The Random Thought Thread

JoeyFlex5 said:

Honestly I not only support his actions, I fucking love em. He has been instrumental in the nfl lightening it’s stance on it, which has been desperately needed for a long time and I wish they would immediately reinstate josh Gordon and not test him for weed ever again.

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redrum52 said:

It's not just weed.

Allegedly.

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rmcjacket23 said:

So short answer is... in your entire prediction model there, I don't see it happening. One of two things would have to occur:
1. The Ravens throw the ball A LOT more. I know that Roman's been saying we'll throw more, and our offseason additions mean we should, but I'm not saying more. I'm saying a LOT more. Like 25 attempts isn't getting those numbers. He'll need to be like 30-35, at least. You're talking about 450-500 pass attempts in a season. My money is on that not happening.
2. There would need to be a long-term injury to likely Mark Andrews, that forces the Ravens into almost exclusive WR sets.

I think 700 yards for a third receiver is possible. I just don't think you can expect to get big jumps from Hollywood and/or Andrews without a major change in offensive philosophy.

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RavensMania said:

add in that Boyle is back and we will probably pass the ball more to Dobbins as well as Duvernay being added into the mix. As a team we passed the ball around 400 times last season. With one extra game I'm thinking we end up with 450 to 460. I see one of Bateman and Watkins getting between 600 and 700 and the 3rd receiver getting 500, while Hollywood probably ends up under 1000, but more efficient.

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rmcjacket23 said:

So I had forgotten about the one extra game, so that could help make some of these "predictions" more realistic. Having said that... that would also make like a thousand yard receiver a bit less rare and probably not as significant. You already had 18 players top 1K receiving yards last year, and ten more who topped 900 yards, meaning they'd have a decent shot at getting to 1K with an additional game. You're basically going to get to a point where every team in the league could easily have a 1K receiver at some point. You're talking less than 60 yards per game if they play a full slate.

But generally, I'm skeptical of the "large shift" towards a more pass-oriented offense. Maybe its a bit dramatic, but I think this team wants to still run the ball a lot, they want it to be what they're good at, and I think they're comfortable with Lamar running it 5-10 times per game also.

Ideally, you probably wouldn't even want to see a huge shift in passing volume, but you should see a big increase in passing efficiency. Like Lamar's completion % isn't terrible at all, but its not necessarily MVP-level in this league either. Yards/attempt last year was nothing special... I expect that to improve.

A guy like Hollywood at a pretty low catch rate based on # of targets. I would hope that would increase. I think we can be much better as a pass game without throwing it a lot more. Which was my original premise of the offseason... I think we may spread the ball around more, meaning less "stats" for these guys, but better overall offensive production. I'd love to see us have like 4 guys between 700-900 yards receiving.

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rmcjacket23 said:

So I had forgotten about the one extra game, so that could help make some of these "predictions" more realistic. Having said that... that would also make like a thousand yard receiver a bit less rare and probably not as significant. You already had 18 players top 1K receiving yards last year, and ten more who topped 900 yards, meaning they'd have a decent shot at getting to 1K with an additional game. You're basically going to get to a point where every team in the league could easily have a 1K receiver at some point. You're talking less than 60 yards per game if they play a full slate.

But generally, I'm skeptical of the "large shift" towards a more pass-oriented offense. Maybe its a bit dramatic, but I think this team wants to still run the ball a lot, they want it to be what they're good at, and I think they're comfortable with Lamar running it 5-10 times per game also.

Ideally, you probably wouldn't even want to see a huge shift in passing volume, but you should see a big increase in passing efficiency. Like Lamar's completion % isn't terrible at all, but its not necessarily MVP-level in this league either. Yards/attempt last year was nothing special... I expect that to improve.

A guy like Hollywood at a pretty low catch rate based on # of targets. I would hope that would increase. I think we can be much better as a pass game without throwing it a lot more. Which was my original premise of the offseason... I think we may spread the ball around more, meaning less "stats" for these guys, but better overall offensive production. I'd love to see us have like 4 guys between 700-900 yards receiving.

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RavensMania said:

add in that Boyle is back and we will probably pass the ball more to Dobbins as well as Duvernay being added into the mix. As a team we passed the ball around 400 times last season. With one extra game I'm thinking we end up with 450 to 460. I see one of Bateman and Watkins getting between 600 and 700 and the 3rd receiver getting 500, while Hollywood probably ends up under 1000, but more efficient.

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JoeyFlex5 said:

Oh... I thought he had one dui or something like way back in the day but since then it’s been exclusively weed. It’s been a long saga I can’t remember it all off the top lol.

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JoeyFlex5 said:

I did something fun today, took my first dive into coaching. Just flag football, 10-12 7 on 7 league. Me, my brother in law, and one of our good friends, had my first practice today and I had more fun than I’ve had since playing in high school. Real excited and hoping I can learn it and develop it because I’d like to coach pop Warner when my son starts in a year or 2. Anyone here have any experience coaching kids?

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JoeyFlex5 said:

I feel like he didn’t want 48, and tbh I didn’t like that peanut left and our first round pick ILB took the same number. I kinda like this

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JoeyFlex5 said:

I feel like he didn’t want 48, and tbh I didn’t like that peanut left and our first round pick ILB took the same number. I kinda like this

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jboy19 said:

I have a personal conspiracy theory about this because I feel like the team does this, passive aggressively, pretty often. Like when they assigned 31 to Elam after he was drafted because of Pollard leaving (he switched a couple months later). Also, the team gave Morgan Cox's number (46) to Nick Moore when nobody was looking and made a public cross-social media post of giving 78 to Villanueva (despite having not announcing Zeitler's jersey number for weeks/months and never publicly to my knowledge).

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Sizzle said:

That’s honestly the ugliest looking number for a LB that I know of

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