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AFC North Standings

W L T PF PA
Cincinnati 10 6 0 305 291
Pittsburgh 9 7 0 368 324
Baltimore 9 7 0 391 261
Cleveland 5 11 0 245 375

(updated 1.4.2010 at 4:48 AM EST)

9 - 7

Lost 1

Baltimore Ravens Injuries

Probable

Player Injury Type Injury Date
Todd Heap back 01/16/2010
Derrick Mason hand 01/16/2010
Ed Reed foot 01/16/2010
Jared Gaither ankle 01/16/2010
Cary Williams thigh 01/16/2010
Tavares Gooden knee 01/16/2010

Out (IR / Out / Suspended / Physically unvailable)

Player Injury Type Injury Date
Brendon Ayanbadejo quadriceps 10/06/2009
Fabian Washington knee 11/24/2009
Matt Lawrence knee 11/24/2009
Haruki Nakamura ankle 11/18/2009
Marcus Smith knee 08/14/2009
Lamar Divens hip 08/15/2009
Jason Phillips knee 09/05/2009
Lardarius Webb knee 12/22/2009
K.J. Gerard hamstring 12/25/2009

Kruger Wants To Play

Paul Kruger in Training Camp

Paul Kruger in Training Camp

BaltimoreRavens.com had a good story on the one guy that hopes to be the answer to the team's pass rushing woes. Drafted in the second round last year out of Utah, Paul Kruger barely caught a whiff of the playing field last year. Failure to grasp the bigger playbook and inability to play Special Teams led to Kruger being inactive for a majority of the season. However, when he did get his rare chances, he usually looked lost other than the one bright spot he had when he intercepted Pittsburgh Steelers backup QB Dennis Dixon in the Ravens OT win in Baltimore last year.

At the Ravens season ending press conference, Head Coach John Harbaugh said that the team was going to get Kruger to gain weight and beef up so that he can play defensive end. If Kruger can concentrate on putting his hand in the dirt like he did in college, his learning curve should be a lot easier than him having to learn to play linebacker in the NFL.

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Boldin: Best Acquisition of the Off Season in NFL

Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Anquan Boldin, center, stands with Ravens coach John Harbaugh, left, and Ravens president and general manager Ozzie Newsome, right, after the NFL team announced the signing of Boldin, a former Arizona Cardinal wide receiver, to a four-year, $28 million contract Monday, March 8, 2010, at Ravens headquarters in Owings Mills, Md. (AP Photo/ Steve Ruark)

More photos » Steve Ruark - AP

10 days ago: Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Anquan Boldin, center, stands with Ravens coach John Harbaugh, left, and Ravens president and general manager Ozzie Newsome, right, after the NFL team announced the signing of Boldin, a former Arizona Cardinal wide receiver, to a four-year, $28 million contract Monday, March 8, 2010, at Ravens headquarters in Owings Mills, Md. (AP Photo/ Steve Ruark)


Or at least that's what the guys over at the NFL Network are saying. According to NFL Total Access, they voted on the best off season acquisition throughout the entire league and it came down to two former Arizona Cardinals, Anquan Boldin and Antrel Rolle. While the Ravens traded for Boldin, the New York Giants signed Rolle, a safety that the Cardinals had cut due to contract reasons, but had hoped to re-sign. Combined with the loss of linebacker Karlos Dansby, who signed with the Miami Dolphins and the retirement of QB Kurt Warner, the Cards are looking like a mere shadow of the team that went deep into the playoffs the past couple of years and seemed to have a lock on the NFC West division title.

Not anymore, as the Cardinals loss was the Ravens gain. Hearing Rod Woodson and friends rate the Ravens trade for Boldin at the top of the off season list is an honor from the greatest sports network on television! See the link to the story that was recently aired here.

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Mock Drafts Around the 'net

Looking around the internet, there are a ton of Mock Drafts out there from so-called reputable sources, so I thought I'd take a tour and see what they all predict our Baltimore Ravens to do with the 25th pick in the first round.

Over at NFL.com, Pat Kirwan has the Ravens taking Florida State CB Patrick Robinson, skipping over available players such as Dez Bryant, Taylor Mays and Carlos Dunlap.

(Click on the 'Jump' to see more sites and the links to other Mock Drafts.)

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Why the Ravens are going to Superbowl 45 and winning it.

What will be coming home next year.

More photos » David J. Phillip - AP

What will be coming home next year.

Some/most of the people reading this are probably thinking to themselves,"Is this guy out of his mind?" Let me answer your question, no, I am not out of my mind. And If you still think I am, take a look at this.

(After the Jump....)

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Will Raven's win the Superbowl next year?

  587 votes | Results

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Ravens Re-Sign Edgar Jones

The Baltimore Ravens stayed active in the off season, re-signing tight end and Special Teams ace Edgar Jones to a one year contract for a reported $545,000. Jones is a converted linebacker that has seen most of his playing time on Special Teams, where he made 19 tackles last year.

The team also signed unrestricted free agent defensive back, Marcus Paschal, who was on the team for parts of the 2009 season. Both guys add depth to positions that are up in the air in terms of reserves, pending other signings and draft picks.

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What the Rams Should Do

The St. Louis Rams currently own the top pick in the 2010 NFL Draft and are reportedly looking to use it on Oklahoma's QB, Sam Bradford. While Bradford is in my opinion the best QB in the draft, he is a project and his selection would mean a long learning curve and continued disappointment in the short run at the very least for all Rams fans. I see another route that St. Louis could take, one that might lead to instant success and not for just the short run either. At the same time, they could add some key younger players and have them insure that the team will remain competitive in what is one of the weaker divisions in the NFL.

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Another "Mocking the Draft" for Baltimore

Could Kyle Wilson slip to Baltimore?

More photos » Matt York - AP

Could Kyle Wilson slip to Baltimore?

Over at Mocking The Draft, we have begun our 3rd installment of the SB Nation blog-wide live draft for all 32 NFL teams. On Saturday, we successfully finished up the first two rounds with few road blocks and the first round open thread generated over 1,000 comments. The 3rd and 4th rounds will occur next weekend. Shying away from many of the mock drafts around the internet, the representatives for each team made it very interesting with some of the picks they were making.

A few that stood out were

  • QB Sam Bradford going 9th to Buffalo
  • RB C.J. Spiller going 10th to Jacksonville
  • Trade involving Tennessee and Tampa Bay which sent WR Dez Bryant to Tampa Bay at #16
  • Pittsburgh ignoring their O-Line and Secondary issues by taking LB Sean Weatherspoon at #18
  • Bruce Campbell falling out of the 1st round and being selected with the 1st pick in the 2nd round.

When it got to my pick (Ravens) at 25, I saw that there were many players left on my board that I felt could still be there if I moved back in the first round. Players like DE Jared Odrick and Carlos Dunlap, TE Jermaine Gresham, and CB's Devin McCourty and Kyle Wilson. What I decided to do was make an offer with Joe Baker of the Colts blog, Stampede Blue, and offer a trade to swap first round picks. The offer presented to Joe was the Ravens 1st round pick and the higher of our two 5th round picks for the Colts 1st round pick and 3rd round pick. The trade was accepted and here is a list of the trades made so far in the first two rounds.

Trades:

#16- The Titans trade the 16th pick to the Rams for their 2nd 3rd 4th and 7th round picks

#19/24- The Falcons trade the 19th pick to the eagles for  the 24th and 87th pick.

#25/31- The Colts trade 31st and 94th picks to the Ravens for 25th and 152nd picks.

#26- The Cardinals trade the 26th pick to the Raiders a 2nd and 4th round pick.

So with the 31st pick in the 2010 NFL Draft, the Baltimore Ravens select........after the jump.

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How do you rate these picks for Baltimore?

  295 votes | Results

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Flacco Only Needs to Improve by 100 Yards

Now that the Baltimore Ravens have traded for Anquan Boldin and re-signed Derrick Mason, every fan is expecting QB Joe Flacco to improve by leaps and bounds over his first two years in the NFL. They are now talking about 4,000 yards, 30 touchdown passes and Flacco becoming an All-Pro QB and spoken about as one of the top in the league.

Whoa, hold on there folks, talk about setting the bar way too high and also setting the third year pro up for failure. The team just added one more player and while he is a very, very good one, he is still just one guy and no sport is more of a team game than pro football. The needs of the eleven guys on the field at one time and the team as a whole lessens the effect of one guy in football more than in any other professional sport.

Every time that Flacco throws the ball to Boldin, that is just one throw that would have gone somewhere else and the difference between those throws will be the difference in our level of improvement. So what can we reasonably expect as far as improvement from Flacco and what does Joe really need to do to reach the next level for himself as well as the team?

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