The Random Thought Thread

[rmcjacket23]

Matt Elam and Sergio kindle were worse and it’s not even close. Perriman was a bust but it’s 6 years later and he’s still in the league doing fairly well for himself.

the hate the fan base had for perriman was flat out weird, and I kinda hate our fan base for it. Mfs actually implied that he was taking the money and quitting and faking injuries. Like what was it about perriman that sent our fans into an ugly ass frenzy

Elam made more impact in Baltimore than Perriman did. Played more games, was actually sort of average in his rookie year. Was more available than Perriman was.

Perriman's had a better career by far, but that's on other teams. He also had WAY higher expectations among the three.

Kindle was easily the worst player of the three, but he was also a 2nd round pick. These articles tend to almost exclusively focus on first round picks. Objectively, the worst draft picks are the one's who literally never play for you, of which I'm sure there are many. But nobody is going to lose sleep over a missed like 7th round draft pick.

 

[JoeyFlex5]

Quick question for those who do podcasts or shows. How do you know what's taken, copyrighted, etc so you don't get in trouble for when you think you've come up with a great name for a podcast but find out it's taken? Quick back story, I moved to NC over 10 years ago to pursue a sports broadcasting career. It hasn't worked out that way but when I was in school, my school had made it's own radio station.

I started a football show called "The Front Seven" and after years after I graduated I turned into "The Front Seven Podcast" on my YouTube channel in 2015. I want to get away from that and have my own branding basically... just looking up football terms to think of a cool name for it to launch this season but don't want any legal issues. Thanks.

Edit: This is my channel link for those interested but as you can see I haven't posted in quite some time due to my 40 hour a week job and most of the time I'm way too tired to record after work.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA9T_qzr76XHWs_fypib_Q

Cover zero/1/2/3/4/6
Power sweep
Counter bash
Sluggo/slant & go
Iso
Engage eight

Anything is better than “outkick the coverage” which I still don’t get, like who tf names a football YouTube channel over the least remarkable play in football? Like the play everyone agrees is just a waste of time, yeah let’s name a YouTube channel after it…

 

[JoeyFlex5]

Elam made more impact in Baltimore than Perriman did. Played more games, was actually sort of average in his rookie year. Was more available than Perriman was.

Perriman's had a better career by far, but that's on other teams. He also had WAY higher expectations among the three.

Kindle was easily the worst player of the three, but he was also a 2nd round pick. These articles tend to almost exclusively focus on first round picks. Objectively, the worst draft picks are the one's who literally never play for you, of which I'm sure there are many. But nobody is going to lose sleep over a missed like 7th round draft pick.

Perriman was solid in 2016. Elam was solid in 2013. But Elam was flat out the worst player on a defense that was fielding multiple nobodies in the secondary, he was absolutely horrible, and then was out of the league because he was selling drugs in Florida.

expectations are there for basically no reason, Elam had high expectations too, he was stepping in for Ed reed for Christ’s sake, perriman only had high expectations because our fan base is dumb af and they lose their shit over a wr and expect unrealistic things, that doesn’t make a draft pick worse than another. Elam flat out embarrassed the organization. As did kindle, and yes kindle was a second but he was our #1 pick and not taken that far behind where Elam was taken.

 

[rossihunter2]

Cover zero/1/2/3/4/6
Power sweep
Counter bash
Sluggo/slant & go
Iso
Engage eight

Anything is better than “outkick the coverage” which I still don’t get, like who tf names a football YouTube channel over the least remarkable play in football? Like the play everyone agrees is just a waste of time, yeah let’s name a YouTube channel after it…

pretty sure cover 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4 are already podcasts lol
power sweep as well
i think there's a sluggo podcast already too and also a slant and go lol
and i think there's an iso podcast too
and an engage eight

no idea about counter bash, cover 6 though...

 

[ndub]

Matt Elam and Sergio kindle were worse and it’s not even close. Perriman was a bust but it’s 6 years later and he’s still in the league doing fairly well for himself.

the hate the fan base had for perriman was flat out weird, and I kinda hate our fan base for it. Mfs actually implied that he was taking the money and quitting and faking injuries. Like what was it about perriman that sent our fans into an ugly ass frenzy

Perriman single handedly caused Flacco to have several more INTs than he would have otherwise had. Passes bounced off his piss poor hands and into the defenders hands. That’s quite possibly why we despised him

 

[JoeyFlex5]

pretty sure cover 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4 are already podcasts lol
power sweep as well
i think there's a sluggo podcast already too and also a slant and go lol
and i think there's an iso podcast too
and an engage eight

no idea about counter bash, cover 6 though...

Holy shit lmao

 

[JoeyFlex5]

Perriman single handedly caused Flacco to have several more INTs than he would have otherwise had. Passes bounced off his piss poor hands and into the defenders hands. That’s quite possibly why we despised him

And Elam single handedly caused many, MANY touchdowns and big plays that shouldn’t have been. One stands out to you more than the other because a dropped pass or bounced ball going to the defense is just much more tangible than a db being out of place or bailing his assignment or flat out not knowing his assignment

 

[RavensMania]

Elam made more impact in Baltimore than Perriman did. Played more games, was actually sort of average in his rookie year. Was more available than Perriman was.

Perriman's had a better career by far, but that's on other teams. He also had WAY higher expectations among the three.

Kindle was easily the worst player of the three, but he was also a 2nd round pick. These articles tend to almost exclusively focus on first round picks. Objectively, the worst draft picks are the one's who literally never play for you, of which I'm sure there are many. But nobody is going to lose sleep over a missed like 7th round draft pick.

Perriman had a decent second year with Baltimore and has had some success away from Baltimore also. Elam was definitely worse and I'd agree they shouldn't just be focusing on 1st round picks.

 

[RavensMania]

Perriman single handedly caused Flacco to have several more INTs than he would have otherwise had. Passes bounced off his piss poor hands and into the defenders hands. That’s quite possibly why we despised him

Flacco didn't help Perriman either. He never seemed to get him a ball where he didn't have to adjust to "drop" the ball.

 

[rmcjacket23]

Perriman had a decent second year with Baltimore and has had some success away from Baltimore also. Elam was definitely worse and I'd agree they shouldn't just be focusing on 1st round picks.

I mean I guess. A "decent" year for Perriman as a Raven was getting you 30 yards per game, because that's what he did.

I would perhaps put it this way... if Rashod Bateman posts 33 catches and 500 yards this season, who on here is going to call that a "decent" season?

 

[RavensMania]

I mean I guess. A "decent" year for Perriman as a Raven was getting you 30 yards per game, because that's what he did.

I would perhaps put it this way... if Rashod Bateman posts 33 catches and 500 yards this season, who on here is going to call that a "decent" season?

I'm ok with Bateman getting 500 yards in year one. Considering Perriman missed his entire rookie year, that was essentially his rookie year also.

 

[airconteka]

I remember flying from NYC to Charlotte not long after Perriman was drafted and I got chatting to the guy next to me telling me Perriman was going to suck and I argued that he was going to be good. I often wonder if that fat prick tells the story of how he schooled a dumb Aussie on a plane one time. He was right about that as he was about Bojangles.

 

[BoredMarine13]

I remember flying from NYC to Charlotte not long after Perriman was drafted and I got chatting to the guy next to me telling me Perriman was going to suck and I argued that he was going to be good. I often wonder if that fat prick tells the story of how he schooled a dumb Aussie on a plane one time. He was right about that as he was about Bojangles.

Bojangles is guaranteed diarrhea


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[ndub]

I mean I guess. A "decent" year for Perriman as a Raven was getting you 30 yards per game, because that's what he did.

I would perhaps put it this way... if Rashod Bateman posts 33 catches and 500 yards this season, who on here is going to call that a "decent" season?

Gotta remember that many of our expectations on WR's around here on everyone except Hollywood (for whatever reason) are very out of touch with reality. 30 yards a game to many is a damn good season, for whatever the reason

 

[ndub]

Flacco didn't help Perriman either. He never seemed to get him a ball where he didn't have to adjust to "drop" the ball.

Lol your whole job as a WR is to catch the ball. Doesn't matter where it's thrown. You're a first round pick, you have to adjust yourself to catch those passes. Or at least knock the ball down so that a defender can't get to it.

 

[rmcjacket23]

Gotta remember that many of our expectations on WR's around here on everyone except Hollywood (for whatever reason) are very out of touch with reality. 30 yards a game to many is a damn good season, for whatever the reason

I think it's a good season for a like a #3 WR in a modern NFL offense. I just don't think most teams would be very happy with it from a first round pick.
In a rookie season? OK maybe. But after a few years in the league, if a first round WR is getting you 30 yards a game, you're not going to be happy about it as an offense. And that player almost certainly won't get a second contract with that team and/or won't get much in the open market.
Now I'm not suggesting Bateman will be Perriman, because I think they're very different players and Bateman is much more refined.

 

[Deebo813]

I think it's a good season for a like a #3 WR in a modern NFL offense. I just don't think most teams would be very happy with it from a first round pick.
In a rookie season? OK maybe. But after a few years in the league, if a first round WR is getting you 30 yards a game, you're not going to be happy about it as an offense. And that player almost certainly won't get a second contract with that team and/or won't get much in the open market.
Now I'm not suggesting Bateman will be Perriman, because I think they're very different players and Bateman is much more refined.

If bateman is on the field alot, 500 yards wont be acceptable.. then again he maybe the 3rd option

 

[RavensMania]

I think it's a good season for a like a #3 WR in a modern NFL offense. I just don't think most teams would be very happy with it from a first round pick.
In a rookie season? OK maybe. But after a few years in the league, if a first round WR is getting you 30 yards a game, you're not going to be happy about it as an offense. And that player almost certainly won't get a second contract with that team and/or won't get much in the open market.
Now I'm not suggesting Bateman will be Perriman, because I think they're very different players and Bateman is much more refined.

I agree that Bateman is more refined and feel he will end up with more than Perriman in his first year / Perriman's second year, but that's due to his route running and seemingly better WR coaches. However, how often we pass the ball per game remains to be seen and going by your post pre draft regarding volume and targets.

He could end up with a Hollywood type season in year 1 also and I'd be ok with that also, especially since we have more viable targets this year.

 

[redrum52]

Na. We need at least 700 from Bateman. I also don't see the wrs being swapped out as much as they have been in the past, but what do I know.

 

[rmcjacket23]

Na. We need at least 700 from Bateman. I also don't see the wrs being swapped out as much as they have been in the past, but what do I know.

I think with arguably more WR talent on the roster than ever, you'll likely see more swaps.

Bateman, Brown and Watkins figure to get a somewhat healthy rotation, and that's assuming we play a lot of 3 WR looks, which I don't know that we will. Duvernay figures to get more playing time this year also.