Tyler
Practice Squad
LOL. I was thinking the same thing. Good things come to those who wait.... I have a feeling EDC has a trade or two up his sleeves after this thing gets kicked off in a few days
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The 2021 Offseason Thread
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You are completely right. I mean just game ending drives he does have as much success but he doesnt have the same amount of opportunities. I meant a 2 minute drill need 4 points type deal.
Charm City
Veteran
We restructured Peters saving $3.5mil this year, huge breaking news
JoeyFlex5
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Well there’s clutch, and then there’s this one specific scenario which doesn’t totally encapsulate what “clutch” is and is a pretty rare opportunity anyway lol.
JoeyFlex5
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That restructure is gonna be used for extending or re-signing low dollar FAs, it’s already started with McPhee lololol.
I mean I don’t hate keeping McPhee, I just don’t see us doing much with that restructure especially considering we restructured and immediately re signed McPhee
yes, but what kind of surgery was Stanley's 2nd surgery? If we know he's not going to be ready, I'd definitely agree, but if he is going to be available for training camp, than I still consider a trade for the right price.
JoeyFlex5
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Swear to god I’ve been thinking we might fuck around and do that for the longest time
I like jonnu smith a LOT and he would be great here but I would be so pissed tf off if we made a big splash signing at TE of all positions.
make it work with andrews and Boyle for fucks sake. You shouldn’t need 3 TEs plus a fullback to make your offense functional.
we watched that rushing attack function with only eric tomlinson and Ricard - it can definitely function with Boyle, Tomlinson and Ricard...
Just seems like some shit we would do lol.
JoeyFlex5
Hall of Famer
I know lol it’s what I’ve been afraid of.
we’re gonna sign jonnu smith and then draft pat freiermuth ffs
rmcjacket23
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I mean, I wouldn't do it, but we do need pass catchers, and so if we can't get a decent wideout in FA, it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to do.
I don't like it because it pretty much guarantees we're still just going to be a "middle of the field" passing attack, but like Jonnu isn't going to break anybodies bank, and it wouldn't preclude us from drafting a WR or two anyway. I would just rather see us use our cap resources elsewhere, personally.
Charm City
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Aside from re-signing our own guys I don't think we're going to see us signing anyone, especially someone close to 10 mil. This may be an offseason where teams think they're successful if they can run back a team even closely similar to the one they fielded last year.
rmcjacket23
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Maybe. Based on the players I'm seeing getting cut, there's just no way all of these guys are going to be getting good deals in FA.
In most years, free agency is almost entirely overpaying good players. This year, I think you'll get some good, maybe even great players, at much cheaper prices.
I mean there's legitimately like 10 starting-caliber Guards on the market just in the last few days. They're not all going to go unsigned. There's certain teams, like Saints, Eagles, etc. who, yes, will be lucky to retain a roster of 53 and hope for the best, because they're just so screwed.
But I think there is and will continue to be a MASSIVE amount of cap restructuring and teams just pushing cap into the future, believing that they'll get a big boost the next year or two, which they probably will.
The Ravens are in the somewhat unfortunate position of not really having many contracts right now that can be restructured for much money, because the expensive one's are either new contracts, or expiring contracts.
yuck
the silver lining is it means we should have more cap space relative to a lot of the rest of the league again next year too which should allow us to do a couple of big extensions for Lamar and Andrews and maybe even Bozeman if we need to and still be in an ok position
Next year is going to suck for our FAs, so I hope we get started on a few now
Lamar Jackson
Mark Andrews
Bradley Bozeman
Pat Ricard
Gus Edwards
DeShon Elliott
Anthony Averett
Plus Jimmy Smith, Calais Campbell, and Brandon Williams, although they all could be looking at retirement.
Not all big money guys by any means, but not these cheap 1-year deal types either.
i fully expect Lamar, Andrews and Ricard to be done pretty easily in the end
depending on how bozeman does this year it's definitely possible we try and get a deal done with him but he may also walk
sounds like they've already been in discussions with Gus about potentially doing an extension but i can't imagine he or ricard will be particularly expensive
if i were averett i'd likely be wanting to test free agency to see if i can find somewhere that will let me start full-time/pay me like a full-time starter
and i imagine when push comes to shove we won't end up re-signing deshon
but i'd fully expect at least 3 of those 5 guys on offence to be re-signed and maybe all 5
By no means do I expect all of those guys to return. Just showing the list and how many "impact" players are on it. That 2018 draft was so good for us. And it's funny because 6 of those guys are already off the team and a 7th (OBJ) potentially on his way out.
the number of legit 2nd contracts out of that class is going to be ridiculous lol