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Re: Why is everyone up in arms about rebuilding the defense?
its amazing we won the S[B] wiht that defense. the middle of the line was porus and the linebacking was slow. add cary, i play 10 yards off the receiver, and ed, i can't tackle, reed and you've got a poor defense that was aided by the 49ers poor play calling to end the game.
i credit ozzie for being proactive. the best move that backfired was dropping dilfer for grbac. the reason the ravens didn;t follow up sb 35 with a strong run was due to jamal lewis going down for the season in camp. it had nothing to do with the qb situation.
ozzie knows what he is doing but as a long time baltimore fan i tend to like our legends and you can;t have legends when you operate a players revolving door. i was hoping ed reed would be the ravens third HOF player who played his whole career for the ravens. that is rare.
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Re: Why is everyone up in arms about rebuilding the defense?
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03-14-2013, 08:42 PM #51Hyperbolic curmudgeometer
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Re: Why is everyone up in arms about rebuilding the defense?
Slightly o/t, but: It had everything to do with the QB situation. Grbac was brought in to make a couple more plays a game than Dilfer but the O was gonna ride Jamal. When he went down in TC and there were no viable RB options out there, it fell to Elvis to be the playmaker--but he'd made his living behind a great pass-protecting OL in KC & when opponents teed off on the Ravens' bunch of road-graders, he got pounded into submission quickly & thoroughly. Billick should have gone to Cunningham that year simply because he stood a better chance of surviving behind that line.
What Ozzie learned from that debacle is: Always, always, always, always have a Plan B if the key player in Plan A goes down. (At least I hope that's what he learned. I'd be a lot more confident if he wasn't depending on Tyrod Taylor if Joe gets hurt, but then again if you lose your franchise QB you can legitimately write the season off...)
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03-14-2013, 08:47 PM #52
Re: Why is everyone up in arms about rebuilding the defense?
I was thinking about the late rounds in the draft and wonder if it wouldn't be good for the Ravens to take a QB that is more in the mold of Flacco - the traditional drop back kind of guy. 1) He would fit the offense better if Joe went down; 2) on the outside chance that the #2 guy develops into a halfway decent player and shows a little something in mop up time, that could be parlayed into a decent draft pick a few years down the road in this QB-starved league. Look at what the Patriots got for Cassel, and look at the potentially decent pick they could get for Mallett. A 6th round QB could end up being a 2nd or 3rd round pick three years from now.
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03-14-2013, 08:49 PM #53Regular 1st Stringer
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Re: Why is everyone up in arms about rebuilding the defense?
ravens defense was soft in the middle both against the pass and run. The NT play was awful. The inside linebackers struggled to make tackles against the run and could cover anyone. Ed Reed was the worst tackler in the league (or not far from it) while Pollard can't cover. The league is a passing league, you need linebackers and safeties that can do both.
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03-14-2013, 08:58 PM #54Legendary RSR Poster
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Re: Why is everyone up in arms about rebuilding the defense?
Not me, I think Ozzie is doing something that needs to be done. The defense needs younger players to grow with the team. Offense will have to make up for any defensive problems that happen. Defense will have to learn to listen to the coaches and veterans left. It will be interesting and maybe painful for the 2013 season. Other teams have lost key players also. It would be nice to see NE not get 5 wins in their division. Hell. the saints kept their same defense last year and it did not help.
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03-14-2013, 09:51 PM #55
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Ozzie? I didn't know you moonlit on these boards? I do believe you have hit the nail squarely on the head Captain. Younger faster is Ozzies mantra. If Ed comes back he will welcome him, if he doesn't he will be on the dais 5 years after he retires enshrining the third Raven into the Hall of Fame but one way or the other Ozzie is going to be ahead of the curve.
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03-14-2013, 10:02 PM #57Pro Bowl Poster
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Re: Why is everyone up in arms about rebuilding the defense?
Omar Brown, your starting FS in 2013. Write that down.
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03-14-2013, 10:06 PM #58Hall Of Fame Poster
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03-14-2013, 10:16 PM #59Hall Of Fame Poster
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Re: Why is everyone up in arms about rebuilding the defense?
And how many starters have we lost in those 3 days? Some people are acting like the draft is going to save us. The odds of immediately getting the kind of production out of drsaft picks as we had out of the starters we lost are very remote. I can see losing Kruger, Ellerbe, Williams, and Reed. Losing Boldin and Pollard means rebuilding time.
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03-14-2013, 10:18 PM #60Pro Bowl Poster
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