Mike Florio: Ravens tackle Adam Terry to visit Colts
This off-season has been pretty weird thus far. We've seen established veterans cut for seemingly no reason, and now we have what amounts to a "flurry" of Colts-related free agents activity.
According to my new "buddy" Mike Florio at PFT, his "sources" tell him former-Ravens tackle Adam Terry will visit the Colts tomorrow. PFT states that Terry appeared in 48 games, starting 18 of them, from 2005 through 2008. He missed the entire 2009 season with a knee injury in training camp. Michael Oher took his spot at right tackle after the injury.
Obvious, Adam Terry is not the Baltimore Ravens tackle everyone and their mother wants the Colts to sign, but the fact that the Colts might bring in yet another free agent offensive lineman strongly suggests that Bill Polian is very serious about bolstering the o-line and making it bigger.
Terry is 6'8 and 335 pounds. Um, yeah. That's "bigger."
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Not quite Gaither
but I’m liking that they’re taking a look!!!
How can you not love a team that does this?
But the question is...
why Terry, but not Gaither?
Careful what you wish for... a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take everything you have.
Terry wasn't tendered as a RFA, so signing him doesn't cost draft picks
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by shake n bake on Mar 10, 2010 7:26 PM EST up reply actions
ah... ok. Thanks for that.
Guess when you cut 1/3 of your team, you kinda need draft picks, huh?
Careful what you wish for... a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take everything you have.
That would be funny
if it wasn’t true. lol
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by peytonsthebest on Mar 10, 2010 8:05 PM EST up reply actions
Well... Indy fans have been screaming that we need to beef up both lines...
… guess this is a step in that direction.
Question is, how good is Terry?
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good enough to keep getting some starts
not good enough to keep the Ravens from continuing to bring in other tackles.
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by shake n bake on Mar 10, 2010 7:24 PM EST up reply actions
I don't remember this "screaming" for bigger linemen
I want better linemen.
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by gizzardfanny on Mar 11, 2010 4:23 AM EST up reply actions
Got a pretty good set of pipes too apparently
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGx5fMJv7GY
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nice singer and big. 6'8? Is that a typo?
"You can't defend the perfect throw, what can I say?" Peyton quoting Marino
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Nope
6’8 335 lbs. http://www.nfl.com/players/adamterry/profile?id=TER471860
Our heads may be bloody, but they are unbowed. We will be back next year better than ever!
Though he's a RT so the comparison would be to 6'6" 320lb Ryan Diem
not the 300-305lbers across the rest of the line.
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Move Diem inside?
Careful what you wish for... a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take everything you have.
I've wanted that for 2 years now
Diem use to be a guard, it’s time for him to go back there.
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by shake n bake on Mar 10, 2010 7:24 PM EST up reply actions
Well, if size is the answer
RBs should be able to at least run right!
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Approved.
"It's the greatest job in the world until Peyton comes off the field and you think his thumb might be broken and there's three minutes left in the AFC Championship Game and you're down by three to New England and you haven't taken a snap all year. Yeah, it's a great job until that point." - Jim Sorgi
by gizzardfanny on Mar 11, 2010 4:24 AM EST up reply actions
Sadly,
I don’t think they ever will.
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Lame comedy aside, I think Diem really does need to be in a spot where he can do better. Let’s all remember, it wasn’t that long ago – the ‘04 through ’07 seasons – where the talking heads were gushing about how fabulous the line was, and Diem was part of that. He might just be in a position where he can’t excel, and could probably shine again playing the guard spot. He ought to be given that chance.
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"How can a pickup truck contain enough mass to unfold into a towering machine? I say if Ringling Brothers can get 15 clowns into a Volkswagen, anything is possible."
though he did start games at LT in 2007
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by shake n bake on Mar 10, 2010 7:25 PM EST up reply actions
Great....
One more reason to show him the door…..
by Ivan Monteiro Prado on Mar 10, 2010 11:12 PM EST up reply actions
Terry is nothing special
In 2008 the Ratbirds used him as a TE on running plays.
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by LV Steelers Fan on Mar 10, 2010 11:34 PM EST via mobile reply actions
If we put him at RT
And Diem at RG, that’s an upgrade.
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by Addai Another Aday on Mar 11, 2010 12:51 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
Ok, another signing of a guy I never heard about before...
Sounds…um, exciting?
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Not signed
just comin in for a talk. Thats all. He may leave with no offer
Our heads may be bloody, but they are unbowed. We will be back next year better than ever!
Oh yeah. Sorry, missed it...
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by BlueMark1821 on Mar 11, 2010 9:36 AM EST up reply actions
Bringing in more guys to compete
can’t be a bad thing at all. And “not a fit” in Baltimore is a difference from “bad player”.
At worst he's camp fodder
At best he’s an upgrade.
"It's the greatest job in the world until Peyton comes off the field and you think his thumb might be broken and there's three minutes left in the AFC Championship Game and you're down by three to New England and you haven't taken a snap all year. Yeah, it's a great job until that point." - Jim Sorgi
Wrong Ravens tackle damnit
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LOL.
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Random fact of the week from the empty void that is my mind: Butler is going to go to the sweet 16. Whatever happens after that is anyone's guess.
Bigger lineman
It’s ok that he can carry a tune, but can he play football and help out the line? Only time will tell!
You can't fix the line with spare parts...
We are signing every scrub lineman out on the street. Thus far I am unconvinced that any of them are better than our starting 5 from last year (and that’s saying something.) I understand the need for depth, but nothin substantial is going to change until they go get a quality free agent or draft somebody.
The line was made with spare parts in the first place
see: Jeff Saturday, CJ and Kyle DeVan
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It's out of character to go after a big name free agent, and the draft hasn't happened yet
That’s right, “nothing substantial is going to change until they go get a quality free agent or draft somebody.” Since the organizational habit is to pass up on big name FAs (thus rendering that option unrealistic, therefore moot), and since the draft hasn’t occurred yet, the complaint is just a tad early, wouldn’t you say? If no potentially quality linemen end up getting drafted, then at that point your complaint gains validity. But until then, everything is still a work in progress.
And the “scrub linemen” may only be here for depth. Plus this Terry thing isn’t a done deal yet; I think it’s still only a visit, albeit a serious one, but still only a visit. And, as Ace here pointed out, the Jeff Saturday castoff – from Baltimore, too, oddly enough – turned out to be one hell of a signing for Indy.
You can’t find gems in unusual places if you don’t go looking for them. And the painful fact of the matter is, the way things are structured, Indy will not have an untouched mine to go seeking diamonds in as late as they pick in the draft. Furthermore, as Peter King put it, Free Agency is not all it’s cracked up to be:
For every Brees, there are 10 Javon Walkers. For every Warner (who could have been had three times in free agency in the last decade by any team in the league), there’s a bunch of Adalius Thomases. Big-money free agency is a lottery. Look at it over the long term. Look at the Redskins.
You have to look where others don’t. If you do not, your entire team will end up being defined against the league’s mean. And given that 1. Indy doesn’t have the free money that other teams, like Washington does, and 2. Indy doesn’t pick high in the draft at all, they’ll be on the backside of the mean if they choose to go where the rest of the crowd does searching for players. At Indy’s level, they have to find talent where others don’t. The lower rungs of free agency will be one of those places.
Indy has done well in both selecting good high draft players as well as scouring the middle and lower rounds, and undrafted (and castoff) talent. They got great performance out of some high drafted running backs like Marshall Faulk and Edgerin James. They also got some unexpected production out of James Mungro and Dominic Rhodes. They got wonderful performace out of a high drafted lineman named Tarik Glenn, and they also got wonderful performance out of a castoff mentioned already: Jeff Saturday. They got great years out of a first round pick Marlin Jackson, and so far have gotten an unexpectedly good season out of undrafted Jacob Lacey. And they have all these mid- to late-round draft picks – Bethea, Garçon (both from the 6th round), Austin Collie (4th round), etc. – that are also working well. And for every Mike Peterson (remember, he was once a Colt) drafted high, there’s a Gary Brackett who’s not drafted at all. My point is that it is not only the big money FAs and high draft picks that make a team better. It’s also finding the castoffs who were out of place elsewhere (for the third time: Saturday. He’s my poster child for someone who doesn’t fit in at first but then finds a home and excels) but for some reason fit in well in Indy.
These moves so far are low risk, high potential for reward moves. No signing of “scrubs” is that expensive, and those same guys can easily be let go if they don’t perform. I’m all for brining in some castoffs to compete against draft picks – and hey, even current starters – for jobs. Competition keeps everyone sharp. And on top of all of that, since Polian arrived, Indy has shown itself to be consistently good about digging up talent that others have passed over. If all they’re giving some of these guys is a chance – and yes, they still have to earn things in training camp – then I’m willing to trust them on their decision. They’ve been right too much more often than not to not give them the benefit of the doubt as far as player analysis.
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by E.M.H. on Mar 11, 2010 10:03 AM EST up reply actions 6 recs
Good post
Rec’ed
"It's the greatest job in the world until Peyton comes off the field and you think his thumb might be broken and there's three minutes left in the AFC Championship Game and you're down by three to New England and you haven't taken a snap all year. Yeah, it's a great job until that point." - Jim Sorgi
by gizzardfanny on Mar 11, 2010 10:16 AM EST up reply actions
LETS HOPE THEY GET HIM
Big rt to back up or replace diem.and i say again that they should look at moving ugoh to LG. we know cj can play guard. draft the best LT on the board. and then we could have a running game that can shut the critics up
Well Said, Remember Tarik Glenn??
When we can run with Marshall Faulk, Edgerrin James and at that time, Joseph Addai?? As soon as Tarik left, our running game disappeared…..
Hmmmmmm......
I will continue to back Polian in terms of cutting Lilja to get bigger players who will improve the run game and maintain the pass game, but this guy? Lilja was decent, but not the amazing lineman some on here want to make him out to be. Yet, with this guy I’m looking, and not seeing how he’s better than Ryan was/is. If this is the path Polian is taking (signing unwanted free agents, who are bigger but not necessarily better, let go by other teams) and we don’t draft a big time blocker like Brown or Williams, or sign one like Gaither, then I have no clue how he thinks this will make us better up front. The taking other teams’ scrubs philosophy worked this past year and others before with recent guys like Muir and A.Johnson standing out, who turned out to be very good players who made the Packers and Titans look like idiots for letting them go, but that doesn’t mean it will keep working. When your job is to protect the best player in the league and the most vital part of this team, you better know how to freakin play. Are cut players, practice squad players, and backups really who you want to protect Peyton instead of Lilja? Lilja may have been a sub-par run blocker and injury prone, but he knew how to protect Peyton. Of course, I still hold out firm belief we will draft or sign some big time blockers that will make us all breathe a sigh of relief.
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Just did some more research now that we signed him
Was a bigger part of the Ravens’ o-line than I thought (I originally thought he was just a glorified practice squad player). He was actually a very key part of that o-line, just not as good as Gaither or Oher. This isn’t a bad signing at all.
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I think he's passable starter
very good guy to have backing up the tackle spots. He kept getting into the Ravens lineup, but they continually tried to replace him and declined to tender him.
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