Joe Flacco is to blame for this team, but not for the obvious reason.

[justifythegame]

He wanted to be the highest paid QB at the time. That comes with consequences. Consequences like the team not being able to keep core vets from year to year (even legends like Ngata). Consequences like the Ravens no longer being able to dip into FA for really good vets. Ultimately, the strategy changes from building a team thats a good mix of young superstars in the making and veteran star LEADERS to completely relying on draft picks/UDFAs to fill the team's holes and hoping for the best. Since we have invested everything in Flacco as opposed to a complete team like we have in the past, the responsibility relies on Joe Flacco's shoulders. If he can take the credit for the wins and championships, then he can take credit for the losses. Essentially what he stated when he demanded that contract is that he would carry this team. There are some elite QBs in the league like Brady that take a paycut for the team, but we don't have an elite QB nor a guy willing to take a paycut, just an elite contract on our shoulders.

[Cillmatic]

Agreed. He's got a big part in this years struggles too.

Edited September 28, 2015 by Cillmatic

[redrum52]

I'm not reading that...

[ratedr]

People who don't understand how the cap works shouldn't make posts about the cap.

 

It's like you hit the trifecta of "I don't know anything about the cap"

1. Claiming that Flacco's "big cap hits" prevented us from keeping guys.

2. Not acknowledging that Ngata's cap hit was the largest on the team and what happened would've happened regardless because of that.

3. The Brady "pay cut" myth.

 

I mean really.

Edited September 28, 2015 by ratedr

[ravens88]

http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/rankings/quarterback/

 

Joe is 12th and not the reason were struggling. Ngata not renegotiating for his true value hurt us by not having cap space when we needed it to sign FA's while they were available, you can also thank Ray Rice's 9.5m in dead money. Joe would have easily went elsewhere if we didn't pony up the money it took and we would be without a QB.

Edited September 28, 2015 by ravens88

[LosT_in_TranSlatioN]

Yeah. No... Just no.

Flacco is not the reason for our losses. I'm sorry. He's not the one to blame. Lack of defense and Ray Rice's contract screws us over more. 

[BSHU_Miami]

Spoken from a guy who doesn't know what he's talking about

[Greatness]

See folks? This is the reason why the NFL is the way it is today. When you have silly people like this, you make absurd amounts of money off of tomfoolery.

 

P.S - I fell for the trap again.

[lgcs27288]

should've known this was an idiotic post with the text background. Now my eyes burn and my head hurts.

Also, Webb took a flat out real pay cut this year. Not the Tom Brady pseudo pay cut.

Edited September 28, 2015 by lgcs27288

[ratedr]

I wasn't going to say anything else but I felt it was my obligation to tear down this post a bit more thoroughly...

 

This post will be accurate if Flacco doesn't renegotiate his deal after this year at a reasonable price. But right now? Lol. Who exactly did we lose because of Flacco?

 

Ellerbe? LOL.

McPhee, Jones and Torrey? The FO has their numbers for players, and they got deals that exceeded those numbers. This is how they've operated since the beginning (and though I would've loved to keep McPhee, I agree with all 3 decisions).

Boldin? See above. I will say that we did have space to keep Boldin, but the FO overplayed their hand. This was a bad decision, but Flacco's cap hit didn't figure.

Cary Williams? LOL again (though I would honestly take him right now). He was offered a nice deal but again, the Eagles gave him a deal that exceeded our number for him.

Graham? Our offer didn't matter, he's from Buffalo and wanted to go back.

 

So please tell me, what great player did we lose?

 

This team has NEVER made a big splash in FA. Never have, never will, it's simply not the way they do business. And frankly, this past offseason, they had a chance to sign some cheap vet WR talent, they simply chose not to. Put that on organizational philosophy.

 

Anyone with knowledge about the cap situation knows that two contracts right now are really killing us for zero production: Pitta, D and Rice, R.

[GrimCoconut]

Joe isn't the reason for our struggles. His salary doesn't cause the defense to have bad tackling or to have no communication or awareness at times. That's a coaching issue. We wouldn't have gone out and signed McCourty, who has had his own struggles this year, BTW, if we had extra money. It's not our MO to sign big $ free agents. 

[Purple_City39]

People who don't understand how the cap works shouldn't make posts about the cap.

 

It's like you hit the trifecta of "I don't know anything about the cap"

1. Claiming that Flacco's "big cap hits" prevented us from keeping guys.

2. Not acknowledging that Ngata's cap hit was the largest on the team and what happened would've happened regardless because of that.

3. The Brady "pay cut" myth.

 

I mean really.

This post pretty much covers my thoughts.  Also add in the lack of acknowledgement over the cap hits we're taking for Pitta and Rice to not play.

[beanfigger]

It was pretty obvious for me that he played a horrible first half. Others did, too, but the QB does get and deserve the lion's share of the blame. His numbers the last two weeks are finally getting to the place where everybody was pleading for since day one, but that clearly is not what's best for this team. He thinks too much now instead of reacting, and that's not what his strength is.

Sorry for littering this post with actual valid criticisms of the guy instead of making up ridiculous, baseless statements like the OP, but I am not enjoying the 370, 30-42 stats he's getting as much as 19-29 for 190 and a W.

[Moderator 3]

I fixed the background but this thread is not salvageable.