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2012 NFL playoff prediction View the full article

Paul Kruger and Courtney Upshaw are expected to start. Who’s behind them? View the full article

The OLB will miss his third consecutive season, but is focused on recovering and returning. View the full article

It should come as no surprise to anyone that Ray Lewis works as a motivational speaker in his free time. View the full article

The NFL’s supplemental draft is over, and the Ravens (as well as 30 other teams) sat it out. View the full article

We recently chatted with Aaron Schatz, the editor-in-chief of Football Outsiders, for an upcoming story that has little, if anything, to do with Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco. But after we were done chatting about whatever it was that we were talking about -- you¿ll find out in a few days -- Schatz wanted to get a point in about Flacco. View the full article

The NFL’s supplemental draft kicks off this afternoon, and there are eight players and some strong talent within. Will the Ravens get involved? View the full article

Ed Reed's interview on 105.7 The Fan last night rambled on for more than 20 entertaining minutes, so there were a few interesting comments that couldn't be squeezed into my story published in Thursday's newspaper . View the full article

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers won the ESPY for Best NFL Player. View the full article

Pro Bowl safety mostly upbeat during radio interview, but dodged questions about his futureWith 12 career return touchdowns, Ed Reed has earned a reputation for being a tough man to get a grasp on. View the full article

Ravens offensive tackle Bryant McKinnie is so big that he describes his weight in just two digits. The “300” is assumed. View the full article

Billy Cundiff will have to show he’s over the miss in last year’s AFC championship. View the full article

The deadline to sign running back Ray Rice to a long-term deal before he has to play out the year under the franchise tag is Monday. But even if Rice doesn’t ink a new deal by the 4 p.m. deadline, history suggests the Ravens will eventually come to an agreement with their Pro Bowler. View the full article

Ed Reed is starting to get the hang of Twitter, and the Ravens free safety continues to use the social media site to speak out on his contract status, which now is clearly the reason for his absence from mandatory minicamp. View the full article

Multiple news outlets are reporting that despite unprecedented growth in TV ratings, attendance at NFL games peaked in 2007 and has dropped each year since. But that doesn’t extend to Baltimore. View the full article

Two weeks out from their first practice of training camp, the Ravens have just $606,858 available under the salary cap if they hope to, as they seem to do every year, acquire a key veteran before the start of this season. Of course, they could potentially free up more wiggle room by negotiating a long-term extension with running back Ray Rice or by releasing a pricey veteran this summer ( maybe Bryant McKinnie, as NFL.com speculates ?). View the full article

What could happen with the Ravens franchise running back? View the full article

Lawyers representing the NCAA have filed a brief supporting the dismissal of a lawsuit that Ravens linebacker Michael McAdoo filed after the NCAA declared him ineligible for academic fraud and impermissible benefits while he was at the University of North Carolina. This, according to a report from The Charlotte Observer . View the full article

Pro Bowl Running Back partners with Merriweather Post Pavilion and Teen Truth Live to bring his Pro-Kindness, Anti-Bullying, Teen Suicide Prevention Outreach to Thousands of Parents and Youth. View the full article

Terrell Suggs is looking to become the first Ravens player to win an ESPY. View the full article

As it is an annual tradition in the Vensel household every July, I picked up one of the many fantasy football preview magazines on Saturday while picking up some groceries. I went with the one from Sports Illustrated this year because the cover caught my eye most, and because it had many reality football nuggets sprinkled in. View the full article

The NFL will hold its annual supplemental draft on Thursday. Eight players are eligible to be selected. Baylor wide receiver Josh Gordon has generated a lot of buzz, and TCU running back Ed Wesley could be a late-round pick. Will the Ravens target somebody? View the full article

A handful of players will compete for the third spot and to make the roster. View the full article

Will Ed Reed show up at Ravens training camp at the end of the month? The Pro Bowl free safety gave us another tea leaf to read Saturday evening when he sent this message to his “bosses” via his Twitter account. View the full article

The way this final group stacks up largely depends on what Bryant Mckinnie can do. View the full article