Quick Analysis of the Ravens WR corps

I think this will answer your question.

Lol, 3 WR who have been 3 of the league’s best are not play makers? Good effort kid.

This is a solid receiving corps…Experienced and tough as nails..

The deep threat thing is overrated in my opinion. Sure it helps to have that guy who can take one 50-60 yards, but we are a possession team that loves to control the clock. With these 3 WR, we can focus on getting the first downs and letting our 3 pro bowl ball carriers run it down the field. Would much rather have a 10 play drive eating up 6-7 minutes than a 3 play drive eating up only 2 minutes, and then letting a QB like Peyton Manning right back on the field to shred you.

The guys we have might not get the crazy long TD’s like Wallace can, but what does it matter if they are still getting around 1,000 yards next year?

Are we seriously scared! Let the games play out and these 3 will get their plays. Will they hurt us, they might. but I’m not worried. Lets worry about our WR corps.

this was posted as Malor bait. A sign of affection if ever there was one.

You know the Ravens well, what are their weaknesses going into this season?

Speed may be lacking but the Ravens have more talent now. How they use it and the chemistry between these guys is a bigger question mark than whether they are good individually.

Until the Steelers got rid of Holmes, you could argue they had the best WR corps in the league last year. They are still good but now we lost speed and quickness. I hope A R-El can add some underneath stuff and provide some razzledazzle to the trick play package. He and DD in the same shotgun backfield could be interesting…

Flacco’s arm is going to get good use. Mid out’s, crosses, with these receivers the passes will have to be coming fast because they get space, but they aren’t going to get a whole lot of it. His arm strength isn’t going to be superfluous, it’ll be necessary.

As to MaLoR’s just run deeper quotes, I’m sorry, but running deeper doesn’t make the defense adjust to you. It’s not like at the snap defenses choose whether to cover a WR or let them run free. The difference is where they line up in order to be able to keep up with the WR. If safeties can cheat up because they can catch your WR’s in a foot race then you don’t have a deep threat no matter how long the routes go. If you have a Mike Wallace who is going to burn your corner and safety if they don’t pay attention to him and back up to start that opens things up.

Most defenses aren’t going to be able to cover those three, three corners who can cover wily veteran possession guys? Not common, esp. when they are rather physical. But you will find them, I think we can do it with our squad (possible homer-ism) and there’s likely other teams that can do it also.

Again I think the possible exception lies in two rookie TE’s and Cam Cameron. If the young guys can force Safeties to respect their routes (IE not coverable by LB) then they can offset the lack of WR speed. Cameron is a hell of an OC (jealousy? yes sir) and I expect the Ravens to end up a lot like the 05 Seahawks. That team went to the Super Bowl and was the better team there. Without a TE contributing and Dick Lebeau’s defense shutting down their YAC completely the offense sputtered. Ravens have a strong running game like Seattle did, but I don’t respect Baltimore’s line like Seattle’s 05 line. I think we can stop their offense in a playoff match, and I think Ben can find a way to win if Wallace, Hines and Heath get some help from ARE or (Hopefully) Emmanuel Sanders creating match-up difficulties for the Ravens secondary.

Where the analogy falls through is while I don’t expect Housh to bounce back to top receiver form, Boldin is still one tough SOB, and while I like Ike on him a lot, Boldin isn’t going to punk out like the Hawks receivers did. I also think Ray Rice will get tons of catches this season, if he stays healthy.

Lastly, If Stallworth comes back full strength for the playoffs, the Ravens WRs will be a very good unit with a deep threat. That can change the game pretty quick.

but it’s going to be tough to contain rice, boldin, housh and mason

certainly don’t care for tj from his bengals days, but wouldn’t of minded burying that if the steelers had picked him up.