Monday, July 29, 2013

Pitta out for the Year


Its been a hard few days for Ravens fans when they have been some bad news that came out of training camp.

On Wednesday, we found out that Jacoby Jones failed his conditional test. I know some of the fans wonder if Dancing with the stars messed up is preparation for camp. We know that we tried for him to win the contest, but around the time of mini camp. I wanted Jacoby to get voted off so he can come back to the castle to help us repeat as Super Bowl champs. To me football is more important than some dumb dance competition. On Friday he retook the conditional test and passed it.

There were reports that said the Ravens will resign there former pro bowl fullback Vonta leach. We cut him a month ago to help clear up some cap space. Its now Monday and we still don't have him yet. I hear on ESPN that he will sign with us or go New York Giants  or the Miami  Dolphins

The most heart breaking news that came out of camp so far is that our star tight end will miss the entire season because of sever hip injury. This is a huge blow for the offense and to the whole team because he was really good friends with star QB Flacco. And it showed on game days because Pitta was making some big plays for us in key situations. I was hearing reports that we were planing to but pitta in the slot like we did with Boldin. 

Since Pitta going to be out for the year, we signed Visante Shiancoe to a 1 year contract. he will be competing against Billy Bajema to be Ed Dickson backup. I really don't know if this a good pick up because he only had a few relevant yrs in Minnesota when he played with Hall Famer Brett Favre. Before that he wasn't a known  Tight end is this league and his number has dropped ever since Brett  favre has retired. Some games last yr he played for the Pats with Brady and he still didn't do anything. So i am little worried that this trend will be in effect. 


Monday, July 22, 2013

Football is Near

Yesterday the rookies and the players that where hurt for the 2012 season like Lardarius Webb reported to training camp to begin there physicals and conditional test. On Wednesday the rest of the team will show up to do take there physicals and take the conditional test just like the rookies did yesterday. A player cant begin practice till they pass both of the tests. If a player fails the convectional test, they keep doing it till they pass.

They  will practice the next 13 days out of the 15 days till we play the 1st preseason game against the Bucs.
then it will 3 more weeks till we play the Broncos on September 5th. So Football is near.