Ray Lewis and Free Agency

[44ever]

Originally Posted by BaltimoreSkins

FYI espn had a fan poll for all NFL teams to rank the ten best players ever for their team and the Ravens chose Matt Stover number one over Ray Lewis and Jonathan Ogden.

Is that what you believe? I don't know but I would bet the Ravens would argue that point. When I think Ravens I think Ray Lewis.

[BaltimoreSkins]

Originally Posted by 44ever

Is that what you believe? I don't know but I would bet the Ravens would argue that point. When I think Ravens I think Ray Lewis.

No. I would say Ray, that was an Espn fan poll (so that might explain it), but when I kid Ravens fans that fans consider a kicker their number one player, they do credit Stover as the man who kept there Super Bowl season afloat.

[44ever]

Originally Posted by BaltimoreSkins

No. I would say Ray, that was an Espn fan poll (so that might explain it), but when I kid Ravens fans that fans consider a kicker their number one player, they do credit Stover as the man who kept there Super Bowl season afloat.

Crazy Ravens fans, All i know is it must be nice to have Lewis and Reed.
If I was them I wouldn't change a thing. Flacco's only getting better.

[firstdown]

Even if we wanted RL he would not come here and play for Snyder and his disfunctional front office. RL wants another SB and he knows Dannyboy has his hands on trying to run this team and his little puppet Vinny cannot draft worth a crap.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by firstdown

Even if we wanted RL he would not come here and play for Snyder and his disfunctional front office. RL wants another SB and he knows Dannyboy has his hands on trying to run this team and his little puppet Vinny cannot draft worth a crap.

Are you just going to copy and paste this take everywhere?

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

Are you just going to copy and paste this take everywhere?

Well I need to keep up the trend here because we need to make sure that Danny and Vinny get blamed for all our problems. I'm joking but it seems every thread now thats all I'm reading from the same posters over and over again so instead of insulting them like I have in the past I decided to join them. Maybe they will see that they could just copy and past their own statements from thread to thread.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by firstdown

Well I need to keep up the trend here because we need to make sure that Danny and Vinny get blamed for all our problems. I'm joking but it seems every thread now thats all I'm reading from the same posters over and over again so instead of insulting them like I have in the past I decided to join them. Maybe they will see that they could just copy and past their own statements from thread to thread.

I kinda figured you were joking but I just had to check. You never know around here.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

I kinda figured you were joking but I just had to check. You never know around here.

Its easy to tell when the season is over.

[44ever]

Originally Posted by firstdown

Its easy to tell when the season is over.

Yea, we stop losing! Jk.

[KLHJ2]

Originally Posted by 44ever

Yea, we stop losing! Jk.

LOL!!!

Is that why my wrists have stopped bleeding? All this time I thought I just ran out of blood.

[44ever]

Originally Posted by Angry

LOL!!!

Is that why my wrists have stopped bleeding? All this time I thought I just ran out of blood.

Hahaha

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by firstdown

Its easy to tell when the season is over.

Yeah, the frequency of the phrase "vet minimum" goes through the roof.

[over the mountain]

i listen to alot of ravens radio and my feeling from fan call ins and hosts is that the consensus wouldnt mind ray ray moving on if another team wants to pay him more than the ravens think he will be worth.

age, the physical nature of his play lends people to think his play will decrease over the next 3-4 years, ray ray knew this was his contract year and wanted to play well to be able to cash in one last time, and mostly bmore fans love him for what he has done here but understand that he has to do whats right for him considering this is his last NFl contract.

they have a saying in bmore; "in ozzie we trust" . . they have faith the front office will do whats best for the team, even if it means cutting ties with the face of their franchise. i dont know thoo, losing ray ray and rex ryan has to lead to some kind of drop off.

go skins!!

[over the mountain]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

I don't think Lewis is going anywhere. Wouldn't be surprised to see both Suggs and Scott gone though

most ravens fans i talk to want scott and t sizzle back and if that means they cant bring ray ray back then so be it . . . sorry about using nicknames.

i would like bart scott but think he is going to command alil too much for us and while he shows a nose for the ball he might just be a systems guy where O coordinators are more worried and schemeing to stop t sizzle and ray ray than bart scott.

sorry about the double post too.

go skins!!

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by over the mountain

i listen to alot of ravens radio and my feeling from fan call ins and hosts is that the consensus wouldnt mind ray ray moving on if another team wants to pay him more than the ravens think he will be worth.

age, the physical nature of his play lends people to think his play will decrease over the next 3-4 years, ray ray knew this was his contract year and wanted to play well to be able to cash in one last time, and mostly bmore fans love him for what he has done here but understand that he has to do whats right for him considering this is his last NFl contract.

they have a saying in bmore; "in ozzie we trust" . . they have faith the front office will do whats best for the team, even if it means cutting ties with the face of their franchise. i dont know thoo, losing ray ray and rex ryan has to lead to some kind of drop off.

go skins!!

Based on your comments, common sense would be for the Ravens to re-sign Suggs and Bart Scott (both in their mid to late 20s) and let Ray walk away to a big payday. Although if Ray takes a hometown discount, they would try to keep Suggs and let Scott walk away.

I'd be curious to see how someone like Scott would do in another team. I remember when Ed Hartwell left B'more and went to Atlanta, he didn't do that great.