Tony Lombardi, Brian McFarland and Jeff Zrebiec from The Athletic discuss the Ravens offseason plans following the disappointing end to the Ravens’ once promising 2023 season.
Topics include Justin Madubuike, Patrick Queen, fifth-year options on Odafe Oweh and Rashod Bateman, potential contract restructures to create cap space, and more.
Greatly enjoyed the pod Tony, Brian, Jeff. Thanks
Thank you Bruce!
Tony, I listened to Brian discuss contract restructures, but he never said what was a ball-park doable number EDC might get to. Can you provide a ball-park salary cap number? $20 ~ 30 mil ? Glenn Erby on ravenswire.usatoday.com writes / claims he can create $51mil in cap space. I’m not buying it … what say you and Brian. Thanks.
Bruce, I saw that article, the likes of which we see every yr, that never comes true. They are going to need to create a lot of Cap space via cuts and restructures. They will have no where near $51M to spend. Much of what they do create will go towards “expenses” like their draft picks, players who end up on IR (and their replacements) & the PS. I’ll have an article out early next week that lays much of this out as far as what they can (and can’t) do.
Thanks for your reply. I’ll look for your article next week.
After losing the AFC playoff to the Patriots in 2011, I do not recall losing a bunch of important players. I remember losing Billy Cundiff, and picking up a young guy name Tucker who could kick the ball much longer and straighter. And I believe we also replaced the guy who dropped the ball in the end zone. It feels like we will be losing a lot more of our quality players after this season than after 2011.
Common misnomer is that Lee Evans dropped that pass. Wrong! It was stripped by a well placed swipe by defender.
Correct. And in previous years Evans “catch” may have been called a TD. See Oakland’s Warren Wells TD from the 1971 AFC championship game.
It was misnomer that Lee Evans dropped that pass. Wrong! He was stripped by perfectly timed hack by the defender, similar to what happened to Zay.
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Greatly enjoyed the pod Tony, Brian, Jeff. Thanks
Thank you Bruce!
Tony, I listened to Brian discuss contract restructures, but he never said what was a ball-park doable number EDC might get to. Can you provide a ball-park salary cap number? $20 ~ 30 mil ? Glenn Erby on ravenswire.usatoday.com writes / claims he can create $51mil in cap space. I’m not buying it … what say you and Brian. Thanks.
Bruce, I saw that article, the likes of which we see every yr, that never comes true. They are going to need to create a lot of Cap space via cuts and restructures. They will have no where near $51M to spend. Much of what they do create will go towards “expenses” like their draft picks, players who end up on IR (and their replacements) & the PS. I’ll have an article out early next week that lays much of this out as far as what they can (and can’t) do.
Thanks for your reply. I’ll look for your article next week.
After losing the AFC playoff to the Patriots in 2011, I do not recall losing a bunch of important players. I remember losing Billy Cundiff, and picking up a young guy name Tucker who could kick the ball much longer and straighter. And I believe we also replaced the guy who dropped the ball in the end zone. It feels like we will be losing a lot more of our quality players after this season than after 2011.
Common misnomer is that Lee Evans dropped that pass. Wrong! It was stripped by a well placed swipe by defender.
Correct. And in previous years Evans “catch” may have been called a TD. See Oakland’s Warren Wells TD from the 1971 AFC championship game.
It was misnomer that Lee Evans dropped that pass. Wrong! He was stripped by perfectly timed hack by the defender, similar to what happened to Zay.