man, you keep pumping out great posts!

foxworth would be interesting but it would be nice to have a pressing CB like manning. when i think of coverage i’m thinking who matches up well with Hines and physical receivers. id sacrifice some speed with Reed hawking to get a real jammer.

the big receivers are a gamble..if they can’t get open their a bust in a receiver slot. At least with speed you know they will get open with at least have a chance to catch it (even with marginal hands like Patrick Johnson).

this year i’d shoot for a vet receiver even for 1 year. this could be masons last 900+ yard year and it would be nice to pair him up for a serious SB run. lots of guys on this team looking for immediate help.

But if we sign Leigh Bodden I think we need to fire everyone. He is epically bad.

i have to say that i don’t know the guy but i’ll take your word for it. is he/was he as bad as Travis “Alligator Arms” Taylor?

for some reason i was thinking Bodden as a receiver…errrr. never mind.

If he can stay healthy, he could be one of the top 5 CB in the game. Baltimore should take a shot at both him and Michael Jenkins. I believe he could be a star for us. He really steped it up for the falcons this year and i believe he can be even better with us

As raven said, you keep pumping them out. Thanks for “taking over” the off season. Keep ‘em coming. What do you think about the LB’s coming out in the middle rounds of the draft, if we need to “reload” in that position?

I like Foxworth and Manning, Jr. as CB’s, Jenkins the best, but also intyrigued by having a 2nd Clayton to confuse the announcers.

Thanks again!

Really nice stuff lately. You sound like a film junkie. A couple of comments.

I really like Foxworth, but I have some concerns. Why was he traded from Denver to Jax? I have a close friend who is a big Bronco fan and knows people in the know and nobody could figure it out. Perhaps he needed a change of venue after the Darrient Williams murder. I think Foxworth would be a great nickel CB. He is little small to be your primary corner, but he brings it when he plays and has a good nose for the ball.

Dunta was tagged so he is off the list.

If you can’t get Foxworth, I would be willing to go into next year scaling back Rolle’s money and making him the nickel assuming he wants to stay and is willing to take less. However there is a question as to his willingness to deal with Harbaugh’s tougher style. As a nickel I still think he can play, but it is unrealistic to expect him to be a starter while in the November of what was a very good career as a CB.

Ratliff sucks. The Dolts haven’t had a CB I have liked in years. Their CB’s are protected by their pass rush. Manning is ok, but not really an answer. Leigh Bodden is at best a nickel or dime CB and can not be expected to be a starter. To me he is no better than Frank Walker and I don’t like Frank Walker.

I think that a new starting CB will have to be addressed in the draft which means either our 1st or 2nd round picks. After that, expecting them to start in the NFL in their first year is just too risky. It may be a stretch asking your 2nd rounder to start at CB given how our corners are expected to play in our scheme.

None of the WR’s who are FA’s do anything for me. Again, I think that it will have to be addressed in the draft. I love DHB from Maryland and really think Hakeem Nicks from NC is going to be a big time player in the NFL. Nicks reminds me a little of Michael Irvin (hopefully without the cocaine problems.) One issue no one has mentioned is that Oz doesn’t seem inclined to spend a 1st on a WR that is coming out early. Our experience with Travis (manos di peidras) Taylor kind of soured him.

Our FA’s are a real issue. Now that Suggs has gotten tagged, I think that the Ravens need to bust ass to get Jason Brown signed before someone steals him. Chester can play center, but I think Brown was the glue that brought and kept the line together this year. He is very underrated by the public, but I think you will see that he will get a ton of interest when FA starts and may be gone before we can even make a counter offer. Ray needs to test the market and find out that he just isn’t worth the money he covets. Love him, think he is the best MLB I have seen ever (and I go back to Willie Lanier), but the market for 34 year old MLB’s just isn’t 25 million guaranteed. And if some idiot like Jerrah Jonz wants to bankrupt his team doing so, well then more power to him.

I suspect that Jim Leonhard will follow Rex to NY, but I really would like to keep him. I just don’t know if Landry will ever be the same after his injury and Zibby and Haruki aren’t ready to step in as starters yet.

It was a beautiful year. Most exciting and compelling year possibly ever and that includes the SB year just because we had no expectations for this year at all. I trust Oz and the braintrust to do the right thing, but darn it , i wish they would get it rolling already. But then again, that’s not Oz. He is very deliberate and doesn’t get pushed into doing what he isn’t ready or does not want to do.

Great site and great posts guys. Between the Beatdown and Profootballtalk.com, I don’t go through football withdraw.

Go Ravens!! The Squealer SUCK!!!!

One quick correction…

Foxworth was drafted by the Broncos in the 2005 NFL Draft with the 97th overall pick, in the third round.

He stepped up impressively when the Colts needed him (after they had cut and resigned him 3 times in 08 alone), but he couldn’t beat out Tim Jennings for playing time, and Jennings was a disaster for the first 2/3rds of the season.

Re:ppdoc, Indy’s CBs aren’t protected by the pass rush as much as they are by the scheme (though it requires/emphasizes other things of them), they basically live in the flats. The Safeties are always there deep, so the corners don’t need (so often don’t have) deep speed. They do have to support against the run well (the rest of the D is undersized so the DBs have to play a bigger role vs the run) and have to be disciplined and execute their responsibility exactly as it is (Indy doesn’t mix up coverages, instead just relying on the back 7 doing the Tampa-2 right every down).

The Cardinals have until Tuesday to make a serious offer to Anquan Boldin according to a statement made to XTRA-910. Otherwise, he expects to be traded.

http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/view/91953-boldin-gives-cardinals-deadline?eref=fromSI

I guess we’ll know soon whether we have a shot at this guy.

You think Baltimore may take a shot a jerry porter. I know he had a poor year in Jaxx, but he could be a guy who would allow mason to move to the slot.

yea i like him or ronald curry, both are under appreciated guys, they just do their jobs and I think either one of them would prefer the Ravens organization.