DeVito52
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We have literally used one first round pick on a receiver in the history of our franchise.
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2018 Free Agency
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redrum52
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3. We've used 3. They were just so trash you forgot they used a first on them.
DeVito52
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Haha. My point is we don’t draft enough high WRs. Every single team misses on receivers. The argument can be made that we just don’t draft enough.
JAAM
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Breshad, Clayton and Travis Taylor.
redrum52
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Then the argument can also be made it would make more sense to spend on a sure thing, especially when you have shown an inability to get it done in house. I'm personally against using 2 firsts at this particular moment, but there are more factors. One is, we honestly don't know if Joe will even be our qb in a couple of years. We have no idea of the staff that will be here and would we want a young qb( if we go that route) under Beckham's tutelage? Then there's the fact we don't know if the contract would be accepted and he's coming off a season ending injury. Two firsts is a high price to pay in this specific situation also considering there could be a potential suspension. One first, I wouldn't hesitate to to try and make it happen. This current season looks like it could be brutal and our 19 picks might be VERY valuable.
Ravensnation5220
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For real. He order dominos while with a IG model in Europe....cmon man..
Im not even disappointed in the weed and coke....its the food choice
DeVito52
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You typed this whole post just for it to mean absolutely nothing
redrum52
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It's not just the misses, but look at the guys we've drafted and wrs taken around the time of picks, later rounds included. The scouts we have aren't good at evaluating talent and we sure as hell don't know how to develop them.
DeVito52
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No ones arguing with this
redrum52
Hall of Famer
My point is trade for pieces. Not him at that cost, but use the picks to trade for someone you value.
Problem is the value. A big reason the draft is so important is because you get players on very low contracts for 4 years. If you continually trade away your picks to get guys that might only have 1 year left on the deal and then you're forced to pay them, you're going to be in cap hell or you're wasting picks to let guys walk. I think you can trade picks sometimes for a valuable player, but teams that are winning are doing so because they have quality players on cheap deals, so they can fill in elsewhere.
But only 1 of those is since joe was our qb...
As a bigger question - in the history of ravens first round picks how many have been skill positions players - we may have missed but we also haven’t taken enough chances for it to constitute a trend - and that’s what I’m more sore about - the fact that we never really tried to get pieces
Easier said than done in the current NFL. So many guys are chomping at the bit to hit FA because teams continue to jack the price up every year. A contract a guy gets now might not be what he can get on the open market in 2019.
Tru11
Practice Squad
many guys are chomping for the security of a long term deal.
coming off an injury filled season , a long term deal right now might be the better option then banking on yourself to stay injury and ball out to get a big contract in FA which you might not even get cause your ass got tagged lol.
not to mention you have to get through the entire year without acting a fool to not risk any suspensions and such.
I think a big part of the solution to this will come with the next CBA. Oh don't get me wrong, prices will continue to go up, but I believe we will start to see more and more guaranteed contracts that could, in the end, lower the price of the contract. Many of these contracts never see the end of the deal and due to the backloading of the contracts and agents wanting to show a high contract value. If these contracts become fully guaranteed it solves the issue, to a degree.