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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.

That's where having an agent comes in handy

As the article stated, we don't know if either of those 3 year deals had no trade clauses.Seems to me, smart on Lamar to want that provision, who wouldn't want to choose where they are traded? Maybe he did want a 5 year deal, which would mean he did want to be hear, contrary to what many have said. We just don't know why he turned down 2-3 year deals, fully guaranteed.

Yes, comitted

The initial ruling in the collusion grievance filed by the NFL Players Association on behalf of Lamar Jackson, Russell Wilson, and Kyler Murray shed new light on the negotiations between Jackson and the Ravens that preceded his five-year deal in 2023. The appeal ruling adds a key fresh detail, too. In two different portions of page 14 of the decision, the three-person panel writes that the Ravens twice offered three-year, fully-guaranteed contracts to Jackson. Jackson declined both of them. The ruling mentions none of the other key terms, like annual compensation. It’s also not mentioned whether the three-year contracts included a no-tag clause, which would have set the stage for unrestricted free agency in March 2026. Although the Deshaun Watson contract that apparently sparked Jackson’s desire to have a fully-guaranteed contract of his own covered five years, a three-year fully-guaranteed deal gets the player all of his money along with a shorter path to another deal or free agency. Jackson eventually signed a five-year deal with two years and part of a third fully guaranteed at signing. The rest of the third year became fully guaranteed early in the second year, and a large chunk of the fourth year ($29 million of $52 million) became fully guaranteed early in the fourth year. The fifth year has no guarantees. But fully guaranteed is fully guaranteed. The fact that the Ravens offered Jackson a pair of three-year fully-guaranteed contracts (which is what Kirk Cousins got from the Vikings in 2018) defied the NFL’s effort as of March 2022 to persuade the teams to collude in not providing fully-guaranteed deals. This year, plenty of the contracts signed in unrestricted free agency cover only three years. That’s better for players than having non-guaranteed back-end years, because once the full guarantees end the contracts become one-way arrangements — if the player is underperforming, the contract gets ripped up by the team; if the player is overperforming, the player is at the mercy of the team in an effort to get a raise. https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/collusion-appeal-ruling-says-ravens-offered-lamar-jackson-two-fully-guaranteed-contracts

We will agree to disagree l, as we have in the past. Injuries, I believe, slowed him down last year. His hesitation to run, for ? reason, also slowed him down. It is my opinion that he has not run full speed since the season before. I think this year, with a healthier body and a better view of how he needs to play, he will be back to lightening

I respect this dude's opinion, but I think he got his noggin scrambled a few times. I do agree, to stop Lamar or slow him down, five man rush, 4 at first then the 5th on a delay if Lamar holds the ball. However, Lamar's arm strength is just as good as Josh's, he too can make any throw on the field as fsr as distance and pep on the ball. He and Josh are about even when it comes to turnovers, and to be perfectly honest, the 5 man rush, 0 blitz was tried for years, and when the Ravens had a plan for it under Monken, Lamar won an MVP for beating it. It worked last year because of the terrible line play and the fact that Lamar was hurt most of the year. https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/charles-omenihu-league-has-figured-out-lamar-jackson-hasnt-figured-out-josh-allen