The Ravens have made it to the Playoffs 3 straight years with Boldin. compiling wins in each of their appearances. Pretty sure he would forfeit 20 catches, 200 yards and 2 touchdowns a season for the better of his team...
Remember, he is working with Flacco, had no receiving help his first year there, and obviously the Ravens are a run heavy team. I would argue that maybe you should look at Fitz' stats the last 2 years. The last three years of Fitz were supposed to be his prime, Boldin is beyond the twilight of his career as a 32 year old WR.
Um, the Ravens have made it to the playoffs and won at least one playoff game every year since 2008. Correlation famously does not equate causation. Believe me, Harbaugh, Ray Rice and the loads of other great players on that team had more to do with that than just Anquan. Here, he also made it to playoffs, won at least 1 game each time (er, actually not in 2009, since we beat the Packers WITHOUT him playing) and appeared in a SB, albeit only twice. Just like it has to do more with Lewis, Rice, Ngata, Suggs and Harbaugh this time, it had a lot to do with Warner, Fitz, Haley, Dockett and Wilson last time.
Flacco is not a bad QB. We are talking in terms of stats (the knock on him before was that he made too many bad decisions, which is true, but so did Warner when he helped Boldin rack up 102 catches, and 1400 yards in 2005), and statistically he is 60.6% compl. rating, ~3,600 yards and about 22 tds vs. 11 ints passing a year. Those are above-average numbers, so you can't say he has a bad QB. Boldin's YAC with BAL, a stat that has nothing to do with how much you run or pass since it's an average, is lower than it ever was in AZ, other than his injury-addled 2004 year.
I really have no clue why you brought up Fitz's stats from 2010-12 versus Boldin's since they really only shoot down your own argument.
Fitz, who had one of his worst statistical years in 2012 went 71/798/4. Boldin, in 2012, his best statistical year as a Raven went 65/920/4.
That means that Fitz in his worst year had a few more receptions, the same amount of TDs and only 122 fewer yards than Boldin in his best year as a Raven (Ryan Lindley and Brian Hoyer throwing you the ball behind Adam Snyder will do that to you).
What's more Fitz's stats in 2011 and 2010 that you suggested that I look up are PHENOMENAL. 2011: 80/1,411/8 and 2010: 90/1,137/6. Fitz racked up slightly more yardage in 2011, catching passes from awful QBs, than Boldin has at any point in his career including Arizona. So, not really sure what you're trying to prove there as Fitz's stats from 2010-2011 blow Anquan's away and his 2012 stats are about equal playing for one of the worst teams in the league while Anquan is on a Super Bowl contender. And you can't blame Joe Flacco for this one; as we've already established he's a good QB.
Fitz, on the other hand, put up superior stats while catching passes from Derek Anderson, John Skelton, Max Hall, Brian Hoyer, Ryan Lindley and Kevin Kolb. So yes, Fitz is still worth that money much more than Anquan.
For the last time, he's good, but it's not like having him on the Cardinals would mean we'd be in the Super Bowl or that the Ravens wouldn't be there or be 5-11 without him.