Ravens Gab

The Carroll County Times is reporting that the Ravens have waived defensive lineman Kenny King. Last season King spent the whole year on the non-football injury list. He is 6-foot-4 and 284 pounds, but he is injury prone and probably won’t find much work elsewhere around the league.

Today’s Baltimore Sun is reporting that as we did last week that the Ravens will indeed franchise LB Terrell Suggs.  The paper says that the team informed him of that, meaning that for all intensive purposes, he’ll back back in purple in 2008.  “I’m disappointed because I really wanted a long-term deal, and I think [...]

 
It appears as if former MVP and Ravens QB Steve McNair is not going down without a fight. The QB, who had an awful, injury filled 2007, is telling those that will listen that he is going to come back better than ever for the 2008 season. McNair told the Baltimore Sun “Being a competitor, [...]

                                    
The Baltimore Ravens received a bit of good news that affects their bottom line as Aaron Wilson of the Carroll County Times reports that tight end Todd Heap has restructured his current contract, creating additional cap space for the team to be able to sign linebacker Terrell Suggs should they make him their franchise player.
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Former Chiefs and now former Dolphins QB Trent Green is a free man, and one Ravens blog is reporting that the birds may take a look at Green for the 2008 season. The Ebony Bird says that despite logic saying otherwise, Green may be a decent fit for Cam Cameron’s offense in Baltimore. One thing [...]

Now all they have to do is get their draft plan into place; SportsTicker reports that on Tuesday, the Baltimore Ravens have completed their entire coaching staff; the team named John Dunn assistant strength and conditioning coach, Marwan Maalouf special teams assistant, Greg Mattison linebackers coach, Chuck Pagano secondary coach and Bob Rogucki strength and conditioning coach. 
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The Sun is reporting that the Ravens are bent on keeping linebacker Terrell Suggs, even if it means they have to franchise him.  Jamison Hensley is reporting that the team is not going to let Suggs hit the open market, and instead will slap the tag on him before the free agency peroid starts at [...]

                                       
After an increased salary offer and a change of heart, Greg Mattison has decided to accept the Baltimore Ravens’ offer to join their defensive staff, according to Aaron Wilson of the Carroll County Times and verified by University of Florida head coach Urban Meyer; Mattison is expected to coach the Ravens’ linebackers.
No announcement was made [...]

From Baltimoreravens.com
Two more assistant coaches have joined John Harbaugh’s Ravens staff: Jim Hostler is the Ravens’ wide receivers coach and Craig Ver Steeg is the team’s offensive quality control coach. Harbaugh has now added 14 coaches, including three coordinators, a special assistant to the head coach, and three on defense and seven on offense.
Hostler, who [...]