[News] Reports: Dennis Pitta Agrees To Restructured Contract

[EdTheMythicalOne]

Wow, a lot of hate on Pitta and Flacco here.

The comment that Flacco is not a championship QB is...looking for a kind way to say it...not exactly correct. Under Flacco this team has made the playoffs 6 times in the 9 seasons he's played. In fact in his first five seasons this team went to the playoffs each season, never were one and done (in any of the six times they went to the playoffs), and won a superbowl. That run to the superbowl and the win would have never happened without Flacco.

It is amazing that Dennis Pitta was able to come back from not one, but two devastating hip injuries. Keep in mind he was a hero in that super bowl run as well. Obviously he's not quite the same guy he was before the injuries. As I stated before he is still the guy with the most reliable hands on the roster and he seems to be the only one that understands how to get open in zone coverage. It isn't his fault or Flacco's that none of his other targets can't separate from defenders.

As I stated before as well I don't think the team is planning on Pitta being the #1. I don't think that was the plan last season. It is just what happened along the way. Boyle was suspended, Gillmore got hurt, Watson got hurt, and Williams got hurt. We were down to Pitta and Waller as our only two active TE's and then the Ravens were just rotating guys on and off the roster every week just in case something happened to those two. I think moving forwards Maxx Williams will be the #1 until he proves he can't be or gets hurt again. I think with the loss of Juice that one of our TE's will be used as a motion H-Back/blocker role. On running downs you can put in Gillmore, then whomever you want as the 2nd TE, and then have Boyle as the lead blocking H-back or perhaps Waller. We could really get creative with a three TE package in this way.

 

[EdTheMythicalOne]

On another note, I see this author graduated from the redundant school of redundancy. Does anyone proofread/edit the posts before they get posted?

[ellicottraven]

6 hours ago, BigUgly said:

You can bet if Pitta's salary restructuring includes significant incentives, as it did last year, his good buddy Joe will do whatever he can to help him earn those incentives...perhaps at the expense of the growth of other receivers and maybe even negatively impacting the outcome of the game.

There's not an iota of doubt in my mind that it is exactly what'll transpire if it is incentive laden again. No matter whether we win or lose a game, his incentives wouldn't fall behind for sure. That is the problem with the Pitta signing.

[ellicottraven]

37 minutes ago, EdTheMythicalOne said:

On another note, I see this author graduated from the redundant school of redundancy. Does anyone proofread/edit the posts before they get posted?

If it was Mink, don't even bother. He's so atrocious as a writer it hurts me to say he writes for a living. Constant spelling errors, poor grammar, etc. are the hallmarks of his articles. However, Sarah and Garrett are so good they compensate for him. 

[poescrows]

the last three paragraphs are the same as the first three.....or did I go through a paradoxical time looping black hole, lol.

[Purple Dawg 96]

Pitta is like that box of baking soda in back of the fridge! But how many TEs do we need?! The TEs can do better in the pass than blocking because they create the best mismatches down field against smaller players in the secondary! Look around Brady had two in Gronk and Bennet Big ben is using Jessie James big time since AB is drawing so much attention and the Browns have Barnidge! Pitta is a possession receiver plain and simple and he did very good to me last season after holding my breath but he will do more damage down field over the LBers to avoid injury! It was Pitta that made the catch in 2012 against the pats to get the Ravens rolling to a Super Bowl when the pats were shutting the Ravens down! The TE Ed Dickson was used big time in the 1st half of that Super Bowl victory as well and since the Ravens are so deep at that position that position should take this team back to the top! WRs can play decoy for a while! Lol

[jravens1313]

So we backloaded Williams contract making it harder to sign Mosley in 2018 and increasing our risk in the outward years. Great!

[ByTheBay]

6 hours ago, CQ1 said:

As much as I like Dennis- and his zeal, he is just another convenient check down for Dunkin Jo-nuts. Furthermore, Joe is not a Championship caliber QB. He just happened to be the QB on the Championship caliber team of 2012. Until many of the pieces of our team get much better (much, much better), he will never guide us to another Championship. Can't wait for Mallett to somehow get into the mix.

Reading this makes me think you started watching the Ravens AFTER the superbowl run of 2012. Even the few Steelers fans that I know give Joe props for his role in bringing home the Lombardi. I'm not one to casually call people that I don't agree with trolls but this is just such a clueless statement I don't know what to think about you. Is it cold in Ohio this time of year? Hehe

[omar586]

10 hours ago, balfan23 said:

If we draft a TE I'm going to stroke out.

lol, tbh i wont b surprised if ozzie did draft one, due to the injuries and inconsistency of our current crop of TEs, from suspensions, injuries and bad hands.

[b93333]

7 hours ago, EdTheMythicalOne said:

Wow, a lot of hate on Pitta and Flacco here.

The comment that Flacco is not a championship QB is...looking for a kind way to say it...not exactly correct. Under Flacco this team has made the playoffs 6 times in the 9 seasons he's played. In fact in his first five seasons this team went to the playoffs each season, never were one and done (in any of the six times they went to the playoffs), and won a superbowl. That run to the superbowl and the win would have never happened without Flacco.

It is amazing that Dennis Pitta was able to come back from not one, but two devastating hip injuries. Keep in mind he was a hero in that super bowl run as well. Obviously he's not quite the same guy he was before the injuries. As I stated before he is still the guy with the most reliable hands on the roster and he seems to be the only one that understands how to get open in zone coverage. It isn't his fault or Flacco's that none of his other targets can't separate from defenders.

As I stated before as well I don't think the team is planning on Pitta being the #1. I don't think that was the plan last season. It is just what happened along the way. Boyle was suspended, Gillmore got hurt, Watson got hurt, and Williams got hurt. We were down to Pitta and Waller as our only two active TE's and then the Ravens were just rotating guys on and off the roster every week just in case something happened to those two. I think moving forwards Maxx Williams will be the #1 until he proves he can't be or gets hurt again. I think with the loss of Juice that one of our TE's will be used as a motion H-Back/blocker role. On running downs you can put in Gillmore, then whomever you want as the 2nd TE, and then have Boyle as the lead blocking H-back or perhaps Waller. We could really get creative with a three TE package in this way.

 

Joe performed very well during his rookie contract... after that not so much.

[sizzlingdoom]

Bummer. Hopefully Pitta and Woodhead aren't the only people on the team that get targets next year

[Ravens8383]

I'm sure Flacco said he would pay the difference in the pay cut to keep him. Whatever the case I'm happy he will be back!

[JamesA119]

  On March 11, 2017 at 9:27 AM, CQ1 said:

As much as I like Dennis- and his zeal, he is just another convenient check down for Dunkin Jo-nuts. Furthermore, Joe is not a Championship caliber QB. He just happened to be the QB on the Championship caliber team of 2012. Until many of the pieces of our team get much better (much, much better), he will never guide us to another Championship. Can't wait for Mallett to somehow get into the mix.

Reading this makes me think you started watching the Ravens AFTER the superbowl run of 2012. Even the few Steelers fans that I know give Joe props for his role in bringing home the Lombardi. I'm not one to casually call people that I don't agree with trolls but this is just such a clueless statement I don't know what to think about you. Is it cold in Ohio this time of year? Hehe

I agree with him and disagree with you. Does that justify me calling you a troll? No. We are all Raven fans that see things differently.
My concern is that you are stuck in 2012 with Joe Flacco. That's 5yrs ago. The average NFL career is shorter than 4 yrs. If we were to play revisionist history, Flacco was carried by the defense for most of his time leading to 2012. The 2012 playoff was his absolute best showing, since then he has essentially struggled "big league" lol
In the meantime he has had 2 different $120M+ contracts. Most Ravens fans are upset that a lot of money that can be used to sign better players are tied up in his contract. Here's a QB that can't win without superstars and there's no money to get the superstar talents because of him. That's the point.

[rossihunter2]

1 hour ago, JamesA119 said:

I agree with him and disagree with you. Does that justify me calling you a troll? No. We are all Raven fans that see things differently.
My concern is that you are stuck in 2012 with Joe Flacco. That's 5yrs ago. The average NFL career is shorter than 4 yrs. If we were to play revisionist history, Flacco was carried by the defense for most of his time leading to 2012. The 2012 playoff was his absolute best showing, since then he has essentially struggled "big league" lol
In the meantime he has had 2 different $120M+ contracts. Most Ravens fans are upset that a lot of money that can be used to sign better players are tied up in his contract. Here's a QB that can't win without superstars and there's no money to get the superstar talents because of him. That's the point.

this is a terrible narrative that you are peddling - you literally tell him to that it's ok to disagree but then suggest that 'most ravens fans' are upset about flacco's contract which is a ridiculous generalisation - but i digress, flacco has not always struggled since 2012... he was arguably at his best ever in 2014 and played well in 2013 despite having maybe his worst supporting cast of receivers (and he has had some bad receiver groups), now I agree that 2015 and 2016 were not good years even before the injury in 2015 - his mechanics and footwork have been tentative and unconvincing but towards the end of the year he seemed to start improving again which suggests he was slowly working his way back from the injury still

add to all this the fact that flacco has had very little help since the superbowl from the draft so even when the FO picks up help in free agency for him they are new and it is harder to build chemistry if your supporting cast changes all the time - the only offensive first rounders since flacco was drafted have been michael oher, breshad perriman and ronnie stanley - the only offensive second rounders since flacco was drafted have been torrey smith, kelechi osemele and maxx williams: that's only 6 offensive picks in the first 2 rounds out of 16 - and given that 3 of them are offensive linemen, you have to give flacco a small amount of credit for essentially throwing to other teams' outcasts and virtually no homegrown players - even more impressive given that of the 3 offensive picks that he could throw to out of those 2 rounds only 1 of them was healthy for any length of time - all of maxx's production came down the stretch in 2015 when mallett was throwing and perriman missed his entire rookie year and sophomore training camp

so flacco has never had offensive superstars to carry him so what about defense?

well ray lewis and ed reed are no doubt future first ballot HoFers, Suggs and Ngata are also brilliant ravens but lets think about that superbowl run - ray lewis was undoubtedly the talisman and made 1 or 2 big plays in the playoffs, however you cannot really argue that either he or ed reed were still the superstars they were in the rest of their careers - there was a very good reason why ray lewis was retiring at the end of that superbowl season even if we hadnt won and if im being brutally honest, ed reed should have retired as well given how awful he was after he left - suggs and ngata unquestionably were still playing incredibly well at the time but i wouldnt say they carried the team - and of course there's also the fact that ray lewis missed a significant portion of the season before the ravens even got to the playoffs when he tore his triceps

this is not to completely excuse flacco of all blame for his recent shortcomings but it is very shortsighted to suggest that he should not be paid like a franchise qb so i completely disagree with the premise that you are pushing - its also wrong to suggest that we would be signing superstars in free agency to help him out if he took a paycut - look at the most recent free agency period and youll notice it was maybe the worst free agency class in recent memory and yet an enormous amount of money changed hands - to get offensive superstars you have to draft them and re-sign them - but in order to need money that we would have from flacco's "paycut" we'd need to draft a player worthy of that money who isnt going to be paid a stupid amount by another team - i cant think of one player on the offensive side of the ball who has been or would have been worth superstar money - maybe KO might have been worth it but he got paid a ridiculous amount of money that i couldnt really endorse the FO spending on a LG

i know this is probably unlikely to change your mind but oh well...