Cory Ivy

**ChampRavens** · 12-17-2007, 09:57 AM

Is really bad. This guy is obviously overmatched in every aspect of the game. I realize that we are thin in the secondary but it this the best we can trot out there?

The guy is just not very good.

**Fiesty Ravens Chic** · 12-17-2007, 10:00 AM

My thoughts on Ivy are .......

He is not even close to NFL status probably not even college any more. He needs to be dropped ASAP and we need to pick up a good CB in the draft. I have watched him get burnt in the back feild at least 10 times in the last 2 games. You can not turn a Zebra into a horse and they can not turn Ivy into a decent CB point blank he is a MUST GO!

**camdenyard** · 12-17-2007, 10:23 AM

He's a good special teams guy and a decent nickel back, people. Nobody ever said he was a starting cornerback who could reliably be put on an island.

We're just f*cked all around this year with injuries.

**Greg's Dog** · 12-17-2007, 10:37 AM

Corey Ivy is an excellent cornerback . . . for me to poop on.

**xmradiodave** · 12-17-2007, 10:45 AM

I do not know who Greg's Dog is, but I like this new character already.

**f7eleven** · 12-17-2007, 10:45 AM

i was telling a friend yesterday, during the game, that corey ivy should have been cut immediately after the patriots game. the way he blew up at the sideline and the way he's played all year should have made him extremely expendable. perhaps had ivy been sent packing after his disrespectful outburst billick could have reclaimed some respect from the other players.

**Greg's Dog** · 12-17-2007, 10:46 AM

I am the smartest of all dogs and smarter than most football fans in regard to evaluating the NFL.

I have been mentioned on radio and on several websites in regard to my vast knowledge and my kindness to the Steelers fan who cleans up my poop in the yard.

**Losac** · 12-17-2007, 10:49 AM

It should be painfully obvious to anyone watching the past few games that outside of the starting four, we have ZERO depth at secondary.

**ravenwoman** · 12-17-2007, 12:43 PM

We have zero depth at many positions. That's why we lose when we have injuries. Again, the fault of Ozzie and the front office. We need a new GM, period.

**Galen Sevinne** · 12-17-2007, 02:08 PM

Originally Posted by ravenwoman

We have zero depth at many positions. That's why we lose when we have injuries. Again, the fault of Ozzie and the front office. We need a new GM, period.

great now we are firing Ozzie as well. corey ivy is a nickle back which means he mostly is covering the number 3-slot receiver. Yesterday because of injuries to our #1 and #2 CB's, Ivy was forced to step into the #1 position and yes, it looked like their receivers were dragging him around on a 10 yard chain all game. But fire Ozzie???

You find me a GM in the NFL that has a nickleback that can jump into a game and be effective covering any teams #1 receiver consistently. Corey Ivy had an all-world game against the P*atriots because he was playing his position and does as well as #3 CB in the NFL. Corey Ivy plays with more heart than 98% of the team.

Fire Ozzie. Puuhhhleeeeze someone hand out the Xanax

**highwater** · 12-17-2007, 02:35 PM

Originally Posted by camdenyard

He's a good special teams guy and a decent nickel back, people. Nobody ever said he was a starting cornerback who could reliably be put on an island.

Agreed -- Ivy is okay in the role he's supposed to be playing, but not in this one. With both CMac and Rolle out, we don't have much choice.

And with respect to not having a lot of depth, you can say that about almost every team in the league. The salary cap keeps you from having a lot of quality depth. Like camdenyard said, injuries this season have totally screwed us.

So yeah, Ivy does suck as a starting CB, but that isn't what he's supposed to be doing.

**Losac** · 12-17-2007, 02:45 PM

Originally Posted by highwater

And with respect to not having a lot of depth, you can say that about almost every team in the league. The salary cap keeps you from having a lot of quality depth. Like camdenyard said, injuries this season have totally screwed us.

Good teams can rebound from injuries. Look at all the injuries on the Colts this year and they're sitting at 12-2.

**TheExtraPoint** · 12-17-2007, 02:54 PM

The demands of the Nickel cornerback position are completely different than what is required of a team's LCB or RCB. It's totally unfair to expect Corey to succeed a position his skill set doesn't lend itself to. I happen to think Corey is an extremely reliable nickel corner.

Nickel cornerbacks have to be phsyical, tough, and smart. Your island cornerbacks have to be physically gifted if not superior athletes, with excellent change of direction abilities and recovery speed. That's not Corey Ivy's game. Not close.

But what exactly did anyone see in the New England game that would suggest Ivy should be cut 'on the spot'?

Anyone happen to notice Ivy's main assignment in that game covering the slot with a healthy McAllister and Rolle on the field for once - what was Wes Welker's stat-line against us when we actually had two NFL caliber cornerbacks on the field along-side Ivy? What did he have, two catches? One of which came in the begining of the first quarter going up against Samari Rolle, not Ivy?

I'll take him back next year happily. He's the least of my worries on this team.

**highwater** · 12-17-2007, 03:33 PM

Originally Posted by Losac

Good teams can rebound from injuries. Look at all the injuries on the Colts this year and they're sitting at 12-2.

I agree that good teams can rebound from injuries, and I also agree that the Colts have had their share this season, but I think the Ravens' injuries have had a more severe impact on the team than the Colts injuries have had. When the Dolphins scored the OT TD yesterday, I didn't even recognize who the Raven was that was chasing him (Winbourne?).

I'm not using injuries as an excuse, because nearly every team has them to some degree, but we've had more than our share and to ignore that would be ignorant.