Ravens Wide Receiver Woes
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The Baltimore Ravens need a wide receiver. The team’s run-first philosphy has allowed them to be fairly successful with a series of re-treads and no-treads over the past several years. Now, if Derrick Mason decides to stay retired, the team finds itself in a familiar receiver-strapped position once again.
So here’s my solution. Go get Brandon Marshall from the Denver Broncos. Sure, Marshall is a head case, a basket case, and has had some skirmishes with legal cases. But Marshall is also physically gifted and supremely talented. He’s only 25 years old and is 6-feet, 4-inches and 230 pounds. He caught 104 passes for 1,265 yards and 6 touchdowns in 15 games last season. Plus, do you think he’d act up in a locker room with Ray Lewis? I doubt it.
So the Ravens should make a move to get Brandon Marshall (rumors are circulating that they are doing precisely that). And if that prevents Derrick Mason from coming back, so be it. Marshall is younger and more talented. For once, the Ravens have a quarterback (Joe Flacco) who isn’t a liability. Now, they need to give him weapons. Marshall would be a big one. They should go get him.