According to Yahoo! Sports and Carroll County Times..

The Baltimore Ravens have officially signed LB Ray Lewis to his new contract, according to a report in the Carroll County Times. However, what has been reported as a three-year, $22 million contract is actually a convoluted seven-year contract with $15.5 million guaranteed, according to one source each from the team and the NFL Players Association.

According to the sources, who have seen Lewis' contract, the deal is actually a complicated version of accounting designed to pay Lewis $10 million in the first year of the team. That breakdown is a $6.25 million signing bonus, a $2.75 million roster bonus and a $1 million base salary for the 2009 season.

The Ravens then have two "options" to exercise in the 2010 and 2011 seasons. If the Ravens pick up the 2010 option, they must pay Lewis $1.25 million as an option bonus. He then makes $4.25 million in base salary. In 2011, the second option bonus would pay Lewis a $2 million bonus and a base salary of $4.5 million. No details were given in regards to the latter four years of the contract.

"The reason for doing it this way is to deal with the salary cap, assuming that there's a cap again," the NFLPA source said. "It's just a way of handling the proration on the signing bonus and the other money."

Lewis agreed to terms with the Ravens last Wednesday after testing the free-agency market for a few days. The 10-time Pro Bowler has spent his entire 13-year career with Baltimore.

After last year's Le'Ron McClain show, what will his role be in the upcoming season? Will he go back to playing the role of a standard fullback or will he 1-2 punch with McGahee?

As talented as the kid is, I'd hate to see him become a blocker. Not taking anything away from Neal's great career of paving the road of the great backs behind him, but McClain is motivated and ready to do more than block.

At the same time it sucks having such great backs, because what happens to the touches Ray Rice should be getting? We all saw what he could do last year and I'd like to see more.

It will be a good fight in training camp and preseason.

Just like people who don't like Obama, I have to sit back and either support Joe or move onto another team.

However, Flacco still needs to regain my trust. The kid sucks against the Steelers and should've benched himself in the AFC Championship game or at least dual QB'd with Troy Smith. Flacco can barely complete a pass against the Steelers in regular season games, yet he makes us depend on him to get to the Superbowl. Yeah right. I am still angry at him for costing us the Superbowl and has still yet to win me over.

Do we have a franchise quarterback in Joe Flacco? With last year's performance, it's a no. You have one more year to change my mind Joe. He is no Matt Ryan.