KO's last game Sunday?

[TBird]

He's up for free agency and has probably priced himself out of Baltimore's range. He'll be

in demand after great season. He currently has been playing LT for the injured MOnroe

but LG is his usual position.

 

He wants to stay and credits Ozzie for encouraging him on the move to LT. He thinks

a deal could be made and will be the LT next year if they want him too.

 

Ravens have 3 years left with Monroe @ LT for $35M but he's been plagued with injuries the last

2 years.

 

 

 

Ozzie sure can pick em. He just can keep em all.

 

http://www.csnmidatlantic.com/blog/ravens-talk/osemele-could-be-playing-final-game-ravens-sunday

[vmax]

I think the Ravens will go all out to keep him.

[oldno82]

I think the Ravens will go all out to keep him.

Agree with that. They'll make a strong pitch but it won't be the highest offer. KO, to stay here, would need to give us a home team discount.

[papasmurfbell]

I think the market prices him out.

[tsylvester]

Monroe has had issues with injuries since he cam into the league... Another Ozzie fail.......... Next man up..........

[TBird]

So who did you want at LT at the time. Fat Mac got well fat but Ozzie won a SB with

him. In that case, both Ray Lewis and Burke begged Ozzie to sign him. Both knew him

well and Birk was a teammate in Minn.

 

He had issues too like work ethics but when CAM was fired and Caldwell too his place he

inserted MAC to LT, moved KO to LG and Oher back to RT and Ravens won the SB.

 

Nobody mentioned Monroe's injuries when we signed him. Ozzie isn't perfect but there'd

be 30 teams lined up at his door with open check books if he were fired.

 

 

Anyway, I don't see how Ravens can afford KO aftter the year he's having and at LT.

[cravnravn]

We can't afford him, we are paying Yanda big money. Love for him to stay, but its the nature of the beast.

[thundercleetz]

Well, if KO is our LT then you can justify paying him more money. Do we cut Monroe and keep KO to be our LT? That's probably the only way we keep KO. It would be hard to justify paying KO big money to be a guard when we cannot rely on Monroe at LT.

[papasmurfbell]

http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/baltimore-ravens/eugene-monroe/

That is 6.6 mil of dead money but I already expected Monroe to be gone. It saves them 2.1 mil in cap space. I think there is going to be a ton of dead money on the cap next yr.

[vmax]

They can't win without a very good offensive line.

Monroe at LT and KO gone to greener pastures will deep 6 the offense next year.

They have to sign KO. They know it. He's a Raven through and through.

On this riddle....you have to suspend CAP logic and take the leap.

 

[TBird]

More importantly, KO knows it too.

[papasmurfbell]

And the cap will only let you spend so much. Where does the money come from?

[TBird]

The CAP ceiling is supposed to be raised next year. Ravens saved $16M in trading

Ngata but got $8M added to the CAP ceiling but it worked out. Oz also drafted

Maxx and Z Smith as part of the trade with Detroit.

 

So the dead money figure above isn't as much for Monroe as it was for Ngata. Of

course there's more to be added from others leaving. I don't know with whom but it will work out

because the Ravens are always just under the CAP while spending heavily.

 

It's how OZ wins super bowls.

[papasmurfbell]

He doesn't win that often. The 2000 team was all draft with key FA that were below market deals. Ozzie doesn't make this acquisitions anymore.

[varaven45]

Well, that all in the past. Its time for Ozzie to reinvent himself, get with the times, and snag some PM'ers this Spring.

Shoot, if we had 1 or 2 on offense, we might have won half the games we lost this year.