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• Dewey said May 04, 2008

  The Ravens also got former Raiders CB Fabian Washington, who hopefully needed only a chance of scenery to live up to his potential. If he does that, he's easily worth a fourth-round pick. He was the fastest guy at the '05 Combine (4.29).

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  • fbkid15 replied May 04, 2008

    If he pans out it would be a great value for the Ravens. Especially since their was a lack of corner available after the 3rd round.
• kgoon1590 said May 04, 2008

  A lot of these draft picks are difficult reads. I think the Steelers did the best, but as for the Ravens and Browns, they're taking gambles. It will take awhile to figure out how these drafts will look, given that a lot of these players could go either way.

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• hiphop said May 05, 2008

  The Ravens wanted a QB in the worst way and it showed.
  -Flacco has size, arm strength etc. but so did Kyle Boller (the guy they are looking to replace) and how does that translate to winning football games at the pro level? Here's a guy that couldn't break into the lineup at Pitt so he transferred down a division to Delaware. Sort of like the kid who can't make his High School Varsity squad but kicks ass against the middle schoolers, or the guy who wants to look handsome and thin so he hangs with fat and ugly people.
  Because he was unproven in competition he appeared to be slated, by most, as a speculative 2nd rouind pick.
  -Beyond that, the Ravens left value on the table when they swapped picks with Jacksonville. When Ryan didn't fall to the Ravens they wanted to trade down. The only willing partner was Jacksonville however the value of the compensation received (based on the point values assigned to picks 8 &. 26 is a 700 point gap) would indicate that Jax got the better end of that deal. By far.
  Word in Jacksonville leading up to the draft was that they wanted to move up to get Harvey but figured that the price would be too steep (i.e. nobody would be dumb enough to do it at their price).
  -And rather than wait to get him at #26 (which still wouid have been a reach), they moved back up to grab him mid 1st round.
  All in all this seemed like a desperate series of moves executed by a team with an otherwise stout drafting history.

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  • Dewey replied May 05, 2008

    Agreed 100%.