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2009 is sneaky good Gaither (when he was good) - Grubbs - Birk - Chester - Oher (when and where he was good) 2008 not bad either: Gaither - Grubbs - Jason Brown - Chester - Willie Anderson

Tried to unpack this SCOE metric, but the explanation for what it even is / how they arrive at it is paywalled 😬

I would understand questioning Hamilton being in there, but Jones is a rookie third round pick who was the only pro prospect playing on a bad UConn team last year. He's the type of player that actually stands to benefit from preseason games (not making the roster, but developing and learning against live fire). Luckily it doesn't sound like anything serious: https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2022/08/22/ravens-dont-think-travis-jones-will-miss-extended-time-with-knee-injury/

It can work out occasionally (e.g., Waller)

There's a few guys out there who could work as a field stretcher. Kind of like that we're playing the waiting game / not getting overly anxious to sign a receiver. Either someone like a Slayton will be cut or a guy like Jackson, Hilton, Fuller, etc. could get tired of waiting and want to sign somewhere. Whoever that guy is probably not going to exceed 30-40% of total snaps, so no reason to get crazy with the $$

Yea, no ****, that would probably be the dumbest move possible

Fully agreed. Also, I think it makes a ton of sense to use "big nickel" (5th DB as a safety, in this case Hamilton) as our "base" defense as well as a ton of Dime, as you mentioned.

Barring significant offseason injury, there's not really the roster space to add more.

That would be true if it weren't for cap space rolling forward under the current CBA

1) Catching a ton of short passes often mitigates itself in the yards / target metric because receiver catches a higher percentage of balls. Really low yards/target is result of really poor yards per catch, a really low catch rate, or some combination therein. 2) When Wes Welker was in New England, he averaged 8.1 yards / target (vs. Landry's 7.5 and 7.3 in Cleveland and Miami, respectively). The only year he was close to the seasons I mentioned for Landry (2010 - 6.9 yds/tgt) he shouldn't have made the probowl either 3) Julian Edelman never made the probowl, so not particularly relevant Jarvis Landry is/was a good player and his current contract is fine - no argument from me there. That doesn't change the fact that the numbers for 3/5 of his probowl years are really poor for PB receiver standards. Both things can be true.

In three of those PB years he had a yards/tgt 7.0 or lower - pretty underwhelming TBH

Very unlikely you’re drafting an elite pro in the late fourth round.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/33891514/baltimore-ravens-rb-mike-davis-reach-agreement-source-confirms Not thrilled with this move, but also not upset. Fairly neutral. Assuming it's for close to the vet minimum. May help take bulk carries early in the season while Gus and Dobbins come back from injury.

Ed Reed. Best interceptor of his generation and most dangerous with the ball in his hands going the other way.