In Ozzie We Trust (The Ravens Free Agency Thread)

SecretAgentMan
By SecretAgentMan in Ravens Talk,
Well Ravens fans, it's the offseason, and as usual, it looks like all hell is seemingly going to break loose.

According to many fans

We overpayed for a QB that still sucks even tho he had the greatest postseason run ever
We are now rumored to be cutting our best WR.
Oh, and we are also on the verge of loosing our best pass rusher.

Well, from what I can see, this is exactly like last year....

We lost a great LB in JJ
Lost an all pro guard in Grubbs
Lost a veteran DE in Redding

So... What's up with the pattern, cause last time I checked, we weren't supposed to make the playoffs with these losses.....

I'll tell you what happened. Oz upgraded and came through....

He trusted Art, who exploded last year
Drafted one hell of a draft to go get KO and Upshaw.
Upgrades in ST in the process...

So now we have a similar deal

We are about to cut a WR.

Business as usual. When Ozzie does this, he finds value that is equal or potentially greater... Or he goes to upgrade to another position. Depending on the deals we give Ellerbe and Reed, there are a lot of things we could potentially do with the money left over.... Maybe Ozzie gives both of them Cap friendly deals and heavily decides to peruse a big name FA worth 6 million or more (although highly unlikely) Jake Long with his price going down maybe? Sammie Lee Hill? DRC? Who knows.

All IK, is that Ozzie has big plans for FA. 6 million is a lot to free. Giving us about 22 million in cap. The money will prob go to Ellerbe and Reed....And we will prob bring Boldin back for cheap.

But why all the complaining?

Ozzie is the coach of the offseason. The best in the biz........ I trust him. You should too. We did just win a SB.

This isn't my typical positivity thread. We didn't lose anything, I don't feel like crap.. It's just Ozzie knows what he's doing.

I hear many say that Ozzie sucks in FA. Well, explain why all of our FA were huge in the SB run.
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