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I don't see how we could possibly afford him though I'd love to have him. Maybe if we have an uncapped year I'd could see it.

I'd like to see us re-sign him too. He's competent.

Joe's good enough to take us to a Super Bowl---there's other issues with the offense that need immediate attention: the lack of pass protection, the lack of a running game, and the routes the receivers run for starters. He's not in the Manning or Rodgers class but he's competent.

Jerry Richardson is an idiot. He is one of the real hard-line owners. He has implored the owners to 'take our league back!' as if they ever really gave it away. If a deal is going to get done, and it will one day, I doubt he'll be the guy to seal the deal. As long as he is 'negotiating' there'll be little progress. And the longer this goes on, the more damage the fans, players, and owners will take.

I hope so, but even so, we need to get another very good OT.

I agree with you completely. We've missed on a bunch lately. I think David Reed is still in the mix but we have to give the young guys opportunity to play too.

Very true on both counts.

Building through the draft is the ideal way to go. It requires patience though because you can't fill all your holes in one draft. If we're willing to take a chance on missing the playoffs for a year or two while we rebuild through the draft then it might work. The problem I see is that some of our 'foundation' players like Ray Lewis and Reed are getting old. Therefore, we probably need to go both the FA and draft route to keep hopes alive for a solid playoff run year in and year out. Also, Ozzie (and I count myself an Ozzie fan) needs to get his mojo back in our drafts. The last one didn't supply any starters at all.

Don't remind me.

I think we have too many holes to fill to just use one way or the other. We need both. We need an OLB, a MLB replacement for Ray to groom, an OT, a WR, a C and possibly a CB. The odds of finding good ones all in the draft seem minimal to me. You might succeed in getting one or two.

The more I think about the labor situation the more my head hurts.

Yep. I agree.

Isn't there something about the league losing its anti-trust protection and all the players not under contract can become free agents regardless of time served?

We need to address an OT too. Possibly someone to switch positions with Oher.

What happens if the players vote to decertify the union?

Agree. I want Gaither back but I also want to make sure he wants to play football. Incentives are what is needed here.

Preston made a lot of good points in that article. And, just for the record, he's far from being my favorite reporter for the Ravens.

I hope so...but we had Boldin, Housh, Stallworth and Mason this past season and they were woefully underutilized. Don't know if anything will change with Cam in charge.

I still think Joe is a good quarterback and that we really don't know how good he could be because of Cam being a control freak with the offense. If we give Joe more latitude to call plays and check off and run an offense for which he is better suited (perhaps a West Coast offense) and THEN he fails, I think we'll have at least given him a chance to be 'elite'. Right now we don't know and we won't know as long as Cam has his arms wrapped around the offense as much as he does now. Joe's critics used to say he couldn't throw over the middle, he couldn't throw against the Cover 2, etc. He proved a lot of them to be wrong on those counts this year.

This is a mess and shouldn't be allowed to fester. They need to make nice with Joe. And then Joe needs to shut up. Biscotti should have been more involved before this went viral. Is this yet another example of how they don't let Joe run the offense more and that Cam is too controlling?

A quick CBA that allows a full off-season and regular season.

1) I agree a West Coast offense would be better for Joe and the Ravens receivers. 2) The breakup is messy. I hope Joe stays out of it though I can understand how he feels. 3) If it wasn't for the potential lockout, I would have said make Zorn the OC and dump Cam. 4) Now for the glass half-full: maybe Cam will let Joe do more on his own than he has in the past if he is to be more intimately involved with him. 5) There were too many voices in Joe's ear. I'm glad Saunders is gone and while I preferred Zorn's approach, it will help having Joe just listening to one guy on what he should/shouldn't do.

I completely agree with this. He should be a better CB next year. And, I'd like to see them bring Wilson back.

I agree. Keep Wilson and Carr and draft an OT and a LB each of whom could hopefully start for us.

Well, I wish it were possible but I do think that this would be a very bad time to try and install a new offense what with a potential lockout and no OTAs coming up.