Comments on: Teams were contemplating a franchise-tag run at Flacco before the postseason

By: bensstinkyfingers

bensstinkyfingers — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 02:53:40 +0000

Flacco is overrated, Hope the Ravens overpay for him and he blows the rest of his career. I’d rather take my chances with weeden and keep the draft picks. the browns will be atop the afc north soon enough, as the ravens will take a hit after overpaying for the unibrow, the bengals will remain a wildcard team at best, and the steelers well I think we all know they are going nowhere fast. So go sign Flacco whatever he wants Baltimore, he’s not needed in Cleveland.

By: corvusmaximus

corvusmaximus — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 01:27:42 +0000

“The only way to be consistently successful in the NFL is to draft well, sign good players to reasonable extensions early, and let some of your stars go when they reach the peak of their earning potential.”

hmmm…that strategy sound awfully familiar…

By: pftmaniac

pftmaniac — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:01:43 +0000

Welcome to the Salary Cap Era of the NFL. When teams have success, their payrolls start to bloat and the team sinks under it’s own weight.

The only way to be consistently successful in the NFL is to draft well, sign good players to reasonable extensions early, and let some of your stars go when they reach the peak of their earning potential.

The Steelers and Eagles did a nice job of that for awhile, and it appears that Indianapolis is seeing the light. The NFL has made it a tough, tough business to stay competitive…

By: miztake82

miztake82 — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 03:53:18 +0000

I think it would be a smart move by us(browns). But I think we are forgetting Joe Banner is running things. He isn’t blowing the whole salary cap and our draft on Flacco.

By: olendooooooo

olendooooooo — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 03:28:29 +0000

you Steelers fans make me laugh. Yeah I’ll admit it, I’m a Browns fan, but so what, we don’t run our chops all the time.All you guys talk about is the past, just like Cowboys fans. What matters is the present, not the past, and in the present, the Steelers suck. IT ain’t a 1 year off year, they need to completely re-tool, and after what Flacco does to the Ravens with his contract, they will too. Sadly, it looks like the Bengals who will sneak into the lead. Plus talking about “slow Ravens fans” when you have the writing skills of a 1st grader doesn’t make you sound too bright yourself.

By: ravenatorblowsgoats

ravenatorblowsgoats — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 01:43:41 +0000

@ravens4fr….congrats you are indeed the champions….in less time it took you to when your second the Steelers went to three and have won 6….for slow ravens fans 2times 3 equals 6….you may be the sheriff but the Steelersmare definatly the Marshall and you’ll always be the lil brother..three times the Steelers have won 2 superbowls in less than a 5year stretch and you’ve never done it once in a 12 year stretch…..we shall see what next year brings lil brother….I mean cough sherriff.

By: autumnwind999

autumnwind999 — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 01:16:08 +0000

Bottom line: I don’t judge QBs on one playoff stretch. If I were doing that — like the media and many fans — Flacco would be banging on the door to the top 5. I base my judgement on seeing Flacco play for several years — sometimes great sometimes awful — as well as all the other QBs listed and a bit on career stats and recent career stats, but only to an extent.

Flacco could eventually become elite. When Brady won his first Super Bowl he was not considered elite by any stretch.

By: ravens4fr

ravens4fr — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:24:31 +0000

Hey, Steeler fans, RAVENS are Super Bowl Champions, and you will contend for third place in the division next year! Face the facts, you can hate all you want, but the Ravens are World Champions and there is nothing you can (or will) do about it! New sheriff in town!

By: eerslbs

eerslbs — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:40:54 +0000

With all these stories about the urgency for the ravens to sign flacco, it makes me wonder if Florio is on flacco’s agent’s payroll. We get it, the ravens should sign him and pay him 130 for 6 years or else the world will implode. Or so it seems

By: audient

audient — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:12:56 +0000

The Browns should make a run at Flacco. Either the Browns get Flacco, or the Ravens have to cut players and use up their cap to keep Flacco. Either result is a win for the Browns and a loss for the Ravens.

By: nite2al

nite2al — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 22:56:08 +0000

People please stop complaining about atheletes making a lot of money. They should get all they can.

Nobody complains when Tom Cruise is making 20 million plus a movie, and he’s not even risking his life.

By: cappa662

cappa662 — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 22:07:11 +0000

I can see in 3 or 4 years… quarterbacks will account for 40% of the teams salary caps. Because the NFL has it set up this way. What is stopping someone like Aaron Rodgers from topping the deal that Flacco gets (assuming 23 to 25 million)? If Flacco is worth 23 million, Rodgers has to be worth AT LEAST 30 million. And who is after Rodgers??? Stafford??? He’s going to command 32 million. QBs use to get half of the money, now they are getting all of the money.

By: joe2jerry

joe2jerry — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 22:02:03 +0000

If you have a top 5 QB (salary) you will not be able to compete without hitting on almost every draft pick (cheap labor). It suck for the Ravens and if Kap keeps playing so well it’ll suck for the Niners eventually

By: jebsta16

jebsta16 — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 21:40:48 +0000

If I were the Ravens I would franchise him and take the two first round picks. I think the coaching there has more to do with his individual abilities. They can find another quarterback just as good as captain check down if they need to. The money they are going to give him is going to hurt the team more than it will help.

By: jacktheraven

jacktheraven — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 21:31:05 +0000

In case you didn’t notice, Raveds D wasn’t that great. Couldn’t stop the run, or Kapernick. It took Ravens O, and Joe F., to continue on 3rd down. Check their 3rd down eff. That’s why Ravens won and Joe was MVP.

By: SilentMajority

SilentMajority — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 21:27:18 +0000

Whether you like Flacco or not, this is a QB driven league. The Ravens would be better off, long term to over pay him rather than lose him. Who’s going to replace him?

By: bartlettruss

bartlettruss — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 20:08:54 +0000

Contrary to popular opinion you don’t need an elite QB to win a Super Bowl. Trent Dilfer and Jim McMahon won SBs. What you need is a GOOD QB. He just doesn’t have to be great. Teams like the Chiefs, Cardinals and Bills don’t have a good one. They have bad ones. So the acquisition of Flacco who is good could turn those teams around. It would be the equivalent of picking up Phillip Rivers basically. If you already have a good defense and a running game it could put a team over the top.

By: scoobies05

scoobies05 — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 20:01:31 +0000

please explain how the ravens are a bogus superbowl champ. because i didnt realize that existed. what a joke of a post. and whether or not people believe flacco is elite is irrelevent. he led the ravens to the title and thats all that matters. its w what have you done for me lately league. this years top free agent sets the bar. next year it will be someone else. it has very little to do with who is the so called best. go ravens!

By: ravenatorblowsgoats

ravenatorblowsgoats — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:55:50 +0000

Hope they do resign Flacco….Dilfer won a super bowl too….enough said…signed rest of the afc north.

By: raynitschke66

raynitschke66 — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:47:56 +0000

I’ve always thought that Joe Flacco is a lot better than most people give him credit for, but this notion that he should be paid as the #1 QB in the league is just idiotic. In the end, if the Ravens are smart, they should take the highest QB contract as a benchmark, and then make him an offer for a contract that pays out about 80-85% of that. He’s a good player who can make a lot of big throws in big games, but he will never be the kind of QB that can carry a weak team like guys like Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady can do.

By: ballboy48

ballboy48 — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:31:51 +0000

I think Ozzie and the Ravens didn’t look too much into the potential teams that need QB’s and have a lot of cap space. Not a good position to be in right now Ozzie! Should’ve done a deal last year. Would’ve saved you a ton of money and not expose him at all.

By: sportsnut101

sportsnut101 — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:28:39 +0000

With all the people ravens gonna let go this offseason. They gonna look like the browns anyway so why not let flacco go get the 2 picks n trade for Alex smith then see if u can get fitzgerald with picks or see if u can sign Wallace from steelers he’s a free agent n browns need wr. Browns have a back in Trent he was good this past yr even with 8 in the box

By: datdangdrewdundunituhgin

datdangdrewdundunituhgin — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:07:19 +0000

where did you get this info, florio? i don’t see any link or mention of a source to corroborate your story. please consider being more diligent next time before you just whimsically toss out theories. one of the more lazy posts i’ve seen from you, and thats saying something.

By: 1rockyracoon

1rockyracoon — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:58:35 +0000

So many teams spend years, a lot of draft picks, and a lot of money looking for a franchise quarterback. Just ask the Dolphins what it is like finding a franchise quarterback. So Flacco is definitely worth two 1st round draft picks. If he was on the Browns next season then one of the draft picks will not be a top ten draft pick. I doubt the Ravens would take any chance of losing him. In the NFL, MLB, and NBA the single most important position is starting QB. When you have a franchise QB you do not risk losing him.

By: flipola

flipola — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:47:08 +0000

That has Raiders written all over it.

By: realdealsteel

realdealsteel — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:44:29 +0000

Good for Flacco. He’s going to financially hamstring the Ravens and make sure they won’t be winning any more championships in the immediate future. I love it when management and a fan base get all caught up in the happiness of winning a championship and mortgage their future away.

Flacco is nowhere near elite but he’s going to turn this bogus Super Bowl win into the Armageddon of the Baltimore Ravens. Good job Flacco. Good job.

Raven are the most bogus Super Bowl champion this league has ever seen. With Goodall helping them along the way by not suspending Ed Reed and Ray Ray for cheating and illegal hits.

By: ballsohard852

ballsohard852 — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:43:39 +0000

I’ve always believed from day one that Flacco is not an elite quarterback, but never doubted we could win a Super Bowl WITH him, not despite him. I don’t see why it’s hard to believe that other teams with sub-par quarterbacks wouldn’t at least consider making a run at Flacco if he were available.

By: atwatercrushesokoye

atwatercrushesokoye — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:28:16 +0000

I think most people here are answering the most important question: would the Browns still suck with Flacco? I think we can all agree the answer is probably yes. Now would the Browns suck with Peyton, Brady or Rodgers? I think we can all agree they’d be a lot better, and most likely a playoff team.

So if al, that’s true then it’s pretty clear Flacco is not elite! So paying him like he is rather than just like a guy who had a terrific playoff run, and basically crippling your salary cap would be a horrible mistake.

Flacco is a modern day Jeff Hostetler not Joe Montana.

By: vikinganswer

vikinganswer — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:18:13 +0000

Come people, there is no comparison right now between Rice and Pierce. Pierce is the back up for a reason.

By: edgington19911

edgington19911 — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:12:21 +0000

Now you guys have to understand this is a “tactic” by a lot of teams, not just the browns. The ravens know what is coming. If they worry about losing their QB and sign him, they will lose other key players that other teams want. They sign the other players, they will lose their QB (if this story is true). Other teams know what they are doing, and are sending fake signals that they want Flacco, just so the Ravens mess up and have to give up other good players.