tsylvester

Tough call in this draft class. Some of the potential best at what the Ravens need are either slotted too high to trade up for or, opted out of 2020, leaving many questions about real talent. What do the Ravens need? An edge rusher, a true qb killer, offensive line help, ones who are good at reconnecting on broken plays as well as opening holes.. A wide out, a real one, but then, no matter how loud Eric yells, this franchise just can't ever seem to find one... A lot has to do with Zeus jr; what happens with him, if they trade him, an offensive tackle might be the first pick. They could also go safety, injuries in the secondary seem to be a yearly thing that bites this team

Maybe he can teach them a thing or two about getting open on time

Right on man! To coin a phrase back in time when we all got along, agreed to disagree. This was back before we had commercials where our food walked and talked amd people ate, even when food ate it each other. Oh wait, farmers amd their families have been doing that for centuries. We can blame tv, movies, video games for giving people ideas, for desensitizing kids, people to voilence. Remember scared straight, wonder how well that worked out for those kids, I know they tried to revive that show... I do think the media plays some roll, the shows that promise to fix our problems, the ones telling us how we "should feel" how "wrong" thinking or believing something is; sorry, this is America; we are free to think and feel as we want, that is one major reason our ancestors came to this country, built this country. This includes, sadly, being a rascist, a fascist, what ever, it's your right. What isn't your right is to keep me from thinking, being different. Funny, those shows, the media, are actually being anti-American.

Ack! 4 wins for everyone!

Don't get me wrong Max, it is a great place to enjoy the game, I've always had a blast at the stadium, even in five layers in the cold of winter. It just would be nice to see a concert, even the olympics here if there was a retractable roof. It's too late now for one, but even with the $200 mil more spent back then, this city would have made it back by now. As we all know, stadiums rarely make it past the payoff point before it gets demolished for the tax payers to buy another one....

NBC Sports: Report: Alejandro Villanueva set to visit with Ravens. https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2021/04/19/report-alejandro-villanueva-set-to-visit-with-ravens/

The truly sad part is that people read what they want to see, not what is really there; media. Yes, this article did a fairly good job of separating the gun violence, but they missed by including all of it under one head line grabbing statement; mass shootings. "Shoot", pardon the pun, a vast, vast majority of the mass shootings, the gun violence is done by shhh, GANGS! Just look at Chicago for the perdect example, it is "nothing" for them to have 50 people shot over a weekend, to have a mass shooting of 5 or more at a "child's birthday party. Tell me, why is that, gang related mass shooting, not having flags at half staff, headlines in every news agency? Yet when they talk about gun violence, mass shootings, those 50 people are included, those 5+ people killed at a gang birthday party are included. Gun laws? Maine has the loosest gun laws in the nation for the most part, how many shootings, mass killings happen there? Chicago/Illinois has some of the strictest.. I'm not sure what the answer is, gun laws are tight, strict for the most part, if a person wants to kill a lot of people, they will find a way, gun or no gun, the B word is easy to find out how to make them on the web, get supplies at your local groccery store... But for the love of all people, filter out those shot/killed with illegal guns by gangs, from those killed/shot with legal guns done out of "desperation".....

Hey, it's tax payer money, so anything will go...

Yeah, they got too cute with the architecture, ends up costing far more down the road as we see now....

Just imagine if they had built the stadium facing the right way... Or built it with a retractable roof.....

Some are "no brainers" others, meh

Na, not that bad of a deal, they really had no choice in the guarantee money, though I would have liked that to be incentive based, not that he would go for that deal. He is just not as quick & fast as he used to be, injuries, age have slowed him, his hands are all based on how focussed he is... I would think he will likely be like Lee Evans was when he was here a few years ago; one dropped game winning touchdown pass away from likely a super bowl victory... All because he lost focussed on the ball for his feet.. Watkins needs a true # 1 opposite him, maybe Brown is ready this year.. Oh and I never, ever wish injury on anyone; I've been stretchered off of a field before, not a great feeling. Papa & I were joshing around.

8 games, maybe they should pay him per snap...

Not a bad hall for them, do they go wide out from Bama or tight end from Florida? Man, over paying for Watkins is a real bad sign... I hope he pans out...

There was a play lasr season where the Ravens had to run the clock out. However, the defense went into tight man, crowded the line of scrimmage, no room to run, no options for short passes. Lamar hit Brown down the sidelines, perfectly placed over the shoulder beating man coverage; 20 + yards, first down, game over. This play in that game forced the defense to back off, play 2 deep, 7 in the box instead of 8-9 men box which allowed the Ravens to run the clock out. My point is that sometimes in a game, to gain momentum, to change a defense's coverage to a more advantageous one, a big pass play is needed. For me, so that we are clear, I am not talking about excitement, but scheme, wins, especially in the post season. If a running team can't get the safeties to back off, can't force the linebackers to delay a step or maybe even take a step backward, then the running game stalls, especially after you pass midfield. The result is as we have seen in the last two years in the playoffs; losses. Lamar has, as I said, made that throw once in each of the last two seasons, he has attempted it maybe 5 times total last year. But rarely more than once in A game. Any analyst worth their salt will tell you, that even just attemtping that throw can make a defender think; then you have the advantage. Can he make that throw more consistently, attmept more often, is it called often? All questions we do not have the answers for at this time.

Is it.Roman's system? Or is it the passing talent he has had to work with? How much of the wide outs not signing here is because of the small cap this year and them wantinf one year deala?

Let me tell ya how it is.... Typical reponse when talking about Lamar, yes we all know he is a stud, a beast... Yes, touchdown passes are nice.. But how far are they? Ok, he ran then down to the 30, or into the redzone then threw the touchdown pass. However, where are the game changing throws? We've seen 1 or two each season, the tough ones, down the sidelines while in the pocket, the back shoulder throw to save drives, win games. The quick strike long touchdown throw to change the game? Again, one or two per season.. Nothing consistent to make a defense back off. Sure, the run game is great, we can blame Roman for not calling play action, hard play action routes down the seam or behind the backers deep, consistently. But if Lamar is not hitting those, if he can't make those throws in practice consistently, how can Roman call those plays? I think we have a mixed back of blame here and yes Lamar does deserve some of the blame if you will, if he can't read the option, or make the throw....

And now Stone, meh. Nice of each guy to help out, love bringing Wolfe back and his remarks on what the team is kooking for in a player.

We've all complained about the route combinations used in this offense for, well, ever. Receivers failing to get open, or atleast appearing so... Then the all 22 came out for us to view, and in them, we can see the timing between when a Ravens' qb has time amd when a receiver should break open, if, when at all. What we do not know is what the progession is on each play, so being an objective observer is often difficult. Yes, I, we have seen when Lamar has had time, a snap and throw route, when he either didn't trust the wr to get open or didn't see that the wr should be open. We cannot know if he was suppose to see the right read we did or just didn't trust the read. It's no secret around the league, around the fan base that the Ravens have never had a top talent wr crop, but then, nor have they had a great passing qb, or have and have not built a line to protect him. Other teams get high milage out of lesser known wr's, NE, Seattle, to name two. The qb's are great, the lines were solid, the route combinations looked better than what we see here. This year Lamar has to prove he can throw, on time, accurate, and not just shallow crossing routes nor roll outs to same side oit routes or jump balls. Those are the routes teams in the playoffs sit on and why this team can't move forward.

NFL Trade Rumors: Ravens Rework DL Calais Campbell & DT Brandon Williams' Deals, Create $4.5M Of Cap Room. https://nfltraderumors.co/ravens-rework-dl-calais-campbell-dt-brandon-williams-deals-create-4-5m-of-cap-room A move is on the move. I hope it isn't Watkins, no speed, often injured, lacks focus on easy passes...

Not sure what this was but an oops

Draft day trade, he wants out

Brown wont be here

Getting younger and cap healthy

What do we read into Ju Ju turning down the Ravens offer of $1.5 mil more than the Steelers who have an aging qb who can't throw it deep any more? What does this mean for Galiday, while they have to pay him 3x more than any other team to come here?