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The Ravens' front office has been busy, but this week's owners meetings give them an opportunity to get even more done.

Despite re-signing left tackle Eugene Monroe, tight end Dennis Pitta and wide receiver Jacoby Jones, adding veteran playmaker Steve Smith and hiring a new coordinator, the Ravens still have work left to do this offseason to improve an offense that plummeted to 29th in total yards and 25th in scoring in 2013.

After struggling to establish himself in three seasons with the Ravens, wide receiver Tandon Doss has taken his act to Jacksonville.

Despite the Ravens' emphasis on reinforcing their offense during the first week of free agency, NFL draft analyst Mel Kiper Jr. still thinks they should address that side of the football during the first round of the draft.

Since signing with the Ravens, Steve Smith has told anyone who will listen that he's not the final piece of the team's championship puzzle.

By the end of last season, Rice was heavier than he'd been at any point in his NFL career, weighing roughly 225 pounds.

The Ravens have now agreed to terms on a contract with the five-time Pro Bowl wide receiver, according to league sources.

The Ravens have now agreed to terms on a contract with the five-time Pro Bowl wide receiver, according to league sources.

Ravens linebacker Daryl Smith drastically outperformed his 2013 deal and was rewarded Friday with a four-year, $16.1 million contract, according to league sources.

After monitoring the Smith and Carolina Panthers fallout from afar, the Ravens finally had their first opportunity to make their pitch to the five-time Pro Bowl receiver after he was released following 13 NFL seasons with the Panthers.

Jacoby Jones was in the middle of his free agent visit with the New York Giants Wednesday when he had an epiphany and decided to return to the Ravens.

The Carolina Panthers have cut veteran wide receiver Steve Smith, and the Baltimore Ravens could pursue him.

The deal for Jacoby Jones, a proven deep threat and one of the game's fastest returners, has a maximum value of $14 million if he hits all his incentive clauses, sources said.

The Ravens continued to focus on their own unrestricted free agents, signing wide receiver Jacoby Jones to a four-year deal.

About 30 minutes after the market opened at 4 p.m., the Ravens fulfilled their top free-agent priority agreeing to terms with left tackle Eugene Monroe on a five-year, $37.5 million deal, according to a league source.

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Negotiations between the Ravens and offensive tackle Eugene Monroe are heating up and sources predict a deal will get done today barring any unanticipated snags.

Eugene's Monroe's status looms large as free agency opens and the Ravens prepare to lose several kept players from the organization.

The NFL's annual free-agency spending spree officially gets underway Tuesday, with the Ravens in a slightly different position than in the recent past.

As free agency beckons, the Ravens are in a position to be more aggressive than usual, and they'll probably have to be to find an accomplished left tackle.

National draft analysts have released a wave of new mock drafts after the NFL scouting combine wrapped up last week, but we continue to see many of the same names linked to the Ravens at pick No. 17

Despite the 'sins,' it counters the NFL, political and show-biz spin

Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice was trending on Twitter Wednesday for all the wrong reasons. In an eight hour period, Rice's image took an epic pounding -- one from which it might never recover.

Now that the Ravens have finalized their $28.5 million contract extension with Pro Bowl outside linebacker Terrell Suggs, they still have a considerable amount of unfinished business.

The NFL's annual offseason free agent spending spree won't officially get underway until March 11, but the Ravens will have a $6.7 million decision to make within the next couple of weeks.

The Ravens answered one of their biggest offseason questions Sunday night, agreeing to a new contract with rush linebacker Terrell Suggs, the organization's longest-tenured player.

Former Ravens safety Ed Reed had $50,000 stolen from him in Houston, according to Local 2 News in Houston.

The NFL scouting combine is in a couple of weeks, unofficially starting the league's silly season. But even though the NFL draft is still three long months away, draft analysts continue to update their mock drafts.

While most people expect the Ravens to draft a wide receiver or offensive lineman in the first round of May's draft, they also could be tempted if a play-making safety is available.

Baltimore fans have less interest in Super Bowl XLVIII a year after watching their Ravens win the championship.

After shelling out about $600,000 in free furniture last year, Gardiners Furniture is testing its luck once again on Super Bowl Sunday.

It shouldn't surprise you that most NFL players would rather have Tom Brady or Peyton Manning as their quarterback -- not Joe Flacco -- with two minutes left in the Super Bowl and a championship on the line.

Ravens fullback Vonta Leach reached out to Ravens coach John Harbaugh and encouraged him to interview Gary Kubiak, his former coach in Houston, for the team's vacant offensive coordinator position.

The forecast from Accuweather.com as of Sunday afternoon projects a 30 percent chance of snow when the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks play for the Lombardi Trophy.

Veteran linebacker Terrell Suggs said early in the season that he'd love to be one of those rare guys who plays his entire career in one place but the next couple of months will put that to the test.

The reaction from owner Steve Bisciotti undoubtedly would have taken on a much more serious tone if Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin's sideline interference in November had cost the Ravens a football game.

"The Ravens aren't cheap," said Joel Corry, a former NFL agent who writes about the business of football for National Football Post. Now the team must face several complicated personnel and financial decisions.

One of the many things that the guys over at Pro Football Focus do is grade every player that plays a snap in the NFL. So since the Ravens' season is over, let's go back and see which players received positive marks from PFF and which ones were in the red.

In this week's season-ending edition of Blogger on Blogger, I reached out to Baltimore Sports and Life blogger Daniel Bryden, who does a great job breaking down the Ravens, to wrap up the 2013 season.

Baltimore Sun reporter Aaron Wilson looks at the film from the Ravens' season-ending loss to the Bengals.

Following a disappointing 8-8 season in which the Ravens failed to qualify for the playoffs after making it the previous five seasons under coach John Harbaugh, they face another challenging offseason filled with difficult personnel and salary cap decisions.

Finally, in Sunday's 34-17 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals, the Ravens were able to use tight end Dennis Pitta as they originally envisioned before training camp kicked off.

For half a decade, the Ravens spoiled their faithful fans. With Joe Flacco under center and John Harbaugh wearing the head coach¿s headset, the Ravens went to the playoffs five years in a row, the only team to accomplish that feat over that span.

The Ravens (8-7) need a victory over the AFC North champion Cincinnati Bengals and a loss by either the Miami Dolphins to the New York Jets or the San Diego Chargers to the Kansas City Chiefs to make the postseason for a sixth straight year.