Ravens sign TE Owen Daniels

[Puntit]

Looking back a few years, did the Falcons need to trade for a WR with Roddy White in his prime? Surely they had bigger needs, but packaged a ton and got to number 4 I think it was to snag Julio Jones. Talents like him and Watkins aren't there every year.

Also looking if we did get Watkins, we would have him for 4-5 years, Torrey for 4-6 years(assuming he's resigned), Marlon for 3-4 more years, Steve Smith for 2-3 years, Jacoby for 4 years, Pitta for 5 years. That is incredible in terms of continuity and Joe building that trust.

Then when it is time to pay Watkins, Torrey will be 5 years older than he is now, and his contract will be expiring so we can then use big money on Watkins and hopefully get Torrey cheap, and we won't have two big cap numbers for WRs.

You do realize the Ravens have been a lot more successful than the falcons this past decade, right? Part of the reason is that's a team that falls in love with one glitzy player each draft rather then loading up with lunch pail guys. They did this with Vick, Ryan, Julio, and how many Superbowls have these guys brought them? The funny thing is you can go to the Falcons board and probably find a much better thought out post of how much better the team would have been with all the players they could have gotten without moving up for Jones. He's an awesome WR, but unless he's the single missing piece to the puzzle (which a non-QB rarely is), he's probably not worth betting the farm. Look at the teams with superstar WRs -- Detroit, Atlanta, Cincinatti. Are they getting it done? Not so much. why? Because those teams were more than one player short of being a contender, and still are. I'm all for getting Flacco a few new weapons in this draft, and if we come away with an offensive lineman, WR and RB in the top 100 players, that would be huge. But to put all your money into one pot and hope he's not Mark Clayton part two (or worse, Travis Taylor)? - no thanks. If you package players to go up in the draft you go up only a few spots (just ahead of Pitt ideally) and get someone who is falling. You don't throw all your picks into one basket and try to move into the top ten, because the teams that have done that do it out of desperation and are rarely successful. Maybe you do that for a QB or an Ogden, but I don't see that kind of value in the attainable part of the first round this year. And in a deep draft, the team that's able to move BACK a few spots and get another pick in the top 100 will always have had a better draft. One top player in the first is a big, bad gamble compared to picking up five or six guys through the fourth. Now the analysis might change if Watkins or an Evans starts to fall, but if he does he still is probably worth letting the team like the pats or Niners behind us have him for most of THEIR draft picks.

The ravens have been successful not in small part because we have shown a willingness to more often trade down, not up. We traded out of the first round altogether twice. To be honest, in a deep draft it might be worth it to trade all the way out if the first round again if one of the weaker teams who picks early in each round still wants another shot at QB. Is a high 2nd, 3rd, 4th and something high mid round next year worth our first? In a deep draft yeah it probably is.

[PurpleCorsair]

But you know the excuses will fly regardless!  They always do! 

 

#Mili

I reserve the right to make "excuses" until I see the O-line play improve.

[Corvus]

My first impression was "Why?" Last year the FO reunited Caldwell and Dallas Clark, now it's Kubiak and Owen Daniels. Just not sure I agree with this but admit, I don't know why.

Daniels had 24 catches for close to 260 yds and 3 TDs i. 4 and a half games before freakishly breaking his leg last year. In other words, he was just as productive as Dallas Clark was in 16 games. Plus he is 4 years younger than Clark. If his leg is fully healed as him passing his physical would seem to indicate, I could easily see Owen getting 500yds or so even with all of these other receiving weapons.

[flynismo]

I reserve the right to make "excuses" until I see the O-line play improve.

Or seeing what S. Smith and Daniels still have left

[HoldingCall]

Daniels had 24 catches for close to 260 yds and 3 TDs i. 4 and a half games before freakishly breaking his leg last year. In other words, he was just as productive as Dallas Clark was in 16 games. Plus he is 4 years younger than Clark. If his leg is fully healed as him passing his physical would seem to indicate, I could easily see Owen getting 500yds or so even with all of these other receiving weapons.

I agree this appears to be a better choice than the timing of Dallas Clark. I had not followed Daniels much and was not very familiar with his injury so I wasn't moved by the pick-up. I have since learned more and thus understand why they may have chosen him. Just hoping he proves to be more durable than Todd Heap was after Heap left for the west coast. If so he could be the MAN! I congratulated him and wished him luck on different thread. We will see!

[52520Andrew]

Now the Ravens just need a blocking TE and I would say the TEs are in good shape

[Sami84]

Daniels had 24 catches for close to 260 yds and 3 TDs i. 4 and a half games before freakishly breaking his leg last year. In other words, he was just as productive as Dallas Clark was in 16 games. Plus he is 4 years younger than Clark. If his leg is fully healed as him passing his physical would seem to indicate, I could easily see Owen getting 500yds or so even with all of these other receiving weapons.

 

HEs not 4 year younger than clark. Hes 2 years younger then clark was when he joined us.  Anyhow hes better.