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The Random Thought Thread

UPennChem said:
What's up with Josh Rosen? Why did he just utterly flop? He just got from his 4th team since 2018 draft. Does this kid even have much more time to try and make a Tannehill like comeback or is he just done?
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Attitude and lack of giving a damn about his game or about his teammates. The Ryan Leaf of this generation that went several picks later than Leaf
 
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UPennChem said:
What's up with Josh Rosen? Why did he just utterly flop? He just got from his 4th team since 2018 draft. Does this kid even have much more time to try and make a Tannehill like comeback or is he just done?
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I mean, from a player standpoint, he doesn't have a lot of tools that NFL teams desire at this point.

I think the ship has sailed. He's not anywhere close to Tannehill's level. Tannehill was at least a competent NFL QB for several years in Miami. Rosen literally can't even win backup duties on like the 3-4 teams he's been on. At some point people can't blame it all on Arizona not giving him a chance.

He got a shot for a few games in Miami, he was terrible, and was benched again. He was on TB's practice squad for most of 2020, where he was behind guys like Blaine Gabbert, Ryan Griffin and Drew Stanton on the depth chart.

He then played behind Garappolo, Nick Mullens and CJ Beathard in SF at the end of last season, and now is an early cut there again this year.
 
Sizzle said:
Are we really still going on about thus


Attitude and lack of giving a damn about his game or about his teammates. The Ryan Leaf of this generation that went several picks later than Leaf
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I don't know if it's his attitude, but he certainly doesn't have the talent that many thought he had. I think he's more like the Heath Shuler of this generation.
 
JoeyFlex5 said:
And why did they remove them? They couldn’t fill them because the on field product has been horrible for years. Same with the jags, same with the bengals, same with the chargers, shit it’s almost as if fans actually don’t want to watch a dumpster fire of a team get steamrolled every week for a decade straight.
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Bucs, like 2 yrs ago wasnt even being aired on TV in tampa lol.. well their home games werent..
 
Deebo813 said:
Bucs, like 2 yrs ago wasnt even being aired on TV in tampa lol.. well their home games werent..
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Yeah I'm pretty sure this isn't even remotely true. You'd have to go back several more years for that to happen, and that was when the NFL had blackout rules. They've done away with those completely and it really hasn't been a thing for the last 5-10 years or so.
 
JoeyFlex5 said:
Eh, we needed a LT desperately and got one, our center situation has had ups and downs, but we had yanda for all of it til last year, Bozeman has been a very good LG for years now, and we’ve had Orlando for 3 years.

we’ve always wanted a better guy here or there, but our OL has honestly been in really solid shape for a good while now up until 2020 basically when yanda retired, Stanley got hurt, and brown got traded. We disliked skura but he had 2 pretty solid seasons with us, before that it was Jensen, before that we had KO as well.

The saddest part about it though is that we’ve made a ton of picks on the OL, they’ve just mostly been bad misses thus far. Stanley and Bozeman and brown were all GREAT picks, but man Robert Myers, Ben powers, Ben bredeson, and the jury is still VERY much out on tyre phillips and Ben Cleveland. We just need to start valuing it more in rounds 1 and 2, and make better picks in general
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I think yours and my definitions of solid aren’t the same. Think Eugene Monroe. lol

Jensen is really the only decent center(1 year while playing out of position and learning) we’ve had since Birk retired. Skura might have graded out OK for a bit, but only because Yanda was next to him. A pipe dream, but just think what we would have if Ryan and Orlando were still Ravens.

Bozeman has been with us 2 years, I guess that does qualify as years. ;-)

Hopefully Bozeman and Cleveland pan out and buy some time.
 
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rmcjacket23 said:
Yeah I'm pretty sure this isn't even remotely true. You'd have to go back several more years for that to happen, and that was when the NFL had blackout rules. They've done away with those completely and it really hasn't been a thing for the last 5-10 years or so.
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Maybe it was 5yrs ago seems like yesterday woth how much people talked about it.. but i know for sure the year before brady, you could get tickets for 30 bucs.. bought 5 for all my little cousins to go
 
Tank said:
I think yours and my definitions of solid aren’t the same. Think Eugene Monroe. lol

Jensen is really the only decent center(1 year while playing out of position and learning) we’ve had since Birk retired. Skura might have graded out OK for a bit, but only because Yanda was next to him. A pipe dream, but just think what we would have if Ryan and Orlando were still Ravens.

Hopefully Bozeman and Cleveland pan out and buy some time.
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even when Skura graded out well overall he never could anchor.
 
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Deebo813 said:
Maybe it was 5yrs ago seems like yesterday woth how much people talked about it.. but i know for sure the year before brady, you could get tickets for 30 bucs.. bought 5 for all my little cousins to go
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Would have been longer than that, but yes, different era.
I can't speak to the ticket prices. I would certainly bet that the Bucs themselves weren't selling the tickets for $30. More likely is they were being bought on the secondary market from people who already purchased tickets, and those people were taking losses on them.
 
Adreme said:
The problem is over half the NFL says the same thing so decent OLine prospects get scooped up very early on. It is not like WR where there are 9-10 first round prospects as well so you can have whoever falls. There are usually 5-6 1st round OLine players and they usually are picked before 20 so the Ravens are hard pressed to grab them and that trend continues as the draft goes.
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sounds like the ravens werent even fans of what was left at 27 at tackle let alone what was left when they picked cleveland... sounds like darrisaw might have been in play if he'd made it to 27 but no one else seems to have piqued their interest
 
JoeyFlex5 said:
Baltimore? Stay in downtown and don’t stay out too late and you’ll be fine, downtown can turn into fucktown VERY quick if you’re wandering though lol, the difference one block can make in Baltimore is pretty major. Pratt street area is where you wanna be, harborplace, convention center, light street, and like 2-3 blocks north of pratt is generally where the city is fine.

in other words, if you manage to end up in a sketchy situation, you may have went looking for it.
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thanks for the insight, exactly what I was wondering. Is there much of a night life? I’m from Cali and just trying to get an idea before planning the trip
 
JoeyFlex5 said:
Baltimore? Stay in downtown and don’t stay out too late and you’ll be fine, downtown can turn into fucktown VERY quick if you’re wandering though lol, the difference one block can make in Baltimore is pretty major. Pratt street area is where you wanna be, harborplace, convention center, light street, and like 2-3 blocks north of pratt is generally where the city is fine.

in other words, if you manage to end up in a sketchy situation, you may have went looking for it.
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Flew in for the Bucs @ Ravens game in 2018. Went out after with my friend to some of the gentleman's clubs. On the way there I'm pretty sure we seen a hooker getting chased by her pimp through an alley.
 
JoeyFlex5 said:
Baltimore? Stay in downtown and don’t stay out too late and you’ll be fine, downtown can turn into fucktown VERY quick if you’re wandering though lol, the difference one block can make in Baltimore is pretty major. Pratt street area is where you wanna be, harborplace, convention center, light street, and like 2-3 blocks north of pratt is generally where the city is fine.

in other words, if you manage to end up in a sketchy situation, you may have went looking for it.
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Love this. Where should I go out to dinner (with my mother lol) if you have any recommendations?
 
All_black_everything said:
thanks for the insight, exactly what I was wondering. Is there much of a night life? I’m from Cali and just trying to get an idea before planning the trip
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I've only been a few times but my recommendation would be to go to for Mchenry! It is where Francis Scott Key wrote the anthem and just a neat fort with some cool history. Would highly recommend.
 
purplepittabread88 said:
Love this. Where should I go out to dinner (with my mother lol) if you have any recommendations?
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See previous post lol.

I work a lot in Baltimore and drive all through the city basically every day running service calls, so I’m familiar with the city and safe/sketchy parts, and even in the sketchy parts I’ve never really felt unsafe, but I don’t do much clubbing or bar hopping, don’t really eat out much either.
 
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