Jamie_B

Living as close to Baltimore as I do, I get the Ravens fans that think had Lamar been healthy the past 2 years we would have never even sniffed an AFCN Championship let alone a SuperBowl I do not want those people to savor anything.

I'd do a back flip if we got Alt at 17

If it's the difference between getting Billy Price or Frank Ragnow sign me up

The mere fact that we have Joey B brings us in free agents. That cannot be understated. But we also have to realize that we just paid the man and because of that there is only so much money to go around. That means from here on our we are going to have to do the majority of out team building through the draft. If you doubt that look at the guys we signed this offseason. The Nick Scott's of the world. So because of that it behooves us to get the highest pick when Joe went down. Because Cincinnati doesn't have a basketball team anymore and because I lived in San Antonio for a while I became a casual Spurs fan, David Robinson was easy to root for as a good human (not to mention I would later go-to the high-school he graduated from). The year he got a season ending injury the Spurs sucked bad enough to end up in the lottery and end up with the number one pick. They would draft Tim Duncan and the rest is history. Do you think anyone on that Spurs team was so mentally weak that it effected their play the next year or that free agents decided not to come there? No. You don't get better after you pay your QB if your drafting in the middle of the draft. You stay stagnet. There is plenty of evidence for this. Look at Tomlins Steelers. Always a winning season, and always not making or losing in the first round of the playoffs. Look at the Bills. They have struggled to find draft picks to help Josh Allen. It's fun to root for Jake and he did well, but we are near the bottom in most defensive categories, we can't run the ball effectively most weeks, our o-line is medorcre at best and we are like going to lose Tee in a year, and Boyd this year. We had an opportunity to get the higher pick and restock some of that with players that are more likely to impact sooner because that's what top of the draft picks typically do. But rooting to win a meaningless game to let guys feel good about themselves means they aren't very mentally tough to begin with, which is a whole other issue when it comes to winning football games. So that is my bigger picture thinking. Question my Fandom and loyalty if you like, but to be blunt, I've been following this team since the days of Boomer and Icky, I post maybe more than I should on a fan board for this point going into decades. Anyone calling me a bandwagon because I see this rationally and see the history of how teams get built and how we are a bit hamstrung because of ownerships refusal to expand the scouting department and front office making that even tougher. Looks a bit foolish.

This. We lost reader for a full year. It would be stupid to play anyone that would hurt us if we lost them for any length of time in a meaningless game.

This

I'd be surprised

Why? Why do we want to win? We're eliminated at this point. Can we root for a higher draft pick now?

You can't say that around here

jesus where is the blocking??

and then he gets sacked again

eye poke he should be good to come back

Cappa down

the sad thing is we will probably win next week against the browns backups and hurt our draft position

and the runback

well that's the season boys

god damned it

Nobody is getting open

the O has stalled it's time to change that

held to 3 now we HAVE GOT to get in the endzone

wow we won a challange wont matter they will get this

of course they are gonna score watch

*sigh* come on defense get something

unless we get a turnover here this is over

They figured out the O