Who Wins The AFCN "Honestly"

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(05-10-2022, 11:08 AM)BobJones4980 Wrote: People really going overboard with the Ravens. Haul for the Ages?! Really?

I like Hamilton sure, good pick.

They essentially go Bozeman and Hollywood Brown for Tyler Linderbaum which in my opinion is a loss for them.

Then they got an injured LB in round 2.

I think they got better on defense but I'd say they got worse on offense. 

Also just because they drafted some board favorites doesn't mean they had a haul of the ages during the draft, that's almost laughable at this point. Maybe your right but we won't know for a while if all these picks were home runs or just our predraft bias.

Baltimore has serious issues in roster construction, imo.

They simply don't have the offensive weapons to hang with teams in a shootout or to be able to come back from multiple possessions down.  They are going to have trouble getting points in 2 minute situations.  Because of that, they are going to have to rely heavily on Lamar running the ball to generate offense.  That, in turn, increases his risk of injury.  They're also gambling on a number of rookies being able to come in and play at a high level immediately, which just isn't realistic.  Yeah, their draft looks great on paper to the folks who think you can get 3-4 immediate starters in a draft, but a lot of the picks people are slobbering over have legitimate knocks which caused them to drop.  Hamilton has speed issues.  Linderbaum has size and arm length knocks.  Ojabo may not play at all this year.  

Not to mention that Baltimore went 0-6 against the AFCN last year.  You can't put a team that couldn't even win one division game on top the following year.

The cherry on top is that Baltimore's projected starting LG Tyre Phillips actually graded worse than Carman per PFF.  If the takes about the Bengals OL imploding because of Carman are true, then they must also apply to Baltimore and they are in worse shape.