Maestrobjwa

There is a possibility that Lamar may not have wanted to put it out there either. Notice how the national media can never get many details when he's out. But regardless of the reason...how do you go from this to "Lamar and the Ravens should part ways"? That's LaConfora mania stuff right there, lol What kind of dangerous game? What kind of bad situation? I mean Lamar could've revealed the injury at any time. Coulda been his choice for all we know (although I'd love for somebody to ask him why he didn't say anything earlier). To me this was more gamesmanship than anything else. They aren't betraying Lamar or smearing him on purpose, or something damaging to the relationship. I doubt that...and once he (most likely) extends, this will all be moot and he'll be here.

You obviously don't know what the average recovery time for a high ankle sprain is, then. 4-6 weeks. So somehow, in a non-playoff situation, Lamar was supposed to come back the next week or two and play on it hobbling around not able to plant or throw? With 12 games to go and no bye week until December? Bruh...no QB is gonna do that. No player is doing that period--not with that kind of sprain. I'm sorry but these arguments about this particular injury are straight up ignorant now that we know what kind of sprain it is. Call him injury prone I get, because that can certainly be a legit discussion. But arguing that he play on a high-ankle sprain for weeks just because Mahomes somehow did it for a couple games? (And again him doing that was an extreme outlier to the norm) Illogical and unrealistic argument.

Bruh Lamar isn't going anywhere. And I cannot believe you would be okay with Lamar going somewhere else and getting a ring and leaving us with nothing (hello days with no franchise QB). Lamar can be here for the overhaul that a needs to happen mostly on defense alone! (That + OL). Pocket passer Lamar will still be able to get a ring, imo Mobility can still last a couple more years. And...Biscotti firing DeCosta is not an impossibility either. I can't imagine Biscotti being happy about us missing the playoffs again. But what you can't do while you're overhauling the defense is to completely dismantle your offense by not re-signing Lamar. That's just dumb to me.

I'm saying the 3 years since 2023. It has been all downhill from there. Both 2023 teams were false peaks-- Orioles 24 season had a winning record but sucked the second half and embarrassingly mentally feckless in the Wild Card. Ravens 24 season had blown leads and obviously the Andrews drop in the playoffs Orioles 25' season: Awful. Ravens 25' season: Awful Orioles 26 season: New manager, inherited mentally weak mentality, failed to capitalize on momentum each time, .500 team, missed playoffs. Ravens 26 season: New HC, inherited bad mentality--no dawg in 'em Looks to be a .500 season missing the playoffs. One embarrassment after another and nobody has known how to win. Now in both cases...both new manager and new HC could very well do better in 2027...but time will tell. 2027 is gonna be a defining year for Baltimore sports: Either we'll finally be released from this prison of mediocrity, or we'll be suffering for more years to come.

Maryland is the worst place for professional sports. All of these teams need to be ashamed of themselves. What did we do to deserve this? Smh I mean no joy to be found in any of them for 3 years. All have leadership problems or are trying to recover from leadership problems. I mean at some point it has to turn around I mean dang...historically Baltimore has always had at least one good team. But now every team in the state has been mediocre or plain awful.

No. He and Roquan gotta go end of this year be it trade or free agency. OL can be fixed too; Jurgens, Vega, Rosengarten could be a pretty good start. Another LT (if Stanley's play is declining) and LG would have to be signed. Lamar gets extended...that will at least give more room to work for the next 2 years. These are not blow it up start over changes--soft rebuild/retool like this could improve things next season.

Why are folks acting like he's not under contract next year? Lol

If you commit to Lamar you can fix the issues around him in a year...two at the most. Heck, this defense is two pieces and months of therapy away from being good enough. The mental problem is bigger than the talent issue. 2) You don't jettison your franchise QB at 30 and just magically find another one. Even if he misses 3 games a year, you still have a better chance of getting a ring with him than without him. If he can throw whatever mobility he maintains will be a plus but not absolutely necessary.

No clue why EDC has been so incredibly bad at building an OL...I mean, this is 4-5 years now, smh. But firing him would take more losing which we aren't likely to have. .....We call for firing a lot in Baltimore, lol Can we like...just get a good GM with no glaring, repetitive issues?

Awful timing, smh I think we need to be prepared to try and make the playoffs at 12-5 or 11-6 (the latter is more likely)

People need to stop blaming Lamar for not playing--we now know it's a high ankle sprain. Players routinely miss multiple weeks with those when they get them. And the Mahomes 2022 comparison is bull: Mahomes played through that because it was the playoffs. This is Week 7; Is it worth playing through an injury that keeps most players out a minimum of 4 weeks and have it linger the rest of the season? When you still have time to make up ground vs. playing hurt in the playoffs? Lamar also mentioned his plant foot yesterday: When he said that I realized that his whole mechanics of both running and throwing could be off if he feels too much pain in that foot. The timing sucks; we could start the season 0-2 in the division. But it's just something random that happened.

I mean...is there any evidence fo suggest that low doesn't park there like that? Guessing that's how 97-98 failed

Awesome! Love the branding, lol

Respectfully, sir...this is an all-time record niño with being the furthest east on record. Warm, warm, warm! Outside chance of getting something during prime window if we are even capable of getting it cold enough and timed well--but that's about it. I mean that's just the reality of what we're heading into--no sense trying to look for what might be different or whatever...outcome is kinda historically baked in to me.

Exactly. I pointed this out a couple weeks ago and got weenied for some reason...but it's true! I mean in any winter the prime window always starts around that time anyway.