[News] Late For Work 4/3: Top Options To Address Ravens' Five Biggest Needs

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9 hours ago, GENE2407 said:

I don't know where all these players are coming from. We only have one first and one second rounder and we're going to draft a top notch WR, DE, ILB, OT and CB. Dream on. Just get the first two right.

So we're not capable of getting good players past round 2? Have you even looked at some of the quality players on our roster and where they were drafted?

Some of the positions you listed, like DE or ILB, I don't think we have very much interest in drafting at all to be honest.

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Ozzie and Co. are respected around the league when finding talent similar to how Bellichick finds players the big difference is he has Brady! Hogan WR where is he from and their new RB picked in what round and where he from just like Edelman no one heard of him look at him now! Brady makes them all look like geniuses! So trying to criticize Ozzie and Co. and how they do things is pointless!

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Ozzie and Co. are respected around the league when finding talent similar to how Bellichick finds players the big difference is he has Brady! Hogan WR where is he from and their new RB picked in what round and where he from just like Edelman no one heard of him look at him now! Brady makes them all look like geniuses! So trying to criticize Ozzie and Co. and how they do things is pointless!

Well there's certainly valid reasons for criticism, given how some of the more recent drafts, and in particular high draft picks, have performed.

2012 draft class was a complete joke, save for one player, we got mega busts out of our top two picks in 2013, and the entire 2015 draft class is looking very shaky right now after two seasons.

Belichick whiffs in the draft plenty as well. Nobody is immune from criticism, especially when its the biggest reason we are in the position we are in right now.

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On 4/3/2017 at 3:10 PM, steelcityraven said:

I am with you.... I do not think that Dalton is elite.... without AJ Green he looked avg at best.... Carr and Luck do seem to be a step above and they can win games

Ben has elite ability but also has and elite ego and his ego has lost Pittsburgh more big games then he has won them over the past 5 years.

Ryan is not Joe... Julio makes any QB look elite... and MattyIce has always had great WRs (and TE)

Joe has proven that if you give him time and half way decent weapons... that he can win the whole thing for us.

We need to re-build that OL and add in a play making WR and Joe will have weapons. (Perriman and Wallace can take the top off of any defense. WE have great TEs and a lot of them. We have woodhead who will chew up yardage and if we can add a JuJu or a DeDe Westbrook, Corey Davis, Mike Williams type of WR in the draft.... Joe will have weapons) the addition of some sure handed WR like Boldin who can roam behind the LBs could be a very large asset... but Joe will have some weapons by the time season starts. (look at the super bowl year- Boldin, Torrey, Pitta, Rice... those were the weapons... we can put that and more on the field this year).

the key is keeping him protected- Joe has to have time and have a clean pocket. Stanley, Alex Lewis and Yanda are a good chunk of that starting 5 but we really do probably need 2 more OLmen.

Completely agree with you. A big key to Joe's success which continues to go unnoticed is he HAS to stay under 32 thrown passes. I keep telling ppl that he is not a high volume passer. I can bet if you look at his record when he's under and over 32 passing attempts, he has more wins when he comes under. So what does that mean? It has to be a solid run game. If we're not running the ball and running play action passes than we should get use to losing because now we're not catering to Flacco's strengthens. He love the deep ball. How did we win the SB?! Deep passes, running the ball and PA. This formula has been proven but along the way we stop using it. I like the signing of Roman who can get the running game back on track. If we mix that in with PA passes and quick slants for our Permian and Wallace, we will be a 10 win team again but it has to balance. We can't get out there and scrap the running game or not get our line to play hard nose physical football. We need that grit. A light must flip on once that whistle blows because we need to clear holes for the RB's. Doing that will cause Joe to play like Joe Cool. Watch the offense when we went on that Super Bowl run. It was so balance and was amazing to watch