[News] Late For Work 1/12: Chances Of Ravens Pursuing Alshon Jeffery, Anquan Boldin, Haloti Ngata?

[harfordravenfan]

I'm not normally a King fan, but on this one instance I say Bravo to Peter King for that "Open Letter To Players" for coming out and stating a premise that the majority of professional sports media analyst have refused so far to acknowledge.  If you haven't read it, it is a great read and something that needed to be said.  Thank you Peter King!

 

Link to his article:  http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2016/01/11/nfl-open-letter-players

 

I knew someone would mention that, I agree that he was spot on and it needed to be said.

[Purple Dawg 96]

The best move rite now is get healthy! This team is good and it showed against the squeelers because "THAT WAS NO FLUKE"! #1 pick in the draft a CB or WR and just keep padding the pockets with youngsters like they always do!

[Halshayeji]

very possible and much more likely than trading up. Trading up would take away picks in the 2nd and third - which is where most of the value is in this draft. With the holes we need filled it is much more likely we stockpile picks and I really don't even see trading up as an option.

The real superstar move would be to move back into the first round from 38 to somewhere in the end of the first. Pickup a CB because of that 5th year team option. Then move from the top of the third round into the mid second round and pickp another possible starter. That would give us 3 potential day 1 starters for 4 or 5 years. Then I don't care what Ozzie and them do for the remainder. Pickup special teamers for all I care. Just hit a home run with 3 picks in the top 50. (6, 28, 55 theoretically) and we wouldn't need to give up much. Just trading down from 6-8th overall should give us enough assets to move to 28 and 55

[RavensDieHard21]

If boldin came at a cheap cost, who wouldn't want a sure catcher for one more year?

[Guest]

Hensley wrote. "Baltimore has Boldin-type receivers in Steve Smith and Kamar Aiken"

 

Kamar Aiken is "Boldin Type"? This isn't the first time Hensley has demonstrated that his writing should be restricted to coloring books.

Edited January 13, 2016 by Danny D

[January J]

Hensley wrote. "Baltimore has Boldin-type receivers in Steve Smith and Kamar Aiken"

 

Kamar Aiken is "Boldin Type"? This isn't the first time Hensley has demonstrated that his writing should be restricted to coloring books.

in a way he kind of is though. He became the go to guy this year and was a safety blanket who moved the chains. Hes not saying hes better than boldin ir even as good..Certainly not in his prime. But care to compare the twos stats from this year? I really don't know what they are..But I'm guessing they are pretty similar.

[January J]

The real superstar move would be to move back into the first round from 38 to somewhere in the end of the first. Pickup a CB because of that 5th year team option. Then move from the top of the third round into the mid second round and pickp another possible starter. That would give us 3 potential day 1 starters for 4 or 5 years. Then I don't care what Ozzie and them do for the remainder. Pickup special teamers for all I care. Just hit a home run with 3 picks in the top 50. (6, 28, 55 theoretically) and we wouldn't need to give up much. Just trading down from 6-8th overall should give us enough assets to move to 28 and 55

definitely would be ideal. Hopefully we find a tradeback partner in the first to give us some ammo.

[Ravens_Flock]

Or instead of trading, we could do what we should have done last off-season, or two offseasons ago, and that's try to draft a top shelf corner, one who hopefully isn't injury prone like Jimmy is.

[balfan23]

The question is how much dead money Flacco would leave in our cap.

$25M and change ... I'll be clear, in my previous post when I said a whopping $2.8M in savings, I was being sarcastic. It is not so much about dead money, it is about cost of replacement the player vs. the cap space saved. Can you replace a starting franchise QB with $2.8M? Not in your wildest dreams. 

 

Now - if you want to imagine (and I personally think it requires a vivid imagination) to think that Mallet can step in and do the same job as Flacco for the entire season, then the cost of replacement is a backup, which $2.8M can certainly get you. The question then becomes, what do we do in 2017? We only have Mallet for 1 year and, if he actually does the job we are praying he can do, he'll be expensive too. If we took this bold (or some may say, psychotic) path, we may even go so far as to draft a QB with that high pick of ours and pray. That way, Mallet would be on a 1 year loan and he'd be playing for his next contract on another team. 

 

All of that would be playing very fast and loose with the golden goose. I think both sides have an interest in coming to some agreement and avoiding this kind of nuclear option. 

[balfan23]

I'm not normally a King fan, but on this one instance I say Bravo to Peter King for that "Open Letter To Players" for coming out and stating a premise that the majority of professional sports media analyst have refused so far to acknowledge.  If you haven't read it, it is a great read and something that needed to be said.  Thank you Peter King!

 

Link to his article:  http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2016/01/11/nfl-open-letter-players

That was excellent. Unfortunately, I don't think the guys that matter are listening. 

 

I still am horrified that the Shazier hit somehow eluded the officials. OK - so lets say the refs just missed that hit by Shazier. It appears that I suppose the league is going to say that helmet contact was incidental. Really? Now, lets say that someone else, I dunno, perhaps say Burfict. Do you think the league suddenly considers the contact to not be incidental? I'm sorry, I just think the darling Steelers get the benefit of the doubt. 

 

IMO, I think the NFL would do well to institute the same rule as in college. That play right there is targeting, plain and simple. It goes to replay and the officials determine if it was targeting. If it wasn't they pick up the flag. If it was, the flag stands and the player is out of the game, and possibly the next. 

 

If they want this to stop, a sternly written letter by an analyst chastising players for their behavior isn't going to do it. Giving them the equivalent of a parking ticket fine isn't going to do it. 

 

Getting them the heck off the field is the only way they'll listen. 

[Tank 92]

Aiken has looked like Boldin at times, especially after catching the ball and running.  That's not to say Aiken is Boldin, but there styles of play could be viewed as similar.

[jravens13]

Not sure what you consider effective. I like Tunsil but he is not the best tackle prospect since Ogden. And Tunsil did dominate Ogbah!! The broadcasters made several references to Tunsil dominating Ogbah.

Multiple QB pressures against the No.1 overall pick. You are foolish if you think that is the reason why Ogbah isn't worth it at 6. That would be like saying Jimmy Smith is garbage because he gave up too many yards to Julio Jones. Give me a break. 

[Winchester]

Multiple QB pressures against the No.1 overall pick. You are foolish if you think that is the reason why Ogbah isn't worth it at 6. That would be like saying Jimmy Smith is garbage because he gave up too many yards to Julio Jones. Give me a break.

Multiple pressures?? Ogbah at 6?? Seriously?? What like 10 second coverage pressures?? Dude get over it!! Everybody agrees Tunsil dominated Ogbah. He manhandled him!! He did nothing the to slow the miss. Offense!! Only thing Ogbah got noticed for in the game was how dominant Tunsil was over him. Oklahoma fans are disappointed in his performance. Edited January 13, 2016 by Winchester

[jravens13]

Multiple pressures?? Ogbah at 6?? Seriously?? What like 10 second coverage pressures?? Dude get over it!! Everybody agrees Tunsil dominated Ogbah. He manhandled him!! He did nothing the to slow the miss. Offense!! Only thing Ogbah got noticed for in the game was how dominant Tunsil was over him. Oklahoma fans are disappointed in his performance.

Clearly you are not a fan of Ogbah. Who are you taking at 6?

1. Titans: Laremy Tunsil

2. Browns: Jared Goff

3. Chargers: Joey Bosa

4. Cowboys: Ezekiel Elliot

5. Jags: Jalen Ramsey

6. Ravens: ?

[OzzieBisciotti]

Our defense wasn't the same since Haloti left- he'd always be good for knocking down passes, but that no longer happens on this team- it seemed like our defense was nastier when he was around.. Suggs definitely missed him, and so did the Ravens... he should've retired a Raven but we had way too much dead money on our books... I hope our FO decisions get better going forward because we've definitely whiffed on the last 5 drafts and fa pickups.

[Beanie]

"Ravens priorities should be getting younger, faster and more athletic"

I agree. We need to bring back that bullying style of smashmouth football. The Ravens were the original bullies now its The Legion of Boom.

Edited January 14, 2016 by Beanie

[berniemc2015]

No No and No is correct

[Tenacious Faulker]

Bosa is projected to go at #1. If you study the Trade Value Chart, you'll see that it would either take just about all our tradable picks of the next draft or multiple 1st-2nd round picks to trade up frm #6 to #1 - and not a lot less to #2. That means unless something unexpected happens until the draft, these players may just as well be out of our range.

That depends on who's projecting.  I see Tunsil at #1 because Mariota needs a blindside blocker and he rates highest among all college players so far.  Browns are going QB - no question.  Chargers will likely take OLB with Bosa there even though DB is more of a need for them.  There is a small chance that they take Ramsey/Hargreaves.  Dallas will go corner and Jacksonville could go LT Ronnie Stanley or CB

 

Another scenario is if SF wants to jump ahead to ensure that they get their QB (whoever climbs the rankings under Goff).  Chicago, Eagles and maybe the Saints opt for QB as their situations dictate and could threaten to jump ahead.

[Saxxin]

  On 1/13/2016 at 1:30 PM, Winchester said:

Multiple pressures?? Ogbah at 6?? Seriously?? What like 10 second coverage pressures?? Dude get over it!! Everybody agrees Tunsil dominated Ogbah. He manhandled him!! He did nothing the to slow the miss. Offense!! Only thing Ogbah got noticed for in the game was how dominant Tunsil was over him. Oklahoma fans are disappointed in his performance.

Clearly you are not a fan of Ogbah. Who are you taking at 6?

1. Titans: Laremy Tunsil

2. Browns: Jared Goff

3. Chargers: Joey Bosa

4. Cowboys: Ezekiel Elliot

5. Jags: Jalen Ramsey

6. Ravens: ?

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