[News] Eisenberg: Ravens Hope To Avoid Dead Money In 2016

[fusuymada]

Monroe needs to restructure his contract. If he doesn't want to, then do we put a left tackle out there who has under produced or do we wait till he cant go and then get stuck with Hurst out there and then risk our 120 million dollar asset. We won't have KO to rely on so do you eat the dead money or risk your investment. (btw, we lost that bet last year by relying on Monroe and it cost us our qb. Ready to get fooled again). Whether Pitta stays or goes, if he wants to use the Ravens to test the water on playing he needs to do it at a veteran minimum. I don't see how we avoid dead money again this year. The place the Ravens need to shine and have in the past is in the draft. However, the old sit back and wait and see what providence gives us has proven in the ever-changing NFL to no longer be a successful way to operate. If we can't keep our best players and we refuse to get free agents that are quality players, then we have to move up in the draft and grab Ramsey, the best player in the draft. I think he is more valuable than Bosa because of his versatility. There are a number of pass rushers out there including a few who may drop enough for the Ravens to move back into the first and get. I know I sound like a broken record, but we HAVE TO GET the best players in the draft we can in the first 3 or 4 rounds and not think we are going to find a diamond in the rough in the 6th or 7th round or as an undrafted free agent. Once upon a time we could do that, but with as much as technology has narrowed the scouting gap between the Ravens and other teams, what used to be a gold mine for the Ravens has been discovered by the other 31 teams.

[rmcjacket23]

1 minute ago, fusuymada said:

Monroe needs to restructure his contract. If he doesn't want to, then do we put a left tackle out there who has under produced or do we wait till he cant go and then get stuck with Hurst out there and then risk our 120 million dollar asset. We won't have KO to rely on so do you eat the dead money or risk your investment. (btw, we lost that bet last year by relying on Monroe and it cost us our qb. Ready to get fooled again). Whether Pitta stays or goes, if he wants to use the Ravens to test the water on playing he needs to do it at a veteran minimum. I don't see how we avoid dead money again this year. The place the Ravens need to shine and have in the past is in the draft. However, the old sit back and wait and see what providence gives us has proven in the ever-changing NFL to no longer be a successful way to operate. If we can't keep our best players and we refuse to get free agents that are quality players, then we have to move up in the draft and grab Ramsey, the best player in the draft. I think he is more valuable than Bosa because of his versatility. There are a number of pass rushers out there including a few who may drop enough for the Ravens to move back into the first and get. I know I sound like a broken record, but we HAVE TO GET the best players in the draft we can in the first 3 or 4 rounds and not think we are going to find a diamond in the rough in the 6th or 7th round or as an undrafted free agent. Once upon a time we could do that, but with as much as technology has narrowed the scouting gap between the Ravens and other teams, what used to be a gold mine for the Ravens has been discovered by the other 31 teams.

Well, its also possible that we keep Monroe and Hurst AND draft an OT early in the draft, possibly as high as round 1. Covers ourselves for the short and long term potentially.

[GENE2407]

NONESENSE! What we need to do is get rid of all these bad contracts immediately........this year! Stop spreading the cancer to 2017, 2018 and 2019, which is exactly what you do when you restructure contracts and hold onto bums like Monroe, Webb and K Lewis. The only contract I'd be restructuring at this point is Flacco. The best thing for the Ravens is to recognize that they are way too deficient talent-wise to win it all in 2016. So take that year to purge the contracts of Pitta, Monroe, Webb, KLewis, D Smith and any other haunting contract. Then you have two good drafts (16 and 17) and then, my God, you actually have money to spend in 2017. Stop playing around with these guys, they are not going to play anywhere near as well as the contact they're getting.

[GENE2407]

  15 hours ago, fusuymada said:

Monroe needs to restructure his contract. If he doesn't want to, then do we put a left tackle out there who has under produced or do we wait till he cant go and then get stuck with Hurst out there and then risk our 120 million dollar asset. We won't have KO to rely on so do you eat the dead money or risk your investment. (btw, we lost that bet last year by relying on Monroe and it cost us our qb. Ready to get fooled again). Whether Pitta stays or goes, if he wants to use the Ravens to test the water on playing he needs to do it at a veteran minimum. I don't see how we avoid dead money again this year. The place the Ravens need to shine and have in the past is in the draft. However, the old sit back and wait and see what providence gives us has proven in the ever-changing NFL to no longer be a successful way to operate. If we can't keep our best players and we refuse to get free agents that are quality players, then we have to move up in the draft and grab Ramsey, the best player in the draft. I think he is more valuable than Bosa because of his versatility. There are a number of pass rushers out there including a few who may drop enough for the Ravens to move back into the first and get. I know I sound like a broken record, but we HAVE TO GET the best players in the draft we can in the first 3 or 4 rounds and not think we are going to find a diamond in the rough in the 6th or 7th round or as an undrafted free agent. Once upon a time we could do that, but with as much as technology has narrowed the scouting gap between the Ravens and other teams, what used to be a gold mine for the Ravens has been discovered by the other 31 teams.

Well, its also possible that we keep Monroe and Hurst AND draft an OT early in the draft, possibly as high as round 1. Covers ourselves for the short and long term potentially.

I just don't see Monroe ever working out, mainly because he's walking wounded. It's something different every week and he's barely played 25% of the snaps in 2 years. Sometimes you just gotta cut bait. I see a lot of other teams with pedestrian LTs doing just fine. Go out and find a low-modest FA pickup or be serious about Osemele at LT.

[GENE2407]

Monroe needs to restructure his contract. If he doesn't want to, then do we put a left tackle out there who has under produced or do we wait till he cant go and then get stuck with Hurst out there and then risk our 120 million dollar asset. We won't have KO to rely on so do you eat the dead money or risk your investment. (btw, we lost that bet last year by relying on Monroe and it cost us our qb. Ready to get fooled again). Whether Pitta stays or goes, if he wants to use the Ravens to test the water on playing he needs to do it at a veteran minimum. I don't see how we avoid dead money again this year. The place the Ravens need to shine and have in the past is in the draft. However, the old sit back and wait and see what providence gives us has proven in the ever-changing NFL to no longer be a successful way to operate. If we can't keep our best players and we refuse to get free agents that are quality players, then we have to move up in the draft and grab Ramsey, the best player in the draft. I think he is more valuable than Bosa because of his versatility. There are a number of pass rushers out there including a few who may drop enough for the Ravens to move back into the first and get. I know I sound like a broken record, but we HAVE TO GET the best players in the draft we can in the first 3 or 4 rounds and not think we are going to find a diamond in the rough in the 6th or 7th round or as an undrafted free agent. Once upon a time we could do that, but with as much as technology has narrowed the scouting gap between the Ravens and other teams, what used to be a gold mine for the Ravens has been discovered by the other 31 teams.

Like I posted, they're talking about avoiding dead money this year. That's crazy with the Pitta/Monroe/Webb situations. I think this is the year you take it ALL off the books and start fresh in 2017.

[rmcjacket23]

2 hours ago, GENE2407 said:

I just don't see Monroe ever working out, mainly because he's walking wounded. It's something different every week and he's barely played 25% of the snaps in 2 years. Sometimes you just gotta cut bait. I see a lot of other teams with pedestrian LTs doing just fine. Go out and find a low-modest FA pickup or be serious about Osemele at LT.

Maybe, just don't know where the low-modest FA pickups are. This is a pretty horrible market to be going to find a LT, and frankly, I think that's putting a band aid on a broken bone.

If we can't resign KO, and it looks like we won't, drafting a future LT is a major priority if we don't think Monroe can cut it long term. The last thing this franchise should be trying to do with a QB coming off an ACL tear is playing the year-to-year game with the blindside protector.

[rmcjacket23]

2 hours ago, GENE2407 said:

Like I posted, they're talking about avoiding dead money this year. That's crazy with the Pitta/Monroe/Webb situations. I think this is the year you take it ALL off the books and start fresh in 2017.

There will be dead money in 2017 though. Not like we can just take all the dead money this year and have zero dead money next year... it doesn't work that way. There will be dead money in 2017, 2018, etc.

Pretty much anytime you cut a player who is under contract, there's dead money.

[100CrystalClear]

I've said it before and I'll say it again......and again. Signing Pitta to that last contract was the absolute dumbest contract in Ravens history. Bar none.

That's ridiculous! NOT signing him would have been dumb. Don't you remember how valuable he was to us? The contract was reasonable. You're just saying that now that he's been injured. And to call it "the dumbest in Ravens history"? Stop. Please... just stop. *grumbling incoherently* So-called fans and experts.... If only we all had the crystal ball you have....