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Thread: Shout out to Jarrett Johnson!
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01-27-2013, 02:21 AM #25
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01-27-2013, 09:29 AM #28Pro Bowl Poster
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Re: Shout out to Jarrett Johnson!
Jarrett Johnson deserves a spot in the Ravens Ring of Honor.
But, after being a top edge settter for many years, he didn't have a good year with SD in 2012. Some of that may have been change of system and some of it age.
The NFL is a tough business. The face of your franchise must occasionally be shown the door in order to stay competitive with the cap. It's what makes the NFL the fantastic success it is that continued vigilence is required to evaluate your own talent relative to cost.
It's sad he never got to play in a SB with the Ravens, but it would be even sadder if the Ravens were not in the SB because they decided to give a mess of money to JJ.
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Re: Shout out to Jarrett Johnson!
Stop hating on JJ, he didn't even have a home town discount offered to him, Steve said he didn't want to give him a contract offer as it would insult him given our cap situation at the time, plus I think the FO wanted to give Kruger a shot.
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01-27-2013, 11:13 AM #30Regular 1st Stringer
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01-27-2013, 12:00 PM #31Pro Bowl Poster
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Re: Shout out to Jarrett Johnson!
Is there even a precedent for giving rings to former players? This is ridiculous to be handing out rings to all of the fan favorites who had nothing to do with this Superbowl run. I don't even think the players would want a ring that they didn't earn.
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01-27-2013, 12:34 PM #33
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I think maybe one or two special cases could exist, but can't really convince myself that we'd do it. JJ, Heap, Mason...they are all great guys who did great things for our team, but we're two years removed from Mason and Heap, and JJ actively went to another team.
If Ray had retired after LAST year, he'd get a ring this year. That's the exceptions I can see. Or Reed, had he retired, would get a ring this year..
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01-27-2013, 12:44 PM #34
Re: Shout out to Jarrett Johnson!
Johnson was a lunch pail player. He was stuck in the unenviable position of having a lot of value (to the Ravens or other teams), but the team had limited cap space. I miss not seeing him in there - but Kruger's growth would have continued to be stunted. I wish him well.
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01-27-2013, 02:07 PM #35
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"Nothing stops these Baltimore Ravens. Beat them, injure them, shove them to the bottom of the standings, drag them into a hostile environment and mount a big lead, and they just keep trudging forward like nothing fazes them." (Bleacher Report)
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01-27-2013, 02:18 PM #36Pro Bowl Poster
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I think Pagano would be insulted by getting a ring from the Ravens. I mean, C'mon, we had to beat his team to get to the dance.
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