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2025 Offseason Thread

Chiefs & Commanders apparently tampered with Ronnie Stanley........ Chiefs offered $20M and Commanders $24M before he ultimately chose us. I say they have to give us their first round picks. Oh and Chiefs are banned from the postseason lol. Any truth to this @Simba?

 
JO_75 said:
Chiefs & Commanders apparently tampered with Ronnie Stanley........ Chiefs offered $20M and Commanders $24M before he ultimately chose us. I say they have to give us their first round picks. Oh and Chiefs are banned from the postseason lol. Any truth to this @Simba?

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I mean yeah. It’s an open secret that teams tamper though. They always make an example out of 1 or 2 but it’s widespread.
 
Deebo813 said:
And extra 4 million a year to leave a team and city where you been established for the past 8yrs probably isnt worth it
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I mean its the Commanders. The games air in the same market and its less than a half hour to get from one to the other. He would be equally established in the city. I suspect its more of the comfort with the team and scheme.
 


we're pretty good at this whole drafting thing...

1) acquiring draft capital (note this measure of draft capital also weights the picks based on trade value... so being lower in the draft order is included in the model's weightings) despite consistently picking late in the draft order
2) picking players who contribute to the ravens
3) we're good at finding udfas who contribute to the roster

what it doesn't show is that we're also the organisation with the most players who began their career here playing elsewhere - so not only are we consistently acquiring and keeping talent, the rest of the league is also acquiring our leftover talent and it's generally been good enough to make rosters elsewhere... although on that note, it is worth noting that we do consistently have more draft picks which means we do acquire more players who could play for us or other teams over time
 
rossihunter2 said:


we're pretty good at this whole drafting thing...

1) acquiring draft capital (note this measure of draft capital also weights the picks based on trade value... so being lower in the draft order is included in the model's weightings) despite consistently picking late in the draft order
2) picking players who contribute to the ravens
3) we're good at finding udfas who contribute to the roster

what it doesn't show is that we're also the organisation with the most players who began their career here playing elsewhere - so not only are we consistently acquiring and keeping talent, the rest of the league is also acquiring our leftover talent and it's generally been good enough to make rosters elsewhere... although on that note, it is worth noting that we do consistently have more draft picks which means we do acquire more players who could play for us or other teams over time
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...James Harrison. How he escaped to the Steelers is still a mystery to me. With that guy on our team during that era, we would have been the Pats.
 
Tank said:
I think he started his career with the Steelers.
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This prompted me to go read up on him, appears he was a total dumbass and that’s why he bounced around the afc north for 3 years and took him like 5 years to start making an impact. Interviews of former teammates saying he would give up mid play and throw his hands up, often, and would tell coaches get him off the field because he don’t know wtf he’s doing
 
JoeyFlex5 said:
This prompted me to go read up on him, appears he was a total dumbass and that’s why he bounced around the afc north for 3 years and took him like 5 years to start making an impact. Interviews of former teammates saying he would give up mid play and throw his hands up, often, and would tell coaches get him off the field because he don’t know wtf he’s doing
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We got fed up with him and sent him to NFL Europe. Guessing that was a reality check. lol
 
JoeyFlex5 said:
This prompted me to go read up on him, appears he was a total dumbass and that’s why he bounced around the afc north for 3 years and took him like 5 years to start making an impact. Interviews of former teammates saying he would give up mid play and throw his hands up, often, and would tell coaches get him off the field because he don’t know wtf he’s doing
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Tank said:
We got fed up with him and sent him to NFL Europe. Guessing that was a reality check. lol
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I didn't go back and follow it all thru initially, but I remember that he bounced all over, and I think when we dropped him he was a starter that next year in Yinsburgh. As it turns out, he didn't start immediately in 2004 when we dropped him, but by 2005 he was contributing and a part of their SB team that year and then with them the rest of his career. Anyway, it was 2005 that Ray Lewis had that injury that kept him out and I remember as Harrison was improving with Pitt, the commentary during games was about how Harrison had been released by the Ravens and wouldn't it be nice to have him back... lol.
 
drjohnnyfever said:
I didn't go back and follow it all thru initially, but I remember that he bounced all over, and I think when we dropped him he was a starter that next year in Yinsburgh. As it turns out, he didn't start immediately in 2004 when we dropped him, but by 2005 he was contributing and a part of their SB team that year and then with them the rest of his career. Anyway, it was 2005 that Ray Lewis had that injury that kept him out and I remember as Harrison was improving with Pitt, the commentary during games was about how Harrison had been released by the Ravens and wouldn't it be nice to have him back... lol.
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Just imagine prime Harrison and young sizzle on those units… holy shit
 
How many roster spots are even legitimately open?

QB (2)
Lamar and Cooper Rush

RB (4)
Derrick, Justice, Keaton, Rasheen or draft pick

FB (1)
Ricard

TE (3)
Mark, Isaiah and Charlie

OL (7)
Ronnie, Andrew, Tyler, Daniel, Roger, Ben, and Nick.

WR (5)
Zay, Rashod, DeAndre, Tylan, and Tez

Seems like 3 spots on offense
 
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