BloodRaven
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The Flacco problem compounded because he wasnt an elite QB but we paid him like one, then we couldnt afford to put anyone around him.
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The Flacco problem compounded because he wasnt an elite QB but we paid him like one, then we couldnt afford to put anyone around him.
That isn't actually true. The contract was set up so they had plenty of money to pay people. Go look at those early cap hits (6m 14m 14m); the problem is they paid all the wrong people. Monroe was a bust, Pitta got injured and no real talent was drafted on O.
UPennChem
Hall of Famer
2 extremely random thoughts. I saw a cool video from Baltimore Ravens.com of Lamar and ingram having fun on the sideline I think during the Bengals game. Lamar calls himself blade and ingram starts freestyle rapping something. I just don't know the blade reference and I can't quite make out what Mark was saying. If anyone can help me out lol I'd appreciate it
JoeyFlex5
Hall of Famer
The ravens just imploded, we felt we had the foundation of the team locked up for years to come and the next generation of great ravens. Elam and Arthur brown, Monroe, ray rice, Dennis pitta, haloti ngata, and we relied on the likes of Chris canty and Michael huff to become the new elder statesmen on the team, what a goddamn disaster.
Seems the ONLY wise FA move made in that whole stretch was Steve Smith and Justin forsetts one year deal, the extension was a mistake though.
can you post the clip?
dont forget daryl smith
allblackraven
Hall of Famer
The only saving grace was a work of the fax machine, not our FO.
JoeyFlex5
Hall of Famer
Ahh yes Daryl Smith was a monster for us, most underrated LB of this generation.
UPennChem
Hall of Famer
Just posted the link!
we'd be wondering why we didnt pick preston smith or jaquiski tartt or ali marpet or david johnson or danielle hunter or kwon alexander etc.
lots of teams have been fully happy to write off the 2015 class and wipe it from their minds
in the end we at least found a couple of pieces even while missing on all our day 1 and 2 picks: ZDS, boyle
UPennChem
Hall of Famer
I totally agree. That was just one of those drafts where we just didn't get it right. I'll be the first to admit however, I was super hyped about the Perriman pick. I really thought people were gonna fear his speed and that maybe we could get something out of him like Torrey Smith. I was way wrong. Recent drafts have been much better and that's pretty awesome
UPennChem
Hall of Famer
the blade reference is a reference to these films:
no idea what ingram's saying
As someone who hasn't seen those movies or knows literally anything about them, what does it mean for Lamar to be calling himself blade? Is he basically admiring that he's a badass mf?
i think you'll feel a little better when you look at all the other teams in the nfl and what they did in that 2015 draft - i think there's a lot of gms and front office execs who have nightmares about that draft class and classes like it - so short on both top tier talent and depth and almost every position
yea - that and the sunglasses
especially when trestmans offense was more inside zone and Forsett was an outside zone RB.
Oh man id genuinely forgotten about trestman