Donte Stallworth was brought to Baltimore to give the Ravens a speedy down field threat, but finished the season with just two catches for 82 yards. Sports Illustrated’s Peter King told Mike Duffy of BaltimoreRavens.com that he wasn’t sure why the team even signed Stallworth.
“They never took advantage of him all year long,” King said. “Obviously, he was hurt at the beginning and then was inactive, but the second half of the season. There’s a deep speed threat.”
Stallworth, who was used primarily for end arounds, expressed his displeasure with the Ravens play calling after the season concluded. Via twitter, Stallworth told his fans that he “just didn’t get the opportunity” in the Ravens offense.
“The Steelers don’t take Mike Wallace and only use him on end-arounds,” King said. “I couldn’t believe it.”
Stallworth did suffer a broken foot in the preseason that cut his season in half, but it didn’t limit his speed. He carried the ball five times for 45 yards this season.
“I just never saw them doing something in the passing game with Donte’ Stallworth, who’s your biggest speed threat when you need to open up your offense,” King said. “Next year, they’ve got to do more imaginative stuff.”
King, like Mike Preston, recognizes that the Ravens will likely try to bring in another wide receiver this offseason, but he says that they are really missing out on what Stallworth had to offer.
Peter King has an Agenda! How can he question Harbaugh and his staff?!?! He’s gone to the playoffs 3 staright years!
i agree with mr.king the offense has to be more imaginative with the play calling alot of plays surely make me shake my head and think WTH are they trying to do start using stallworth better this season he has the speed to open up the offense more
The dirty little secret was that Stallworth’s speed was far from impressive when he returned from the broken foot.
That said, Cameron didn’t do anyone any favors by basically telegraphing the end around whenever Stallworth was on the field.
Just when the taste of last year’s collapse is about to leave my mouth, I bite into it again.
People, people, people… you all need to calm down with Stallworth…
Harbaugh, the career Special Teams Coach, is going to get more involved in the offense next year which will certainly boost the Ravens into the Super Bowl…
Harbaugh is spot on, having fired a bunch of coaches and letting Raven Nation know that he is coming to the offensive rescue… Stallworth is sure to get 90 catches next year while Boldin nails 100+.
I have faith in the great Harbaugh!
Just saw this… And MGW hit on it about 2 weeks ago with Harbaugh and the Ravens…
Harbaugh and Ravens are signing these obscure, unknown players for some reason just like the Orioles do.
Today it was stated that the Ravens signed little-known offensive tackle Eric VandenHeuvel. VandenHeuvel has been out of football for the past two years. He declined an invitation to the 2009 NFL scouting combine because he decided to no longer play football.
What is going on??? Is Harbaugh wanting these obscure players because they will do anything to make the team unlike veterans who will talk back and not let Harbaugh play those High School kid games with them…
Point blank, Oher is a bust, he was responsible for I think at less 90 percent of Flaccos hurries and sacks bench him or move him he hurt us bad. We also need a Too Tall Jones type of guy at nose, we need a up field rush from the middle badly that little pocket is where all the qb ‘s have beaten us from. Three backs like we have , teams should be exausted after playing us, we should rule the second half of any game Is Flacco’s red zone ineffectiveness coaches fault? Or does he need a gonad transplant from Brett Farve, it’s time to grow up and showup or let the next guy show us what he’s got left, we don’r want another Boller situation.