Not to discredit our drafting team

[SunsetBengal]

(05-05-2016, 08:35 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: No doubt. They always won with running and defense. That philosophy seemed to change after Flacco got his big contract and Rice knocked out his GF. In Flacco's first 5 seasons, he averaged 31.1 attempts per game. In 3 seasons since the SB and the contract, he's averaged 37.6 attempts. That's a huge jump.

Fwiw, even though they didn't go after a RB as early as I thought they would, they did double dip with Dixon in the 4th and Reynolds in the 6th. 

I would say that the running game issues have more to do with the decline of their OL, than it does with backfield personnel.  If they fix the OL problems, and they did draft the OT that they claim to have had highest on their board...  It could mean trouble for the rest of the division.  Baltimore lost a lot of games last year, by a few points, games that they were used to winning by a few points.  It would likely be a mistake to take them lightly, coming off of a rare bad season.