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So long as he got his nutrition figured out so that he avoids tummy aches and exploding diarrhea causing him to miss practices, games... I'm good...

Lamar has really slimmed down. He's at 205 now. https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/sports/ravens-nfl/ravens-lamar-jackson-weight-offseason-pounds-PEPSWLBRT5GDFFLNI4WZBPNC7Y/?schk=YES&rchk=YES&utm_source=The+Baltimore+Banner&utm_campaign=97b92ddc50-NL_ALRT_RV_20240510_1145&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-97b92ddc50-[LIST_EMAIL_ID]&mc_cid=97b92ddc50&mc_eid=7135e1e06f. But as you read, the Ravens might want him to add back some weight. Really, what I would like to see is his throwing the deep ball and making completions.

They will keep what 8 OL? Ronnie, Vohees, Rittengarten, Lindy, Makeri, Faalele, Cleveland, and Sala make the team. I just dont see how the numbers work.

He is not that guy. At 27 he cant unlearn what he is.

I think Lamar's future success is going to be determined if he can master the deep ball. We left a lot of points on the field last year with overthrown deep balls. BUT, toward the very end of the season, it looked like he just might have solved his problems with it. This year will tell the tale.

The O-line is so in need of starters and depth that I think he's got a chance to be a backup.

I just don’t see him making the 53 man roster this yr. A yr on the ps and he could be a good get.

So he is a better scrambler. Get the ball down the field. Lamar is not good at that. come on. Last yr play was down opening it up for Lamar. Really hill should have been mvp but the media is obsessed with qbs.

As the NCAA Division I men’s lacrosse tournament begins this weekend, top-ranked Notre Dame should win its second straight national championship. The Fighting Irish (12-1) are without question the best team in the country, and it’s their title to lose. Notre Dame has beaten the best teams in the nation, including Ohio State, Michigan, Syracuse, Maryland, Virginia and Duke. Duke and Virginia have each lost twice to Notre Dame. The Fighting Irish beat the Blue Devils, 15-12, on April 7, and took down the Cavaliers, 11-9, 20 days later. Last week, Notre Dame beat Virginia, 18-9, and then Duke, 16-6, in the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament semifinals and championship game. Ouch. It’s going to take a super effort to beat the Fighting Irish because they have no weaknesses. They average 16 goals per game and allow only 9.31. Their specialty units are dominant, scoring on 26 of 37 extra-man opportunities and winning 204 of 368 faceoffs (.554) led by specialist Will Lynch (139 of 233). The offense is paced by attackmen Jake Taylor (35 goals, three assists), Pat Kavanagh (22 G, 38 A) and Chris Kavanagh (30 G, 29 A) and midfielders Devon McLane (27 G, 8 A), Jordan Faison (18 G, 8 A) and Eric Dobson (14 G, 10 A). Notre Dame also has the best goalie in the country in 6-foot-3, 203-pound Liam Entenmann, who has a .563 save percentage and a 9.34 goals-against average. Duke, Virginia and possibly Johns Hopkins could knock off Notre Dame, but those teams have to make it through the first round. Here are The Baltimore Sun’s game-by-game predictions for the NCAA Tournament: First round No. 3 seed Johns Hopkins vs. Lehigh (Sunday, noon) This game is more about the Blue Jays than the Mountain Hawks. Lehigh has played well under first-year coach Will Scudder and is solid in almost every area. The Mountain Hawks won’t give up 18 goals, but it’s not certain that they can score more than 10, either. Meanwhile, the Blue Jays need to get their offense in gear, having scored only 14 goals over the past two games. That’s strange because Hopkins coach Peter Milliman usually has his teams peaking at the end of the season. On Sunday, the Blue Jays are going to need more out of attackmen Garrett Degnon (42 G, 5 A), Jacob Angelus (22 G, 37 A) and Russell Melendez (15 G, 8 A), midfielder Dylan Bauer (9 G, 12 A) and goalie Chayse Ierlan (.563 save percentage). The Blue Jays should win, but if they are as lethargic as they were against Michigan last week in the Big Ten Tournament and allow Lehigh to hang around, they could get upset, even though that’s very unlikely. Prediction: Johns Hopkins 12, Lehigh 8 Johns Hopkins, the No. 3 seed, will face Lehigh on Sunday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. (Kim Hairston/Staff) No. 4 Syracuse vs. Towson (Sunday, 7:30 p.m.) The selection committee didn’t do Syracuse any favors. The Tigers know their identity and how to win. They use a lot of ball movement and hustle on rides and clears, especially in the middle of the field. Towson goalie Luke Downs (8.65 goals-against average) is decent and will hold his own. The Tigers also have Matt Constantinides, who has won 197 of 338 faceoffs (.583) and should be the great equalizer. Towson has enough offensive talent to rattle the Orange with sophomore midfielder Mikey Weisshaar (39 G, 19 A) and senior attackman Nick DeMaio (32 G, 48 A). The Tigers have some outstanding short-stick midfielders so they don’t have to slide as hard or as much against Syracuse. The Orange have some outstanding young offensive talent, especially in sophomore attackman Joey Spallina (33 G, 47 A), but this offense can get caught up in too much one-on-one play. The crowd at the Carrier Dome will help Syracuse, but the Tigers will pull off the upset. Prediction: Towson 14, Syracuse 10 No. 7 Maryland vs. Princeton (Saturday, 7:30 p.m.) Maryland has no offensive studs like former star attackman Matt Rambo, and the Terps got embarrassed last week in a 19-9 loss to Penn State in the Big Ten Tournament semifinals. Maryland beat Princeton, 13-7, on Feb. 24, but the Tigers have gotten better. Can the same thing be said about Maryland? The Terps will play good defense built around long pole Ajax Zappitello and faceoff specialist Luke Wierman should keep them in the game, but goalie Logan McNaney has been shaky lately, along with the entire offense. It wouldn’t be surprising if Maryland lost. Prediction: Maryland 8, Princeton 7 No. 7 seed Maryland beat Princeton, its first-round opponent, earlier this season. (Maryland Athletics) No. 2 Duke vs. Utah (Saturday, 2:30 p.m.) Duke is the great enigma of the tournament. The Blue Devils can play as well as any team on any given day, but they can also be just as bad. There are times when they have one of the best offenses in college lacrosse, and then games in which they disappear, like the four goals they put up against Syracuse earlier this year and six last week against Notre Dame. There is something missing from this team as far as chemistry, but at least the Blue Devils have the right coach in John Danowski to figure it out. Duke should handle Utah and its high-octane offense, especially with attackmen Brennan O’Neill (49 G, 25 A) and Josh Zawada (29 G, 40 A). Prediction: Duke 12, Utah 7 No. 8 Georgetown vs. Penn State (Sunday, 2:30 p.m.) The Nittany Lions don’t change much during the season so there won’t be many surprises, but that also means Hoyas coach Kevin Warne should come up with a good game plan to slow them down. Penn State has a great scorer in attackman T.J. Malone (40 G, 34 A), and goalie Jack Fracyon is excellent and can take over a game. The Hoyas, though, are a gritty bunch and they don’t mind playing tough and grinding out a victory. It will be interesting to see whether Georgetown can take advantage of some of the injuries to Penn State’s midfield throughout the season. This might be the best game in the first round. Prediction: Penn State 10, Georgetown 8 No. 6 Virginia vs Saint Joseph’s (Saturday, noon) Saint Joseph’s deserves credit for having a good season, but they aren’t in the same class as Virginia despite the Cavaliers having lost four straight games. Virginia’s short-stick middies, though, have become a liability and goalie Matthew Nunes has lost some confidence. The Cavaliers need attackmen Payton Cormier (55 G, 12 A) and Connor Shellenberger (26 G, 45 A) to take over games again, and coach Lars Tiffany might need to change up his defense and start playing more zone. Regardless, Virginia moves on to the second round. Prediction: Virginia 13, Saint Joseph’s 7 No. 5 Denver vs. Michigan (Saturday, 5 p.m.) This will be one of the better faceoff matchups of the year with the Wolverines’ Justin Wietfeldt (228 of 368) going against the Pioneers’ Alex Stathakis (204 of 329). Denver has a good coach in Matt Brown, showing discipline and execution on the field. Plus, the Pioneers are at home and have had some big wins over Johns Hopkins, Cornell, Ohio State and Georgetown this season. Take Denver, which will be playing at home. Prediction: Denver 9, Michigan 7 No. 1 Notre Dame versus Albany (Sunday, 5 p.m.) This is not the Albany team that had the Thompson brothers, Lyle and Kyle, a decade ago. Enough said. Prediction: Notre Dame 14, Albany 6 Related Articles Sports | Mike Preston: Ravens, AFC North got better through NFL draft, but so did the Chiefs | COMMENTARY Sports | Mike Preston: Ravens stick to script and come away with solid draft class | COMMENTARY Sports | Mike Preston: Ravens draft pick Nate Wiggins can be the shutdown corner they need | COMMENTARY Sports | Mike Preston: Drafting offensive linemen who can protect Ravens QB Lamar Jackson must be a priority | COMMENTARY Sports | Mike Preston: Former Terps, River Hill star Beau Brade leans on faith, work ethic entering NFL draft | COMMENTARY Quarterfinals (May 18-19) No. 1 Notre Dame 13, Penn State 8: The Nittany Lions have enough versatility to slow the pace of the game, but Notre Dame has great depth and the Fighting Irish are relentless. Towson 14, No. 5 Denver 11: The Tigers will be on a roll having won 10 straight. They’ll get another victory versus the Pioneers. No. 6 Virginia 12, No. 3 Johns Hopkins 8: This will be a tough one to pick. The Blue Jays can slow down Virginia’s offense with ball control, but the Cavaliers have been here before and that experience will carry them to victory. No. 2 Duke 12, No. 7 Maryland 8: The Terps can’t match the Blue Devils’ firepower on offense but they can slow them down enough to keep the game interesting for a while. Semifinals (May 25) No. 1 Notre Dame 14, Towson 9: The Cinderella season ends for Towson as Duke advances to the title game. No. 2 Duke 16, No. 6 Virginia 10: This game might resemble Duke’s 18-12 victory over the Cavaliers in their first meeting April 14. The Blue Devils win again in the rematch. Championship (May 27) No. 1 Notre Dame 16, No. 2 Duke 11: Notre Dame has too much talent, especially in the middle of the field, and the Fighting Irish defend their national title. View the full article

Stroud throws a better deep ball, right now, time will tell if Lamar ever gets more accurate on those deep throws. But, Lamar is clearly a better scrambler, runner, which for me, puts him over CJ. Shoot, 2 MVP's, that says it all. If he were old like Rogers, I could see it, but he isn't much older than Stroud and he just won his 2nd one.

Watch for him in preseason, at 6-6, 315, maybe he emerges at the right tackle.... https://ravenswire.usatoday.com/2024/05/06/julian-pearl-could-be-the-steal-of-ravens-udfa-class/

Stroud said during his draft process that he can run but he didn’t do it at osu.

Thanks!

Stroud has a year of success, but Houston was smart and gave him weapons this offseason. Sky is the limit. One thing I noticed about Stroud is he can get out of the pocket, quick. Lightening fast. Great decision making. If Lamar doesn't sniff the super bowl this year, his rep will be solidified as the guy who can't win the big games. I'd rank them the same.

The exchange through a Ring doorbell was brief, and the door never opened. A Baltimore County Police officer outside the Owings Mills home was following up phone calls with a woman who dialed 911, then hung up, and was described as “in distress” when a dispatcher called her back. But the woman behind the door sounded confused, asking what address police wanted and then, “Is there a problem?” “Yeah, you called the police,” the officer answered. “I did — I did not. I just woke up,” the woman replied. With that, the interaction, recorded on police body-camera video, ended. “OK, have a good day,” the officer said as she turned away, heading back down the snowy steps that led to her squad car. She never saw anyone inside the home. That January 911 call would, days later, become part of a report by a woman who alleged to police in Massachusetts that she suffered bruises in a “violent” domestic incident involving Ravens wide receiver Zay Flowers. A subsequent criminal investigation in Baltimore County closed without charges against Flowers. The NFL announced last month that it would not discipline him, citing insufficient evidence that Flowers did anything that violated its policy. While the official investigations are over, the county police department’s initial response raises broader questions about how it handles calls requesting checks on people or locations. The patrol officer’s interaction at the door was brief, and while she was at the address a dispatcher provided, it appears to have been the wrong location and the officer left without knocking on other doors. The officer was dispatched to a unit in the same building as the home that real estate records indicated Flowers bought in 2023. Dispatch records indicate the address police used was generated by geolocation that incorporated data from the 911 caller’s cellphone, a method that can produce an imprecise location. The Baltimore Sun shared body-camera footage of the officer’s visit, obtained through a Maryland Public Information Act request, with domestic violence advocates and policing experts. Some said they saw lapses in the officer failing to ask to speak face-to-face with the person she was talking to and in not seeking a private conversation to check on that person’s well-being. It’s not clear who the officer talked to through the Ring doorbell; she knocked on only one door, bypassing the door to Flowers’ unit, which is visible a few feet away in the officer’s body-camera video. A woman who answered the Ring doorbell Monday declined to talk with a Sun reporter. “A reasonable officer with that piece of information — that the caller was described as ‘in distress’ or distressed — that would provide a little more impetus to dig deeper, as far as those things: right place, face-to-face meeting and identification of the person,” said Ashley Heiberger, a retired Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, police captain and police practices expert. “So many times in policing, you’re not dealing with absolute certainties.” Baltimore County Police, in an emailed statement, said each call an officer responds to “presents its own unique set of circumstances.” Officers use their knowledge, training and situational awareness, and act on “the information they have available to them at the time,” the department said. In this case, the patrol officer was responding to a “check on location” call, rather than a report of domestic violence or a welfare check. The officer sought “anyone who needed assistance,” county police said, but didn’t locate anyone who seemed in distress. The patrol officer, identified by the department in the video as T. McCall, referred questions from The Sun to a department spokesperson. The department noted, too, that the officer “stayed in the area and remained visible” for a period of time afterward. The responding officer and 911 dispatchers knew little about the nature of the incident inside the town house where the caller was located. Audio of the 911 callback released by the department in February captured a 911 employee asking whether there was an emergency or whether the caller needed help. A woman in a shaky voice said, “No, that’s OK, thank you.” The 911 employee told her to have a good day, and she replied, “Thanks, you, too.” Over the radio, a dispatcher told police an officer needed to “check location,” and listed an Owings Mills address. They then gave a brief description: “Female caller, location came from rebid,” the dispatcher said, using a term associated with geolocating a cell call. “On callback, female answered and was crying,” the dispatcher said. “Said she didn’t have an emergency, but seemed in distress when she hung up the phone.” A “check on location” is a code the county 911 center uses for hang-up calls or requests for an officer to check on a property. On the other hand, a “welfare check,” which was not how this call was classified, is used when a caller says they are urgently concerned about someone. Some advocates interviewed by The Sun praised police for following up on the 911 hang-up both by phone and in person. Joan Meier, a law professor who founded and now directs the George Washington University’s National Family Violence Law Center, called it a good sign that first responders recognized someone might not be OK just because they said so. But, Meier said, police shouldn’t “leave it at that.” “They took one step in the right direction, and then they stopped,” she said. “If she had been the victim and it had been the right house … it would have been important for them to request, ‘Can I come in and talk to you in person?'” The caller to Baltimore County Police later told Massachusetts police she was “physically assaulted” and had multiple bruises from an altercation at the home where she lived with her boyfriend. She said, according to county police records, that he “trashed all her stuff” and that his brother drew a firearm. The woman said it was a “really bad 10 minutes,” but she “hasn’t been scared since,” according to police documents. She didn’t take Massachusetts police up on an offer to apply for a protective order and didn’t want to move forward when contacted by Baltimore County Police. Police records do not identify the woman who called 911 or the woman who spoke through the Ring doorbell. In this specific case, it’s not clear whether laying eyes on the person behind the doorbell would have changed the outcome, particularly as the officer knocked only on what appeared to be the wrong door. The woman who did call 911 later told police in Massachusetts that she closed the window shades in Flowers’ condo when police arrived in the area. She added that officers remained in the area for two hours, which she said helped de-escalate the incident because “the brother got scared, left the room, put the gun away, and that is what really made it stop,” the documents said. Flowers has not spoken with the media since the investigation was first reported, although he recently worked out at the team facility. His representatives did not respond to earlier messages seeking comment. The Ravens’ Zay Flowers cleaned out his locker as players packed up their belongings a day after their season-ending loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC championship game. (Kevin Richardson/Staff) Some advocates said they hope the police department uses the incident as a “learning moment.” In similar circumstances, it is a “very real concern” that a person who called 911 and hung up could then say they don’t need police because there is “somebody continuing to assert power and control” over them, said Amanda Rodriguez, the executive director of TurnAround, a local domestic violence and sexual assault nonprofit organization. Having an in-person conversation with someone allows for an officer to visually check on the person’s condition, to speak with others who might be inside a home and to ask questions to get a better sense of why 911 was dialed, experts said. “My greatest fear is that the abuser is with them, and they can’t verbalize anything other than, ‘I’m OK,’ or ‘I didn’t call,'” Rodriguez said. If police want to be “proactive and responsive” to domestic violence, it’s important to have a policy and practice for what to do when victims say they’re OK, Meier said. That can happen, even when people aren’t safe, because they are intimidated or afraid of what will happen if they report something. “Terror goes with the territory, and our system has to work around that and work with that in mind,” she added. Experts don’t agree on how the call should have been handled. Shamus Smith, a doctoral lecturer of criminology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said if an officer knocks on someone’s door and they don’t want to talk, it could be better not to push further. The person behind the door could see that as harassment, said Smith, a former police officer, and it could be “invasive” to presume the call is related to any domestic violence. “I always stress the responsibility … to protect the privacy of a victim and their overall wellness,” Smith said. “Where you have a very vague 911 call, and you’re not able to listen to the initial 911 call to dispatch, in certain situations, [officers’] hands are tied and they can only do but so much.” Alesha Durfee, a sociologist and Saint Louis University women’s and gender studies professor, noted that the officer didn’t report any disruption from outside the home, such as objects being thrown or screaming. The officer wrote in her report that she “could not hear any excessive noise when approaching the residence.” Going beyond speaking with a resident, Durfee said, might create additional harm. “You could be doing more damage here than good,” said Durfee, pointing to situations where a victim may have fought back against an abuser or may be intoxicated, among other scenarios with potential complications and repercussions. To some domestic violence survivors, safety could be money to change their locks or to move out, rather than a criminal prosecution, Durfee said. She stressed the importance of survivors’ connections to resources and services that are not connected to law enforcement. “When you start going out to crime scenes,” she said, “you realize the police interact with a lot of different people, and in many cases, that interaction doesn’t go well.” Help for victims of domestic violence is available 24/7 at the National Domestic Violence Hotline (800-799-7233). 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Well this will be the yr lost to injury.

I have stroud over Lamar by probably 2 or 3 spots.

Cj has to prove he is more than a one hit wonder

I saw that article too. 230 was definitely too heavy for him. 205 might be too light. Seems like he ought to be around 210-215. Hopefully he is getting good advice from our trainers. He did look a step slower last year, but frankly, I don't want my $250million QB running a lot anyway.

Well...I'll say this. If I'm playing against a QB, I'd rather play Lamar than CJ. Lamar really has to prove he can the big game.

I'm not big on rankings, but I am bored so I gave it a read. Pretty good, but Stroud over Lamar? https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2024-nfl-qb-power-rankings-brock-purdy-jordan-love-crack-top-10-in-first-post-draft-pecking-order/

Lamar says he has lost a lot of weight, down to 205, he should be back to his quickster self. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10120245-ravens-lamar-jackson-says-hes-lost-25-pounds-since-2022-season-down-to-205 I hope so, he did look a little slow last year, whether that was weight or him not wanting to risk injury by putting the pedal to the floor..

From January https://youtu.be/rYJ45Mf6v4Q?si=galBOrljZpXbEyPn

Moore should be back. Wonder if there have been any updates?

That is as opposed as his boss who accepts no responsibility.