November 23, 2025 • 26 mins
Team insiders Ryan Mink and Garrett Downing share their takeaways from the Ravens' 23-10 win over the New York Jets, including how Baltimore climbed back above .500, how the newcomers have sparked the defense, what the problem is on offense, a historic day for punter Jordan Stout, and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome into the Lounge presented by DraftKings. I'm Ryan Mink
here with Garrett Downing. Following the Ravens twenty three to
ten win over the New York Jets here at M
and T Banks Stadium. The Ravens have won five straight now, Garrett,
after starting one in five. They are now above five
hundred for the first time this season, sitting in first place,
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tied with the Pittsburgh Steelers at six and five. If
you had told me when the Ravens were one and
five that before they even get to Thanksgiving they're going
to be in first place, I'd have been like, Wow,
what a turnaround, And goodness gracious, it an't easy to
win five games. You can talk about the opponents, you
can talk about all that stuff, it ain't easy to
win five straight games.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah, this is really significant for the team. Obviously.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I think that when this team was sitting at one
and five, a lot of people counted them out, and
we were saying at that time that the Ravens felt
like they just had to kind of go into that
they had to go into the hole, and they had
not listen to anything, and they needed to get healthy
and they needed to basically keep the thing together and
come out swinging. They were able to do that, and
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they've now been able to put together these five straight
wins and to be at first place in the division
before you've even played the Steelers, haven't even had a
chance to play them and knock them back. Is not
the way that a lot of people expected the season
to go based on the first month. But the Ravens
are in this position and I think it speaks to
I think it speaks to the makeup of this team.
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And something that stands out to me over these last
couple of weeks, especially the last two games, is that
the Ravens are finding ways to win no matter what,
even if it's ugly, which today's game kind of was
last week's game kind of ugly. But the Ravens are
winning those games and that's really all that matters. There's
no ugly asters, there's just wins and losses, and the
Ravens have five straight of them.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
That's correct.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yeah, the Ravens are not gonna get Brownie points or
style points or whatever you want to call them for
this win over the New York Jets. But everybody knew
when the Ravens went into their by at one to five,
that they were entering the softer part of their schedule.
Three road games in a row isn't easy, but that's
kind of We all said that when they were at
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their by, why could they turn around? Well, they were,
they started off, and the schedule was really tough out
of the gate against some of the powerhouses in both conferences,
and then this was kind of the softer part and
they feasted on it. They had the pre Thanksgiving feast
on that part of the schedule. You got to make
sure you're not too full. If you eat too much
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before the next we won't go down that road.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
But you know, they did what they needed to do.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And and now the question I think becomes and what
a lot of fans want to know, is can they
beat the better teams when they come up against them,
And it remains to be seen. They have to They
have to improve, in my opinion, to keep doing that,
and it starts offensively. They have to get better on offense.
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They came out slow today against the New York Jets,
seventy two yards in the first half with this was
the second fewest total yards in a first half with
Lamar Jackson as their starting quarterback, and really after the game,
we did not have we did not hear many answers
from the offense about why they were so sluggish out
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of the gates.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah, it was a slow start, there's no question about it.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
And the Ravens like the first quarter and a half
it was just kind of trading punts with the Jets,
and neither offense was able to do that much of anything.
The Jets they get a first half touchdown, but it
was by no means a style points kind of game.
And you look at the final numbers and they're not
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impressive for the Ravens offense. Lamar Jackson had one hundred
and fifty three passing yards. Derek Henry had sixty four
rushing yards with a three yard average. He had two touchdowns,
which obviously were significant. Zay Flowers was the leading receiver
with fifty eight receiving yards on five catches. So like
they're they're not lighting up the record books with the
offensive performance today, and a lot of that has to
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do with how they started, I will say. However, they
did put it together there at the end of the
second quarter into the third and they had four straight
scoring drives. If you take out the basically nothing drive
at the very last drive at the end of the
first half, which was a Neil down drive. It took
one shot, but I'm not going to count that as
a full drive. And they scored four straight drives and
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so it was not like a great offensive showing. But
they did put it together there in the middle of
the game, and that gave them plenty to get not
run away with the win, but to win comfortably in
the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And they ran the ball better in the second half
certainly than they did in the first half. They still
went two to five in the red zone. Not good production.
But those two touchdowns are really big, including one on
fourth and two that they had to have and punched
it in on third, third and one, you know, right
on the goal line as well. So just had a
scary moment of fumble lamar pigs on the play before.
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But you know, you got two big touchdowns when you
had to have them down near the goal line, short
yard situations that we've been harping on. Would do you
want it better red zone percentage than.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Two for five?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Absolutely, but without those two touchdowns you don't get it done. Now,
one of the Ravens scoring drives was set up by
a fourth down stop by the Ravens defense in Nate Wiggins,
which basically they took over possession in scoring range already,
and both of their touchdown drives are also set up
by big time pass interference calls on the New York Jets,
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one to Mark Andrews on their first touchdown drive and
then another on to Say Flowers.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
So they were penalties, they count like.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
They weren't like questionable penalties.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
They were exactly would you know, would they have made
the catch without those penalties?
Speaker 4 (05:51):
It would have been tough debatable.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
So, you know, I think we can all agree that
right now the Ravens offense is not playing at a
really high level.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
You know, they need to get better.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
To me, a lot of it starts with Lamar Jackson
and him getting healthier that Lamar after the game made
it clear he is not going to blame his injuries
for the offense's performance.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
He's just not going to do it.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
You'll never know how Lamar Jackson is truly feeling because
he he's just not wired that way. And you know,
to him it's all execution. Everybody else on offense, it's
we got to execute better. You know, we got to
run the ball better. We got to get our assigns
better blocking up front, We got to you know, do that. Like,
there wasn't a clear answer in the locker room after
this game, and there hasn't been for weeks really about
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what it is. We all know red zone. They got
to improve in the red zone. They are taking care
of the ball better, which is a major component to
why they're winning these games.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
That you can win football exactly.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
You can not play well, but if you take care
of the football and your defense is playing the way
it is, you win football games. And you know, so
it's not that every thing is going wrong, but it's
it's certainly we've seen this offense produce at higher levels.
I mean, Lamar Jackson's now going three straight games without
throwing from more than two hundred yards. He has one
touchdown passing two interceptions over the last three weeks. It's
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not the kind of numbers that we're used to for
Lamar Jackson and particularly running the ball. The fact of
the matter is that Lamar Jackson is not beating teams
with his legs right now, and we've seen him beat
many teams with his legs right now, and it's just
not happening. I mean, he ran the ball today seven
times for eleven yards. We are not used to seeing
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that from Lamar Jackson. I think we all know it's
because he's banged up to what degree out it We
can't none of us can say, because Lamar ain't gonna
answer it.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yeah, Lamar's just gonna say.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
As he's been asked about that multiple times over the
last throughout the season, he says, if he's playing, he says,
I'm good exactly. That's the full context that you get.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
But what we do know he said that this is
really the first time in his career that he's dealt
with a lingering, a nagging injury that he's been playing through.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Well. In his previous injuries, he's been out.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah, and it's not injury, it's injuries. You look at it.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
He had a hamstring injury that costs him three games.
He then dealt with a knee injury. Then this week
it was an ankle injury, and Charles Davis pointed out
on the broadcast that Lamar had the double ankle tape
job out there today, which we don't typically see him have,
which is an indication of what he feels like is
necessary in order to play, and so yeah, he's not
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like Lamar is the greatest running quarterback of all time.
He's got all the records in that category. And so
if you take it, if you diminish that element a
little bit because you're banged up, it's going to change
your offense. And I think that that's part of what
we're seeing, and the Ravens need to adjust in other ways.
Part of that is getting Dereck Henry going. Part of
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that is getting the other weapons like Keith Mitchell, who
who continues to have some bright spots at a big
run taken off the board today.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
But I think that.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I think that that's part of part of the answer,
and then you just hope that over the course of
the season Lamar continues to get healthier. The truth is
that the Ravens are playing on four days rest, They're
playing on Thanksgiving. So I don't think this is the
week we're all said and the magic health pall kicks
in correct, But maybe after that point we'll see. But
this week it's about basically, just get yourself ready to
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play on Thursday night on a short week.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
That's correct, and the Ravens offense prides itself on having
different ways to play and to win. That's just been
a Tod Monk and staple. But we can all agree
that with Lamar Jackson, when they can do it all,
when you have your full menu, that's when you can
be really explosive.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
And right now it feels like.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
They're ordering off a limited menu with Lamar Jackson's inability
to really make people miss and take off running him
just beat people with his speed and he's just less
mobile than he usually is.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, now, if we want to look at some real
bright spots for the offense, because they were able to
come up with like it was something that we have
talked about on this podcast many times over the course
of this year, both wins and losses. It's situations. Being
really good in situations and how do you win, Like,
what's the key to winning football and winning ugly? Well,
it's being really good in situations. So you mentioned the
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two short yardage red zone scores.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
With Derrick Henry.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
The one that stands out to me was the decision
to go for it on fourth down you're down there,
and John Harbaugh said that that was a kind of
a difficult decision at that point of the game, do
you go for it? Do you take the three points?
The Ravens went for it and it worked out and
they end up getting in the end zone, and that
at that point it's a two score game, and you
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feel like that might have been enough, just based on
the way the defense is playing, the way that the
Jets offense was having a tough time moving the football.
It felt like it wasn't the nail in the coffin,
but it felt like pretty close.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
It was putting the game maybe out of reach.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Yeah, definitely if you can capitalize on some of those
critical situations. And they didn't do it in every situation obviously,
but enough of them to my point to begin this podcast,
they did enough to win. Didn't get style points, but
you did enough.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Yeah, totally.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Credit by the way on that goal line run, pat Riccard. Yeah,
big time block on that.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
That was the biggest hole that Derreck Henry had to
run through the entire game.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
You know, the joke of like could you get a
yard if you were an NFL running back in a situation,
but that kind of one, like that's the one you need.
I mean that that was a walk in touchdown. It
doesn't get much easier than that. Pat Riccard had a
big block, and I'll give credit to the entire right
side of the line. Rod Rost and Dan fall Ailey
basically collapsed that side of the line, and then pat
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finished the job and clear the rest of the way,
and then Derek finished it and got in there easily.
So yeah, that's like, that's one of those I always
say this, when you go forward on fourth down and
you get it, you just your brain forgets that it's
a fourth down a lot of times, especially if it's
if it's in the middle of the game. But that
was not an easy decision at that spot, big moment,
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kind of a turning point in this game, and so
that was huge. The other thing that was really big
in this game was special teams. And it's not often
that the punters getting game balls.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Well it's not all.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
John Harball came to his first game press come right
out of the first shout out went to the punt unit. Yeah,
and that is extremely rare, really crediting them for the win,
for keeping them in the game early on when it
was back and forth in kind of an ugly, fet
ugly game early on, and then winning it and so
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perhaps to Jordan Stout and the whole unit. Jordan Stout
deserves to go to the Pro Bowl. I mean, this
guy had four punts that averaged sixty one and a
half yards. He tied the franchise record with a seventy
four yard punt. That's tied Sam Cook's record. Jordan Stout
is a Pro bowler.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Yeah, friend, Well, the sixty one point five average punt
yards was the sixth best in NFL history. Okay, so
that was one of them. This truly was one of
the best games that we've ever seen from a.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Punter historically good game.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
And then he had the punt inside the five yard line, yep.
And so it's an epic game for a punter. And
when you like again, I just keep coming back to it,
complimentary football, doing the things you need to do to
win games, winning ugly. The punt classifies as winning ugly.
A great punter game, like, that's what you need to
do to win ugly. And Jordan Stout delivered in a
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huge way in this game.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
And I'm telling Jordan Stout that you're just calling them
straight up ugly.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I didn't say I think.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
I think.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Look, we had we had Randy Brown kicking coach and
Tyler Loop on the podcast or maybe has been bring
back Randy and Uh.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I think even they would agree.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
They would they say that punting is pretty where they
say that's part of a pretty part of the game.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Or were they embrace would they embrace the ugly nature?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
I think they would say it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
We'll have to get to the bottom of this. We
guests to ask Jordan this question.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Specialist Mom, Well, no, I'll tell you that much. I'll
say this about Jordan. You know, his first.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Three years in this league were not a lot of
ups and downs.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
They were not pretty, and I don't think.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
That he felt like he punted up to his expectations
in those three seasons in the Ravens the same way.
And I asked him in the locker room after it,
I said, did this feel like a make or break
it year for you? Going into year four? Contract year?
Was it a make or break it year for your career?
He said, oh, absolutely, he said, Well, we'll ask Randy
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this question.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
He said.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Randy said, if you don't punt well this year, we're
cutting you. If you punt okay, we'll keep you around.
If you punt too good, we'll see what happens. I
was like, I'll leave that out. But this guy's good.
I mean, he setting himself up for a payday after
this season, and you know, credit to him. Guy went
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out to the beach and met up with some of
the best punters in the league and punting coach this
offseason and just really went to work out there in
San Diego. And then he's really kind of gotten the
hang of the boomerang punt, which Sam Cook was really
the forefather of, and it's clicked for Jordan. And then
today you see he's still got a massive leg. So
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when he wants to just open it up and just
rock one and over end punt, a turnover punt.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
He can. Yeah, And even he admitted he's like, there's
turn of punts.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
You have no idea when it hits the ground which
way it's gonna bounce, no clue, you have no control.
You're just you are just trying to blast that thing.
And he's like, some of it is luck this year.
I seem to have been getting luckier than the year's past.
But like, also he's just a better punter.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yeah, he may be a little bit modest. I think
there's probably there is a luck element. Of course, it's
a football, it's not a round ball, so it could
go any direction. But he seems to have really mastered
you know that coffin corner punt.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Yeah, his directional punting is better too.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
And like when he came into the league, he kind
of felt, like to use a baseball term, like a flamethrower,
that had trouble with his control.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Yeah, I agree, And there are too many shanks. I
think he felt a lot of pressure. Also, you're replacing
Sam Cook a legend.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Yeah, he was.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
You know, I don't know how many.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
There's not many NFL franchises where the punter was beloved. Yeah, right,
so you're replacing him. You're a fourth round draft pick.
He was the highest punter the draft pick the Ravens
ever used on a punter. There is a ton you're
punting in Baltimore. This the bar is extremely high. If
you listen to the podcast with Randy Brown and Tyler Leep,
you know how detail oriented everything is.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
You're holding for Justin Tucker. You got to become a
good holder.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Like, there's a lot of pressure on him, and I
think sometimes he cracked under that pressure.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
To be honest and he's kind of like a he
can get ramped up. Jordan does. He feels the adrenaline
in the game, you know.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
He I think he's the guy that like has a
hard time just kind of feeling whatever totally at ease.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
He feels it, and so he cracks sometimes.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
And I think that the start that he he's gotten
off to this year, I'm putting really well right now.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
He's just it's been a weight lift off his shoulders.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Look, I think that you could say.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
This for a lot of guys on this team and
and situations like I'm a believer that like success breeds confidence,
and and you're seeing it with Jordan Stout, Like you know,
after after one of the ponts, he they show him
on the video boards and he does the you know,
kind of the.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Gladdy the crowd.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
How often whenever you see the plutter hyping up the crowd,
like you know that it's it's he's having a good day.
But I also think that like there's there's that confidence
that is growing on this team.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Jordan is an example.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
And the defense, which we're going to talk about in
a little bit, but I think that the confidence is
really growing on this defense as well. And so I
think that all of those things are connected.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Yep. All right, let's take a break.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
When we come back, we're going to talk about that
defense and the play of the game was on the
defensive side of the ball.
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Crown is yours. So the defense had another really strong day,
only gave up ten points, came up with the turnover.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
This is the fifth straight game.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
That the Ravens have not allowed have allowed twenty points
or less and sole the defense, which early in the
season was not playing well, was a struggle and there
was lots of talk about this unit and criticism, some
of it deservedly so. But this group has completely turned
things around and the defense has turned into the strength
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of this team. As the offense is working through the Kings.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Yeah, absolutely, and obviously you're going against the Jets offense
that's been struggling. But I thought Tyrod Taylor played well.
I thought some of their playmakers made plays. Brisall is
a talented dude, as we saw here today, but the
Ravens defense got it done, including against Bresall when Marlon
Humphrey ripped the ball away from him inside the five
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yard line. Ravens They're only leading by ten points in
the fourth quarter and Jets were threatening to make it
a very tight ball game to the wire, down to
the wire. But Marlon Humphrey ripping that ball away from
him was really the play of the game my opinion.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Yeah, Marlin, give him a lot of credit. This is
a guy that he played with the finger injury in Minnesota,
got an interception, then he has surgery, only missed one game,
still is out there playing with the cast on his hand,
which like I'm sure the finger doesn't feel great. I'm
sure it's not like feeling one hundred percent. And with
the way that he plays the game, the physical nature,
the punch out, like all of those things, like the
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way he plays the game, I'm sure that it's hard
on his hands. And so for him to be physical
and rip that ball out in that moment and a
Lowhi Gilman to pop on it, it was that was
what sealed the game. Really, that play in that moment,
and we all said it. If this defense is going
to be a special defense, they need to be able
to get turnovers. They need to get takeaways. They weren't
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doing that early in the year. That is part of
what's changed. In addition to just playing really well and
making life hard on any offense they go against, they're
also getting takeaways. So they're hard to move the ball against.
And you're getting takeaways. Those are all the signs of
an excellent defense.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
They're affecting the opposing quarterback much more than they were
early in the season. And there are a lot of
people that were banging the drum for the Ravens to
go out and make a big move. Get a big
edge setter or edge rusher. Draymont Jones has fit the bill.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Yeah, he's not the typical speed rusher off the edge.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
He is just a dog and he today one and
a half sacks for him in his first game here
at M and T Banks Stadium as a Raven.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
A big game for Draymont Jones in front of the
home crowd.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Look, I had this on my notes because at the
trade deadline there's a lot of talk of man, why
didn't the Ravens make a move.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Why didn't they make a move?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Why didn't they go out there and make a splash?
And there was just a big I mean, the Jets
were at the center of the trade deadline. They traded
away Saw Scardner, they traded away Quinn and Williams. A
lot of Ravens fans are saying, why didn't you go
get Quinn and Williams? Like there was a lot of
talk of why did the Ravens sit on their hands
and the trade deadline? And I was kind of like, well,
they did sit on their hands. I got Draymond Jones
a couple of weeks before, but they did make two
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big mid season acquisitions, but Draymond Jones at the deadline,
everyone just seemed to like not pay any attention to that.
And man, has he come in here and added a
real element to this defense. And I love the way
he plays. He talked after the game about like, yeah,
I'm I'm not a nice person. He's a nice person
when you talk to him. I'm he's not a nice
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person on the field, and he plays with that edge.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
He said, I'm an angry dude out there.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Yeah, Like he plays with that edge and that tenacity He.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Just has fit the Ravens in every sense. His demeanor,
his play style, the versatility that he brings, be able
to play on the edge, to be kind of a
d n even inside if they need, and he's just
been a perfect fit. And the Ravens are really getting
after quarterbacks now. It's a stark difference from even if
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it's not like they're piling up huge sack numbers, but
just the pressure in the backfield has changed this defense
completely totally.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
That's seven quarterback hits today. They have three sacks. Draymond
Jones had one and a half. Tavin Bryan was on
the other end of that. Mike Green had won. So
three sacks today, seven quarterback hits. And yeah, the other
thing about Dreymont Jones, like you talked about the ability
to play inside naturally, so much attention goes to like
the outside pass rushers because those are the guys that
generally get the most sack production. But the Ravens needed
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interior pass rush after the injury to nom De Matabik,
like that was a massive hole and Draymont has has
helped provide that. So as you mentioned, and he said himself,
he fits the mold of what this team needs and
the way the Ravens look for players and the way
the Ravens play, and so just a great addition and
kind of a game changer to It's just interesting, Like
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I bet a lot of Ravens fans were being honest
at the start of the season, they may not have
known a Loohi Gilman and Draymont Jones. Like if you're
just asking them about, hey, what do you think of
a Loohi Gilman on the Chargers? What do you think
of Draymont Jones on the Titans. A lot of Ravens
fans just might not have known those guys, and they've
come in here and been difference makers for this defense
and are a big part of the reason this group
is playing as well as they are.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Absolutely agree and good to see Nate Wiggins out there,
another one of the key plays in this game.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Just boxing up John? You did he draw?
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I didn't he.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Didn't see boxing up.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
I know we when we talked to Nate before the season,
we like said, that's a great celebration, but you never
do you don't do it enough.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I don't know, you didn't do it?
Speaker 4 (23:27):
What do you say it? Fourth down? That was midfield.
That was They just he was in the suit him,
he was in the box. Give him the thumbs down too.
I'm just I don't know what's going on. You gotta
talk to you about this.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Well.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
I think he was probably still salty about dropping the
pick earlier in the game.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Oh, that was a rough one.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
That was a rough one anyway.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
The only other note I have coming out of this
game is injury update. Kyle Hamilton did leave the game
in the fourth quarter late in the fourth quarter with
with what looked to be an ankle kind of injury.
Did not return and went to the locker room before
the game end.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
That.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
John Harball did say after the game ended that it's
not a serious injury. But obviously Kyle Hamilton is the
most important player to this defense and that will be
one that is closely monitored on a short week with
the Bengals come to town.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
The other one is Tavim Bryan, who a defensive lineman,
has helped fill that void on along.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
The defensive line.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
He was initially on the practice squad, got called up
to the active roster, and he's been playing some important snaps.
He got hurt on the Draymont Jones sack late in
the game. Left did not return and John Harwell said
they're going to take a look at that so did
not have a specifics on what exactly that injury is,
but that one seems like it's going to need further
evaluation to determine the severity.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Yep, big win for the Ravens. Not an ugly one,
but a big, big win.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
And look now Bengals coming to town here Thursday night
for Thanksgivings, our Purple Rising game. It's going to be
an awesome atmosphere inside Mt. Bak Stadium, which is going
to be really exciting. And it was great in here today.
I mean it was like the Ravens have been living
on the road for the last month, three straight on
the road. You come home for this game and it
was great.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Howards Dogs, The Frisbee Dogs really changed the trajectory of
the games. Honest, at halftime, things are not great. In
the first half of the Ravens sevent to three. At
the half, Frisbee Dogs came out. Got to figure it out.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
X's News. It was two.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
It was Frisbee Dogs at halftime, and even before that,
it was Joey Chestnutt World champion Eater was here chasing
Poe around on the field. He was on Hot Talk costume,
so Joey Chestnutt helped really fire up, fire up the fans,
fire up the team who knows so those.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Who are he can eat that man.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Ravens are coming into a huge AFC North stretch here Bengals, Steelers, Bengals,
as John Harball said, this, this is it. That's it
right here, coming up for the AFC North Division title
these next three games, and to kick it off on
Thanksgiving here at Empty Bank Stadium against the Bengals.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
It's not going to get any better than that, So
can't wait for that game.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
We will, of course get you ready for that one
and preview it this week.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Thanks for listening and talk to you later this week.
Welcome into the Lounge presented by DraftKings. I'm Ryan Mink
here with Garrett Downing. Following the Ravens twenty three to
ten win over the New York Jets here at M
and T Banks Stadium. The Ravens have won five straight now, Garrett,
after starting one in five. They are now above five
hundred for the first time this season, sitting in first place,
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tied with the Pittsburgh Steelers at six and five. If
you had told me when the Ravens were one and
five that before they even get to Thanksgiving they're going
to be in first place, I'd have been like, Wow,
what a turnaround, And goodness gracious, it an't easy to
win five games. You can talk about the opponents, you
can talk about all that stuff, it ain't easy to
win five straight games.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah, this is really significant for the team. Obviously.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I think that when this team was sitting at one
and five, a lot of people counted them out, and
we were saying at that time that the Ravens felt
like they just had to kind of go into that
they had to go into the hole, and they had
not listen to anything, and they needed to get healthy
and they needed to basically keep the thing together and
come out swinging. They were able to do that, and
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they've now been able to put together these five straight
wins and to be at first place in the division
before you've even played the Steelers, haven't even had a
chance to play them and knock them back. Is not
the way that a lot of people expected the season
to go based on the first month. But the Ravens
are in this position and I think it speaks to
I think it speaks to the makeup of this team.
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And something that stands out to me over these last
couple of weeks, especially the last two games, is that
the Ravens are finding ways to win no matter what,
even if it's ugly, which today's game kind of was
last week's game kind of ugly. But the Ravens are
winning those games and that's really all that matters. There's
no ugly asters, there's just wins and losses, and the
Ravens have five straight of them.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
That's correct.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yeah, the Ravens are not gonna get Brownie points or
style points or whatever you want to call them for
this win over the New York Jets. But everybody knew
when the Ravens went into their by at one to five,
that they were entering the softer part of their schedule.
Three road games in a row isn't easy, but that's
kind of We all said that when they were at
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their by, why could they turn around? Well, they were,
they started off, and the schedule was really tough out
of the gate against some of the powerhouses in both conferences,
and then this was kind of the softer part and
they feasted on it. They had the pre Thanksgiving feast
on that part of the schedule. You got to make
sure you're not too full. If you eat too much
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before the next we won't go down that road.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
But you know, they did what they needed to do.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And and now the question I think becomes and what
a lot of fans want to know, is can they
beat the better teams when they come up against them,
And it remains to be seen. They have to They
have to improve, in my opinion, to keep doing that,
and it starts offensively. They have to get better on offense.
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They came out slow today against the New York Jets,
seventy two yards in the first half with this was
the second fewest total yards in a first half with
Lamar Jackson as their starting quarterback, and really after the game,
we did not have we did not hear many answers
from the offense about why they were so sluggish out
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of the gates.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah, it was a slow start, there's no question about it.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
And the Ravens like the first quarter and a half
it was just kind of trading punts with the Jets,
and neither offense was able to do that much of anything.
The Jets they get a first half touchdown, but it
was by no means a style points kind of game.
And you look at the final numbers and they're not
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impressive for the Ravens offense. Lamar Jackson had one hundred
and fifty three passing yards. Derek Henry had sixty four
rushing yards with a three yard average. He had two touchdowns,
which obviously were significant. Zay Flowers was the leading receiver
with fifty eight receiving yards on five catches. So like
they're they're not lighting up the record books with the
offensive performance today, and a lot of that has to
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do with how they started, I will say. However, they
did put it together there at the end of the
second quarter into the third and they had four straight
scoring drives. If you take out the basically nothing drive
at the very last drive at the end of the
first half, which was a Neil down drive. It took
one shot, but I'm not going to count that as
a full drive. And they scored four straight drives and
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so it was not like a great offensive showing. But
they did put it together there in the middle of
the game, and that gave them plenty to get not
run away with the win, but to win comfortably in
the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And they ran the ball better in the second half
certainly than they did in the first half. They still
went two to five in the red zone. Not good production.
But those two touchdowns are really big, including one on
fourth and two that they had to have and punched
it in on third, third and one, you know, right
on the goal line as well. So just had a
scary moment of fumble lamar pigs on the play before.
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But you know, you got two big touchdowns when you
had to have them down near the goal line, short
yard situations that we've been harping on. Would do you
want it better red zone percentage than.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Two for five?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Absolutely, but without those two touchdowns you don't get it done. Now,
one of the Ravens scoring drives was set up by
a fourth down stop by the Ravens defense in Nate Wiggins,
which basically they took over possession in scoring range already,
and both of their touchdown drives are also set up
by big time pass interference calls on the New York Jets,
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one to Mark Andrews on their first touchdown drive and
then another on to Say Flowers.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
So they were penalties, they count like.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
They weren't like questionable penalties.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
They were exactly would you know, would they have made
the catch without those penalties?
Speaker 4 (05:51):
It would have been tough debatable.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
So, you know, I think we can all agree that
right now the Ravens offense is not playing at a
really high level.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
You know, they need to get better.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
To me, a lot of it starts with Lamar Jackson
and him getting healthier that Lamar after the game made
it clear he is not going to blame his injuries
for the offense's performance.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
He's just not going to do it.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
You'll never know how Lamar Jackson is truly feeling because
he he's just not wired that way. And you know,
to him it's all execution. Everybody else on offense, it's
we got to execute better. You know, we got to
run the ball better. We got to get our assigns
better blocking up front, We got to you know, do that. Like,
there wasn't a clear answer in the locker room after
this game, and there hasn't been for weeks really about
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what it is. We all know red zone. They got
to improve in the red zone. They are taking care
of the ball better, which is a major component to
why they're winning these games.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
That you can win football exactly.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
You can not play well, but if you take care
of the football and your defense is playing the way
it is, you win football games. And you know, so
it's not that every thing is going wrong, but it's
it's certainly we've seen this offense produce at higher levels.
I mean, Lamar Jackson's now going three straight games without
throwing from more than two hundred yards. He has one
touchdown passing two interceptions over the last three weeks. It's
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not the kind of numbers that we're used to for
Lamar Jackson and particularly running the ball. The fact of
the matter is that Lamar Jackson is not beating teams
with his legs right now, and we've seen him beat
many teams with his legs right now, and it's just
not happening. I mean, he ran the ball today seven
times for eleven yards. We are not used to seeing
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that from Lamar Jackson. I think we all know it's
because he's banged up to what degree out it We
can't none of us can say, because Lamar ain't gonna
answer it.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yeah, Lamar's just gonna say.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
As he's been asked about that multiple times over the
last throughout the season, he says, if he's playing, he says,
I'm good exactly. That's the full context that you get.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
But what we do know he said that this is
really the first time in his career that he's dealt
with a lingering, a nagging injury that he's been playing through.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Well. In his previous injuries, he's been out.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah, and it's not injury, it's injuries. You look at it.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
He had a hamstring injury that costs him three games.
He then dealt with a knee injury. Then this week
it was an ankle injury, and Charles Davis pointed out
on the broadcast that Lamar had the double ankle tape
job out there today, which we don't typically see him have,
which is an indication of what he feels like is
necessary in order to play, and so yeah, he's not
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like Lamar is the greatest running quarterback of all time.
He's got all the records in that category. And so
if you take it, if you diminish that element a
little bit because you're banged up, it's going to change
your offense. And I think that that's part of what
we're seeing, and the Ravens need to adjust in other ways.
Part of that is getting Dereck Henry going. Part of
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that is getting the other weapons like Keith Mitchell, who
who continues to have some bright spots at a big
run taken off the board today.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
But I think that.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I think that that's part of part of the answer,
and then you just hope that over the course of
the season Lamar continues to get healthier. The truth is
that the Ravens are playing on four days rest, They're
playing on Thanksgiving. So I don't think this is the
week we're all said and the magic health pall kicks
in correct, But maybe after that point we'll see. But
this week it's about basically, just get yourself ready to
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play on Thursday night on a short week.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
That's correct, and the Ravens offense prides itself on having
different ways to play and to win. That's just been
a Tod Monk and staple. But we can all agree
that with Lamar Jackson, when they can do it all,
when you have your full menu, that's when you can
be really explosive.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
And right now it feels like.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
They're ordering off a limited menu with Lamar Jackson's inability
to really make people miss and take off running him
just beat people with his speed and he's just less
mobile than he usually is.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, now, if we want to look at some real
bright spots for the offense, because they were able to
come up with like it was something that we have
talked about on this podcast many times over the course
of this year, both wins and losses. It's situations. Being
really good in situations and how do you win, Like,
what's the key to winning football and winning ugly? Well,
it's being really good in situations. So you mentioned the
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two short yardage red zone scores.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
With Derrick Henry.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
The one that stands out to me was the decision
to go for it on fourth down you're down there,
and John Harbaugh said that that was a kind of
a difficult decision at that point of the game, do
you go for it? Do you take the three points?
The Ravens went for it and it worked out and
they end up getting in the end zone, and that
at that point it's a two score game, and you
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feel like that might have been enough, just based on
the way the defense is playing, the way that the
Jets offense was having a tough time moving the football.
It felt like it wasn't the nail in the coffin,
but it felt like pretty close.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
It was putting the game maybe out of reach.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Yeah, definitely if you can capitalize on some of those
critical situations. And they didn't do it in every situation obviously,
but enough of them to my point to begin this podcast,
they did enough to win. Didn't get style points, but
you did enough.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Yeah, totally.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Credit by the way on that goal line run, pat Riccard. Yeah,
big time block on that.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
That was the biggest hole that Derreck Henry had to
run through the entire game.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
You know, the joke of like could you get a
yard if you were an NFL running back in a situation,
but that kind of one, like that's the one you need.
I mean that that was a walk in touchdown. It
doesn't get much easier than that. Pat Riccard had a
big block, and I'll give credit to the entire right
side of the line. Rod Rost and Dan fall Ailey
basically collapsed that side of the line, and then pat
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finished the job and clear the rest of the way,
and then Derek finished it and got in there easily.
So yeah, that's like, that's one of those I always
say this, when you go forward on fourth down and
you get it, you just your brain forgets that it's
a fourth down a lot of times, especially if it's
if it's in the middle of the game. But that
was not an easy decision at that spot, big moment,
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kind of a turning point in this game, and so
that was huge. The other thing that was really big
in this game was special teams. And it's not often
that the punters getting game balls.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Well it's not all.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
John Harball came to his first game press come right
out of the first shout out went to the punt unit. Yeah,
and that is extremely rare, really crediting them for the win,
for keeping them in the game early on when it
was back and forth in kind of an ugly, fet
ugly game early on, and then winning it and so
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perhaps to Jordan Stout and the whole unit. Jordan Stout
deserves to go to the Pro Bowl. I mean, this
guy had four punts that averaged sixty one and a
half yards. He tied the franchise record with a seventy
four yard punt. That's tied Sam Cook's record. Jordan Stout
is a Pro bowler.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Yeah, friend, Well, the sixty one point five average punt
yards was the sixth best in NFL history. Okay, so
that was one of them. This truly was one of
the best games that we've ever seen from a.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Punter historically good game.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
And then he had the punt inside the five yard line, yep.
And so it's an epic game for a punter. And
when you like again, I just keep coming back to it,
complimentary football, doing the things you need to do to
win games, winning ugly. The punt classifies as winning ugly.
A great punter game, like, that's what you need to
do to win ugly. And Jordan Stout delivered in a
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huge way in this game.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
And I'm telling Jordan Stout that you're just calling them
straight up ugly.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I didn't say I think.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
I think.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Look, we had we had Randy Brown kicking coach and
Tyler Loop on the podcast or maybe has been bring
back Randy and Uh.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I think even they would agree.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
They would they say that punting is pretty where they
say that's part of a pretty part of the game.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Or were they embrace would they embrace the ugly nature?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
I think they would say it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
We'll have to get to the bottom of this. We
guests to ask Jordan this question.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Specialist Mom, Well, no, I'll tell you that much. I'll
say this about Jordan. You know, his first.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Three years in this league were not a lot of
ups and downs.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
They were not pretty, and I don't think.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
That he felt like he punted up to his expectations
in those three seasons in the Ravens the same way.
And I asked him in the locker room after it,
I said, did this feel like a make or break
it year for you? Going into year four? Contract year?
Was it a make or break it year for your career?
He said, oh, absolutely, he said, Well, we'll ask Randy
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this question.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
He said.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Randy said, if you don't punt well this year, we're
cutting you. If you punt okay, we'll keep you around.
If you punt too good, we'll see what happens. I
was like, I'll leave that out. But this guy's good.
I mean, he setting himself up for a payday after
this season, and you know, credit to him. Guy went
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out to the beach and met up with some of
the best punters in the league and punting coach this
offseason and just really went to work out there in
San Diego. And then he's really kind of gotten the
hang of the boomerang punt, which Sam Cook was really
the forefather of, and it's clicked for Jordan. And then
today you see he's still got a massive leg. So
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when he wants to just open it up and just
rock one and over end punt, a turnover punt.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
He can. Yeah, And even he admitted he's like, there's
turn of punts.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
You have no idea when it hits the ground which
way it's gonna bounce, no clue, you have no control.
You're just you are just trying to blast that thing.
And he's like, some of it is luck this year.
I seem to have been getting luckier than the year's past.
But like, also he's just a better punter.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yeah, he may be a little bit modest. I think
there's probably there is a luck element. Of course, it's
a football, it's not a round ball, so it could
go any direction. But he seems to have really mastered
you know that coffin corner punt.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Yeah, his directional punting is better too.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
And like when he came into the league, he kind
of felt, like to use a baseball term, like a flamethrower,
that had trouble with his control.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Yeah, I agree, And there are too many shanks. I
think he felt a lot of pressure. Also, you're replacing
Sam Cook a legend.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Yeah, he was.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
You know, I don't know how many.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
There's not many NFL franchises where the punter was beloved. Yeah, right,
so you're replacing him. You're a fourth round draft pick.
He was the highest punter the draft pick the Ravens
ever used on a punter. There is a ton you're
punting in Baltimore. This the bar is extremely high. If
you listen to the podcast with Randy Brown and Tyler Leep,
you know how detail oriented everything is.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
You're holding for Justin Tucker. You got to become a
good holder.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Like, there's a lot of pressure on him, and I
think sometimes he cracked under that pressure.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
To be honest and he's kind of like a he
can get ramped up. Jordan does. He feels the adrenaline
in the game, you know.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
He I think he's the guy that like has a
hard time just kind of feeling whatever totally at ease.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
He feels it, and so he cracks sometimes.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
And I think that the start that he he's gotten
off to this year, I'm putting really well right now.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
He's just it's been a weight lift off his shoulders.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Look, I think that you could say.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
This for a lot of guys on this team and
and situations like I'm a believer that like success breeds confidence,
and and you're seeing it with Jordan Stout, Like you know,
after after one of the ponts, he they show him
on the video boards and he does the you know,
kind of the.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Gladdy the crowd.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
How often whenever you see the plutter hyping up the crowd,
like you know that it's it's he's having a good day.
But I also think that like there's there's that confidence
that is growing on this team.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Jordan is an example.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
And the defense, which we're going to talk about in
a little bit, but I think that the confidence is
really growing on this defense as well. And so I
think that all of those things are connected.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Yep. All right, let's take a break.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
When we come back, we're going to talk about that
defense and the play of the game was on the
defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
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Crown is yours. So the defense had another really strong day,
only gave up ten points, came up with the turnover.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
This is the fifth straight game.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
That the Ravens have not allowed have allowed twenty points
or less and sole the defense, which early in the
season was not playing well, was a struggle and there
was lots of talk about this unit and criticism, some
of it deservedly so. But this group has completely turned
things around and the defense has turned into the strength
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of this team. As the offense is working through the Kings.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Yeah, absolutely, and obviously you're going against the Jets offense
that's been struggling. But I thought Tyrod Taylor played well.
I thought some of their playmakers made plays. Brisall is
a talented dude, as we saw here today, but the
Ravens defense got it done, including against Bresall when Marlon
Humphrey ripped the ball away from him inside the five
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yard line. Ravens They're only leading by ten points in
the fourth quarter and Jets were threatening to make it
a very tight ball game to the wire, down to
the wire. But Marlon Humphrey ripping that ball away from
him was really the play of the game my opinion.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Yeah, Marlin, give him a lot of credit. This is
a guy that he played with the finger injury in Minnesota,
got an interception, then he has surgery, only missed one game,
still is out there playing with the cast on his hand,
which like I'm sure the finger doesn't feel great. I'm
sure it's not like feeling one hundred percent. And with
the way that he plays the game, the physical nature,
the punch out, like all of those things, like the
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way he plays the game, I'm sure that it's hard
on his hands. And so for him to be physical
and rip that ball out in that moment and a
Lowhi Gilman to pop on it, it was that was
what sealed the game. Really, that play in that moment,
and we all said it. If this defense is going
to be a special defense, they need to be able
to get turnovers. They need to get takeaways. They weren't
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doing that early in the year. That is part of
what's changed. In addition to just playing really well and
making life hard on any offense they go against, they're
also getting takeaways. So they're hard to move the ball against.
And you're getting takeaways. Those are all the signs of
an excellent defense.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
They're affecting the opposing quarterback much more than they were
early in the season. And there are a lot of
people that were banging the drum for the Ravens to
go out and make a big move. Get a big
edge setter or edge rusher. Draymont Jones has fit the bill.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Yeah, he's not the typical speed rusher off the edge.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
He is just a dog and he today one and
a half sacks for him in his first game here
at M and T Banks Stadium as a Raven.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
A big game for Draymont Jones in front of the
home crowd.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Look, I had this on my notes because at the
trade deadline there's a lot of talk of man, why
didn't the Ravens make a move.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Why didn't they make a move?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Why didn't they go out there and make a splash?
And there was just a big I mean, the Jets
were at the center of the trade deadline. They traded
away Saw Scardner, they traded away Quinn and Williams. A
lot of Ravens fans are saying, why didn't you go
get Quinn and Williams? Like there was a lot of
talk of why did the Ravens sit on their hands
and the trade deadline? And I was kind of like, well,
they did sit on their hands. I got Draymond Jones
a couple of weeks before, but they did make two
(21:07):
big mid season acquisitions, but Draymond Jones at the deadline,
everyone just seemed to like not pay any attention to that.
And man, has he come in here and added a
real element to this defense. And I love the way
he plays. He talked after the game about like, yeah,
I'm I'm not a nice person. He's a nice person
when you talk to him. I'm he's not a nice
(21:27):
person on the field, and he plays with that edge.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
He said, I'm an angry dude out there.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Yeah, Like he plays with that edge and that tenacity He.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Just has fit the Ravens in every sense. His demeanor,
his play style, the versatility that he brings, be able
to play on the edge, to be kind of a
d n even inside if they need, and he's just
been a perfect fit. And the Ravens are really getting
after quarterbacks now. It's a stark difference from even if
(21:56):
it's not like they're piling up huge sack numbers, but
just the pressure in the backfield has changed this defense
completely totally.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
That's seven quarterback hits today. They have three sacks. Draymond
Jones had one and a half. Tavin Bryan was on
the other end of that. Mike Green had won. So
three sacks today, seven quarterback hits. And yeah, the other
thing about Dreymont Jones, like you talked about the ability
to play inside naturally, so much attention goes to like
the outside pass rushers because those are the guys that
generally get the most sack production. But the Ravens needed
(22:27):
interior pass rush after the injury to nom De Matabik,
like that was a massive hole and Draymont has has
helped provide that. So as you mentioned, and he said himself,
he fits the mold of what this team needs and
the way the Ravens look for players and the way
the Ravens play, and so just a great addition and
kind of a game changer to It's just interesting, Like
(22:48):
I bet a lot of Ravens fans were being honest
at the start of the season, they may not have
known a Loohi Gilman and Draymont Jones. Like if you're
just asking them about, hey, what do you think of
a Loohi Gilman on the Chargers? What do you think
of Draymont Jones on the Titans. A lot of Ravens
fans just might not have known those guys, and they've
come in here and been difference makers for this defense
and are a big part of the reason this group
is playing as well as they are.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Absolutely agree and good to see Nate Wiggins out there,
another one of the key plays in this game.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Just boxing up John? You did he draw?
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I didn't he.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Didn't see boxing up.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
I know we when we talked to Nate before the season,
we like said, that's a great celebration, but you never
do you don't do it enough.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I don't know, you didn't do it?
Speaker 4 (23:27):
What do you say it? Fourth down? That was midfield.
That was They just he was in the suit him,
he was in the box. Give him the thumbs down too.
I'm just I don't know what's going on. You gotta
talk to you about this.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Well.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
I think he was probably still salty about dropping the
pick earlier in the game.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Oh, that was a rough one.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
That was a rough one anyway.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
The only other note I have coming out of this
game is injury update. Kyle Hamilton did leave the game
in the fourth quarter late in the fourth quarter with
with what looked to be an ankle kind of injury.
Did not return and went to the locker room before
the game end.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
That.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
John Harball did say after the game ended that it's
not a serious injury. But obviously Kyle Hamilton is the
most important player to this defense and that will be
one that is closely monitored on a short week with
the Bengals come to town.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
The other one is Tavim Bryan, who a defensive lineman,
has helped fill that void on along.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
The defensive line.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
He was initially on the practice squad, got called up
to the active roster, and he's been playing some important snaps.
He got hurt on the Draymont Jones sack late in
the game. Left did not return and John Harwell said
they're going to take a look at that so did
not have a specifics on what exactly that injury is,
but that one seems like it's going to need further
evaluation to determine the severity.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Yep, big win for the Ravens. Not an ugly one,
but a big, big win.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
And look now Bengals coming to town here Thursday night
for Thanksgivings, our Purple Rising game. It's going to be
an awesome atmosphere inside Mt. Bak Stadium, which is going
to be really exciting. And it was great in here today.
I mean it was like the Ravens have been living
on the road for the last month, three straight on
the road. You come home for this game and it
was great.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Howards Dogs, The Frisbee Dogs really changed the trajectory of
the games. Honest, at halftime, things are not great. In
the first half of the Ravens sevent to three. At
the half, Frisbee Dogs came out. Got to figure it out.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
X's News. It was two.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
It was Frisbee Dogs at halftime, and even before that,
it was Joey Chestnutt World champion Eater was here chasing
Poe around on the field. He was on Hot Talk costume,
so Joey Chestnutt helped really fire up, fire up the fans,
fire up the team who knows so those.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Who are he can eat that man.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Ravens are coming into a huge AFC North stretch here Bengals, Steelers, Bengals,
as John Harball said, this, this is it. That's it
right here, coming up for the AFC North Division title
these next three games, and to kick it off on
Thanksgiving here at Empty Bank Stadium against the Bengals.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
It's not going to get any better than that, So
can't wait for that game.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
We will, of course get you ready for that one
and preview it this week.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Thanks for listening and talk to you later this week.
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