Exactly. That’s your core, that’s what makes your team go, from there on you add complementary guys to round out the roster year after year. I will let every single on of those guys walk in March if it means we retain madubuike, without a thought. Then, you gotta make some trades for draft capital over the next few years to keep the cupboard stocked with bodies.
The issue is, even if they're out the door sooner rather than later, you still need to replace them and with very limited cap space, you're absolutely looking at more John Simpson's or rookies and less Kevin Zeitler's and Jadeveon Clowney's of the world. I don't think that bodes well for a team with consistent Super Bowl aspirations.
There should still be a methodology available and a reasoning behind his grading. That's what I'd like to see. I don't take it seriously if that's not readily available.
If he gets a Hargrave contract, and I think he's going to exceed that, that's basically the only move the Ravens can make before any other moves are made because you need to account for the draft class.
You’re not fine with that, I am, because we drafted madubuike just as we are going to draft replacements for those guys and numbers of them are gonna surprise tf out of us and become quality starters, some are gonna be good depth, some will bust, but one thing is known in that group… an elite homegrown talent drafted here is likely to stay here, and that includes the RB and OL room as well.
There are few players on the roster we can, and I think we will, extend - Marlon, Andrews, Stanley (if you dare due to frequent injuries), Marcus Williams maybe, restructure Roquan...
I'm with you. Not going to be able to replace every single one of those guys but we damn sure have a better shot at replacing them than we do Madubuike at this point. FA doesn't start and end in March either. We routinely sign guys late and have ways to make room for them.
I think the fact that someone like Andrew Vorhees is even getting a mention is pretty laughable and a huge cause for concern. Players coming off injury and missing an entire rookie season don't have a great track record of working out.
But how many of those guys do you realistically expect back? They’ve all done really well this year but they’re almost all on the older side too and give us maybe 1-2 more years of quality play if we’re lucky.
he will exceed that i'm just talking about structure
I mean that’s fair about vorhees but you could insert sala, a rookie, a cheap fa signing that turns out surprisingly well which happens often, you get the picture.
I want Van Noy and Agholor re-signed.
I wouldn't expect many of them back, realistically, with the current cap situation, anyway. But the point still remains- you need replacements and the Ravens are operating on very thin cap margins to do that.
But also most of those guys that we now need to replace in this scenario are guys we got on cheap deals in the first place.
I’d love to keep Nelly here, he belongs, so does KVN but that dude could fall off a cliff any year.
This too. A player that needs to stay is a player that needs to stay and you make that work.
