Originally Posted by
bmorecareful
Yeah, people have to remember that the Ravens don't view "need" at a position as just a "next year" thing. TE is a position where we have 2 good players for 2013 but ZERO under contract in 2014. They'll draft a TE and given how talented the position is this year, there would be nothing wrong with drafting one early. It might seem crazy to spend as high as a 1st or 2nd round pick on a TE with all our other "needs", but if you get one of the 3 E's (my top 3 TE's are Eifert, Escobar, Ertz in that order) you just play a base 2TE offense next year and thus the importance of replacing Boldin at WR goes down.
If I were Ozzie, particularly if we do get a potential starting-caliber TE in the draft, I would be dangling Dickson as trade bait. Hell, I'd even take a 2014 pick for him at this point since we know he's not going to be back after 2013.