Very Early Predictions

[HomeoftheBRAVENS]

1.We add 2 new wrs.One from FA and one in one of the first 3 rounds of the draft.

2.As frustrating as it may be to ravens fans,Micheal Oher will be our starting right tackle.

3.Aaron Mellette picks up where he left off and has a Marlon Brownish type of sophomore year.

4.Flacco will publicly complain about the new system atleast once .

5.Flacco will bounce back with career highs in completion percentage,yards,yards per attempt,touchdowns and passer rating.

6.Rice and Pierce will combine for about 1700-1900 rush yards.

7.Pernell McPhee explodes onto the scene in the sack category in the final year of his contract.

8.Either Williams or Tyson has an Arthur Jones caliber year.

9.Arthur Brown continues to be a disappointment.

10.We finish the year 12-4 or better.

[tolucaraven]

Playoff team. Defense will be solid. Offense cant be worse ( not possible) noway line will be as bad, better at TE and WR. Rice will be in shape and injury free. Ravens likely to draft a RB in rounds 3-5 to push Rice and Pierce. Rice can lose 8 million if he doesnt produce. Noway, we see Shipley, Oher, Gradkowski, Clark starting this year..

[radicals]

8.Either Williams or Tyson has an Arthur Jones caliber year.

 

I see this happening, always been a fan of Tyson. Both of them should dominate next year

[Dr. Kelley]

Flacco breaks peytons yardage and td record and ray rice breaks tomilsons td record.

Heath Evans body goes super nova at the sight of awesomeness that the ravens display and Roger Goodell cancels the NFL because he refused to acknowledge all the records being broken by the ravens. Ray Lewis comes out of retirement and says no weapon formed against us shall prosper and forces Goodell to bring back football then goes backto being an analyst.

This is pretty much how I see next season panning out

[JoeyFlex5]

1.We add 2 new wrs.One from FA and one in one of the first 3 rounds of the draft.

2.As frustrating as it may be to ravens fans,Micheal Oher will be our starting right tackle.

3.Aaron Mellette picks up where he left off and has a Marlon Brownish type of sophomore year.

4.Flacco will publicly complain about the new system atleast once .

5.Flacco will bounce back with career highs in completion percentage,yards,yards per attempt,touchdowns and passer rating.

6.Rice and Pierce will combine for about 1700-1900 rush yards.

7.Pernell McPhee explodes onto the scene in the sack category in the final year of his contract.

8.Either Williams or Tyson has an Arthur Jones caliber year.

9.Arthur Brown continues to be a disappointment.

10.We finish the year 12-4 or better.

just asking, aren't you a known Arthur brown hater? like since before we even drafted him? or am I thinking of someone else?

[Ravenslifer]

1.We add 2 new wrs.One from FA and one in one of the first 3 rounds of the draft.

2.As frustrating as it may be to ravens fans,Micheal Oher will be our starting right tackle.

3.Aaron Mellette picks up where he left off and has a Marlon Brownish type of sophomore year.

4.Flacco will publicly complain about the new system atleast once .

5.Flacco will bounce back with career highs in completion percentage,yards,yards per attempt,touchdowns and passer rating.

6.Rice and Pierce will combine for about 1700-1900 rush yards.

7.Pernell McPhee explodes onto the scene in the sack category in the final year of his contract.

8.Either Williams or Tyson has an Arthur Jones caliber year.

9.Arthur Brown continues to be a disappointment.

10.We finish the year 12-4 or better.

 

And then becomes the next Ravens' defensive player to get a monster contract from some other team in FA?

[Dnyce215]

I predict Everyone will not stop complaining bout our cap, players not performing, coaches, game plans etc. All off season until first game of the season in September

[TDubbs]

4.Flacco will publicly complain about the new system atleast once .

5.Flacco will bounce back with career highs in completion percentage,yards,yards per attempt,touchdowns and passer rating.

 

 

I don't understand the logic here. If Flacco bounces back w/ career highs in completion percentage, yards, TD's and passer rating, why would he complain about the new system? Also, if you've seen any of Flacco's pressers the last 6 years, you know he won't complain about things like this. Not to be rude, but I just don't see the relation between either of those statements. 

[Militant X 1]

I can't lie all.  Last season, our offensive unit's lack of moving the chains consistently really pissed me off.  I lost ALL confidence on that side of the ball.  So, from here on out, I'm just watching and waiting to see what will be different next season.  I'm not predicting nothing!

 

Go Ravens!

[HomeoftheBRAVENS]

I don't understand the logic here. If Flacco bounces back w/ career highs in completion percentage, yards, TD's and passer rating, why would he complain about the new system? Also, if you've seen any of Flacco's pressers the last 6 years, you know he won't complain about things like this. Not to be rude, but I just don't see the relation between either of those statements. 

 

 

Joe has complained about what we do on offense before.He never had a full blown tantrum before,but he say's what he's not happy about all the time.I remember hearing him say we weren't aggressive enough and needed to stick with the hurry up in 2011 and 2012.He also let it be known that he was po'd about Zorn being fired.I'm not saying hell pout and cry but its not below him to say "hey,I don't like this and that".Even if he's having a great season,if we go through a rough stretch offensively and lose a game or two(which we probably will) he'll say what he doesn't think we should be doing anymore.I should've worded that better.I never meant that he would act diva like.

[HomeoftheBRAVENS]

just asking, aren't you a known Arthur brown hater? like since before we even drafted him? or am I thinking of someone else?

 

I am an Arthur Brown hater and I'm not the guy you're thinking about.I never heard of him before we drafted him.I only started disliking him after I went and watched the games from his senior year a week after the draft.Alec Ogletree was my guy going into the draft and I'm still mad that we let him get drafted 2 spots ahead of us.

[Ravenslifer]

Joe has complained about what we do on offense before.He never had a full blown tantrum before,but he say's what he's not happy about all the time.I remember hearing him say we weren't aggressive enough and needed to stick with the hurry up in 2011 and 2012.He also let it be known that he was po'd about Zorn being fired.I'm not saying hell pout and cry but its not below him to say "hey,I don't like this and that".Even if he's having a great season,if we go through a rough stretch offensively and lose a game or two(which we probably will) he'll say what he doesn't think we should be doing anymore.I should've worded that better.I never meant that he would act diva like.

 

You have to admit though, Joe was coming off his best season as a pro w/Zorn as his QB coach, and I'm not sure how true it is that the reason Zorn was let go was that Cam didn't like him getting so close with Joe.  I'd be upset also if the guy who I thought would help me become a better player was canned, especially after the way Joe closed out the regular season.  Joe seems to do well when he has a guy he likes as a QB coach, so I'm hoping he and Dennison get along well.

[PolishRifle]

Steve Bisciotti, who (ofcourse) will make every decision next season for Harbaugh, ends up firing John halfway through the season and hires Ray Lewis as the HC. Obviously all of Harbs best "buddies" will leave the team with him including Joe Flacco, who ends up being cut, which magically opens up all the cap space in the world and allows us to get every great defensive player in the league (mid-season ofcourse). The Ravens immediatelly field the #1 defense, which will play both the defensive and offensive snaps in the game (probably the ST snaps as well, but I'm not sure at this point). The Ravens end up squirrel dancing their way to the SB, where they win 52-0 (see what I did there?).

 

Why? Ray Lewis leadership, that's why!!!!

[Bruce_Almty]

Militant X 1, on 02 Feb 2014 - 5:49 PM, said:

I can't lie all.  Last season, our offensive unit's lack of moving the chains consistently really pissed me off.  I lost ALL confidence on that side of the ball.  So, from here on out, I'm just watching and waiting to see what will be different next season.  I'm not predicting nothing!

 

Go Ravens!

I'm with u. Predicting now is nothing more than wishful thinking, and there's nothing the matter with that but it's a useless predicator.

We gained a new OC (we hope that's a positive development), but we're about to lose a dozen players via FA and we have no clue if the talent we add (via FA & draft) will be an improvement or not. We need several players but only have 3 meaningful draft picks. I'm hoping this offseason we get 2 plugNplay starters that upgrade the positions they fill.

Go Ravens

Congrats to the SB Champion Seahawks

[TonyTone1192]

Offense finishes top ten. Top five in rushing and in top 15 in passing. Top five in scoring. 

 

Why not be bold? Lol

 

Because he's being realistic

[ravensfan520]

My predictions is that the ravens find a ball hawk free safety extend suggs and draft a wr early and te.

The defense finishes in the top 5. But the offense still stays around average. I going say about 10 to 15 range. Not saying they wont play better I just think that for some reason Flacco will butt heads with Kubiak and at times it will show. The rumor is that Kubiak is a players coach but will make u accountable for your mistakes. That has been something we have stayed away from. Usually everyone is behind him making excuses for him. He will become a better qb this year but will show signs of frustration.

win the north and play carolina in the superbowl.

[Ravenation47]

We WILL do better than last year!!!

[marylandmike12]

A whole lotta crazy going on in this thread right now.

I have to agree.  It would in a perfect world for Flacco to beat Manning's records but we all know.  Its just not possible.

[thieverycorporation]

Ozzie follows a different path in the draft. His heir apparent is waiting in the wings. Fresh blood and draft strategy may do wonders next year. BPA. 

 

Who determines that ? 

Cause after a bunch of suspect moves in the last 2 drafts leaves a lot to the imagination.

 

Cutting your backend draft stinks to high he-zzzz-eeee

[Jalxsu]

My prediction is our fans get ridiculously high expectations, and when we aren't 8-0 at mid season, they start whining about how our SB winning coach John Harbaugh is useless, and our Superbowl winning QB should be dropped for whoever our back up QB is.

If we end the season 10-6, I'd be a very happy man. I'm a bit if a pessimist, but from my experience, having too high expectations generally leads to massive disappointment.

I think the AFC North will be stronger next year. The Browns are in an exciting position - great defense, solid O line, elite receiver, fantastic young TE, new coach/GM with their ha d picked QB/RB combo. The Steelers finished the season strong, and should be challenging next year with a decent off season. The Bengals have strength throughout their roster, and will likely be the favourites for the division again this year.

If we make a few additions in positions of need, we should be stronger next year, but don't underestimate our opponents.

[Poes Crows]

Shhhhhhheeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

The defense still scares the crap outta me, especially at safety.

 

Haloti slipped, Art Jones looks gone

 

Linebacker is no sure thing either.

 

Fortunately, we've got a good batch of corners, with Chykie sometimes being a liability, but he's learning.

 

We'll be fortunate to hold Status Quo on Defense.

 

 

Offense is even worse. With Kubiak, we have to move up but into the top half?...Not so sure about that.

 

Flacco throws 20 picks again and Fuhghedaboutit