SepticeyePoe
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Didn't the Ravens keep 4 active TEs last year with Mayle? Granted, he was a special teams guy, but I think it's still possible they keep all 4 active once Hurst is ready to come back.
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True. Maxx is probably the strongest argument to be inactive, but he does seem to have snagged most of the FB duties from Ricard.
DeVito52
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Ive been saying this, I can see the coaching staff justifying not having to dress 4 TEs, and Boyle has been outsnapping Maxx by a good margin. If one sits, it’s maxx. But they might just dress all 4.
they are used in different situations but both have their uses - i dont see why we wouldnt activate all 4 - much like our wide receivers our tight ends have a really nice complementary skillset - even in their blocking - boyle is a good traditional blocking tight end while maxx is great almost as a lighter guard pulling across the line but can also act as a lead blocker but also runs traditional tight end routes
the amount of heavy tight end sets where we rely on the tight ends to make difficult blocks i cant see us not activating both maxx and boyle
Thanks buddy! It was a great win.
JoeyFlex5
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Totally possible but I don’t think any of our TEs play teams so that might be another factor. I just don’t like Boyle and I can’t figure out why he is like the clear cut favorite of Harbaugh
JoeyFlex5
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I’ll take maxx over Boyle. Better receiver, better runner after the catch, can be moved around a lot of ways while Boyle just stays inline, I get that Boyle is a good blocker but is his inline blocking really more valuable than what maxx brings?
Boyle is the better traditional inline blocker that's why - as much as maxx gives us extra sauce with different types of blocking as a serious strength (and arguably his versatility is also a strength) he is not as good as boyle as inline guy - boyle is a guy we seriously trust 1v1 sometimes on the outside which we could never do with maxx
that's 100% why - boyle is by far the worst receiver of our 4 tight ends and is the least versatile as a receiver but he's also the only true inline blocker - now if hayden hurst comes on quick i think you'll see andrews and maxx's snaps stay fairly similar but hayden will take mostly boyle's snaps
that's how i see it anyway
Dom McRaven
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I'm a little disappointed in Bowser tbh, but there's still time to get it together. Most of the time, I'm wondering if he's on the field or not.
JoeyFlex5
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As a blocker I actually see hurst as more a move guy as well, he played a lot of h back in college and did really well on moving blocks out of the backfield, what he did best as a blocker though was lead blocking screens, and he did that inline and out of the backfield.
that's my point - he's not gonna take boyle's job completely as a blocker but when we want option value from an inline TE (i.e. a threat to run traditional TE routes/go up the seam and be a big play threat) or as a blocker in the run game especially sealing for an outside run then Hurst offers more value simply by being on the field
im in favour of having all 4 TEs active tbh - everyone of them has their niche and their role and much like the wr corps - their styles are various and complementary which will only help the offence to be even more diverse and difficult to defend
if im correctly recalling from filmstudy's defensive review - bowser only played 5 snaps of defence this last game and it was on the steelers only td drive where they quickly went up the field for 70+ yards
Oldfaithful
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Obviously this game shouldn't be easy.
Usually we win this game.
Reasonably we should win.
Sometimes the unusual happens.
Easy victory is certainly possible.
Any given Sunday and all that jazz.
So this game could honestly go either way.
Or we could lose badly.
Now let's get serious.
In actuality this game should be close.
So I don't predict a cake walk.
Otherwise I'd put money on it.
Vegas odds would be high right?
Enough with the semantics.
Ravens win.. That's my prediction....
I have too much time on my hands....
Usually we win this game.
Reasonably we should win.
Sometimes the unusual happens.
Easy victory is certainly possible.
Any given Sunday and all that jazz.
So this game could honestly go either way.
Or we could lose badly.
Now let's get serious.
In actuality this game should be close.
So I don't predict a cake walk.
Otherwise I'd put money on it.
Vegas odds would be high right?
Enough with the semantics.
Ravens win.. That's my prediction....
I have too much time on my hands....
this will piss you off but this actually spells
OUR SEAOSN IS OVER
be better...
Oldfaithful
Hall of Famer
Oldfaithful
Hall of Famer
For real, thank you.
Usually I am better than this shit.
Cerebral speaking I've been off. Fucking midterms
Kraft family I am not, I can't get away with errors and cheating.
Yet I think it's better this way.
Our seaosn is over.... Is now the new "smallow and reat"
Unusually I am in the pit of misery.....
FYI this one is also spelled wrong
this one says FUCK YOU...
im sure that's not what you meant
ALSO Is Joe Flacco a TRADER?
JO_75
Hall of Famer
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Dom McRaven
Hall of Famer
Dilly dilly sucka.