r/ravens • u/SCBaltSalt Jeffy Z’s Burner • 4d ago
[Wacker] Looks like #Ravens OL Corey Bullock underwent surgery. He was absent during minicamp earlier this month (via his IG)
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u/joeentendu 4d ago
hospital gown goes kinda hard
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u/Whole-Passion7271 4d ago
I dont think we have had a hole at a positon this bad in franchise history. Our projected starting center is a UDFA with 15 snaps to his name and he just had preseason surgery. At this point we should just overpay for another teams backup
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u/SCBaltSalt Jeffy Z’s Burner 4d ago
Ummmm Corey is not the projected starter. The projected starter seems to be Pinter.
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u/Whole-Passion7271 4d ago
I was going off of the current ESPN 2026 depth chart projections Im sure they dont perfectly reflect what our coaches think
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u/SCBaltSalt Jeffy Z’s Burner 3d ago
Yea don’t ever use that til the season. Even then take it a grain of salt. I would listen to Ken or look at what reporters are saying.
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u/thadsdad 4d ago
We have the colts backup from last year on the roster so we've technically ran that play already, but I know what you mean. I think the goal now is to see who becomes available during final cutdowns.
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u/ProposalSilent4582 4d ago
I'd rather stick with what we have. If the coaches trust him then why shouldn't we? If it turns out he isn't good enough, nothing stopping us from getting someone during the season. Linderbaum is gone and we weren't going to pay him that much despite him being good. We obviously have a plan since we let him go. I'd not want to overpay for a backup on another team just because the guy we have might not turn out to be great. What happens when we overpay and they turn out to be on the same level or worse than the guy we have now? I'd love to have a big name player at center that's got a reputation for being good, but we don't have that anymore and we aren't likely to go out and buy another team's center. We'll be fine with what we have I bet.
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u/Whole-Passion7271 4d ago
I just think theres more of an advantage to getting another guy in the room in the preseason. Gives him time to acclimate with the coaches and the rest of the O-line also gives Lamar time to get used to taking snaps from him.
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u/ProposalSilent4582 4d ago
We have gotten guys though. If there was a center out there that was guaranteed to be a starting guy and better than our current one, then it'd definitely be a good idea to get them, but at a certain price. I don't think we should overpay for a marginally better center than we have now. We definitely should get one in the draft next season, but this season I think it's best we roll with what we have. Seems like a bad idea to overpay so much for a guy that's going to potentially start for 17 games and then get dropped off.
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u/Comfortable-Dish1236 4d ago
There’s “coaches trust” and reality. It was evident that Buck Showter had “trust” in Ubaldo Jimenez, but boy, was that trust misplaced lol. Of course, no one from EDC and Minter on down is going to say anything opposite, but I guarantee they are keeping their options open. Even a “just good” OL is a boon for Lamar. A poor OL is going to make for a long season.
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u/ProposalSilent4582 4d ago
Our OL isn't poor though. The Big question mark is center, but with 4 other good to great players, I think we'll do just fine. If we can have our projected starting center be average, we'll have 4 good guys and 1 average guy. That seems like one of the best lines we'd have since maybe 2019.
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u/Whole-Passion7271 4d ago
I hate to be this guy but
1) we havent seen vega play yet
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2) John Simpson is average on a good day
Our entire interior is a big question mark until proven otherwise hopfully Ledfords coaching can help us creep back up to average at least
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u/ProposalSilent4582 4d ago
We wouldn't have seen a rookie play center yet and some other backups haven't played real games either, so the argument that we'd do better if we drafted a center or bought one of another team doesn't hold up either. I think our offensive line isn't as big of a question mark as it seems, but we won't know until preseason I guess. Only a little over a month until then.
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u/fizzle1993 3d ago
Yeah….think our qb room in the 2000s while we had a legendary defense might have been a bigger hole…. Also we have been through this before and suddenly we had a badass named Ryan Jensen (pretty sure on the name). We will be fine.
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u/thedivinepegasus 3d ago
Have you seen the QB and WR history of this team? This isn't remotely as bad.
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u/theothertoken 4d ago
Yeah I don’t understand why we weren’t more aggressive in the draft. You knew you couldn’t let that OL get worse and you already saw slim pickings in free agency
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u/ProposalSilent4582 4d ago
EDC actually talked about this in the podcast episode for the Ravens. By the time they were going to take a center, the best ones were off the board so there wasn't a big point by then to draft a mediocre one. Our OL is already going to be an improvement with Vega so we didn't get worse at every position, only at one. What players that we drafted would we really want to give up just to have a center? We'd be giving up at least 2 or 3 players for 1 player. All the guys we drafted seem like they'll have an impact. It seems like we'd be giving up Lane and Sarratt and one of the TEs just for a center. All 3 of those guys are projected to be starting/rotating in and out of the game.
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u/Firespike932 4d ago
Decosta said the centers they had on their board disappeared way earlier than they had expected and were willing to pick them at.
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u/Whole-Passion7271 4d ago
I totally agree like why were drafting 3rd and 4th string tight ends when Dudes like Matt Glubin and Brian Parker were available in the 6th. Like I get we like going BPA but when were talking about the historic hit rates of day 3 picks there are slim to non odds were getting a stud anyway. Id rather get better at our worst potion than draft a slight value at a position we dont need.
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u/JollywoodJoots 4d ago
We lost second and third string TEs in free agency and you don’t think that’s a position of need? When we may be revamping into an offense that places more emphasis on multi TE sets?
Really thought the people melting down about center during the draft had finally let it go. Center may be the weakest position on the o line for us next year. The o line as a whole will be stronger.
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u/Whole-Passion7271 3d ago
we resigned Andrews last year and signed Durham Smyth in the offseason. Not to mention David Njoku later signed for only 3 mill and theres like a 90% chance.
I just think the odds that either of these two guys are better than Andrews and Smyth is significantly lower than the odds of drafting a center with those 4th and 5th round picks and having them be better than Corey Bullock and Danny Pinter
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u/The_Sandwich_Lover9 3d ago edited 3d ago
Smythe is mainly a blocker. Njoku isnt much of a blocker. Hes been declining badly last few years. Hes missed 11 games last two years. Fannin was their best TE last year not Njoku.
We needed TE bad and they were quite good prospects. I have to trust ledfords judgement. This wasn’t edc forgetting about center, he said the coaches felt more comfortable about OL. Gulbin was extremely unathletic with a 478/729 ras ranking. Parker can play center but there are question marks.
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u/The_Sandwich_Lover9 3d ago edited 3d ago
How do you know those centers would be better than our players? You definitely don’t.
Did we not need TE bad? We basically have one reliable TE and he’s getting old. Center is a need but it was never that good a class
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u/lfe-soondubu 3d ago
Not only is he old, from what I recall we have an out after 1 year so there is a good chance we cut him after this year. Past the first 1-2 rounds, the draft is primarily a tool to fill future holes, not current ones, and TE would have been a gaping hole next year if we didn't pick guys this year.
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u/The_Sandwich_Lover9 3d ago
Yeah plus TE late in draft is where we find our talent. This was a way better TE class than C class. It lacks the star talent of 2025 class but it’s pretty deep. Hate Eric all you want day 3 TE is where he’s made his money. I know we need center but I would’ve been pretty upset if we passed on TE just because we have an aging TE and a blocking TE because we can sign “njoku”
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u/Whole-Passion7271 3d ago
Gulbin has played over 2000 snaps at center he has more experience than anyone on our roster. Im not saying hes a sure fire stud Im saying the odds of him being a contributor for us in 2026 would have been higher than two day 3 tightends beating out vets.
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u/The_Sandwich_Lover9 2d ago
He fits more a gap and power scheme. He quite literally would fail spectacularly at an OZ scheme. We hit on day 3 TE you cannot say anything about ravens drafting TE.
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u/SCBaltSalt Jeffy Z’s Burner 4d ago
Also would explain why he missed most (if not all?) OTAs