tsylvester

This may be the most difficult draft to determine where these backs will go. You know the draft well, once one position goes, there seems to be a run on then, The top backs, Gurley, Gordon, and to some extent Yeldon, should go in the middle to late first round, possibly even the 2nd. The rest of them, middle to late second possible, but likely not until the 3rd or 4th round. I just hope the Ravens, Ozzie, don't decide Yeldon is the "best player available" in the 2nd or even 3rd round. While he is good, he has bad wheels, runs too high, very prone to injury and tries to make the big run on every play often leading to lost yardage.

I was just thinking this the other day. Theoretically, this line should be great next year with good depth on the bench. Best part, they are young.

He should be a good one, but Duke Johnson would be my pick. He has the right attitude to both work hard/play hard, and also be a great team player. I'm just not sure where he goes and frankly, I think rb should be their least concern, pending Forsett. Even with him they should look to improve. Tal is ok, should be better with a year under him, but the rest are not very good at all. Forsett could also be one of those one year wonders we have seen over the years, so I would tread lightly with him....

Yes, the Ravens do, several players who can do as good if not better than Ngata. Williams is the main man to replace him, however, McPhee may leave and to me, that would hurt the defense because of his versitility. I would take him over Ngata any day, he fits this system perfectly.

Big deal, so was Brown the year before, who had what, 8 or 10. Smith's are largely red zone touchdowns, pretty easy to replace from a receiver such as him, Now were his touchdowns from long range, then you would have a point. However, they are not and for the reasons I outlined above. If you want an average receiver with speed, there are plenty of them out there both in FA and draft, especially for much cheaper than the Ravens offered him last summer. He is barely worth that contract, I would argue it is too much, but he certainly is not worth more....

Well stated, he is a terrible blocker. Most of the long runs over the past few years have come when he is on the side lines. To have long runs you have to have good blocking receivers, sometimes even to get the edge outside and be able to turn it up field. Smith, yep,a great guy, a great team player. But he can't find the ball in the air, he doesn't have the timing down on his routes, even a simple 9 route. This is why often times the ball looks to be over thrown, under thrown, off target. The qb has to throw it early, to a spot down field. That spot is determined and practiced in camp, in practices, in preseason. Yet in real games, Smith routinely gets rerouted by db's, slowed up by them or just flat out runs past them when he is supposed to put a stutter move there. These stutters are not always just to get him some separation but they allow the play time to develop, no different than some crossing routes where the man coming across has to slow play it sometimes to allow the zone to clear out. Most pass plays are built on timing. This is the issue with RGIII with the Skins. His timing on his drops are off, making it appear the receivers can't get open, when in fact, if he took the proper drop, or used the proper timing on the drop, they are open. Here, yes, some of the throws are just off, hey, it happens with every quarterback. But many of them are right where they need to be, but the receiver, in this case, Smith, is not where he needs to be when he needs to be there.

He suffered a toe injury and was "trying" to rehab. So yep, they needed to see if he would be ready for camp. Lazy is as lazy does.

I posted the numbers, Smith is not on the same level as the aforementioned receivers, it is not even close. Those other receivers all get off the jam better, all find the ball easiler, all have much better body control than Smith. He may draw some penalties, but teams do not game plan for him any longer. They know he will run one of three routes and he makes it easy to tell each time he lines up, which route he is going to run. Yes, even a rookie with speed will do the same thing to a defense, maybe even better since he would be a virtual unknown as far as route running and combinations. I wish writers would stop using the "teams game plan for him" since it simply is not completely true. Teams game plan for everyone.... duh,,

I'm not sure who will. Dez Bryant- 88, 1,320, 16 tds, D Thomas, 11, 1,619, 11 tds, Randall Cobb, 91, 1,287, 12 and Jeremy Maclin 95, 1,318, 10 tds. Compared to Smith, 49, 767, 11 tds. Yes his tds are nice especially the ratio to catches, his 30 tds in his short career also very good. But his deficiencies are glaring. We've talked about them over & over here, far out weigh his production and the key, those are the same issues he had coming out of college.

You can have drugs & money- easily explainable. You can have gun & money- easily explainable. Having guns, money & drugs, goom bye for a long while. Even though his gun was registered, and even though he makes good money from the NFL, that much weed is dealer material even if he is only getting it for him self and his friends. I don't see him playing in the NFL for at least 3 years.

He has been named, according to ESPN, the assistant head coach and in charge of the defense, what ever that means, for the Titans. I guess he 'just needed a change"..... hmmm

It just shows us that the Ravens still have no idea what a good wide receiver is, sadly. I knew they offered him a good deal last summer, that good of deal, wow. There are far more receirvers in the league who are more consistant and versitile that he....

This is about Trestman, not Reid. And Yeah, Harbs has done so poorly here with his coaching staff............ The main one who should be fired is their replay man, who ever tells Harbs to challange needs to be fired; he is almost always wrong.

Mosley couldn't cover a book with a paper bag. He was rarely in the proper positon or the proper depth on his drops. He always bit on the play action and as I said, while his tackle #'s were up, they were down field beause the secondary sucked so bad at tackling. Donald's numbers are more than sacks, he pushed the front line back on almost every play. The people who vote on these awards do so after they watch the tape, the all 22 tapes that tell the entire story and they know the game pretty darn well. Look past the bias for Mosley.

ZIIIIIIIIIP, went right over your head. Reid came from the walsh coaching tree. Walsh came up with, developed the WCO. All Reid did was put his own spin on it, just as every other coach who came from the Walsh tree. Trestman, as I said, uses the offense the way Walsh did; fitting the offense around his players. He wrote his book so people like you could have it read to them, and gain knowledge of the game & of the offense. Go back to Walsh's time as an assistant with the Bengals, his offense changed when their first string qb who had one of the best arms, EVER in the NFL, went down with an injury and was replaced by the back up who had a noodle for an arm and it never missed a beat.

Where do you think Reid got his start smart guy? Walsh is the origin of the West Coast, as I said, read his book, a great read, full of good stuff. Look for the Bill Walsh special in the show, A Football Life, you will learn lots just from it.... Reid just put his wrinkle on it and as papa said, doesn't like to run very much, he would rather use the short pass as a running game. Trestman, Walsh, ran when they needed to, believed in power running if they had a power back or cut running if they had a scat back. They adapted their offense to the players, not the other way around.

Come on, Donald was huge this year, 17 tackles for a loss, his sack numbers, the way he pushed the pocket so others could get sacks, tackles for loss. He was a monster plain & simple. MMosley as I have been saying ad nauseum, missed many, many tackles, made a majority of his tackles down field, because he often, usually, many times took the wrong angle, got caught in the wash, or tried to run around blockers as he did in college. Donald was the right choice in this one.

Brandon has Bi-polar, it takes time to one find the right meds, 2, get the proper levels and 3, get used to how they affect one. Head case is not the word to use, he is well known to be a great guy, a great teammate. I highly doubt Marshall will be a Raven, his price, to aquire and contract, will be too high. When you factor in the talent deep draft at the receiver postion, there is no reason to make the move for a contract with $23 mil in guaranteed money over the next 3 years. A receiver, whom I think is excellant, but has lost a step and this team needs a consistant burner on the outside & or an athletic tight end for over the middle. Not a high priced receiver who lost a step or two for a one or two year rental.

Hensley explained it pretty well. Comp pick compilation is not a science but is largely based on the size of the contracts gained, vs lost. I expect he is correct in 3 being the number the Ravens get, now the question is, how high or low will they be....

Also this from Hensley, via ESPN back in December-

Just deep digging. According to wiki- the Ravens have picks in rounds 1-4, & 6 (Denver's via Dallas), but none in rounds 5 or 7.... traded round five for Zuta, traded round six for Clev's 7th netting Camp, traded round 7 to Dallas for their 6th and McClain. That seems more logical, if memory serves than my previous post.

I could be wrong but---- 26 (rd 1) 58 (rd 2) 126 (rd 4) 203 (rd 6) 229 (rd 7) I would expect, if this is correct, for the team to seek quality over quantity this year and trade often.....

So now we know- There were no readings recorded before the game. Thus, even though the footballs may have been under inflated, there is no way, unless some one fesses up, to place blame on the Pats. The blame now goes directly to the officials of the game, who failed to follow protocol. I wonder, will the comish appologize?

Hey now, just because we played with no helmets doesn't mean it wasn't football............... the triple option from the wishbone was a staple. Monster Left!

Yeah, how dare players and coaches on defense pay attention to the officials when they make announcements. I was taught in high school to pay attention to who was or was not eligable.......