It's not about the Ravens player, though. It's about Mazi being a first round pick and Jerry not wanting to be embarrassed about cutting him.
I doubt Jerry would cut Mazi for Prime Vince Wilfork.
For me it is a little about the player. We aren't good at DT. At least not in the big boy sense. It's not like we cut a really talented promising DT to keep Mazi on the roster. Had we cut Winfrey to keep Mazi it would be a different story. But we need to get better at DT and Mazi is the weakest link on the current depth chart. So the easy answer is, I'm looking for someone who can be better than Mazi.
Okoye is a name I throw out there for multiple reasons. But if you need to stop the run throw Okoye and Toia at DT, Winfrey and Thomas at DE and you give yourself a pretty damn good chance of allowing your LBers to make a stop on a third and short or whatever.
Mazi getting blown off the ball in the same role makes zero sense. Now maybe there is a better name than Okoye out there. I have no idea. But the Ravens + 6'6" 370 pound dude who can move at least gets me excited. I haven't looked at all the cuts to see if there is a better option. But we played the Ravens in preseason and we damn sure should know this guy's name. And a Ravens team that was just way more physical than us.
