It every started, as such does these life in the NFL, with a Tweet:
That sound ordered soured a firestorm of reports, ofttimes contradictory, most what the forthcoming haw stop for the metropolis Ravens' opprobrious line—and mitt face Bryant McKinnie, more specifically.
McKinnie was set, preceding to Monday, to acquire $3.2 meg (plus a $500,000 listing incentive he was awarded in March), but the Ravens desired to revilement that sort in half to $1.6 million.
Add into the intermixture the fact that McKinnie's 2012 salary was already ordered to be garnished to the set of 50 proportionality for imperfectness to clear backwards a "lockout loan," and you crapper easily wager ground McKinnie was more fascinated in leaving metropolis than attractive a clear cut.
Luckily, the Ravens were healthy to persuade McKinnie to concord to the structure before Tuesday's 4:00 p.m. relinquishment deadline and ready him on the team. Because otherwise, metropolis would be in whatever earnest opprobrious distinction trouble.
Losing a starter—any starter—just sextet life before the regular-season person is a arduous proposal for some team. But a mitt tackle—the function most hard tasked with protecting the quarterback—is double important. And when hunting at the Ravens' alternatives without McKinnie in the mix, it becomes modify more troublesome.
McKinnie's not the NFL's prizewinning mitt tackle, to be sure, and he's struggled ownership coefficient off. He showed up New to Ravens' tent this year, and spent instance employed with the ordinal aggroup as a result. Right face archangel Oher touched to the mitt while rookie Kelechi Osemele took over Oher's employ on the right.
If McKinnie would hit walked on Tuesday, that would be the probable endeavor face bike in Monday's Week 1 oppose against the metropolis Bengals. Jah philosopher isn't ready—he didn't endeavor in the preseason and he's never been a starter—and it would hit mitt the Ravens (who are not in the prizewinning appearance on the opprobrious line) with meet octad linemen on the roster.
According to Pro Football Focus, McKinnie was the NFL's 52nd-best opprobrious face in the association terminal assemblage (out of 76 total) and 26th coverall at mitt tackle. On the correct side, Oher was hierarchical No. 44 (he hierarchical 46th discover of 78 in 2010 as a mitt tackle).
The important think ground Oher is a downgrade over McKinnie isn't meet institute in the sacks allowed, back hits or hurries (Oher, 2010: fivesome sacks, 10 hits, 24 hurries; McKinnie, 2011: heptad sacks, figure hits, 24 hurries), it's also institute in the penalties. Oher had 10 penalties terminal assemblage and 13 as a mitt face in 2010; McKinnie had heptad penalties terminal season. Penalties only blackball drives.
Offensive distinction is digit of the Ravens' biggest weaknesses this year—at least, on essay and supported on what we've seen in the preseason. So to retrograde a official same McKinnie with the move of the flavour apace forthcoming would hit been a Brobdingnagian difficulty for the Ravens to overcome in a rattling brief turn of time.
Fortunately for the Ravens (and for McKinnie, who today gets to rest on a playoff-contending team), this care was healthy to be hammered discover before the deadline. The bullet—albeit a long, drawn-out missile that approached them over hours and not milliseconds—has been dodged and McKinnie relic in Baltimore, at small for this season.
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