Unfortunately Brandon Williams is the Ravens' number one priority. Not saying it can't happen, but unlikely. I read an article where they claim Earl Mitchell is internally treasured by the FO, we might be seeing him sub in and out next year like we have the past couple years.

 

Ive wanted Calias Campbell since he end of the season. A lot of people around here didn't seem to care for that idea until the "right guy" in Club suggested it. Now its a hot topic. Taking credit for that one!

After that I'm going Kevin Zeitler or Ron Leary.

Getting Campbell for a slight hometown discount would still allow us to sign likely Leary and still retain Stills....assuming he doesn't get ridiculous $$$ thrown at him.

 

Depending on how high his demands are, I think resigning Kenny Stills needs to be #1.

As far as other teams free agents, unfortunately, there aren't likely to be many good linebackers available, which I consider to be our number one need. Chandler Jones and Dont'a Hightower are likely to be tagged if they don't resign before the UFA period starts. John Simon could be a good player to take a look at, and Melvin Ingram could be a very productive OLB/ pas rusher for us.

At guard, there are a number of guys on the list right now who would be a great move for us. Chance Warmack, Ron Leary, Kevin Zeitler, and Larry Warford could all step in and be the best guard that we've had in ages.

At DE Calias Campbell would be an upgrade, but he's 30 years old and will be expensive. We already have a lot of age on the DL. Andre Branch could be good to bring back, but he's likely looking for more than he's worth.

 

Outside of our own players, I'm strongly considering Lawrence Timmons if I'm the front office. Multiple reports out of Pittsburgh stating that they are comfortable letting him walk.

I think a young duo of Kiko Alonso and Zach Cunningham on the outside, with a veteran hammer in Lawrence Timmons in the middle would solve a lot of our defensive woes.

 

Melvin ingram.

 

Internal FA priority is Stills. Externally, Campbell.

 

I would much, much rather draft a MLB. Timmons was great, but he's declined, and will be 31 years old before the season starts. The odds are that if you sign him, you aren't getting the player that he used to be, and that he's going to go downhill quickly. This will be his 11th year in the league, and he's never played a down outside of the Steelers 3-4 defense. Too risky.

 

1a) Melvin Ingram
1b) Kevin Zeitler

 

Eric Berry is a true HOF caliber player and acquiring him would afford us the opportunity to move Quddus to slot corner greatly bolstering our secondary in run support and improving our coverage.

 

I think our number one target should be zeitler on the oline, followed by Campbell on the di line and zack brown at middle linebacker. Plus we should resign stills and branch, cut albert and move tunsil to LT. Then we should draft Cunningham ham #1 and get another quality edge de in the second round and were are good to go.

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It is amazing how that works :)

 

What is bad about costing the farm? or are you saying there would be no room left for our guys?

 

#sheep


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ingram or Campbell

 

Signing Zach Brown then drafting Cunningham in the first is kind of redundant no? Brown would obviously be the Mike backer with kiko moving to the Will backer. It would be better to draft another OLB in the first, such as Jarrad Davis imo.

 

Jarrad in my opinion is undersized, injury prone and overrated. Cunningham I think is a better linebacker than him overall. I think cunningham can play the strong side he's got the size and skills for it I see no reason why he can't fill the strong side while brown playes middle and kiko playes weak side.

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That would be pretty cool!

 

Confirmed Aqua IS Bucky Brooks


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DJ is a great poster. He likes mobile Qbs and thangs


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Agreed on Davis...were riding solo on this one..

 

They quoted a scout that said there is talk amongst NFL circles he might be the best in this draft...and Daniel Jeremiah doesn't have him in his top 50 and brooks kinda sides with him....don't believe the TV people...lol

 

I don't have the insight that you guys do. I've never seen him play and only know what I read, but a lot of places have him listed as a late first or early second round pick. I like everything that I see, and if he's there at 22, he would seem like a great pick to me.

 

Melvin Ingram.

 

Calais Campbell (after resigning Stills)


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we'll be lucky if he's there..this is a great football player that can play all three positions...jeremiah and Broooks are smoking crack.

 

It should probably be Jason Pierre-Paul. He's probably too expensive, but he's probably is the best player available at a position of need who is an unambiguous scheme fit.

I don't think Calais Campbell is really going to come at much of a discount at this point, and Melvin Ingram can't do everything you want a DE to do in this defense which makes paying him big money problematic.

 

It's got to be Calais Campbell or Jason Pierre-Paul.

There's some belief (and I'm looking at the Spotrac Market Value function as primary evidence of it) that Calais Campbell will have to accept a cheaper deal than his elite play level would call for because he's been in the league so long and is 30 years old.

If that's the case then he's got to be top priority.

But if it's not the case you could kind of flip a coin between he and Jason Pierre-Paul as to which would be the more meaningful acquisition for this team, with Nick Fairley coming in just behind them.

 

Daniel Jeremiah I agree with you. Bucky Brooks often seems too contrarian for his own good.

 

Say what you want, but they are wrong about Cunningham. The guy is a stud linebacker he can do it all, the only knocks on him such as too much arm tackling and biting on play action are things that can be easily corrected with a little more coaching.

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In addition to the tackling issues, Cunningham also tends to line up further away from the LOS. This makes it easier for him to run around blockers. So he gets a ton of tackles but they tend to be after the back gains a few yards. This isn't the tactic Miami would want their MLB using. They probably want a bigger guy who is going to take on blockers at the LOS. That was one of the issues Miami had last year with Kiko playing MLB. When he guessed right he'd get his TFL, but when he didn't he'd get washed out and we'd get gashed. I'm a big Kiko fan, but I'm not sure that adding another guy with the same style helps Miami as much as adding a true MLB. Personally, I think Cunningham is a very good player, but I'm not sure he improves our defense as much as a true MLB like Davis or even a strong edge setter like Anderson (who might be more of a SSLB than a MLB).

 

Won't be me mate. Don't want Cunningham and have said as much. The idea was met with Shagrin but at the end of the day it's only an opinion. But if it were me he'd be someone else's fixer upper.

 

I don't agree with your assessment, Cunningham is very stout at the point of attack and he often lined up at los taking on lineman and shedding their blocks without problems. He is also not a small linebacker he is 6'4 230 and has the frame to put on more muscle he is still developing. Davis is smaller than zach. I actually think we should draft Cunningham to play the strong side and sign zach brown in free agency to play the middle. We need two new starting linebackers I think that would be the best bang for our buck combination.

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I understand all of that and agree..I just think they both hit the pipe and then watched this kid and then wrote about it under the influence..:)

 

Kenny Stills and Zack Brown.

 

What about LB Reuben Foster in the draft? What is the knock on him? He is big and packs a punch at LB, does look a bit slow but he seems to always be putting a lick on somebody.