and remembered him from U. of Tennessee. He was stuck behind 85 and TJ in Cincy and never got the chance in NE. Here could be a great opportunity for him if Joe looks his way. Big, strong fast and healthy, two of those things DWill is not (strong, healthy). This might not bode well for my boy, Marcus Smith, but I’m a Ravens fan first. Hopefully, there will enough chances for both to shine, and DWill too.

Demetrius Williams? Where has he gone? Im not a Ravens fan obviously, but i thought he was quite good

he’ll stink…he’s 29 and hasn’t made his mark anywhere…if people complain that a an all pro linebacker has lost his speed at 30 why should we marvel at 29 year old receiver who has done relatively nothing. the group we brought in was c- at absolute best. washington will not be enough to take the pressure of mason. if i’m a defense playing against the ravens i would have no hesitation putting a rookie or part time d-back on our number 2 receiver while I blanket mason with my number 1 man. our thrid down pass plays will be obvious. heap is still a catching threat but his lack of YAC gives me many coverage options..nothing a heavy LB couldn’t recover from.

He was cincys #3 or 4 dude…what do you want from me. We don’t have much of a rep. for developing receivers why should that change with a 29 year old #3 from Cincy. The only thing he has going for him is Cincy’s ability to make decisions. They let him go so there is the very real possibility he might go to the pro-bowl. If that happens he could take big money from Cleveland the year after and end up in jail for selling illegal retreaded tires from a van and never play again. That’s just how the AFC North works.

is Steeler’s picture of that lady who starred in Monster or is it Leo in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (Tom Brady).

all I need is 10 tires, 4 traffic cones and a small parachute and I could develop a receiver faster than the Ravens. they have 14 year start to boot.

i’m done with Boldin…bad carma

karma

ravensboner- clayton has good hands but he won’t “stretch the field” by any account. he caught the ass end of a deep ball and now he’s a field stretcher. we have a #1.5 receiver and a stable full of #3’s and #4’s. each and every one of these clones would put up the same stats by the end of the game. 4 catches 40 yards on a good day. our own troop of 4-40 guys.
what is a #2 receiver then? Chad’s TJ, Ward’s Holmes, Edwards/Jarivichus/Winslow (2008). I just can’t go Mason’s Clayton. Mason’s Clayton? No Goose and Maverick there. Your better off stretching the field with Figurs at a dead sprint or Koch putting one off the blimp. Mason, Clayton, Washington. WOW. I’ll even toss often injured Heap in the bunch. I’m amazed ticket prices haven’t gone up more.

disgruntled moss in terrible oakland was going through the motions while clayton was busting his ass (i guess) to get his numbers with a better team. moss still walked 11 td’s in and was covered a whole lot more serious than Clayton.

the system? most teams have a new system every few years. coaches come and go faster than ever before. the system can’t make a guy come back to the ball or get off his individual blocks or get open down field in man coverage.

the whole picture? when you see the same picture every year you tend to recognize it. do you believe that mason will not be the only 3rd down threat when our coaches tighten up in crunch time. can you honestly see clayton earning tough 3rd down yards against pitt.
where was he the last 3 games against them. the system right. who came up short then Cam, Harbaugh or Clayton?
 
pass protection? joe had decent time last year. our ends did a decent job considering new additions etc.. big ben had a lot less time with his line but Holmes and Sweed managed to make an appearance when it counted.

if there was anytime a receiver should be coming up big it’s when they are virtually the only other option. clayton didn’t have to share time with anyone. he was healthy. he had job stability. his TE was beat up and missing time. there weren’t trade rumors swirling around him. he didn’t have a vet qb yelling at him. it was up to him. he couldn’t ask for a better time to elevate his game.

he’s a #3 receiver at this point. this year has to be his breakout year. if ozzie is so confident that an addition of Washington will make us competitive, Clayton has to be ready to bust out. Right? D. Williams will miss boat loads of time.

Welker is the real deal. he PROVED it. welker is flat out better than clayton. welker had to work with a qb who hasn’t started since high school. he also goes across the middle and takes his hits. i can turn on ESPN and hear Welker welker welker.

maybe it is Cams fault for not including Clayton. maybe Cam isn’t capable of spreading the field and will continue to roll flacco to the right and hitting mason for 6 on the line. maybe flacco wasn’t ready to use the whole field after 16 games. we shall see.

Crap. I’ll have to figure out spell check. I’ll give it a shot Thursday morning over my Giant brand coffee and Little Debbies.

I want Clayton to succeed. I want D-Williams to be healthy. I want Washington to have a chance. I just wanted 1 receiver with a track record of any sort to at least close the gap with our load bareing D. I wish our guys had a tract record that showed just 1above average attribute like good in the slant, has a great double move, hard to jam. I can’t think of one thing for any of these guys outside of Mason that do 1 thing outstanding at the NFL level. We are so shallow at this position we signed Copper in the heat of a playoff race (at least Ron Kittle and Keith Moreland did some things before the Orioles scared the Yanks with their presence). Every offseason our 2-4 receiver positions are wide open. How can Flacco concentrate on anyone when he has 8 guys in the passing mill up to the last preseason game and beyond?

You have to look at how disappointing it really is about Clayton. He averages 2.5 catches, for 43.4 yards a game. Ok, he is getting about 12-18 yards a catch, but he is not making enough of them.

I mean, Clayton’s best season (67 rec. 939 yards and 5 TD’s) comes in 2006 under Billick’s shitty system and Steve “No Air” McNair at QB? We all talk about how great our new system is, which I do think is correct, but how come Clayton puts up #3 WR numbers? There are #3 WR in the league that average 2-3 catches a game for about 30-40 yards.

When raven stated,

if there was anytime a receiver should be coming up big it’s when they are virtually the only other option. clayton didn’t have to share time with anyone. he was healthy. he had job stability. his TE was beat up and missing time. there weren’t trade rumors swirling around him. he didn’t have a vet qb yelling at him. it was up to him. he couldn’t ask for a better time to elevate his game.

It is a great point. We had no clear cut 3rd guy to go to, Heap was having one of the most disappointing receiving seasons of his career, his job is not at danger, everyone is getting along, yet we do not utilize him to the best ability. We can go ahead and say that he showed some flash, which I agree that it was exciting to see, but it came against Clev, Cinci and Jacksonville. Where was that flash against the teams it mattered?

We throw like wild to Clayton against teams that are not in the race, but get scared against the better teams. If we found a way to do it against some of these teams with Clayton, why can’t we do it against Pitt, Indy, NYG? Because we are afraid of not playing “perfect football” offensively. We think “oh these guys are 10-2, we better take it slow and try to not make any mistakes by stretching the field.”

Fuck that. Start it off slow, feel out the defense with McClain and the other guys, throw some dink passes to Heap and Mason, then attack the defense. This is such a copy cat league like every player and coach will tell you, so teams are going to figure out our style. We need to become unpredictable, and having Joe staring at Mason each time he drops back is not going to cut it.

I hope that Williams, Clayton, Smith, etc step it up. I mean, not only did we have every opportunity in the world to have a #3 step up, which did not happen, we had every opportunity to have Clayton step up. It was set in place for him to have 60+ catches, and we did not get him the ball. He will make the catch across the middle, but will fall right after.

This comment has cheap beer talking, so take it the way it is.

i like D- Williams when he’s healthy. he has attitude and he seems to want the ball. he can go get it withthe good ones but man he needs to get healthy already.

we have more fun and success than 75% of the league almost every year. there’s a positive note….and our O struggles like a 4 cylinder in the Rockies. best of all we win most of our home games and the weather is sunny and warm until December and we never really have rain games. we expect to win every game and we don’t show up just to see a visiting star like cleveland and cincy sheepishly do when Ray arrives. so let our #5 universal receivers run rampant again this year as we battle to the last minute balanced on the edge of our seats. it wouldn’t be nearly as fun with star receivers ending games in the 3rd quarter as our D goes to that crazy level when they have a 7 point lead.

thats us….we even managed that tactic against cleveland. i’m glad they got away from winslow. dude was scary when used properly.