Signings, Cuts, Trades

JoeyFlex5 said:

I thought there was no way he fell to us, and when he did I was all but certain we were about to pass on him, because that’s just what we do.

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RL52TheGreatest said:

I was having flashbacks of passing up on Ridley and Moore lol

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Sizzle said:

Man, Ridley and LJ would’ve been an elite combo…. I still think the Hurst pick was for Flacco more than anything else

Some places compared him to prime elite Ertz and some compared him to prime Dallas Clark. Both of which would’ve been excellent for a Qb like Flacco

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JoeyFlex5 said:

I was actually glad at the time we passed on Moore but I couldn’t handle passing on Ridley lol



that kind of player would’ve been great for Lamar too, problem is Hurst just isn’t anywhere near that. He’s a go hard and go fast all the time type, supreme athlete but totally lacks nuance

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Corvus Purpura said:

The *maybe* one bright spot in passing on Ridley is that it indirectly ended up getting us Dobbins.

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JoeyFlex5 said:

I try to keep this in mind, tbh id take dobbins over Ridley all day, I think the mileage this offense will get from 4 years of dobbins is dramatically higher than what we could get with 5 years of Ridley

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RL52TheGreatest said:

I don't watch a lot of college football, but when I started watching highlight vids of potential WR draft picks for us, Bateman stood out immediately. Great hands, good route-runner, ability to get YAC, etc. He just looked solid all-around and I was hoping we would get the chance to take him, which we actually did for once.

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RavensMania said:

for me it was more than highlight videos. It was actual games and game film, plus he's a different type of receiver we typically draft. When have we drafted a pro ready route runner?

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JoeyFlex5 said:

I was actually glad at the time we passed on Moore but I couldn’t handle passing on Ridley lol



that kind of player would’ve been great for Lamar too, problem is Hurst just isn’t anywhere near that. He’s a go hard and go fast all the time type, supreme athlete but totally lacks nuance

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Sizzle said:

When we drafted Campanaro… LOL

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RavensMania said:

lol, I liked Campanaro also, but he couldn't stay on the field. That being said he was a very late draft pick, we haven't picked a WR in the first couple rounds that could run the full route tree at a high level.

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Sizzle said:

You mean Perriman didn’t run good routes? Egads!

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JAAM said:

Bateman reminds me of Odell/Dez the way he snags the ball out the air. I love it

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JoeyFlex5 said:

I try to keep this in mind, tbh id take dobbins over Ridley all day, I think the mileage this offense will get from 4 years of dobbins is dramatically higher than what we could get with 5 years of Ridley

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RavensMania said:

Truth was talking to me about Bateman at one point in the offseason and how smoothly he snags the ball out of the air. Literally he used the sae phrase you did and compared it to Mike Evans. He's not comparing him to Evans, but he compared how he catches the ball to him.

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cdp said:

Im sorry: no. Ridley is my fav non-raven wr in the league.

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JAAM said:

I love it. It’s so refreshing to see instead of the same old body catching

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JAAM said:

So fucking odd how we passed on him, especially with him going to Alabama. Like wtf did Ozzie see in Hurst? Didn’t we also pass up on Derwin or am I trippin

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cdp said:

So now we can move over to complaining about our pass rushers? We need something new

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