many have mentioned including Admin 3) is not a replacement... and this is where my issue lies because if we are valued as a community and a group of fans then why is there no replacement space? Where should we go? I'm just disappointed, it's not that I don't think thought went into this decision, it's that I know thought did go into the decision and they still made this particular choice.

yup

oh yeah no worries at all - i was just talking about in terms of rugby the idea that he would have been around the sport even if he hadnt been playing organised sport - maybe even playing it in school... (depending on his schooling)

to be fair just growing up around soccer and rugby have similar skills and in much the same way that US kids will understand some things fundamentally about defending etc. almost by osmosis it will be the same for him - it's funny because the way you talk about that wing-back type defending style in soccer is similar to team drift defense schemes in rugby - i guess there are just techniques and similarities between a lot of different sports that carry over - you're right though that the wrestling is almost certainly the biggest deal

SCAM for SAM

oh right - so if you draft a guy like robinette or give them a contract but they are essentially unavailable you essentially might postpone part of the contract like if they were retired a la rolando mcclain?

rugby is the sport that probably will help his mirroring ability more than any of the other sports because of the way you defend in open space and the lightness you have to have on your feet when defending against guys with great footwork and side-steps/jukes but also the power to hold on and push back those guys - rugby defensive goal-line drills will probably really help him in terms of his drive blocking as a guard and finishing those blocks and ironically defending in space would give him skills that would probably help him as a corner - because of the body shaping and pushing attackers towards the sideline and the back pedal/hip fluidity required to be a good defender in space as a rugby player... if that was his body type/skillset in the nfl which it isnt lol but it should also transfer some ability to mirror well given some space to kickstep into the biggest thing he will lack is use of his anchor and engaging with his hands together and just general polish all around on the finer details

then ill be demanding all my tax money back for all those video screens sent up into space to make the earth look round

oh of course - i wasnt saying i was right either or that you were coming at williams im also going to admit that with the whole spinning in place nonsense i was talking about earlier i was actually thinking of taco charlton - however i do still see a lack of violence in harris's move that sometimes allows tackles just to hold onto a piece of him if he doesnt get the timing absolutely right - there's a good example of this vs kentucky and he's maybe a bit too trigger happy with the spin move situationally and it makes him a little 1-dimensional and obvious but hey if you can put the final sentence on who's right im absolutely down to be wrong lol

unfortunately the reason the texans could do that still is because the rest of their division sucked last year - i fully expect the titans to win that division this year no matter what happens with the texans the problem we have is that even the browns play us close - pittsburgh and cinci also are incredibly difficult opponents to play against when you have no qb - there'd still be an outside chance if this defense truly comes to fruition but it's not the same situation as with the texans

literally it did say that on the first page of the first draft game day thread... it literally said no announcing the picks please so you're just wrong

i dont know them but they posted on the new forum home thread: http://boards.baltimoreravens.com/topic/72491-a-new-forum-home/?page=4#comment-2591012

and look where it's got them lol - no playoff wins

it'll bite them some day the same way that vontaze burfict and adam jones single handedly lost them that playoff game vs pittsburgh

thanks so much - have you spoken to the purpleflock.com guys?

i think they both might be lol

jalen robinette might be a decent option anyway if he's allowed to come to training camp (not sure how it would work) but if not then essentially the military is ruining his career before it's started because in two years he'll be the forgotten man - they really should allow military guys to do their 2 years and then enter the draft... rather than enter the draft and not be able to play for 2 years

jalen robinette?

of course it's a community - i dont know why that's mutually exclusive from it being a place to discuss ravens related info if you dont like the way this forum works then dont use it... but there are clear rules that the mods work within which are signposted when you join the site - i dont know what you think we should do differently? should we not enjoy the draft coverage as a group if we want to? should we not agree with each other and disagree with you just because you dont want us to?

Just an interesting thing that was brought up on mmqb: it seems that because of the depth at both corner and edge rusher a trend emerged whereby zone heavy teams took edge rushers and press-man/man coverage scheme teams took corners early on it was an interesting nugget especially given we essentially emphasised both of those positions

i saw that too - when pulling it felt like he wasnt particularly powerful when he engaged and I hope it's easily correctable (I dont really know enough about line play to know how coachable it is) but I often felt like part of the reason he wasn't powerful was because he was struggling to get there with bad/slow footwork - it like you said it's about technique and 'bringing his feet with him' then i could see that as being correctable but i worry that he wont be quick enough to create a solid base when pulling

I feel like we should assemble Steve, Rayray, wisdom, purp...winchester and pay them to avenge us by assassinating any other team's remaining boards They can be the new Avengers