Ryan Harmon
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I love how yall always say Lamar roster stacked but can’t never name a player that made an impactful play in a playoff game for the Ravens in one of lamar playoff games.
Lord Brunson tweets@lord_brunson
Baltimore is stacked yearly damn near. Furthermore if Lamar Jackson is such a better qb than Jalen why does he need what Jalen has to win? Shouldn't the great Lamar bridge the gap and get it done with less
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@BuckinghamWyatt @birdlandminute Well he didn’t keep it in house though right? Because that seems to be a big part of the issue
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@birdlandminute If it’s not benching, what else would it be? And don’t expect Alby to come out and that verbatim bc that stuff is kept in house.
And no, it’s not a big deal when your franchise catcher acts like he gets shot for a minor boo boo and is rocking back on the home plate umpire.
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The Samuel Basallo situation is so bizarre. I hate to say it but it feels like this is starting to derail the season.
Obviously wouldn’t matter if the team was winning.
Choosing to sit a healthy player, while on a 3 game losing streak, with the other catcher also hurt?
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@RiveraOscar_1 @1luhjoshh The start of 2022 he was moving different, broke his foot and has just never had that type of juice again.
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@1luhjoshh will never understand the hype behind Rashod. profiles like him come and go in this league but for some reason Baltimore loves him
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@jfcatcher23 @ByMattWeyrich @jcalvinmeyer I’m hoping you’re right, but nothing about the last two years suggests Elias is likely to change his mind
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@RyanHarmon15 @ByMattWeyrich @jcalvinmeyer lol he will be a qualified hitter. He’s basically forcing Elias to pivot away from the computer and play him vs lefties
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Highest slugging percentage by a qualified catcher 21 or younger since World War II:
Johnny Bench, .487
Orioles' Samuel Basallo has a .487 slugging percentage so far this season.
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@jfcatcher23 @ByMattWeyrich @jcalvinmeyer He's not going to be a qualifying hitter because he's not playing enough and isn't allowed to hit LHPs
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@ByMattWeyrich @jcalvinmeyer Would Basallo still count for this at the end of the year? Doesn’t he turn 22 in August
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4. West Ham and Wolves had been teetering and flirting with relegation level form and underlyings for a couple seasons, and these relegations weren’t actually surprising. I’m not sure there’s a clear “bottom falls out” candidate currently in the league, which will make it hard for the newcomers.
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What will I remember most from the Premier League season? A thread.
1. The Year of the Set Piece
This isn’t just Arsenal, who have become the posterchild for this. The maximization of set pieces up and down the table led to significant decreases of ball in play time, open play xG creation, and a sloggish pace to so many more matches. The league was less compelling to watch as a result.
You can’t blame the teams for acting optimally and finding edges, but you can blame rules/officials for letting it get this far.
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@laraetmb @TheoAshNFL It might be but I also saw week 18 (and honestly week 16 pre back injury).
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@RyanHarmon15 @TheoAshNFL Theos sayin dat hamstring injury might linger into da next season n lamar wont be a great rusher anymore which is “fair” ig
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Herbert had a career best rushing year and Lamar had a career worst rushing year
JT@The_RedMonstar3
Dawg Theo cannot go on a tangent about Lamar’s concerning pressure to sack rate and then immediately not even a minute later excuse Herbert’s pressure to sack rate by saying his situation sucked lmfao
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@TheoAshNFL If only there was something like a hamstring injury that might explain that
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@ravens4dummies The tight end room could be bottom five if Andrews doesn’t rebound and the rookies don’t click. It’s a bleak group.
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Looking at the Ravens depth chart
Their biggest question mark is still center. I think if they felt good there, DeCosta wouldn’t have mentioned looking intro trades.
Still could, perhaps, be looking for a late cut that they know about already.
Certainly strange to see their tight end room transform this way. Think they’ll depend on Smythe more than folks might think and gives insight into Declan Doyle’s mindset.
Defensively… still comes down to Madubuike. If he is 2023 or 2024 Madubuike… damn good unit.
Jaylinn Hawkins was a great add who should see snaps while providing versatile safety depth.
C.J. Okoye flashed last year and could be quality depth. Bringing in Campbell gives a strong rotation inside.
Overall, I don’t believe they have a championship offensive depth chart. If their line turns out to be a solid five, that changes.
Defensively they should have what they need in addition to improving under Minter’s system.
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Mediocre talent can only be developed so far (see James Proche)
The Ravens lost a $13M APY & $8M APY TE this offseason. Replaced them with the 241 & 196 consensus rated prospects in a historically weak draft class
But some ppl think adding vet competition for TE2 is unwise?
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@VasilisLerikos Not to mention. Not developing young talent is how they get caught in the sohning cheap vets cycle. It has to be broken somewhere.
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@College_Crosse People do this in football with teams like Alabama all the time. They have high recruits and that are supposed to be awesome so it’s just assumed they’re awesome even if they don’t win any actual games. Alabama wasn’t winning the title last fall and Duke isn’t this spring.
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The list of teams capable of winning the tournament is almost always smaller than people make it out to be. This doesn’t mean we don’t invite them in the tournament. But it does mean that if you miss the tournament, there was a very good reason for it
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Duke doesn’t even play this week because they didn’t win enough games within their own conference to play this week. If they had won enough games within their conference, they would be in the tournament. Just win your games!
Mike McGorry@mcgoospot
@College_Crosse No but that’s why other sports enlarged their tournaments so as to insure that teams with realistic chances to win wouldn’t be excluded. If Duke loses this week they may not get in. Same wUVA. These are teams that can win tournament. Need to expand so more non-AQ’s get in.
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@luxaschleck @jonas_shaffer How many backs do we need for pass protection? They kept Hill over Keaton for that. Surely one is enough.
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@RyanHarmon15 @jonas_shaffer He can't pass protect, not sure
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Here's a way-too-early look at the Ravens' depth chart and roster projections.
With 70 players under contract or drafted, they have room for 20 free agent and UDFA signings.
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Ravens and Dallas Cowboys will play in Brazil on Sept. 27, which is Week 3.
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@theStevenRuiz Any time you get an opportunity to use the same logic as the Falcons you have to do it
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Worth pointing out that they traded away two top 16 picks during that span
Stu Jackson@StuJRams
Snead also indicated this move was made given how rarely they pick this high in the draft (this was the Rams' first time picking in the Top 16 since 2016): "Based on where we're at as a team, and what we're trying to accomplish, we don't pick that early (in the draft) often. You have a draft where this quarterback was falling somewhere into middle (of the) first round, late, wherever he was gonna go, was it a chance to make that move and move forward." Snead said "there is no timeline" as far as that passing of the torch from Stafford to Simpson, but having someone who has been in their ecosystem and earned that trust will make for a better transition whenever that time comes.
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@RavensCPA It’s fine if he’s a high level pass catcher. In fact if you’re certain he can be Trey McBride level productive it’s probably even a better idea. But there’s nothing on tape or in his production that says he is capable of that.
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On Sadiq:
Do I hate the player, no.
Do I hate the process, yes.
Ravens are slim on resources as is and can't afford to allocate premium draft capital to the tight end position with so many other higher value needs on the roster.
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@ColeJacksonFB Personally thrilled we’re not paying a center huge money to have terrible matchups in our four most important division games every year
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We weren’t paying a C 27M
We might be going to the cheaper bin but we weren’t going in the deep luxury bin anyway
Nick@nick_utzig
@ColeJacksonFB Nobody will replace Lindy. Not paying him was stupid now we gotta go to the bargain bin.
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@DrewBanned @VasilisLerikos The teammates wouldn’t have disliked his effort if he wasn’t a horrendous player. Ultimately every Faalele problem goes back to one thing: he’s not an NFL level athlete. And both the FO and coaching staff need to reckon with how long they tried to pretend that could be overcome.
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@RyanHarmon15 @VasilisLerikos Original tweet leaves a key part of the report out. I’m not asking for Faalele to have magically become an all pro, but having teammates dislike you because you’re not willing to be coached or put in an effort to improve is a bad look.
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Inditement on the coach who refused to kowtow to fan sentiment out of hubris, despite ample evidence his evaluation was clearly wrong
Not a reflection on the player. Quite the inditement on the #Giants new HC
🔋@hoodiestarks
A number of #Ravens offensive players did not want OL Daniel Faalele to play once 3rd-round pick Emery Jones Jr. was healthy, per @Olsen_Don. Quite the indictment on the newest #Giants offensive lineman.
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@DrewBanned @VasilisLerikos Some people just can’t do highly skilled things! This is the NFL, there’s a natural athleticism everyone who succeeds has, and Faalele is imo the wrong side of the line. There’s not really a path at that point.
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@RyanHarmon15 @VasilisLerikos I think at some point you’d take enough pride in yourself and your public perception that you would put in the necessary effort to be an adequate mural painter. I’m not saying you to recreate the Sistine chapel but you can probably give an average showing.
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@DrewBanned @VasilisLerikos It’s too specific of a skillset to just expect him to work through it when he doesn’t have the tools.
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@DrewBanned @VasilisLerikos The problem with the hypothetical is this is a job he just cannot do. It doesn’t matter how hard I work, I’m never going to be a mural painter. I can’t draw and can’t paint. At some point someone in charge has to stop me from destroying more walls.
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