lmao. The game isn't at fedex field this time!
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The Venting Thread 2019: The Honeymoon is Over
- Thread starter Sami84
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we've got some cap space opening up this offseason and a load of draft picks (and while EDC clearly likes compiling draft picks he's already shown the willingness to move up in the draft to go get his guy if the price isnt too much)
now some of that cap space likely goes to ronnie and maybe marlon as well as some other home-grown guys potentially but it will still leave us with more space than we've had in years to go after top-end free agents at competitive market prices if we want or make sure we win with those tier 2 guys
too many needs to fill them with trades - my expectation is that unless someone insane becomes available at a reasonable price (for their talent) that we hold onto all our high picks - i could envision us trading a day 3 pick for someone who might help us out with some depth as the season goes on who's maybe in the last year of their deal but not more than that at this point in time
this year was always going to be a retooling year - i just didnt realise which bits of the team were going to need retooling... id assumed wed still have holes on offence that would need serious consideration to fix but ultimately we're only a couple of pieces away from a potentially dominant offence at this point with young players who are still developing together
the surprise is just how sparse of talent our defence seems to be in the front 7
the secondary cant really be criticised in terms of team building... we're onto our 5th and 6th corners playing snaps on defence on a week-to-week basis - of our initial roster we've lost 2 starting corners, 1 potential backup corner, 1 starting safety, 2 backup safeties + 1 player who's just got banged up and we'll see how much he practices this week given he's got a hamstring problem - 5 of those 7 guys are likely going to go on i/r (if elliott goes itll be 5 i mean) - no team can handle that much attrition at one position without falling apart a little
JAAM
Hall of Famer
Surely going to be a huge test for this team, starting with the Seahawks. Lamar can’t expect to run wild against that front 7, so I hope we have a passing game planned or a ground and pound attack to keep Russ off the field. I have no faith in our defense against some of the elite passers we’re about to face, and there’s quite a few of them (Russ, Brady, Watson), unless we somehow manage to trade for an elite pass rusher or Corner. Really tough stretch. It will definitely show the character of this team, but I’ll still remain hopeful no matter what. I still don’t trust the Clowns even against a soft schedule. Just win the division and we have a shot to get to the big dance.
the big cap hits next year are
ET - 15m
Brandon Williams - 14m
Ronnie Stanley - 13m (this will come down if we extend him)
TJ - 11.5m (we save 7m by cutting him in the offseason)
Yanda - 11m
Tavon - 8m
but even with all of those guys we're still 10th in most cap space because we'll have hardly any dead money (flacco's dead money comes off the cap)
the reason we're not top 5 in cap space is because there's a load of teams with similarly not many large contracts on their books but also have a load of cap from this year that will rollover to 2020 also
there's also teams in that top 10 who have to pay a load of their own players some huge contacts in the upcoming offseason
Sami84
Ravens Ring of Honor
I think this will be Yanda's last year. Oh shit we might invest in an interior O linesman which will of course leave us with a BUM in or two as usual
I think this will be Yanda's last year. Oh shit we might invest in an interior O linesman which will of course leave us with a BUM in or two as usual
i mean we dont know but they gave him an extension so that he doesnt have to worry about his contract next year - my guess is he plays out next year and then calls it a day (if i were yanda id probably think that if i can manage it 1 more year then there's a much better chance of a superbowl)
if yanda finishes the year healthy and doesnt have to rehab anything or have any surgery then i reckon he plays in 2020, if he has a rough offseason program to get ready for the season then i could see him calling it quits - that's kinda what his process was for this year before he signed his extension
RavensFan419
Pro Bowler
It took us 4 years to build around Joe and get a super bowl I think the 2020 and 2021 we should be able to contend
stanley is legitimately on a trajectory to be the best tackle in the league
he's obviously got competition and future competition but he's been awesome
we complain about the dearth of OL quality in the league but there's a lot of good tackles in the league at the moment - problem is every year there's always lots who are injured but also those tackles are not spread evenly across the teams in the league
the eagles might have 3 legitimate tackles, the cowboys were in the same situation about 2-3 years ago
there's some good young guys who will be his competition for a while too methinks...
Stanley 25
Ramcyzk 25
Tunsil 25
La'el Collins 26
and some others
we couldnt really have had la'el collins - he went udfa because he basically told teams not to bother picking him on day 3 or he'd sit out at which point he got to choose where he wanted to play and he wanted to play for the cowboys
Sami84
Ravens Ring of Honor
what about the LSU question? So many great players from that program. Is there a reason why we've avoided them like they're
we couldn't have Collins at all
Tank
Hall of Famer
Losing Jimmy Smith’s $16 mil. hit helps a ton.
well i was wrong about this - EDC has completely overhauled this defence since we had this discussion and it's worked and it was fairly inexpensive too - he looks like a bit of a genius in light of this - not much to vent about right now
when was this conversation?
pre-seahawks and pre-marcus peters i think
airconteka
MVP
Pretty pissed some of our TD drives against the Bengals didn't milk much time, combine that with the defense kept getting turnovers we really lost the TOP battle.
That's all I've got
That's all I've got