Eric DeCosta: ‘Left Tackles Don’t Grow On Trees’ | Baltimore Ravens

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1. System fit is important, mentality, also the mental load. Some players have everything they need to be great but are out in complicated systems they can’t handle. Other players are maybe above average players but skill set is so perfectly defined for a rook they play lights out. It’s also why when you see change team and they end up being a shell of themselves. It’s not their play falling off, it’s being in a new system and playing a different way. We saw this with Earl Thomas. He was great but literally only played cover-3 in Seattle. He struggle coming to the Ravens and picking up the split field calls. He eventually did alright but the mental load of split field versus cover-3 with a dominate D-line is drastically different

2. We have the best GM in the game and it ain’t even close. The dude is an actual alien.

3. omg I remember exactly where I was in the 2007 Steelers game. I was young and wasn't following the injuries as much as I do now though.

   I was in the airport too flying home from my first ever trip to LA… crazy.. wow did that year spiral lol

4. 37:11 Kyu Blu Kelly

5. Sad we still haven't gotten a elite edge rusher. That's the only thing the defense need. Relying on Kyle van and Oweh , ojabo, clowney . Players like that just dont cut it in January

6. Get Lamar a ring and I’m putting EDC in my will