Per ESPN. I was hoping we would trade for him

Great analysis as usual from Solak. Includes film from Bengals

Tl;dr

- Pass rush is fine. Secondary is the reason the pass defense is bad (he includes the numbers)

- Two high safeties arent reading well and making mistakes. Corners are not as good as you'd like. Hamilton is better close to the line than in coverage. Roquan is smart in coverage but getting old.

- Solak thinks this will improve as Minter teaches the secondary but he still thinks pieces are too weak. He expects trades for corners/safeties with the Chargers at the deadline.

Watch the film. Guys going to be a monster the back half of the season.

OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Baltimore Ravens coach Jesse Minter had already fielded six questions about the status of Lamar Jackson’s left ankle when he was asked Monday if it was fair to say he simply didn’t know whether his star quarterback would practice later this week.

“I think we’ll definitely know for sure on Wednesday what it’s looking like,” Minter said.

A similar give-and-take with reporters has played out over the past three weeks, with Minter being noncommittal on Jackson’s availability until it became clear by week’s end that Jackson would miss that Sunday’s game.

Last week felt different. Jackson participated in the team’s walk-through Wednesday morning and took a few reps at the team’s full practice later that day. On Thursday and Friday, Jackson practiced on a limited basis and took a chunk of reps with the first-team offense.

Jackson addressed reporters for the first time in 3 ½ weeks Friday, indicating he’s dealing with a high-ankle sprain, an injury that can sideline players for four to six weeks, but that he’s headed in the “right direction.”

Then on Saturday, roughly 22 hours before the Ravens and Cincinnati Bengals kicked off at M&T Bank Stadium in a key AFC North game, the Ravens downgraded Jackson from “questionable” to “out.”

“I’m not going to speak really on the details of anybody’s injury,” Minter said Monday when asked what prompted the decision to rule Jackson out.

Read the rest for free here: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7728142/2026/10/27/lamar-jackson-injury-update-ravens/?unlocked_article_code=1.L1E.XSV6.MrEs5yf-eG9J&source=emp_shared_article&smid=url-share-ta

Roquan
Calais
Henry
Trey
Marlo*
LAMAR
Ronnie

Like some of these guys are getting paid a disproportionately high amount of the teams cap and they aren't leading?
Ro and Marlon can head on right now if that's the case.

I'm looking at everyone.

I get Ronnie is probably rolling in the EBT dough right now with his blossoming movie career and that bitch Tabitha’s probably up to her fake tits in alimony payments nowadays but in the name of Cal Ripken Jr Junior, not having this man’s manic post-win toasts or his suicidal post-loss pining has this season thus far so intolerably ambivalent. Ronnie’s the gauge, yo.

The blown-lead graphic is floating around with the total now at 22 games; my main premise is that this is largely overstated and a mix of three different things. I went through every game on the graphic and linked the box score below with my thoughts.

What it gets right: about a fifth of these are genuine collapses, with some bad losses sprinkled in.

• Miami 2022: up 35-14 in the fourth, lost 42-38.
• Buffalo 2025: up 40-25 midway through the fourth, lost 41-40.
• Cleveland 2023: up 31-17 with 11 minutes left, at a 98% win probability.
• Cincinnati 2026: up 13-0 at halftime, lost 35-13 (Huntley Game, still historic L)
• The 2011 Steelers, 2018 Saints, 2020 Titans, and 2026 Saints games were bad losses but not notable leads imo.

What it gets wrong:

1. About 12 of the 22 are screenshots taken seconds before the opponent scored, and 5 more are scores from right before halftime. Using a fixed checkpoint (up 15+ at the half or 10+ entering the fourth, equal possessions, etc.), only 3 of the 22 qualify. Many of the rest were back-and-forth games with multiple lead changes, where the "lead" was 10 points for a single possession.
2. It spans 18 years and multiple eras. Flacco, Lamar, three different Huntley starts, and a new head coach are all treated as one identity. Only 2 of the 22 come from Lamar's 2018–21 seasons, when the Ravens were an elite 31-2 when up 10+ in the second half.
3. Raw counts reward good teams. The Ravens are one of the NFL’s best fast starters; in 2023, they led at halftime in 11 of their first 12 games and outscored opponents by a league-best 116 first-half points, and no defense played more snaps with a double-digit lead in 2022–23. You can’t blow a lead you never had. So far, the Ravens led at half 6 out of their 7 games this year.

What the data actually suggests:

• 2018–21: the Ravens won about 94% of games when up 10+ in the second half, the same rate as Mahomes' Chiefs.
• 2022–23: that dropped to roughly 73–80%, which is a real problem.
• 2026: three blown double-digit leads already, and they’re just 3-3 when leading at halftime (league norm about 90% when lead is 10+). That’s concerning, but with two of those losses under a backup QB and no lead larger than 13, it’s too early to call it a trend.

Bottom line: the Ravens had a real lead-protection problem in 2022–23 (ironically while Macdonald was here; see side tangent below), and 2026 is trending the wrong way. The now infamous meme is a 20-year collage of mostly 10-point snapshots that doesn't prove the "chronic chokers" label rather inflates a two-season problem into a franchise identity.

Side Tangent: The 2022–23 dip, funny enough, lines up exactly with Mike Macdonald’s tenure as defensive coordinator. In 2023, his defense won the triple crown, leading the NFL in sacks (60), takeaways (31) and points allowed (16.5 per game), yet it still gave up a 31-17 fourth-quarter lead to Cleveland.

The pattern also followed him to Seattle. His 2025 Seahawks defense was elite by most measures, but it had a negative point differential in the fourth quarter while dominating the first three, and it twice failed to close out games early in the season.

Macdonald is an excellent defensive mind. Still, the evidence points to a possible pattern in this scheme family: dominant early, more vulnerable late. That could be from opponents adjusting to the disguise-heavy looks, or from a structure that gives up efficient drives when protecting a lead. We may be seeing a similar pattern early with Minter, but there are far more variables at play; an interesting thought regardless.

Here is each game summarized below for your own review:

I’ll be there all Thanksgiving week and I read online that Christian’s Tailgate Bar is a ravens bar out there to watch the panthers game. Anyone tailgating before the Texans game?

I got a notification that I was supposed to get my jacket last week on Saturday, but then got an email for USPS that there was a delivery exception after being out for delivery in my area (Towson), which then showed up in Texas.

Curious to see if anyone else got their jacket or similar experience?

#RavensFlock

Game Results Week 7

Scoring

Lucky Guess Standings (after week 7)

Week 8

Ravens (4-3) @ Bills (5-1)

Guesses must be made before kickoff 11/1/26 at 1pm EST

Good luck!

Link to presser with timestamp

Sorry for the jacked title but hard to distill the exact exchange succinctly.

That is a crazy answer for a coach that has been so measured in his responses thus far. I'm not blaming Lamar, nor looking to start drama, but that indicates to me that they're not always on the same page. Going to continue to be an issue as we try to work out an extension next off-season.

I’ve been a Ravens fan since 2000. They were the first football team I ever watched play on TV, and I’ve been riding with them ever since. Back in the day, no matter how bad things looked, I always believed we had a chance. Even when we were an average or bad team, we fought until the very end. We always found a way to hang around and make it a game. We could be down 40 points, and I’d still believe we could come back.

But these past few years have been different. It’s sad because now, even when we’re winning, I find myself expecting us to somehow lose the game. I never thought I’d reach a point where seeing my team leading at halftime or in the fourth quarter would make me nervous instead of excited.

I miss that feeling of knowing we were going to fight until the final whistle. I still love our team, and that’s never going to change. I just hope this game was the wake up call we needed. I want that Ravens mentality back. 🫡💪🏿

I heard the R-A-V-E-N-S chant yesterday as I was walking in, this was well before kick-off. Once the game started I didn't see Dan or hear the chant once. Was he not at the game yesterday?