The Baltimore Ravens learned a valuable lesson last season: That Joe Flacco’s talent depends upon the talent around him.

After letting Anquan Boldin leave for the San Francisco 49ers for what now seems like a bargain, Flacco and the Ravens’ offense had a tough year between Flacco’s struggles and Ray Rice having a terrible season.

Flacco finished with the 32nd ranked passer rating in the league, and Rice finished the year with just 660 yards and four touchdowns. General manager Ozzie Newsome set out this offseason to fix those numbers and get Flacco and the offense back to the level that won them a Super Bowl just two years ago.

Baltimore signed Steve Smith after he was released by the Panthers, and made a late-offseason move by grabbing tight end Owen Daniels, who played for Gary Kubiak (Baltimore’s new offensive coordinator) in Houston.

So what can Smith and Daniels do to revive the offense?

Flacco should be the first benefactor of both these signings. Flacco’s personality is the opposite of Smith’s. Smith will mouth off to opponents on the field and go into the locker room to get his teammates just as fired up about the game.

After losing Ray Lewis to retirement, the Ravens lost that personality in the locker room. Smith can come in and be the guy that gets the rest of the players pumped up before games.

But from a pure strategy standpoint, Smith gives Flacco a new target. Boldin and Smith have two very similar skill sets.

They can both up and get hard-to-reach passes, can stretch the field and can make game-changing plays. Although Smith’s days of being a No. 1 receiver are over at the age of 34, he can still make plays and be a complement to Torrey Smith.

Smith is first and foremost a deep threat, leaving Smith to play over the middle of the field. With Cam Newton throwing to him in Carolina, Smith got used to those kinds of routes. Newton’s arm isn’t nearly as strong as Flacco’s, but the Ravens simply don’t need yet another receiver to run straight down the field.

Jacoby Jones and Smith already bring that to the table. Last season, when Smith was on and off the field with injuries, he picked the up the majority of his yardage when the passes were thrown between one and 10 yards in the air, only picking up three catches that traveled more than 21 yards.

It was the same story in 2012 when Smith was healthier. He caught all but 10 of his 73 receptions that year from inside 20 yards.

Meanwhile, Flacco can focus on having Jones and Smith (and in some cases Marlon Brown) go deep. His deep ball numbers dropped off from his Super Bowl season to last year. In 2013, Flacco only completed eight of his 51 attempts that traveled between 21 and 30 yards, and six of his career-high 22 interceptions came in that same range.

During the Super Bowl season, Flacco’s completion percentage was 45 percent from that range, and he had six touchdowns and no interceptions. That drop-off in production is no coincidence—Boldin’s absence really hurt Flacco’s ability to make use of his weapons.

This is also where Daniels’s presence comes into play. Dennis Pitta will still be Flacco’s top safety valve, and the top tight end option for Baltimore.

But Daniels is only one year removed from having 62 catches for 716 yards and a career-high six touchdowns.

During the 2012 season, Flacco had a higher completion percentage (62.1) when there were two tight ends on the field than any other combination of wide receivers and tight ends. The same even goes for last season, when Baltimore’s tight end spot was decimated by injuries all season.

Daniels is also a solid blocker, but not great. Still, Arian Foster and Ben Tate had success as backs with Daniels blocking for them, and the Ravens’ running game can only improve from what it was last season (assuming Rice doesn’t miss any time because of his legal situation).

Adding Smith and Daniels to the roster gives Baltimore more options in the passing game, and Smith should fill the role left behind by Bolding, and will bring passion into the locker room that the team lost on the defensive side of the ball after the Super Bowl run.

Note: All stats used were from ESPN.