cville deac
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Funny because Joel Klatt on the herd just said that of his top three players he thought would have long and steady pro bowl type careers, two of them went to the ravens. But I wasn’t aware of team needs.
I get that Hamilton is good and he fell - probably because of his 40 time. But we just signed Marcus Williams to play FS for the next 4 years, and Chuck Clark is our SS and wears the green dot for the D. Add to that we drafted a slot S/CB last year in the 3rd round. You often need 3-4 CBs when offenses go with 3-4 WR sets. But how often are you going to want to play 3-4 safeties at the same time?
As for Linderbaum, he's a good technical blocker, but his playing weight was reportedly more like 285-290 pounds, and he struggled with good NTs like Uwazurike. He's better in pass pro and isn't as suited to a power run team. The Ravens run the ball more than any team in the league. And we had just re-signed Mekari for 3 years to take over there. He's not quite as good as Bozeman, but he's fine there. What we needed on the OL was a developmental day 3 OT like a Diesch or Braxton Jones, and a guy like Tom who can fill in at multiple positions, not a guy who might make a guy we're paying $15mil to obsolete. Whereas Jermaine Johnson was sitting there, and edge is an absolute need. Dude tore it up senior bowl week. The reason he was dropping was his age - he's 23. So what. Use him for 5 years and don't give him a 2nd contract when he's 28 and get a 3rd or 4th round comp in return.