Archive for July, 2010

I was at camp on Wednesday, with the rookies working their hearts out and certain veterans being featured. After watching closely, I took three things out of the experience. Check them out after the jump. Click “Continue Reading” to see what went on during Wednesday’s practice. See who was impressive, who was tenacious, and who was…..well, fat.

Whoever takes care of the Ravens’ secondary’s legs needs to be fired immediately. Domonique Foxworth tore his ACL yesterday after “planting the wrong way”.  With Lardarius Webb and Fabian Washington both having torn ACLs of their own last season, this is just messed up. Look past the fact that the team has lost its top cornerback in a season that features games against Drew Brees and Tom Brady, and just think about a torn ACL. It’s one of the most gruesome injuries that a person can sustain, and a guy like Foxworth experiencing it is just terrible. Click “Continue Reading” [...]

Welcome to a long-overdue edition of Around The Blogosphere, where I visit every single website on the internet and tell you which stuff is best. Usually it’s all Ravens stuff from sites I’d visit anyway, but I feel like the millions of other articles I read are well worth it. Links after the jump. Click “Continue Reading” to see several quality links. Most of them are extremely mind-blowing.

Hello all, I hope you’re having an especially lovely Tuesday. Today, rookies have begun their practices, and Terrence Cody failed his conditioning test. He wasn’t permitted to practice, so now the two guys who we’d been most looking forward to seeing (Sergio Kindle and Terrence Cody), are not even practicing with the rest of the rookies. Regardless, we’ve compiled a list of the keys to this year’s training camp for the Ravens as a staff. Casey, Justin, and I collaborated to come up with this list, and we’ll revisit it a couple times to see if our predictions were right, [...]

Yup, the headline says it all. Earlier this morning, based on what I had seen in various places, I reported that Sergio Kindle, the Ravens’ top draft pick in April, would not report to training camp, but be ready in time for the preseason and regular season. Yeah, I was a bit off with that… Click “Continue Reading” to find out more about Sergio Kindle’s injury, his timetable of return and how it will affect the team’s plans.

It’s (almost) football season again! Rookies report to training camp today, and begin to get the feel for what it’s like to be an NFL player. The two-a-day practices begin tomorrow at McDaniel College in Westminster, and you already know that these rookies, especially Terrence Cody, will have a lot of fun doing two-a-days in the Baltimore heat. Click “Continue Reading” for more on the rookies and the Sergio Kindle situation.

You may have noticed the new page at the top of the site, entitled “Player Ratings”. If you visited the page, you read a small description about the ratings, but this post will explain it even more. It’s really not that complicated, but as a weird guy, I like to make it sound more complicated than it is. Don’t worry, though, it really is easy. Read on to find out. Click “Continue Reading” to see the logic and genius behind EbonyBird.com’s mind-blowing player ratings system.

I’ve managed to escape the 100-degree Baltimore heat for a few weeks, being up in Vermont for three weeks, and sadly, missing training camp because of it, but honestly, 75 degrees with a nice breeze beats 102 and high air conditioning bills any day, right? Lots of things are happening. Read on for more. Click “Continue Reading” to find out what cool additions are coming to EbonyBird.com as training camp, the preseason and the regular season approach.

This past year’s draft saw the Baltimore Ravens draft two tight ends. Ed Dickson of Oregon was taken in the 3rd round (70th overall), and BYU product Dennis Pitta was drafted in the 4th round (114th overall) With two tight ends selected, what exactly does this all mean to former Pro Bowler Todd Heap? For the first time in the Heap era there will finally be legitimate competetion at the tight end position. Click “Continue Reading” to see how Justin feels about the future of Todd Heap’s role in the Ravens offense.