Rashod Bateman calls out Ravens GM DeCosta: ‘Stop pointing the finger’

There’s some pressure brewing in Charm City.

Baltimore Ravens common supervisor Eric DeCosta spoke candidly when requested concerning the crew’s obvious points through the years in terms of drafting and growing stable large receivers.

“We’ve never really hit on that All-Pro type of guy, which is disappointing, but it’s not for a lack of effort,” he stated Wednesday on the 2023 NFL Scouting Combine. “It’s one of those anomalies that I really can’t explain, other than to say that we’re not going to stop trying. … [Hopefully] at one of these points, we’re gonna hit the ball out of the park.”

Understandably, DeCosta’s feedback did not sit properly with among the Ravens’ present receivers.

Rashod Bateman, a first-round choose by Baltimore in 2021, promptly responded on social media in a since-deleted Tweet, saying that DeCosta ought to “stop pointing the finger” on the receiving corps and No. 8, alluding to quarterback Lamar Jackson, who’s at the moment within the midst of a contract standoff with the Ravens forward of the beginning of free company.

Bateman added that if DeCosta cared concerning the receivers and preserving them wholesome, issues could be totally different.

Meanwhile, former teammate Marquise “Hollywood” Brown, who was traded by Baltimore to the Arizona Cardinals final season for a first-round choose within the 2022 NFL Draft, voiced his help for Bateman on-line.

“Let him cook,” Brown wrote in response to Bateman’s feedback.

Bateman has arguably located himself as one of many Ravens’ prime pass-catchers, however his first two NFL seasons have been riddled with accidents which have severely restricted the 23-year-old from reaching his full potential.

He missed 5 regular-season video games on account of groin surgical procedure as a rookie however nonetheless managed to complete third on the Ravens’ receiving leaders listing (515 yards) behind tight finish Mark Andrews (1,361) and veteran wideout Brown (1,008). 

Bateman had one other setback his sophomore season, taking part in in simply six regular-season video games in 2022 earlier than present process season-ending foot surgical procedure. He completed fifth on the Ravens’ leaderboard with a mere 285 yards behind Andrews (847 yards), receivers Demarcus Robinson (458) and Devin Duvernay (407), and back-up tight finish Isaiah Likely (373).

Bateman, the twenty seventh total choose in 2021, has but to look in a postseason recreation for Baltimore.

The 10-7 Ravens completed second within the AFC North final season behind the Cincinnati Bengals (12-4). However, Baltimore ranked at or close to the underside in nearly each receiving metric potential.

The Ravens completed the 2022-23 marketing campaign second to final within the NFL in big-play receptions (catches of 20-plus yards) with simply 33, in addition to ending thirtieth in yards after catch per recreation (80.2) and twenty eighth in whole receptions (300). Baltimore ranked twenty second within the league in yards per reception (10.7) and did not have a single large receiver eclipse 500 yards.

The Ravens are aiming to alter that subsequent season with the offseason rent of Todd Monken because the crew’s new offensive coordinator. He changed Greg Roman, who lately parted methods with the Ravens after 4 seasons.

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