Ravens are signing Brandon Stokely

[Bigfish]

Wow.

Very dramatic.


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Very consistent :DeadHorse:

[Ravenswintitle]

Panic? Most seem pretty happy with the move. 😳


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[ed from Bel Air]

Wow, this thread has exploded overnight and after reading pages of posts it stinks of mass panic. If I didn't know better you would think this is a thread from fans of a perennial bottom dweller, not the Super Bowl champs. Drop the torches and pitchforks and disperse the angry mob, at least until we even play a game that counts. Man, what a bunch of downers. If by some freak twist of fate the team doesn't win a game all year you won't have to lower your expectations.

What else are we going to do until the regular season starts?

(By the way it's our only real issue.)

[Raveninwoodlawn]

Panic? Most seem pretty happy with the move. 😳


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Yup. People hear/read what they want to.

But you know, disagreeing with a single move out of 30 that Ozzie made means that we think the season is doomed lol.


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[Raveninwoodlawn]

Very consistent :DeadHorse:

Predictable too.


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[bmorecareful]

More like Stokely, Dumervil, Canty, Huff and Smith.

This is a wrong-headed way of thinking about the way personnel works in the NFL. It makes no sense to say that "if we would have kept Boldin we wouldn't have gotten blah blah blah..." Those actions are not dependent on one another; the team could have kept Boldin and signed every one of those guys, or NOT kept Boldin and signed some or none of those guys, or signed DIFFERENT guys, etc. etc...

Trading Boldin freed up 4.5m in cap space. They could have freed up that amount by releasing Jacoby Jones and not re-signing David Reed, or by releasing Jameel McClain and not signing Marcus Spears, or by any number of other personnel moves. Also, do you seriously think Ozzie made the Boldin trade in anticipation of making ANY of those other moves? He had NO WAY of knowing Dumervil and Huff were going to get cut by their respective teams. He had NO WAY of knowing for sure he was going to be able to sign any of the street FAs.

The Boldin decision should be evaluated as good or bad based on what was known when the decision was made, and not anything that came later (which obviously could not have been known.) IMO it was a bad decision at the time it was made, but obviously it looks and feels much worse now.

[Raveninwoodlawn]

This is a wrong-headed way of thinking about the way personnel works in the NFL. It makes no sense to say that "if we would have kept Boldin we wouldn't have gotten blah blah blah..." Those actions are not dependent on one another; the team could have kept Boldin and signed every one of those guys, or NOT kept Boldin and signed some or none of those guys, or signed DIFFERENT guys, etc. etc...

Trading Boldin freed up 4.5m in cap space. They could have freed up that amount by releasing Jacoby Jones and not re-signing David Reed, or by releasing Jameel McClain and not signing Marcus Spears, or by any number of other personnel moves. Also, do you seriously think Ozzie made the Boldin trade in anticipation of making ANY of those other moves? He had NO WAY of knowing Dumervil and Huff were going to get cut by their respective teams. He had NO WAY of knowing for sure he was going to be able to sign any of the street FAs.

The Boldin decision should be evaluated as good or bad based on what was known when the decision was made, and not anything that came later (which obviously could not have been known.) IMO it was a bad decision at the time it was made, but obviously it looks and feels much worse now.

Good post.


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[HoustonRaven]

This is a wrong-headed way of thinking about the way personnel works in the NFL. It makes no sense to say that "if we would have kept Boldin we wouldn't have gotten blah blah blah..." Those actions are not dependent on one another; the team could have kept Boldin and signed every one of those guys, or NOT kept Boldin and signed some or none of those guys, or signed DIFFERENT guys, etc. etc...

Trading Boldin freed up 4.5m in cap space. They could have freed up that amount by releasing Jacoby Jones and not re-signing David Reed, or by releasing Jameel McClain and not signing Marcus Spears, or by any number of other personnel moves. Also, do you seriously think Ozzie made the Boldin trade in anticipation of making ANY of those other moves? He had NO WAY of knowing Dumervil and Huff were going to get cut by their respective teams. He had NO WAY of knowing for sure he was going to be able to sign any of the street FAs.

The Boldin decision should be evaluated as good or bad based on what was known when the decision was made, and not anything that came later (which obviously could not have been known.) IMO it was a bad decision at the time it was made, but obviously it looks and feels much worse now.

Disagree.

Of course we didn't know those specific players would become available.

But Ozzie knew, as he does every year, players that fill need would become available.

That was the original point.

[Raveninwoodlawn]

Disagree.

Of course we didn't know those specific players would become available.

But Ozzie knew, as he does every year, players that fill need would become available.

That was the original point.

Part of what he, myself and others are also saying is that Ozzie could have got that money elsewhere as well.

Everything we did this offseason was not just dependent on trading Boldin.


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[HoustonRaven]

Part of what he, myself and others are also saying is that Ozzie could have got that money elsewhere as well.

Everything we did this offseason was not just dependent on trading Boldin.


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Ozzie all about value. I think on that point we can all agree.

No player gave us more value than Boldin. Sure, it could have been done other ways but not as efficient and with more bang for the buck.

If done any other way, you'd have to most likely get rid of one person, possibly two, out of that list.

[BigPlayReceiver]

I think that we're going to end up with about 7 or 8 statistical #3s on this team. What we had better be able to do well is run the damn ball.

[bmorecareful]

Disagree.

Of course we didn't know those specific players would become available.

But Ozzie knew, as he does every year, players that fill need would become available.

That was the original point.

No, it was not the original point; you're moving the goalposts. The posts I was responding to SPECIFICALLY responded to the criticism that we "traded Boldin for Stokely" (which was also wrong, obviously) by making the claim that we traded Boldin for Stokely and the defensive FAs we signed.

That's not true. We didn't "trade" Boldin for anything other than a 6th round pick. The Ravens could have made some or all of those moves and kept Boldin, albeit with the necessity of making other moves.

Of course Ozzie knew that he'd be able to sign/trade for guys and might have to make other personnel moves to free up cap space. Making that point is stating the obvious; it's a bridge WAY too far to say that he NEEDED to get rid of Boldin to make the moves he wanted to make.