2010 Cincy Jungle Mock Draft: The Baltimore Ravens Select...

by FriarBob on Apr 15, 2010 9:00 AM EDT in NFL Draft

The twenty-fifth pick in the inaugural edition of the Cincy Jungle Mock Draft is brought to us by special guest Mr MaLoR, selecting for the Baltimore Ravens. His explanation for the pick is after the jump. Thank you for your participation Mr MaLoR.

With the twenty-fifth pick in the 2010 Cincy Jungle Mock Draft, the Baltimore Ravens select...

Jared Odrick, DE, Penn State

At 25, Jared Odrick is too hard to pass up. With the Ravens losing Defensive Tackles Justin Bannan and Dwan Edwards, Baltimore would love to get a versatile player like Odrick. Because of his great physical build, he could play any position in the Ravens 3-4 defense depending on the down and yardage. Would be best suited backing up for left end Trevor Pryce for the year and eventually taking over that spot.

As much as people may say Baltimore needs to improve the secondary, the pass rush was a main reason for some of the Ravens problems last year with deep balls. Finishing the year in the bottom half of the league in sacks is not what a defense as relentless as the Ravens do often. Odrick pairing with Ngata and Suggs makes an elite pass rush squad once again in Baltimore.

Jared Odrick Highlights:

(via ProDraftParty)

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Hey Bob, thanks for letting me be involved in this. Always fun doing these. Good luck the rest of the way, you Bengals better not draft too well please.

You have to hate losing more than you love winning.

by Mr MaLoR on Apr 15, 2010 2:40 PM EDT reply actions

Hey Malor

I’ve noticed a difference in philosophy as far as defense goes between our two teams. We have the philosophy of having strong corners and working in – hence we picked up Joseph and Hall as high picks in recent years. Your Ravens as well as some other teams seem to have had the opposite philosophy of picking up pass rushers early to take pressure off your DBs. I noticed the same philosophy with some other teams like the Giants. Thoughts?

This is our year!

by Paul Cannon on Apr 15, 2010 2:54 PM EDT up reply actions

I don't really understand where you are getting this idea from.

The Ravens care just as much as any other team of having solid CB. We have not ignored cb at all. Just as you made moves for joeseph, wr went out and signed foxworth, traded for Fabian wahington and drafted lardarius Webb. Now I take it you are making this assumption because the Ravens “struggled” against the pass last year.

I think the teams that are successful year after year are the ones who build from the inside out. A good pass rush can make a below average secodary look good, just like the Ravens last year. Everyone is saying our DB are trash because we gave up some big plays, but we still finished 8th in the league in pass defense and that was without Reed for a few games.

We care very much about our CB. But you have to remember that we weren’t making huge signings or drafting CB high the last few years because we had mcalister and rolle. We lost both of them
and have definitely started rebuilding our secondary.

You have to hate losing more than you love winning.

by Mr MaLoR on Apr 15, 2010 4:13 PM EDT up reply actions

I’m not saying the Ravens don’t care about the secondary or that they have a poor secondary, I’m just commenting on your draft strategy here. You picked up Jared Odrick for his pass rush ability (a good pick in my opinion since the 1st round CB’s are pretty much off the board at this point).

Obviously both teams want to have strong secondaries as well as a strong pass rush, but my question was more, if you had to pick one, which would you start with: a good pass rush, or a good coverage team? It sounds like you’d go with the pass rush, but Marvin Lewis’s strategy was to start with the corners. The argument could also be made that good corners make the defensive line look good.

And mostly I’m basing my statement on what you said in your article that

“As much as people may say Baltimore needs to improve the secondary, the pass rush was a main reason for some of the Ravens problems last year with deep balls.”

This is our year!

by Paul Cannon on Apr 15, 2010 4:38 PM EDT up reply actions