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Foxworth would be one of them because he's the players rep...
I find that unlikely, as a player representant, he needs to has his back free, he migth have helped Heap, Carr and Mason with the paperwork.
However I do believe this is not one or two lazy players work, but the team who responded as an unit, while there were commited an obvious procedure mistake, based on a clear message from the NFL, and no protest from the Ravens.
And if any thing my bet it is the vets (Mason, Heap, Trevor and Ray and so on) who made another attack, just like they did in Harbs rookie year..
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He kicks off to the 6.7 yard line, than you tack on the 22.2 return average, and the opposition is starting at the 29 yard line..Thats not good, that changes the offensive scheme to an open up offense...
True not good but average, still they did better than us in that stat every single year from 2002-2008.
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23 out of 28 was 82% was the numbers I heard..
I stand corrected, he was 18 out of 23 for 78.3%
Not bad, since he is a 73% career kicker.
So now you use Browns stats to help your case, sigh.
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Im as excited at this signing as I'm watching oil spill into the Gulf. Hes a has been, he single footidly cost the Bengals the playoffs last year.
The Ravens only made 70% of their field goals last year which is borderline horrible IMO
Take out Houshkas shanks, and Cunduff was 82%
How did you do that?
NO. 82% was Grahams number last year, and it was considered a down year for him, there is a reason for why he is the top 4-5 most accurate kicker ever.
Cundiff Try 70%! And Hauschka 69%. Oh and you could argue that Cundiff did worse, half of Cundiffs FGs was for less than 30 yards, while Hauschka only had one less than 30 yard. And yes I would have kept the rookie over Cundiff, even after the Vikes game.
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Signed.. 2,5 mill for one year.
Huge upgrade compared to Stovers late year and Cundiff.
http://blogs.baltimoreravens.com/2010/06/03/graham-officially-signs-one-year-contract/
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No more mistakes Schefter. Let it be true!
After declining to draft a kicker, the Baltimore Ravens are close to signing one.
Baltimore is closing in on a one-year deal with former Cincinnati Bengals Pro Bowl kicker Shayne Graham, according to league sources.
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We started with most RFAs almost 20, and the remaining is the high tender people, some of them with legit hopes for new contracts. McClain mentioned that as his reason one of the last days.. and him Landry and Koch should be people we/I would like to sign longterm. Clayton and Fabian migth have that dream too? Gaither is probably an unhappy case.
And we need to get some of those under long term contracts, or 2011 would be ugly.
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No I am very much not for bringing in FA's. They do not work. I am for always having good young talent rolling in and pushing out the old. As for letting the face of the franchise go if you win then the fans will be there. I am for rings instead of faces of the franchise. I would go for a combination of what the steelers and pats do to form their teams. They have racked up the SB wins over the past decade.
Ah well I think people here think it is Madden. I read many pie in the sky wants. There are many more big trades that are one sided than the Cowboys/Vikes one.
If you could you should go back and see some of my predictions. I was dead on with Clayton being a bust, Cmac imploding, being a bad move to reup Reed. I think Ray's and Suggs deals will haunt the franchise.
For the longterm you are probably rigth, but its hard to ignore that FAs do a difference here and now. And it is hard to solve all the needs in the draft.
Hardly a SB without FAs; McCrary, Adams, Goose, Woodson, Sharpe and Ismail.
Surely no 13-3 season in 2006 without FAs; McNair, Mason, Rolle, Pryce, Gregg, Bannan and Stills.
So when did you actually see Clayton was a bust.. And what is a bust.. when 60-70% WRs taken in the first round have less production than Clayton? Was it in his rookie year? In 2006 when he showed more than a lot of promises or not? In 2007-8 when he struggled with injuries, bad QBs and TEs, a terrible OL in 2007 and a talented but still not a very good OL in 2008.. At least our playcall did not favour WRs that year.
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I believe this is incorrect....someone help me out, and if I'm wrong I will admit it, but I believe two years ago when Rex was running things we were top three in the league in sacks. Our defense let up one of the top three least in the NFL, so that argument does not seem to hold water for the moment. If Flacco was as good his rookie year as last year, we MAY have won the big one. Hell, we did get to the championship game and lost to the Super Bowl Champions. If you're referring to Big Ben's ability that year to step into the pocket, show me a team he didn't have success with doing that! He was very good that year.
Our defense was not as good as the year before because of turnover and losing the defensive coordinator.
Nah. In 2006 we were together with the Bolts the best passrushing team by a large margin.. oh that year our D was almost as scary on every fase.
In 2007-2009 we had 30-35 sacks, not bad but fare from the elite, it is tough to be that great in passrush, when you ask your front seven to help DBs.. And in the last two seasons we have been a top 1-5 defense against rush and in PDs, interceptions and opponents QB rate.
In 2008 Ngata and Bannan was in top five in interceptions/PDs among the DTs.. our LBs same thing with Lewis and Suggs top five too. Something similar in 2009, we were probably less dominating but we did also have our share of injuries.
Sacks is nice. But and this is where someone again is wrong.. We have had the only defense in this league who was in top 3 in both total yards and score the last two seasons.
Ask the sack leading team Vikings (48 sacks) if they would not have had our defense.. or the Jets D who btw had the same number of sacks (32) like us.
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I'm all about objective opinions....but this guy is just an "angry elf".
Agreed. Angry elf, nice one.
He brings me sometimes in the same mood as the fatso from the sun.. And i guess that it is always good and at least healthy that we do disagree from time to time.
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It took over two yrs for them to decide to do anything about the WR's. It took Ray saying that he is getting killed for Ozzie to decide to get a DT. The Boller experiment went on and on even though it was a lost cause. Ozzie never deals with any glaring holes until the area completly colapses. These examples go on and on.
This is so arrogant, and you know very well that no team in this league can be perfect in every fase, and at least not in the long term, as long as we have the salary cap era. Like Colts front seven, Steelers OL, Patriots runninggame, Bolts defense and recently runninggame, Jets QB.
There are 32 teams in this league, obviously all of them with the same goal. So what is wrong with Pats (post 2004) and Bolts, when they year after year lose in POs, despite they are early SB favourite before every season, what is wrong with the Colts when they only had one SB, despite they have had ten + ten win seasons, and the Steelers what did they do wrong last season like going 2-4 in AFC North? And Titans who arguably was the best team in 2008 and was fare from that in 2009.
I do agree that I am not that comfortable just now. I am sceptic about our present Kicker, Tackle, DB depth and DE situation (in no order). And injuries have been hurting us when we/I expected greater things.. like in 2005 and 2007. I am beginning to predict 8-8, hopefully I am wrong and we will make the POs again.
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This is NOT GOOD.
The Bills have nothing to offer the Ravens as far as trading players. Their 1st round pick for next year would be excellent because they will have a poor record while rebuilding...but I doubt they give that up.
If Gaither moves then the Ravens are screwed at the tackle position. No depth if injuries happen. It fucks up the whole offense.
However...Gaither can pout or whatever...he's under contract...he has to play for the Ravens or his career is done.
OK...here's an update on the situation...
Not really. Still not signed his tender. And he is that young and talented so he could gamble and sit next year and wait to week ten when he would become a UFA, hopefully and probably not happening, at least that would not be in the Ravens favour.
What is Gaither/Rosenhaul agenda? Well this is obvious, a new contract here or else where, and most likely else where since Ozzies is not likely to give him any offer.
What is not so obvious is the Ravens agenda? Do they really ever wanted him? Would they like to keep a nice talent for no money this year, no doubt! If they could trade him even better! And what I find ugly, they are fabricating all kinds of stories (Ravens together with their local media) they are keep telling us he is lazy, he has a poor work ethic, drug abuse speculations, issues with injuries. Ravens answer they are telling us they like Oher better (did they ever ask Joe?) and Cousins will do fine.
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http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/37022296/ns/sports-player_news/
If he isn't traded we will see if he can play RT.
Well that was his position in MD in 2006, so why not? The question is motivation.
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I seriously doubt that. Filmstudy had Gaither rated higher. Profootball Focus has Gaither rated higher. Hell, Oher himself said at the end of last season that Gaither was the better LT. There is no evidence at all that Oher was the better LT.
But regardless, I am not as scared of Oher at LT as I am of the RT position if Gaither is traded. It seems that the Ravens only ever get one good season of RT play and then they are back to shuffling ppl around with some stop gap measure that gets the QB killed.
One good season of Pashos, then he left and the season afterwards Troy Smith was playing because all the other QBs got killed.
Last season, Gaither is injured, Cousins is in, Flacco gets killed vs Pittsburgh. Business as usual for the Ravens. The RT sucks and the QB is getting killed.
Sooooooo frustrating.
Agreed.
This is a step back for our passinggame. Back to six Oliners and Heap in pass protection to help Oher. And when we had Terry, we at least had an illusion that we had LT depth. Now if..probably when we trade Gaither and Oher gets injuried, we have nothing, and I guess we will see Chester as TE again and again. Why did we even bother to upgrade our recieving corps.
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Gaither is our best LT! Oher is our best RT! Why f... this is up, I thougth we were proving to win some gtames now, not only next year or when ever.
And in the first place, as long he has not signed his tender, there is very little room for any thougths of fantasy trades, if any!
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Ravens take CB Curtis Brown, Texas.. at 31th in the 2011 draft.
Amusing and way too early with these speculations, what the hell obviously we are a more hot team, since when?
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/andrew_perloff/04/27/2011.mock.draft/1.html
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Joe and me would be feeling the heat if Heap was not here next season.
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We had 32 sacks last year, which ranked 18th in the league, tying the Jets, Giants, Titans and Bills.
On the other hand, we had 22 interceptions, which was 5th, tying Carolina.
Our 100 pass deflections put us at #8, right behind the Jets' 103.
Our problem isn't that we don't have corners on the roster... it's that, by playoff time, we don't have corners on the field.Ray and Ed can help out anyone we put out there for now, but we're going to need to come up with another playmaker in the secondary going forward (like what we had with Webb pre-injury)
True. Still I know it is not making any sense, but in the same time it was when our DBs stepped up.. Fox, Carr, Landry, Zib and yes Walker too! In the last 12 games including playoffs our DBs did their part.. something very similar happend the year before.
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Mixed feelings. The first round is terrible for us in Europe, we would have to take a day off.. Friday much better still bad timing.. well we can live with that. Saturday is actually better now and hope my sunday will be more normal, and I am probable in much better condition on monday.. than before.
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Kindle and Dez could very well become the O and D ROYs.. And I find it difficult to blame the FO for this move, tons of upside. F... the red flags, and the FO believes in him. I love it.
As for fatso aka big tits, not a fan, but he was BPA and this is a statement, we will continue our rush D traditions, and this is a safe pick, he will contribute from game one and give Gregg some rest!
Is these picks an indication we will continue to be a 3-4/4-3 team more than 4-3?
Dickson migth be the most ready TE of a very talented TE class. Will he be a new Heap? Maybe not, but he will bring depth to the position, and it is the most important thing rigth now.
So youth to D and depth to Heap, looking good so fare. Still some good WRs around and actually here we could take a project with some injury concerns like Danorio Alexander and IR?
What about a FB?
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So no first round, and now we are in the game, two second round, high third, forth, two fifth and a sixth. Some how it seems like a typical Ozzie day on draftday!
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I agree that Dez Bryant is a better prospect at this point than Thomas, but Thomas does have huge upside potential. If Dez Bryant did slip to the Bengals, we would have to trade up to #20 to get him because there is no way Cincinnati passes on him and they won't trade with us so we could take him over them. In order to trade up from #25 to #20 it would take way more than just a 4th rounder (which we don't even have). According to the NFL pick value chart (http://www.nfldraftblitz.com/pickvaluechart.htm), the #20 pick is worth 850 points while the #25 pick is worth 720 points. In order to make up that 130 point difference it would cost us probably our 3rd rounder for the 2011 draft and one of our two 5th round picks from this year (#156 and #157). So it all boils down to whether or not Ozzie and the rest of the war room feel that Bryant is worth giving up picks from next year plus reducing your pick total to a measly 4 total picks for this year.
Maybe we could package our #25, Mark Clayton, and a pick this year or next year in a trade with the Texans for #20 plus a 3rd-5th rounder this year.
Speaking of trade scenarios! What does everyone feel about trading our 1st rounder for 2011 away for picks in this draft? I would definitely not be opposed to it. The talent in this draft seems much deeper than what we could see next year; especially if 2-4 people we really liked were still on board at #20. We could trade next years 1st and another pick and select a tandem of say Dez Bryant #20 and either Gresham/Odrick/Cody/Best CB available @ #25. What do you all think?
No! If this draft is deep we should consider trading down and get picks to next year, when the draft migth be less deep and we will need picks in round 1+2, if this draft is so deep, other teams migth do stupid decisions with next years draftpicks.
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Okay, so which players didn't sign their tenders and what happens now that they didn't? Also, which of these players do we care about?
As I understand it was the deadline for RFAs to sign offer sheets from other teams! I found this on the Ravens website;
If a Restricted Free Agent is tendered by his team and he doesn’t sign that tender what does that mean? What is his status?
For the 90 RFAs who have not signed contracts as of April 15, the original clubs retain exclusive rights to sign the player. All RFAs can sign by June 1 the contract their original club tendered before March 5 — the first day of the 2010 league year. (Click here for a complete list of RFA tender offers.) If a player does not sign by June 1, the original club can extend the qualifying offer and thereby retain exclusive rights to the player.
If the original qualifying offer is greater than 110 percent of the player’s 2009 base salary and the player does not sign that contract by June 15, the team can substitute the June 1 tender with a new June 15th tender of 110 percent of the RFA’s 2009 base salary and continue to retain exclusive rights to the player. If the player does not sign by Week 10, he cannot play in 2010.
Still we have a lot more FAs than all other teams. All those free agents we have, this is probably a positive problem for 2010, for 2o11 it could means a lot of trouble.
Let the trash talking begin
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I give you three.
1. Jets! Pats and Phins could be better. Sanchez will not help them win many games and their leading RB is gone. Jets FO this year reminds me of Skins FO for ever and Bears FO last year. And first of all I believe the FOs in Boston and Miami is simply just the better ones.
2. Cincy! Ravens and Steelers will be better. I doubt they will be 6-0 again in the division, they were 4-6 outside last year and now their schedule is worse with Bolts and Indy. And Crav is not always wrong, and a team who take a change on Pacman, and just now they are hyping him.. seriously this is so not serious! Pacman just like Gresham coming back from injury there are reason to doubts this year. Their defense was promising but the depth? Play the game first, until then a no from me. And first of all I believe the FOs in Baltimore and Pissburgh is simply just the better ones.
3. Indy! I wish.