I saw this on twitter and thought it would be a good idea to come here and hype it up.

If you had to pick a new fourth quarter song what would it be? After giving it some thought I'd be a big fan of "BIRDS" by Turnstile. Keeps the rock theme but with a local band and appropriately named song. Would be even cool to see a live performance to have them debut it.

Honorable mention would be "Till I Collapse" by Eminem feat Nate Dogg, hopefully it would inspire them with the right amount of grit and perseverance to keep fighting through the very end.

Who needs Buckner or Nelson when we have the GOAT

Haven’t seen anyone post any actual pics of the jacket yet. I put a light hoodie under mine as I suspect that’s how I’ll wear it in the coming weeks. I’m pretty pleased with it overall.

Share your dogs in their Ravens best, for fun & luck.

First pic is Harrison meeting the cheerleaders in his final season, second pic is Zaye ‘you will never guess who she is named after’ Flowers.

Per ESPN. I was hoping we would trade for him

I know everyone was pining for Quenton Nelson and our long lost father Mike Mac got him. With Tavius Robinson's year ending pectoral injury, we are starving for a left side of the D-Line power defensive end with pass rush juice, and that's exactly what Tuipulotu is. Minter knows him, he knows Minter, so it's a day one fit in terms of scheme and flow.

Even if its a 10 game rental, it would be a key piece of the 4 man rotation (and that's coming from someone who really likes what I'm seeing from the Long Texan, Ethan Burke)

He'll be a $3.4M cap hit, so we don't have a make a major move in terms of clearing space

For Guard we just need Vega to get healthy and Lamar to be back.
For Cornerback I really wanna see what TJ Tampa has, and get Kone up to speed and practicing.
For Safety, oh man how about K'Von Wallace last game? He was flying around like a mad man

EDGE can also be handled by Ethan Burke and Adisa Isaac, but it's a strong spot for an upgrade

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

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.

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.

With Starks trending up and Hawking on injury, Tampa and Kone coming back from injury, should we debate moving Marlon to safety early?

He's already talked about exploring that option before and his regression of speed won't be as punishing while playing that position. With Hawkins being underwhelming, could that be a move on the backend?

That would make the corner rotation some mix of Wiggins, Awuzie, Tampa, Rivers which is a lot to ask out of a rookie in Rivers but it's something worth maybe exploring? This would then allow for KHam to fill more in his rushing role even more on the LHS of the line in conjunction with Green.

Take my questions and conclusions with a grain of salt, I'd like the opinion of those who know the sport more than I do, especially since Marlon has expressed his willingness to move to safety (which could then turn into a reduction of pay)

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.

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?

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 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?