For a columnist, there’s pretty much one basic commandment: Whatever debate you engage in, pick a side.
Believe what you want and say what you want, but stick to your guns. No waffling allowed.
I’m paid to do that, have an opinion. And on the subject of what the Ravens should do with their first-round pick in the 2017 NFL Draft, I do have an opinion.
I’d like to see them take a cornerback, an elite pass defender.
They’ve lacked that caliber of manpower for too long where so many games are won and lost these days – in the secondary, scene of the NFL’s primary turf war, the elbow-and-chirp-fest between receivers and defenders.