Ravens aren't going anywhere until the Harbaugh/Flacco era ends.
The 2016 8 and 8 team was no different than the 2015 5 and 11 team. Only difference was they were healthy enough to get an extra 3 wins, which were almost losses.
The holes they have to fill can't be solved in just this one draft, and Flacco's black hole contract won't allow enough to be filled through free agency. They are stuck with a QB that isn't going to get any better nor cares to get better, and will only give him a high school playbook and patchwork linemen and receivers. And the defense....
M&T used to be a top 3 toughest place for visitors to play, now it gets quieter and emptier by the game because they put a crap and boring product on the field. On defensive 3rd downs the place used to be vibrating and loud as a bomb because we knew the D was more than likely about to get them off the field and maybe even get a TO. Now ain't nobody got confidence they could get a stop if it was 3rd and 3 or 3rd and 23. Last few times I went to the game we rarely bothered to stand up on 3rd because it's a waste of energy when the opposing team has 3-5 conversions on every possession. Harbs wanted a a team full of choir boys with no gumption and now he can go through this next year with a heaping supply of Pepto and Advil because he's hanging on by a thread
Whoever is on the scouting team needs to
as well
They aren't 49ers or Browns bad by any means yet, but until they change the way they do things and/or Flacco decides to stop playing this is going to be a team just taking up a spot in the AFC