emerging front office philosophy

[F Angelos]

The key will be what do we use AD's money for? A RB? A WR? This offense will never be Top 5 as long as we have a great D. The Ravens philosophy has always been Defense wins and I can't disagree. However, if we still have 2 pro bowl LB's and a stud RB instead of 3 pro bowl backers and no RB that's fine with me.

[bassgtrst]

You mention that the Patriots, Colts, Eagles all have great QBs and that is why they are consistantly competitive.

I agree, but I dont see us needing a HOF QB like a Brady or Manning b/c IMO we draft way way better than any of those teams.

When you can find an AD in the 6th or a Ray Lewis in the 20's you dont need an HOFer you need a guy like McNair or Pennington, average at this point, but far from liability. (Im not taking a shot at Steve Im one of his biggest fans)

Besides, with the way our FO can draft, its only a matter of time before you find a franchise guy. It takes a lot of tries, but it will happen. I mean look at the jokers the Bengals had at QB between Boomer and Palmer. We have had the same jokers until this year.

While we dont need a HOF or PB QB for this thing to work, I have a feeling we will get our man in the next draft or so.

[festivus]

Excellent post. I agree with everything about everything all the way down to the punctuation and, as I've said before, the sig photo.