Troubled CB Not a Fit For Ravens
It’s hard to envision Pacman Jones playing for John Harbaugh. He represents the antithesis of what the Ravens Head Coach stands for. And while nobody asked me, Mike Florio’s crazy idea of Pacman to Baltimore is DOA!
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When Mike Florio first started ProFootballTalk.com, he was the butt of jokes from GM’s around the NFL. But every now and then he hit on a seemingly outlandish rumor that was actually true and not conjured. And as his sources grew and more truths were truths and not concocted, so too did his cheesy looking website, that despite the injection of NBC money has managed to maintain its genuine cheesiness.
Yesterday when Florio reported that the Ravens were among the teams interested in Pacman Jones I couldn’t help to think of those early ProFootballTalk days when they’d spitball anything into cyberspace to generate a page view.
The Ravens could certainly use the skill set of Jones, but to think even for a split second that John Harbaugh and Pacman could co-exist is about as far-fetched as Chip Kelly and LeSean McCoy moving in together; Mark Texiera receiving a standing ovation at Camden Yards or Paul McCartney making a booty call to Yoko Ono.
Remember Chris McAlister? He was more talented than Jones is, and not as troublesome off the field. But Harbaugh had no problem sending C-Mac packing after a few run-ins, including an embarrassing incident in the team’s Miami hotel that ultimately became McAlister’s final straw.
Pacman will be 33 in September. The Ravens need to get faster, not older and comparatively speaking C-Mac is a choir boy. The guess here is that Florio has been played IF in fact he has a reliable Ravens source. Maybe the Ravens just put it out there to use as leverage for another corner they have interest in. Or maybe they just want to drive up his price for the Browns or Bengals, assuming their interest is genuine.
Just as in the video game, any hope Pacman has of signing with the Ravens, are haunted by ghosts. And it’s doubtful that John Harbaugh is going to hand him any power pellets much less dollar bills that he can throw on to a stage down at Scores.
