So Sad!

After last year's disappointing trade of Anquan Boldin, I was pretty much done with the Ravens.  I had no faith in them ever making it to the Super Bowl again, let alone the Playoffs. I had finally gotten over it, then the Ray Rice thing happened (I won't mention what the Ray Rice thing is, because you've most likely read about it a million times, and if you haven't, you've heard it mentioned in every single NFL story since the time it happened) and I lost what little faith I had regained.  They handled the situation terribly and should have canned him immediately.  Instead the fall out caused a huge uproar and the team lost serious focus.

But then they started winning, and actually hit the playoffs.  It was wonderful to see them do so well and overcome the rough patch they had seen in the beginning of the season. They all banded together as a team to get the job done.

But then the off season came, with its trades and sales.  That brings us to this week. Apparently, the Ravens have deemed this week "clean house of every good player we have to make room in the salary cap for other players that are not as good."  I'm not sure it has a great ring to it and I'm hoping it doesn't really catch on. If so, we might as well just start rooting for the Dead-skins, oops, I meant the Redskins.  

Seriously!?  Torrey Smith - Gone.  Haloti Ngata - Gone.  Jacoby Jones - Gone.  Pernell McPhee - Gone.  Owen Daniels - Gone. Yep, those are some seriously good players that we've now given to other teams.  How depressing is that?  What's even worse, I'm beginning to think it's me.  

I had 2 jerseys - Ed Reed and Todd Heap.  Ed Reed got let go and Todd Heap retired.  So I planned to buy a new one after the super bowl - Anquan Boldin.  Lucky for me I waited just long enough to see the poor guy get traded.  Then I was going to get me a Ray Rice - we all know how that played out.  But lucky again, I didn't waste my money.  This year?  It was going to be Torrey Smith.  Ugh!

I know we're told to Keep Calm and Trust in Ozzie (Newsome - the general manager) but it's becoming harder and harder to do that.  I'm hoping he has a plan, because right now, I'm not seeing it...