Hard to look at it that way when you see what the team did in 2014, if we hadn’t extended pitta, ray rice, and then made that Monroe trade, the ravens definitely had a much bigger super bowl window.
2015 was a result of multiple big money/big resource off-season moves that completely melted down almost instantly, we didn’t have the resources to re stock the team, we lost our OC, lacked talent, and the talent we had was aging and expensive. That happens when you give a quarter of your cap to an above average at best qb, and another quarter of it to 3 players who aren’t on the field along with multiple draft picks for one of those players.
but yes, the high draft pick sparked the reboot to get us where we are now. Unfortunately we blew it anyway by drafting Correa and Kaufusi and leaving that draft with a fraction of the talent we should have. Passing on Michael Thomas was and still is inexcusable, and kaufusi simply looked like shit on film and was (I believe) a 26 year old rookie and really I could not understand why he was drafted.
Stanley, Judon, and tavon were great picks, but when you factor in the whiffs and what we missed on, that draft actually looks bad, mostly because the picks that should’ve been made were standing there screaming in our faces and we got cute with some bullshit picks, a worry I have with the 2020 class as well