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Yikes

Nail biting time....

Funny the same Local Espn goofs that blasted the Ravens and referred to us as the Bungles of the 2000's 24 hours earlier, didn't make 1 comment as to their one of their own teams claimed Pearce off the waiver wire. http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000480145/article/jaguars-claim-running-back-bernard-pierce

What's to know, they read the NFL police blotter

Nice local ESPN radio down here has labeled us the Bungles of the 2000's

http://m.baltimoreravens.com/mediaItem.html?media-id=913861&media-type=N Good news.

And how many Mondays did we say that our wrs could get no separation?

Turf Toe did Odgen in too

Gee wonder what jimmy orr and ray berry ran?

Really good read, I like the comp picks part, soothing to see we used a 5th rd comp pick to take McPhee and just his contract alone will give us a great return. Totally amazing the amount of lead we have on the rest of the league in receiving comp picks.

Alex smith = Ryan Fitzpatrick

Agree with you there, on paper Seattle is the NFC representative

Bowe finished his Chiefs career with 532 receptions for 7,155 yards and 44 touchdowns. He accomplished this despite playing with a collection of quarterbacks who mostly consisted of journeymen and others who never established themselves in the NFL: Damon Huard, Brodie Croyle, Tyler Thigpen, Matt Cassel, Tyler Palko, Kyle Orton, Brady Quinn, Alex Smith and Chase Daniel. Definitely the bottom of the barrel

Chandler going to NE to be a backup is mind boggling, we have just as good of a chance as new england does to make the playoffs and super bowl

The minute he left San Fran

Mine too had had the bottom of the barrel qb's throwing to him his entire career.

Very minimal cap hit

Great read with the morning coffee. Its a win, win for both sides, still haven't seen the numbers of the contract, but they can't be big at all.

This time last year -- on March 11, 2014, to be exact -- I was released by the Jacksonville Jaguars, my fourth team in six years. My career was in limbo. All I had to stand on was word from my agent that the Baltimore Ravens were interested -- but I didn't hear back from them for some time. So while I worked hard to stay in shape, I also prepared to make the next step, taking on internships, doing some job-shadowing at the league office, building relationships and getting ready for whatever was coming. I had to come to grips with the reality of my situation. Jacksonville had let me go, yes -- but in the long run, I'd beaten the odds. I was a former seventh-round draft pick who'd played six years in the NFL. I'd learned a lot. I had grown as a man and an individual. I love football, but if I wasn't going to get another chance on the field, I was determined to be successful at something else. http://www.nfl.com/freeagency/story/0ap3000000478599/article/what-i-wanted-most-in-free-agency-and-why-i-stayed-a-raven

Chip Kelly will either be a genius or back in college coaching after this season. He has 11 former Ducks on his team, and if he could get Mariotta, he would.

No Vick here please, we like dogs

I'm sure the article was pertaining to is how the Ravens excel in the middle rounds and how we find impact players in the middle rounds, and Detroit dies not. Detroit might have got an impact player 2 years ago in ngata, but he is 31 and will be under a fine microscope with medicine use. 1 slip up, and he's done for the year.

Sorry the way that posted, they wouldn't let me copy the link

From the Detroit Press: Sacrificing two mid-round 2015 draft picks for aging Pro Bowl defensive tackle Haloti Ngata was yet another admission of the Detroit Lions' organizational failure. These draft picks should be considered useless in Detroit because of general manager Martin Mayhew's inability to regularly find starters from the middle of the draft. Good teams recognize the value in fourth- and fifth-round picks. Good teams consistently develop that value, making it much easier parting with a star whose salary investment isn't consistent with the expected level of production. More Lions moves: Team re-signs LB Josh Bynes The Ngata trade underscores why the Baltimore Ravens are one of the NFL's elite franchises and why the Lions struggle maintaining mediocrity. The Ravens are proactive. The Lions are reactive. The Ravens plan. And as a result, they keep advancing forward. The Lions panic. And as a result, they keep going back and forth. The Ravens know how the salary cap game works in the NFL. There must be a steady stream of young, inexpensive replacement pieces available giving them the necessary leverage to demand star players take pay cuts when their cap number grows too high or risk getting cut or traded. Linebacker Terrell Suggs agreed to restructure his contract because he knew the alternative and wanted to remain with a good team. Inside the Lions: Team could extend LB DeAndre Levy Ngata didn't. He apparently wasn't willing to restructure the $8.5 million due in the final year of his contract. Baltimore learned last season that it could live well without him when Ngata missed four games due to a suspension. That's why he's a Lion today and the Ravens are happier with two middle-round draft picks. The Lions were desperate for a big name after losing Ndamukong Suh. Ngata gives them that. He has been a defensive force for the Ravens, anchoring the interior defense that won the Super Bowl in 2013. Ngata's resume helps the Lions further sell the mandate of "The Time is Now" in the aftermath of Suh's absence. But they're crossing their fingers that time hasn't run out for Ngata. He's 31, having battled in the big boy trenches for nine years. Cap-wise, he'll cost the Lions $8.5 million more than $10 million less than the average salary Miami will pay Suh. The Lions are only contractually committed for one year. There are no worries about lingering dead money. In Mayhew's mind, he figures he had nothing to lose. And that's precisely the problem. He lost plenty in this transaction with two middle-round draft picks that are only considered throwaways with the Lions because that's what they've too often done with them under Mayhew's watch. The good teams win these kind of trades because they appreciate the value of those picks, motivating them to throw away a star who has potentially outlived that allure. Not all is cake and ice cream about the ngata trade

Remember Pops Brees was released from San Diego after that shoulder injury that needed surgery, question marks were all around Brees..at the time we made a business decision. We can play what if with most of the stars of the NFL going back to the Baltimore Colts days.