[News] Late For Work 10/19: Ravens Have Several Roster Decisions Ahead

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[Crusader]

This is why I have no respect for Baltimore Sports analyst opinions..
"By all accounts, Elam has progressed nicely in his rehab from summer knee surgery. With the team’s problems in the secondary and on special teams, Elam makes much more sense than Davis to return to the active roster,” wrote Zrebiec" The guy could not play HEALTHY.

[Crusader]

"The Ravens are healthy and stout along the defensive line," Suggs is injured and Elvis D checked out LAST YEAR! I wish you guys would watch the same team.

[bioLarzen]

I don't think we should fool ourselves thiunking that either Elam or Davis will make their respective units considerably better - if at all. That may be a tough roster decision, but one that 's probably not gonna really factor in the production of the team going forward.

[Drew P]

12 minutes ago, Crusader said:

This is why I have no respect for Baltimore Sports analyst opinions..
"By all accounts, Elam has progressed nicely in his rehab from summer knee surgery. With the team’s problems in the secondary and on special teams, Elam makes much more sense than Davis to return to the active roster,” wrote Zrebiec" The guy could not play HEALTHY.

I didn't think I would ever say it but i'm looking forward to seeing Elam on the field. Webb looks like a moth around a light bulb. Carl Davis is just another whiff.

[bioLarzen]

"Here's what John Harbaugh and the Ravens need to do to avoid their first four-game losing streak."

Beat the Jets. Simple as that ;)

[Jonah DeVito]

16 minutes ago, Crusader said:

"The Ravens are healthy and stout along the defensive line," Suggs is injured and Elvis D checked out LAST YEAR! I wish you guys would watch the same team.

You realize Suggs and Doom are linebackers right? We actually do have a very stout healthy D-line. 

[Jonah DeVito]

I'd like to see what Tali can do behind West. Maybe rotate him in with Dixon if we can afford the game day roster spot 

[fusuymada]

  16 minutes ago, Crusader said:

This is why I have no respect for Baltimore Sports analyst opinions..
"By all accounts, Elam has progressed nicely in his rehab from summer knee surgery. With the team’s problems in the secondary and on special teams, Elam makes much more sense than Davis to return to the active roster,” wrote Zrebiec" The guy could not play HEALTHY.

I didn't think I would ever say it but i'm looking forward to seeing Elam on the field. Webb looks like a moth around a light bulb. Carl Davis is just another whiff.

I have to agree with you. Moth around light bulb, deer in the headlights with the reaction time of my grandmother. Yeah, Webb is no better at safety than he was at corner. Another old guy paid more than he was worth.

Stanley can't get healthy, Kaufusi was a waste of a draft pick and those two added together equal Jalen Ramsey. Could we use him right now. If we had moved up, and traded the Stanley spot and Kaufusi spot, that was what Dallas wanted for the draft pick that would have gotten us Ramsey. We could have kept Monroe (he couldn't miss any more time than Stanley has), been no different on the line, but we would have added a pro bowl safety to go with Weddle. I was a straight up get Ramsey guy but accepted Stanley when he was producing. As it stands now, he is Eugene Monroe version II.

[RailBird]

Elam hasn't impressed anyone so far in his time on the field, but neither has any of our current safeties other than Weddle. Elam at least showed some improvement in the pre-season before he went down with the knee injury.

[Raven1995]

"The Ravens are healthy and stout along the defensive line," Suggs is injured and Elvis D checked out LAST YEAR! I wish you guys would watch the same team.

Suggs and Dumervil are Outside Linebackers, and Carl Davis plays on the Line.

[Raven1995]

I'd roll the dice on Elam. With Weddle helping him stay in the right spot and being twice as fast as Webb, go for it. Webb played all the Defensive Reps Sunday and had 2 tackles, he's a non-factor.

[NorthDakotaRaven]

Flacco not practicing? What is the deal with this??

[Edug27]

If the Pats beat the Steelers and then we beat the Jets... we are tied at 4-3 atop the division before our showdown at the Bank after the bye... Followed by a home game against the Browns.

One week at a time. 

Let's get the o-line back. Let's get SSS back. Let Marty keep improving this offense. Get Elam out there to help out in the secondary. 

 

[TheRavengers]

If we can't beat a possibly Geno Smith-led Jets, then......

[Minionhunter]

Oh boy, Joe isn't practicing today.

It has to be something serious if that is true. Like you know, the line getting him killed and coming back from an ACL. I've posted already here that he looked a bit gimpy last Sunday. He is just so tough he doesn't show it much. I thought it happened on the first sack, and then he had that one that looked terrible where everyone (looked like it was 10 guys, but it was only like 4 in actuality) was diving at his legs but not flagged.

Please let it be something like a wedding or christening or something, just not that he is hurt.

Edited October 19, 2016 by Minionhunter

[sami]

"The Ravens are healthy and stout along the defensive line," Suggs is injured and Elvis D checked out LAST YEAR! I wish you guys would watch the same team.

I don't think he was including linebackers

[nj_ravens]

  1 hour ago, Drew P said:

  1 hour ago, Crusader said:

This is why I have no respect for Baltimore Sports analyst opinions..
"By all accounts, Elam has progressed nicely in his rehab from summer knee surgery. With the team’s problems in the secondary and on special teams, Elam makes much more sense than Davis to return to the active roster,” wrote Zrebiec" The guy could not play HEALTHY.

I didn't think I would ever say it but i'm looking forward to seeing Elam on the field. Webb looks like a moth around a light bulb. Carl Davis is just another whiff.

I have to agree with you. Moth around light bulb, deer in the headlights with the reaction time of my grandmother. Yeah, Webb is no better at safety than he was at corner. Another old guy paid more than he was worth.

Stanley can't get healthy, Kaufusi was a waste of a draft pick and those two added together equal Jalen Ramsey. Could we use him right now. If we had moved up, and traded the Stanley spot and Kaufusi spot, that was what Dallas wanted for the draft pick that would have gotten us Ramsey. We could have kept Monroe (he couldn't miss any more time than Stanley has), been no different on the line, but we would have added a pro bowl safety to go with Weddle. I was a straight up get Ramsey guy but accepted Stanley when he was producing. As it stands now, he is Eugene Monroe version II.

"Stanley can't get healthy, Kaufusi was a waste of a draft pick"

This is just wrong. Kaufusi isn't a waste of a pick if he hasn't played yet. Not everyone is an instant starter, even when healthy. But when a draft pick gets hurt in training camp as a rookie, you can't call it a waste. Objectively wrong. Sometimes you don't find out until year 2 or 3. And you can't PREDICT injuries.

And on Stanley....Can't get healthy? It's only week 6, not week 16 and he may even play this week. It's not like 2 seasons worth of off and on. And lest you forget, he was dominant in his first 3 games. Besides that, Stanley had never missed a start in his football life prior to this injury. Ever! So it's not like there was a history or trend we had to look out for. Why would we pass on him? Again, you can't PREDICT injuries.

"We could have kept Monroe (he couldn't miss any more time than Stanley has), been no different on the line, but we would have added a pro bowl safety to go with Weddle."

No, we couldn't have. And, you forget, he retired after we cut him! So your saying keep someone who we didn't want, and didn't want to be with us, and can't play without marijuana for pain management, who wasn't living up to his contract, who even when he was healthy wasn't playing his best? He wasn't the future. Again, wrong, objectively. You draft the cornerstone left tackle of the future when he's there.

You obviously don't see the forest beyond the trees. We finally have a draft that yields some immediate starts and people are already complaining.

[CQ1]

Sorry to hear about Joe- if there is an issue, however, I have no problem with Mallett. Yes! Given the plethora of issues, I bet that he will spark our team. We need any and all sparks that we can muster. Go Ravens.

[nj_ravens]

This is why I have no respect for Baltimore Sports analyst opinions..
"By all accounts, Elam has progressed nicely in his rehab from summer knee surgery. With the team’s problems in the secondary and on special teams, Elam makes much more sense than Davis to return to the active roster,” wrote Zrebiec" The guy could not play HEALTHY.

apparently there's no such thing as improving or progressing to Ravens fans.

[nj_ravens]

"The Ravens are healthy and stout along the defensive line," Suggs is injured and Elvis D checked out LAST YEAR! I wish you guys would watch the same team.

Elvis D is injured too. And they both are linebackers....We wish you would watch the same team as the rest of us.

[EdTheMythicalOne]

Flacco not practicing? What is the deal with this??

Reinforces the notion I had that he was hurt in the closing moments of the Giants game and that is why he completely missed Pitta and Wallace late in the game. I don't think he's injured, just really banged up.

[EdTheMythicalOne]

Elam will benefit from process of elimination. We don't need Carl Davis because Williams, Jernigan, Pierce are playing well enough. Don't need Taliafero unless somebody gets injured. We have some injuries in the secondary (at CB though), but some extra help if Elam can provide it would be welcomed. I don't look for his return to spark a complete turnaround of the defense though. There is a reason why his 5th year option was dropped and Ozzie put him on notice before his season ending injury the previous season. He wasn't playing well.

[JD08]

Big Ben is out a 4-6 weeks apparently, if we can get healthy in the bye week, I believe we can do this, the AFC North is wide open

[Minionhunter]

  48 minutes ago, NorthDakotaRaven said:

Flacco not practicing? What is the deal with this??

Reinforces the notion I had that he was hurt in the closing moments of the Giants game and that is why he completely missed Pitta and Wallace late in the game. I don't think he's injured, just really banged up.

Ed-TMO
I've thought he has looked like that at the end of the last three games, but this past game I thought he looked injured much earlier in the game and more so as the game went along. See previous response.

Joe is just so good at disguising his pain that the announcers (and the other team) miss when he is really suffering. It is a good skill to have so people don't target you, but he was getting killed.

One would think people here will now admit the deficiency in the line, or the outrageous amount of pass plays called, but unfortunately it is likely they will just blame Joe for not throwing it sooner or better.

[b93333]

Let's hope we win this one... will probably be our last of the season.

[jboy19]

Why not activate Matt Elam? Give him one more shot to prove himself. Webb hasn't exactly been lighting things up this season.

[eze17]

  2 hours ago, Crusader said:

This is why I have no respect for Baltimore Sports analyst opinions..
"By all accounts, Elam has progressed nicely in his rehab from summer knee surgery. With the team’s problems in the secondary and on special teams, Elam makes much more sense than Davis to return to the active roster,” wrote Zrebiec" The guy could not play HEALTHY.

apparently there's no such thing as improving or progressing to Ravens fans.

Eh, there's a lot of trolls on this site. Wadda ya gonna do...

AFC North is wide open for the taking. Squeelers without Big Ben, and really their defense wasn't all that great anyways. Bungles look to be self destructing in front of everyone's eyes. (and I'm sure there's a load of people out there who would want Burfect on the Raven's because he "plays hard"...and also plays as dirty as anyone who put on a Raiders uniform back in the 70's.) Brownies are the Brownies...so the division is there for the taking, just a matter of the Raven's getting their heads & hearts into playing winning football instead of the hesitant, penalty marred mess they've been putting out on the field so far this year.

[The Greek]

elam will surprise when he gets in the game.

[The Greek]

flacco is dealing with a sore shoulder. if he misses tomorrows practice than mallett could get the nod sunday