{"id":139061,"date":"2023-03-03T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=139061"},"modified":"2023-03-02T21:11:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T02:11:46","slug":"current-former-ravens-criticisms-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2023\/03\/03\/current-former-ravens-criticisms-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"Current, Former Ravens Criticisms A Damning Statement on Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"

So far, March 2023 has not been a great month for the Baltimore Ravens organization. The NFLPA released report cards<\/a> on every single team in the league, with grades voted on by the players. The Ravens had the worst strength grade in the league by a considerable margin, and once that news broke, current and former players took to Twitter to criticize the objectively terrible work of Baltimore’s strength and conditioning program.<\/p>\n

As if that wasn’t enough, in completely unrelated news, wide receiver Rashod Bateman took personal offense to veiled criticism by General Manager Eric DeCosta, telling him in a since-deleted tweet to play to player’s strengths and keep the players healthy.<\/p>\n

If this was just one or two players, you could write this off as a small sample of professionals that had a poor experience with the organization. However, this many players – both on and off the roster – coming together to criticize the Baltimore Ravens just goes to show that there is something fundamentally wrong with the organization, and it needs to get addressed.<\/p>\n

Current, Former Ravens Offer Damning Criticism of Organization<\/h2>\n

The Failure of the Strength and Conditioning Program<\/h3>\n

One of the most interesting parts of the NFLPA report cards is that players from almost every organization in football believe that, to some extent, their strength coaches are doing a good job. The Ravens, however, are the exception to the rule, as their F- was one of only two subpar grades, alongside the Atlanta Falcons D-.<\/p>\n

Once news of the voting broke, it didn’t take long for both former and current members of the organization to start airing grievances with the former strength and conditioning coach Steve Saunders. Quincy Adeboyejo, Bam Bradley<\/a>, Carl Davis<\/a>, Derek Wolfe<\/a>, and Matt Judon<\/a> all spoke out about Baltimore’s terrible strength team, with Adeboyejo’s story being especially horrifying.<\/p>\n

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Year 2 .. I went thru a full week of off season training with the team just for a surprise text day before rookie mini camp saying they wanted me to participate . 15 minutes into practice I tear my quad completely off the bone. Everything went downhill from there<\/p>\n

— Quincy Adeboyejo (@QuincyA18) March 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n