[News] Ravens Release Veteran Returner Devin Hester

[mrc724]

  2 hours ago, Militant X 1 said:

So we waive Hester...good riddance; but we call up Campanaro...a cat that can't stay healthy? Smh!

Whom or what do you suggest? Camp provides reliable hands and an extra weapon In the slot to move the chains.

When will that be, he can't stay on the field.

[mrc724]

This was a good move, Hester hasn't done anything but waive for a fair catch or run away from the ball.  I only remember one decent return from him, and even that wasn't great. 

Hester was there for the pay check. He was a has been when the Ravens signed. There have been too many bad decisions by the front office, Ozzie is loosing his touch.

[mrc724]

I understand why he was released. What I don't understand is how he is the only one getting the blame for that safety. If the opposing team made the usual stellar punt that was legitimately fielded at the 1 yard line, would Joe still have decided to commit to a poorly-chosen run play after an obvious defensive line adjustment that was shown pre-snap? He had two options there: either audible or call a time-out. New England stuffing that play was so obvious that continuing with the play almost looked like an intentional safety. That safety was the result of two horrible choices by both special teams (Hester) and offense (Flacco).

The play called for a short outlet pass. Come on Morningweg get some imagination. Ravens, get a young innovative OC. Harbaugh needs to get on Flacco's case when he does stupid things. Don't wait until practice to correct mistakes.

[mrc724]

  1 hour ago, RabidRavensfan said:

Finally some good news to come from that game! Don't let the door hit you in the bum.

That's not nice... That's kinda like kicking a guy when he's down.

But it's true, Hester should have been gone, long ago.

[omar586]

there's no creativity or imagination with this team, ever Kubes left the building our offense has [profanity deleted]. no adjustments.

[mrc724]

I wonder if the Patriots pick him up. He's clearly better than what they have.

The Ravens sure can't coach people. The Patriots get production fro their young players, why can't the Ravens?

[Minionhunter]

Hester wasn't there just for the check, he was like many great players that lose it and just can't realize it. What made it difficult is he was still dangerous on kickoffs where he had room to assess. But his fear on close ones made him start pressing and compromised his overall judgements. He was truly great and was robbed of the best kick return ever in Chicago by incompetent refs which were also fooled by his moves. This was a month or more overdue.

Sorry it didn't work DH, you got a lot longer than most would have to work things out. I've enjoyed watching you for a very very long time. I feel like my parents just had to put my 21 year old cat to sleep. The one that never did anything wrong to anyone, but his kidneys were shot, he had no teeth, and walked only a few feet a day, and stopped eating despite trying. Sad, sad, sad day, even though we were ending his suffering. But Devin isn't a cat, he is the greatest return man in NFL history. Peace.

[Minionhunter]

  1 hour ago, Raven552 said:

This was a good move, Hester hasn't done anything but waive for a fair catch or run away from the ball.  I only remember one decent return from him, and even that wasn't great. 

Hester was there for the pay check. He was a has been when the Ravens signed. There have been too many bad decisions by the front office, Ozzie is loosing his touch.

Not even close. He was just like Jacoby with the steelers, done but didn't know it.

[ravenpic]

1 hour ago, The Mom Gene said:

That's not nice... That's kinda like kicking a guy when he's down.

Hester lost his nerve. Same thing happened to Jacoby. I wouldn't want that job. You gotta be nuts...Belichick did a number on us. Jumping Morgan on the FG to end Tucker's streak was a designed play. Film study. Think we can run the table and make the playoffs?

[slowboater]

The fans have to at the very least, question why Hester was with the team this long. He obviously has lost more than a step. rarely made good decisions on whether to catch punts or not and also rarely seemed willing to give it his all, like he did when he was younger. Fans also have to question why the Ravens stuck with him this long an now finally have made a decision to move on. The Ravens need a new proctologist. Maybe one who can figure out why the Ravens are so conservative in seemingly protecting a small lead, but let Flacco throw check downs 30 times a game. IMO, there is something very wrong with the management/coaching staff. Maybe they don't see eye to eye. One thing is for sure, something is not right and this team probably won't find lightning in a bottle twice like they did in 2012......

[kakatakoi]

Thank you for releasing DH, he has been a liability and a parasitic load on the team's cap all year.  I'm not blaming the loss on him but we stopped the opposition twice on 3 and outs then Hester's cowardice and indecision stole our momentum and simultaneously energized NE to bring the house on the goal line. That moment and the ensuing blocked FG (still SMH) followed by his inability to stand tall and properly field yet Another kick, put our backs against the wall and in a hole that we could not ascend. My only question is Why they kept this washed up, ineffective player on the roster for as long as they did...JH was a special teams coach for crying out loud...what did they see in this guy, In a future potential sense of the word? Thanks for screwing our team Hester, go sell vacuum cleaners now.     

 

[KidNme]

  53 minutes ago, potomacpitbulls said:

The good news is he's gone and Camp is healthy. The bad news is when lining up at WR check down Joe will get him killed. 

Given Camps history he's likely to get hurt running onto the field and lining up.

Made me laugh!

[kakatakoi]

Second best release of the season, followed only by the canning of Mark Trestman....can anyone out there tell me how he was ever even considered for the OC position? If you cite his record in Chicago or in the CFL, those are Not good sources to validate his credibility or prowess.  In my opinion, He cost our team more than a losing season last year he almost knocked us down into a hole this season that we nearly didn't climb out of.  Some of his old tendencies are still infecting the team's Offensive potential i.e., run-pass balance.  Run the ball, even if it's only getting you 1 or 2 yards...keep the defense honest. Best thing to do at a defense coming at you relentlessly...run right at them, chances are you'll eventually run right past them.  We are just way too predictable with this dink and dunk pass scheme.         

[HoldingCall]

Hester wasn't there just for the check, he was like many great players that lose it and just can't realize it. What made it difficult is he was still dangerous on kickoffs where he had room to assess. But his fear on close ones made him start pressing and compromised his overall judgements. He was truly great and was robbed of the best kick return ever in Chicago by incompetent refs which were also fooled by his moves. This was a month or more overdue.

Sorry it didn't work DH, you got a lot longer than most would have to work things out. I've enjoyed watching you for a very very long time. I feel like my parents just had to put my 21 year old cat to sleep. The one that never did anything wrong to anyone, but his kidneys were shot, he had no teeth, and walked only a few feet a day, and stopped eating despite trying. Sad, sad, sad day, even though we were ending his suffering. But Devin isn't a cat, he is the greatest return man in NFL history. Peace.

Good post! Ed Reed even went through similar.

[HoldingCall]

The fans have to at the very least, question why Hester was with the team this long. He obviously has lost more than a step. rarely made good decisions on whether to catch punts or not and also rarely seemed willing to give it his all, like he did when he was younger. Fans also have to question why the Ravens stuck with him this long an now finally have made a decision to move on. The Ravens need a new proctologist. Maybe one who can figure out why the Ravens are so conservative in seemingly protecting a small lead, but let Flacco throw check downs 30 times a game. IMO, there is something very wrong with the management/coaching staff. Maybe they don't see eye to eye. One thing is for sure, something is not right and this team probably won't find lightning in a bottle twice like they did in 2012......

As for fading and aging ability, the mind says one thing but the body does something different.

[kakatakoi]

Ok now this is ones just a straight up rant...

Tom Brady, why is it that Just your story about being a 6th round pick and 199 overall matters more than anyone else's ability to overcome adversity? If you can even call that overcoming adversity or simply just being initially undervalued because you were an unproven college quarterback coming out of Michigan?  However you perceive it, Brady's arrogance and inability to simply identify with the word humility or properly define adversity in the real world has him actually believing his effort and his accomplishments are more valuable than his peers...he really believes that he is better and that he deserves to win and nothing illustrates that more clearly than when he loses. In addition it shows when he is corrected and when he has to admit fault or to making a mistake, and that's why so many people despise him but can't really put their finger on why. Special rules have been made for this athlete, special exceptions for protecting the QB, and for a short time special exceptions to formations until the league agreed it was gaming on the system, also known as cheating and we all know where that road has led with an asterisk based franchise.   Hey Brady, there's plenty of exceptional athletes out there who went even later than you and they don't walk around with a big ugly chip on their shoulders, they do their job and do it well and don't think they're better than those around them....Get over yourself, you're a privileged athlete with a strong work ethic and God given talent, nothing else!        

[Minionhunter]

Second best release of the season, followed only by the canning of Mark Trestman....can anyone out there tell me how he was ever even considered for the OC position? If you cite his record in Chicago or in the CFL, those are Not good sources to validate his credibility or prowess.  In my opinion, He cost our team more than a losing season last year he almost knocked us down into a hole this season that we nearly didn't climb out of.  Some of his old tendencies are still infecting the team's Offensive potential i.e., run-pass balance.  Run the ball, even if it's only getting you 1 or 2 yards...keep the defense honest. Best thing to do at a defense coming at you relentlessly...run right at them, chances are you'll eventually run right past them.  We are just way too predictable with this dink and dunk pass scheme.         

We are literally following the same path the niners took after Montana with Trestman and then earwig. The time management issues are from the Andy Reid coaching tree. Straight from the incompetent time management school. Joe looks lethargic because earwig is running it, not Joe.

[Minionhunter]

  3 hours ago, descent into the maelstrom said:

I wonder if the Patriots pick him up. He's clearly better than what they have.

The Ravens sure can't coach people. The Patriots get production fro their young players, why can't the Ravens?

I hope the Pats waste a spot on Hester, they won't Ihope they do. Just like Melvin all over again trying to spite us.

[kakatakoi]

38 minutes ago, ravenpic said:

Hester lost his nerve. Same thing happened to Jacoby. I wouldn't want that job. You gotta be nuts...Belichick did a number on us. Jumping Morgan on the FG to end Tucker's streak was a designed play. Film study. Think we can run the table and make the playoffs?

I totally agree, that jump was timed, studied and exploited at the Worst possible time to steal our momentum back to back, first the safety thanks to DH and then the announcers kept talking about how accurate he was and never missed, etc., etc. The thing about this game is that once Jimmy Smith went down they carved our secondary apart just like they did last year....we have to rebuild our secondary after this season.  

[verified]

only trash teams get picked to go to london, its not an accomplishment or a honor, we are offically a bottom of the barrel team and thats why their sending us to london. Youd never see the pats or steelers or any other relavent team being sent to london.

[verified]

Just shows how out dated ozzie newsome is with building a team. Our offense is pathetic still, Ive never seen so many passes to the running back WR still cant get open WR still trash. We dont have 1 WR outside of steve smith that could start on another team. Nice ozzie nice

[verified]

Weve been saying for years now "if we could only get healthy, once we get everyone back we'll be competitive again" News flash people those days of us being competitive are long gone. The AFC is a one horse race in the pats the only real paridoy in the league is in the NFC, pats going to the super bowl and no one can stop them. Especially not this sorry excuse for a team.

[law215]

Hester's departure is long overdue. Waste of time. OZ needs ti stop trying to build a team with old men. By the time some of these young players develop, their contract is up and will get more money elsewhere. Campanero or Reynolds could have provided the same or better.

[Ravensfolyfe]

Long over due.

[kakatakoi]

1 hour ago, Minionhunter said:

I hope the Pats waste a spot on Hester, they won't Ihope they do. Just like Melvin all over again trying to spite us.

I like where you're going with that idea, they would do that Just to spite us. The unintended bad side of that equation is that it would probably work with NE, they would find a way to incentivize him or get him drinking the Pats kool aid and he would probably return one on us in a playoff game after we dug and clawed our way out of the cellar.  Man I am sorry, yesterday's game and All the tragedy of errors, I mean Go for it on fourth down all season when it doesn't really matter except for a W in the win column and JH goes for it with reckless abandon but in a game that Really, Really Matters in every respect of the word and John choses instead to kick in the red zone on a fourth a short scenario versus a team that is notoriously an offensive Touchdown producing team....Come on Man....Aghhhhh!     

[Zeus]

Another great addition Oz....

Elam , Juan Castillo should be next

[Zeus]

Just shows how out dated ozzie newsome is with building a team. Our offense is pathetic still, Ive never seen so many passes to the running back WR still cant get open WR still trash. We dont have 1 WR outside of steve smith that could start on another team. Nice ozzie nice

100% correct

[Moderator 3]

1 hour ago, verified said:

only trash teams get picked to go to london, its not an accomplishment or a honor, we are offically a bottom of the barrel team and thats why their sending us to london. Youd never see the pats or steelers or any other relavent team being sent to london.

Do you actually know anything about the NFL?  Both of those teams have already been.  We're one of the few who haven't.

[drillem]

I believe it has become apparent that there needs to be some new blood in the front office. The decision making has become senile. Where we used to develop talent, including coaching talent, we now try on different old shoes. If someone happens to produce they often just leave. There is no central direction guiding this teams principals. In fact there seems to be confusion about direction altogether. And I believe this came about slowly over a long time so no one noticed or could pinpoint a day or year when it started. The crazy part is there are still remnants of finesse within the organization. But the team has lost it's way and no longer has the coordination necessary to work. We see spurts of excellence mixed in with some really bad elements.

[Zeus]

  1 hour ago, verified said:

only trash teams get picked to go to london, its not an accomplishment or a honor, we are offically a bottom of the barrel team and thats why their sending us to london. Youd never see the pats or steelers or any other relavent team being sent to london.

Do you actually know anything about the NFL?  Both of those teams have already been.  We're one of the few who haven't.

It's a great opportunity to display talents like we did last night. Getting embarrassed on an international stage is something we have yet to achieve