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Harbs a few days ago

I've had to get them from time to time in my knees when I was younger, my doctor advised against them, why?

He can only do so much, can Lamar learn the offense? Make the right reads, adjustments? Can the receivers do the same? Will they be on the same page?

Yeah, this offense can move the chains, win games with a healthy, good offensive line. I'm excited for this team right now, the possibilities are endless if they stay healthy and learn the plays.

Stanley feeling young again https://www.nfl.com/news/ravens-ot-ronnie-stanley-ankle-feeling-right-entering-2023-this-is-as-good-as-i-

Yeah, cortisone is good for killing pain, one major problem though, it eats bones. That is not good, just go and get the screws removed, don't fool around with cortisone

Full go though there will be or might be some limitations placed on him to allow him to to adjust. Good sighting https://www.nfl.com/news/ravens-hc-john-harbaugh-odell-beckham-a-full-go-for-practice-but-will-have-ramp-

12 died at the Derby, 2 more at Belmont, imagine if instead of the horses, that baseball, football, or basketball players died while playing their games....

Curious, how do you feel about Tomlin, who hasn't won a playoff game since 2016, and a super bowl since 08? Harbs, 158-104 (603) Tomlin, 171-102,(625) We could do a since Ben has been gone one, even since Ben was on decline.... Of course Harbs would never step on the field during a long return in order to keep it from being a touchdown....

We cannot know the inner workings,, speculate, sure. Who knows what or who. I am sure the head coach on every teams talks with personnel on what type of players they would like, personality wise, work ethic etc from the draft & free agency. The GM wants player A, the head coach player B, who wins that discussion on any team? In the end the coach has to find a way to coach a player, get the most out of them, help them reach their full potential. I would say, Harbs has done a pretty good job of it..

Well, it is a bit misleading. Yes, the aforementioned super stars retired/left, yes I am sure it had a slight detrimental affect on the team. However, you knee that was coming, right?! In that time, between 2012 and well, now, what has happened? Several bad drafts, or should I say mediocre ones, a change in front office personnel, especially the big cheese, scouts who moved on, all good reasons for slip ups in draft. One of the big ones. In the midst of the post 2012 Super Bowl, was a season ending injury to Flacco, followed by a change in qbs, starting a rookie/first year, a new offensive system. Oh yes, then there is the injury to the new qb, causing him to miss playoffs game/s. Look, I am not a huge fan of his, you know my reasons, mostly in game things, but he is far from a slub

Nice article from the home website. Let's hope it pays off on the field. Chuck Smith already had many players who were disciples of his teaching long before he became the Ravens' new outside linebackers coach. Smith had been a private coach in the Atlanta area since 2001, and his lengthy list of former clients included future Hall of Famers Von Miller and Aaron Donald. NFL pass rushers have flocked to see Smith every offseason for years, and his success earned him the nickname "Dr. Rush." "I always knew in the early 90s that I wanted to train pass rushers because there was no one really doing it," Smith said. "It wasn't really normal back then. People kind of looked like, 'Man, that's kind of weird,' I wasn't welcomed because it was a different culture with coaches. There weren't even iPhones, I was passing out flyers." Now Smith's career has taken another turn. Hired by the Ravens in March, he's being entrusted to bring out the best in an outside linebacker group that includes Odafe Oweh and David Ojabo, two young first-round talents who are already sold on Dr. Rush. "He's a guru," Ojabo said. "He's just bringing [out] the best side of us, and he brings a lot of energy. [He] lets us be ourselves, lets us kind of dance off the ball. I'm really excited just to see how our development comes." During his playing days, Smith spent eight of his nine NFL seasons with the Falcons and finished with 58.5 career sacks, including a career-high 12 sacks in 1997. With his NFL pedigree and his success working with former Pro Bowlers such as Osi Umenyiora and Carlos Dunlap, Smith brings credibility that helps players buy in. "He's giving us insight that a lot of guys, like me in particular, haven't had, because a lot of my coaches, they're great coaches, but they haven't really played the position," Oweh said. "He's played the position. He's trained a lot of guys that played the position at a high level. I'm getting little tidbits that I wouldn't have necessarily gotten." Smith first met Head Coach John Harbaugh in 2008 while working as a training camp consultant as part of the Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship. That relationship has helped accelerate Smith's comfort level since taking the job. The transition has been easy because I know a lot of people here," Smith said. "I did the Bill Walsh minority coaching program, got my start here coach Harbaugh's first year. I was a lot younger. He was a lot younger. Everybody here, even guys on the staff – there are guys here who I trained. [General Manager] Eric [DeCosta], [Owner] Mr. [Steve] Bisciotti, I've known a lot of these people for a long, long, long time. If there was a perfect place for me to come and really kickoff my first year again, it was the Baltimore Ravens." https://www.baltimoreravens.com/news/chuck-smith-dr-rush-new-practice-ravens-oweh-ojabo

Ack, it's all good. But it all depends on how much JK wants for money. If anything has shown, runningbacks are plug & play. So it is either the Ravens money or the highway. He has shown grit and the can do attitude...

& JK, Take it with a grain of salt I suppose

Man the potential this kid had coming out of college, never to realize it for one reason or another. Ravens add what is likely another camp body to guard against injury, is my guess as to why him. https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/sports/ravens-nfl/ravens-sign-wide-receiver-laquon-treadwell-R6WYU22I3JHLDOAS3KZ7KWDPFM/

Several teams have backed out of signing Hopkins, the Bill's just gave Oliver a big deal and signed Floyd to a one year deal, leaving them thin in cap space. Should be interesting to see which is the last team standing....

My 5th grade history teacher was a huge fan of the ball room dancing. Every Friday she would have us move the desks against the wall then teach us all of the dances

Man, am I dating my self or do people still do this dance? Any who, a nice piece on our young center https://www.baltimoreravens.com/news/tyler-linderbaum-build-rookie-season-pass-blocking

I think the reason they didn't trade him for anything was his contract. Teams wanted the Cards to cover a portion of it, and they would rather just be done with the money this year. He is 30 going on time to lose a step or two. Not sure he is worth a long term, big money deal.

The Baltimore Ravens were one of several teams rumored to be interested in trading for DeAndre Hopkins, but they opted not to pursue a deal before he was released by the Arizona Cardinals on Friday. Per The Athletic's Jeff Zrebiec, the Ravens "did their homework" on a potential Hopkins trade but "backed off" of a deal. Among the things Baltimore looked into were the 30-year-old's "personality fit" with the club and "what it would take in terms of draft capital and salary-cap space to make a deal work." There was an April 26 report from Reet Manfred of 105.7 The Fan in Baltimore (h/t Kevin Eck of BaltimoreRavens.com) claiming the Ravens were "close" to trading for Hopkins. According to Zrebiec, it didn't appear a potential trade with Arizona ever really got close to happening. It seems as if Hopkins' contract, which had two years remaining, was a major stumbling block for clubs that wanted to acquire him. He was set to count $30.75 million against the cap in 2023, the highest amount for a wide receiver. ESPN's Jeremy Fowler reported on the May 19 episode of SportsCenter that Hopkins was also hesitant to take a pay cut after the Ravens gave Odell Beckham Jr. a one-year deal with $15 million guaranteed. While the Ravens could pursue Hopkins as a free agent, they've already invested a lot of resources into upgrading their receiving corps. In addition to signing Beckham, they used their first-round draft pick (No. 22 overall) to select Boston College wideout Zay Flowers. https://syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/10077656-deandre-hopkins-rumors-ravens-did-their-homework-on-wr-and-backed-off-on-trade.amp.html

Both Kc and Buf have to get real creative with their caps. The Browns are now a front runner?

Yeah people see things like, run less and think that means 35-40 passes per game. That would be wrong. It means less called quarterback runs, same amount of passes, 27 -30, but more importantly, better route combinations, which means, if Lamar is as accurate as say 2019, = more first downs, clock running, more scoring. Sure, there will still be some called qb runs, he will also have to scramble from the pocket, but this offense should run smoother he should be healthier, key word, should.

A snippet of good news from the latest Ravens website

Kc, Buffalo, Jets, Ravens, are the teams he named in a pod cast the other day. Dallas, a dark horse I heard mentioned today, since they are the only ones with both a chance to win and the cap space