Ravens Trade WR/KR David Reed to Colts for RB Delone Carter

[The Raven]

Sources!?!

 

For the trade? The freaking homepage of this site. Reported by a lot of writers too.

[BOLDnPurPnBlacK]

For the trade? The freaking homepage of this site. Reported by a lot of writers too.

 

Easy now.

 

No, Seahawk and his supposed trade for a WR.

 

Thought I quoted but apparently not.

[mgridda]

Larry Fitzgerald for Ray Rice >__>

[BMORE_96]

Looking like we trading a stud rb for stud receiver. It just makes sense. People on this board, you know who you are, have complained about rices in effectiveness rushing for a long time. Well, this is what happens. Pierce is a better runner and an above average receiver. We can't have everything guys. We can't complain about not giving joe weapons then admonishing the franchise for trading a favorite player. Also, trading rice was gonna happen eventually when pierce got too good .

For all those naysayers, pierce is being paid practically nothing. Rice counts 8 mil . We need the cap space from rice to make a trade for presumably a stud receiver. If there is a trade it is rice.

Again, having two featured backs Is nice . Having a well balanced offense is better , especially in today's nfl. I mean isn't wide receiver and quarterback the positions that have kept us from winning a Super Bowl until last year.

I may be wrong here; I also could be right. Isn't it fitting with the current trend of change to make one big one two weeks before the season opener.

Here we are!!

[GrimCoconut]

Looking like we trading a stud rb for stud receiver. It just makes sense. People on this board, you know who you are, have complained about rices in effectiveness rushing for a long time. Well, this is what happens. Pierce is a better runner and an above average receiver. We can't have everything guys. We can't complain about not giving joe weapons then admonishing the franchise for trading a favorite player. Also, trading rice was gonna happen eventually when pierce got too good .

For all those naysayers, pierce is being paid practically nothing. Rice counts 8 mil . We need the cap space from rice to make a trade for presumably a stud receiver. If there is a trade it is rice.

Again, having two featured backs Is nice . Having a well balanced offense is better , especially in today's nfl. I mean isn't wide receiver and quarterback the positions that have kept us from winning a Super Bowl until last year.

I may be wrong here; I also could be right. Isn't it fitting with the current trend of change to make one big one two weeks before the season opener.

Here we are!!

Are you seriously suggesting we'll trade Ray Rice?

[The Raven]

Easy now.

 

No, Seahawk and his supposed trade for a WR.

 

Thought I quoted but apparently not.

 

My bad.

[HockeyAndRavens]

We're definetly not trading Rice...

[Florida Ravens Fan]

I hope not I just bought a Rice jersey lol.

[BOLDnPurPnBlacK]

Looking like we trading a stud rb for stud receiver. It just makes sense. People on this board, you know who you are, have complained about rices in effectiveness rushing for a long time. Well, this is what happens. Pierce is a better runner and an above average receiver. We can't have everything guys. We can't complain about not giving joe weapons then admonishing the franchise for trading a favorite player. Also, trading rice was gonna happen eventually when pierce got too good .

For all those naysayers, pierce is being paid practically nothing. Rice counts 8 mil . We need the cap space from rice to make a trade for presumably a stud receiver. If there is a trade it is rice.

Again, having two featured backs Is nice . Having a well balanced offense is better , especially in today's nfl. I mean isn't wide receiver and quarterback the positions that have kept us from winning a Super Bowl until last year.

I may be wrong here; I also could be right. Isn't it fitting with the current trend of change to make one big one two weeks before the season opener.

Here we are!!

 

I cant agree. Rice has been our most productive weapon and one of the most consistently productive in the league over the past 3-4 years.

 

Pierce hasn't proven he can be the primary runner yet and trading Rice for a receiver doesn't make much sense. Trade an almost guaranteed 1300-2000 yards, for a WR who even if it was Calvin Johnson could only hope to match the production.

[jimmypowder]

[quote name="BOLDnPurPnBlacK" post="1548383" timestamp="1377123173"] I cant agree. Rice has been our most productive weapon and one of the most consistently productive in the league over the past 3-4 years. Pierce hasn't proven he can be the primary runner yet and trading Rice for a receiver doesn't make much sense. Trade an almost guaranteed 1300-2000 yards, for a WR who even if it was Calvin Johnson could only hope to match the production.[/quote] I'd trade Rice for Megatron in a New York minute.

[codizzle]

I cant agree. Rice has been our most productive weapon and one of the most consistently productive in the league over the past 3-4 years.

Pierce hasn't proven he can be the primary runner yet and trading Rice for a receiver doesn't make much sense. Trade an almost guaranteed 1300-2000 yards, for a WR who even if it was Calvin Johnson could only hope to match the production.

Agree but I'm pretty sure CJ could match that easily

[jaege]

Whatever.  On a team that needs WR help, we trade one away for a frustrating RB.  
 
I've never been the biggest Reed fan, but now it seems like we are just getting Caldwell's guys that no one wants.

I think Harbs is smarter than that, although why an RB is beyond me. And as far as Reed, good riddance. About time they dumped that guy. Sorry Reed fanboys.

[BMORE_96]

Well, if the receiver position is so bad and the rbs are the deepest on the team. It works. We had to bring in an old man, brandon,to brew competition - very unsettling. Logically, it makes sense.rice has not been incredible lately and give me one reason pierce won't be better then him by next year. Why waste our elite qbs talent by running the ball . He got paid , now fling it. Of course, we will all be sentimental and what not. However, aren't we mad about our offensive struggles ? Which is better: a repeat or a two headed running attack?

Like I said I could be wrong BUT I could be right.

[SecretAgentMan]

Agree but I'm pretty sure CJ could match that easily

I'm thinking. Do you REALLY want Joe to have a real WR to lob it up too lol(like people claim Q was)?

[BOLDnPurPnBlacK]

Well, if the receiver position is so bad and the rbs are the deepest on the team. It works. We had to bring in an old man, brandon,to brew competition - very unsettling. Logically, it makes sense.rice has not been incredible lately and give me one reason pierce won't be better then him by next year. Why waste our elite qbs talent by running the ball . He got paid , now fling it. Of course, we will all be sentimental and what not. However, aren't we mad about our offensive struggles ? Which is better: a repeat or a two headed running attack?

Like I said I could be wrong BUT I could be right.

 

 

So bringing in a WR guarantees a repeat? Yet, without Rice last year (and oh btw while having another WR like Boldin and add Pitta) we probably wouldn't have even made the playoffs.

 

I can easily ask you to provide any basis to say that Pierce will def be better than Rice by next year - you cant.

 

And no, im not mad about the offensive struggles bc I don't even know theyre struggles yet. We hold back in preseason plain and simple. Theres no scheming we're just asking guys to go win 1-on-1 match ups.

 

Finally, all youre basically saying is Unicorns are real! Bigfoot just ate them all.... Hey I could be wrong, but I could be right.

[Bullrush]

Odd timing, I always liked Reed. Not sure why we would need another RB when we have a big hole at WR, yet we're the ones giving up the receiver. But I'll go with whatever Ozzie does.

[big daddy ray]

this trade is like someone with bad breath worrying about how their hair looks..

 

unless

 

The Ray Rice scenario is compelling, trading a workhorse while he still has his prime intact and we can get the most for him; trade wise.

 

On the other hand, trading baby ray is rather laughable...

 

I've actually come out of lurking because the suspense is killing me.

[berad]

Where did this Ray Rice stuff come from?

[BOLDnPurPnBlacK]

Odd timing, I always liked Reed. Not sure why we would need another RB when we have a big hole at WR, yet we're the ones giving up the receiver. But I'll go with whatever Ozzie does.

 

Throwing more bodies at the WR problem isn't the answer.

 

At the very least it saves money, at the very best it saves money and provides an upgrade behind Pierce while losing nothing.

 

BUT if Reed does anything substantial on offense for the Colts I may lose faith in our ability to develop receivers.

[SecretAgentMan]

Where did this Ray Rice stuff come from?

Poes Crows.

If we get the guy I think we could be getting (not a rice trade), it should shut everyone up lol.

We will forget about Q

[PuRock]

Where did this Ray Rice stuff come from?

Yea, not sure how signing Carter means the end for Rice. More like Allen or Berry.

[berad]

Poes Crows.

If we get the guy I think we could be getting (not a rice trade), it should shut everyone up lol.

We will forget about Q

And that is?

[rmw10]

Where did this Ray Rice stuff come from?

People that don't understand football.

[SecretAgentMan]

Yea, not sure how signing Carter means the end for Rice. More like Allen or Berry.

Ppl think Pierce is good enough, and that this makes Rice expendable.

[radicals]

Pierce and Rice are both great RBs. I don't think we would trade either one.

[Bullrush]

Throwing more bodies at the WR problem isn't the answer.

 

At the very least it saves money, at the very best it saves money and provides an upgrade behind Pierce while losing nothing.

 

BUT if Reed does anything substantial on offense for the Colts I may lose faith in our ability to develop receivers.

 

Getting rid of guys competing for that job isn't the answer either. Reed showed flashes here and there, the coaches have talked him up ever since he got drafted, he had a decent shot at doing something solid at WR, rather than just being a return guy. Whether he'd ever end up being a #1 receiver isn't the issue, but he'd give the other young guys a run for it and that's what we won't have now, one less guy to push the rest. And I'm not sure if it saves any money, it's not like he made a lot of money, barely anything, and the new guy probably makes around the same I'd assume. But we'll see.

[radicals]

Maybe someone should make a new thread about these rumors? It seems a bit odd to be reading about it on a thread about trading David Reed.

[SecretAgentMan]

And that is?

Stud WR Moore of course.

[arnie_uk]

There's a handful wideouts I'd trade rice for straight up. But rice was drafted here is a close to elite player. We look after those types of players. He won't be traded

[RavensAllTheWay]

So much for that contract extension I didn't get.