tsylvester

Would you have given up the 14th pick for Lawrence? Frankly, Bengals are nuts, the guy is a loose cannon who wants a boat load of money

3 pt stance is over rated unless you are in short yardage. It helps to keep the pads low and drive forward. Coaching today, especially in the high-school and college ranks is far superior to yesteryear. The issue is over use, of muscles, ligaments and games played. Some ligaments can't handle the muscle size and you get soft tissue injuries; hamstrings, the cl family of the knee, even the achilles. Yes, strength and conditoning has come a long way, shoot, Gatorade wasn't even invented when I played, we used water and oranges. We lifted, stretched, then ran 1 mile before practice, then went full tilt in practice. Ice bath after practice. Today, most of that is taken away, changed, thought cruel.

Maybe not a plethora of injuries, but the quality of player is certainly way down. That is not just due to coaching, that is because of a lack of recovery time and extended play

14 total full pads practices, that is once per week for "most of the season" If that is all they did, then complaining about once a week is ridiculous, and since that would leave 3 weeks of games with no pads allowed in the practice. So yes, Flowers is a wilter, along with any other player complains about practice, Allen Iversons.... I'm all about recovery time for the players, takes 3-4 days after an NFL game, 5 for some older vets. But the best way to get the rust off it sometimes to use a hammer... Not that I want to defend Harbs

Found this using the Google Note that NFL regulations restrict full-pad practices to 14 in the regular season, meaning some claims about "always" wearing pads may refer to maximum allowable use of padded sessions rather than every single practice. Other Teams/Approaches: In contrast, some teams use few or no padded practices during the regular season. For example, the Patriots did not practice in full pads after the regular season began in 2025, according to a Facebook post by New England Patriots Nation.

He only has a point if other teams, ones who win in the playoff and go on to win the Super Bowl, have softer practices. We just do not know the answer to that right now.

Cry me a river, I guess it is good they didn't play during the 60's, 70's, or even 80's. Ravens wide receiver Zay Flowers says he’s looking forward to a different approach to practices with new head coach Jesse Minter, who won’t break the team down the way Flowers says John Harbaugh did. Flowers said on the 4th and South podcast that Harbaugh put the Ravens through contact practices as often as NFL rules allow, and that by the end of the season players were exhausted from the wear and tear on their bodies. Full pads all the time,” Flowers said. “However many practices in pads you can get, every single one. We’re doing one-on-ones in Week 17. Week 17, we’re doing one-on-ones, everybody out there, we’re tired, we’re still going.” Asked how the players manage that workload, Flowers answered, “We don’t.” “That’s why we had a lot of injuries,” Flowers continued. “Because of how we practiced, how we went. The load was heavy.” Flowers said that in his first conversation with Minter, who was a Ravens assistant before Flowers was drafted, he asked for reassurance that the team would be more cognizant of taking care of players’ bodies. “Yeah, I talked to the new coach,” Flowers said. “He worked with Harbaugh in 2017, so he knows how it was, how we worked with Harbaugh. So he says, ‘You’re going to get your work, but it’s going to be a little easier on your body. You’re going to be fresher for the game.’ That was the first talk I had with him: How’s practice going to look?” Ravens players will be glad to hear Flowers’ comments. Giants players may be in for a rude awakening. https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/zay-flowers-john-harbaugh-made-ravens-practice-too-hard-jesse-minter-wont

Completely ridiculous

We have a winner! The easiest way for a team to raise revenue without raising ticket prices, which they have or will, is to sell merchandise. How do you sell more? Change the uniform and the lemmings will follow right off of the cliff.

Much ado about nothing me thinks https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/ravens-unveil-new-uniforms

From his presser, I would gather that they trade down in the 1st... First round, there’s definitely a drop off probably midway through the round in terms of talent,” DeCosta said. DeCosta said the overall talent level this year is “a little less than last year.”

They have Jones who played at guard last year once he got healthy, did really well. Blaylock is a mauler, who I think would fit well with Simpson and Jones on either side. The only real question I have is, can they salvage Vorhees? He was a rock star coming out of college before the injury, and while he played subpar last year, it is my belief that the coaching had a lot to do with his poor play.

Yeah, in this draft, the best center is almost the best of the worst. It depends on how they feel about Blaylock

I like Boston, but would rather they take Elijah Sarrat, wr Indian, great, tough posession receiver, perfect in the slot to work off of Flowers on the outside and the tightends. Excellent after the catch, fearless. Hemby is a real nice pick in the 5th, earlier would be a strethch. Mike Washington would be a better choice maybe, 6'-1, 225 with 4.33 speed. Needs some work on his hands, but he would be ideal to replace Mitchell and possibly be Henry's replacement

Others dont have agents, Smith is one, he seems to have little trouble negotiating his contracts. But clearly Lamar struggles with the negotiation part.