The Ravens Just Took A DEVASTATING HIT After THIS Happened!

Just when everything's been going right for the Ravens, we get hit with some devastating injury news like this. Over the past couple of days, Ravens and Vikings have been having joint practices, and these two teams been going back and forth. There's been some times that the Vikings have been getting the best of the Ravens, but there's also been a lot of times when the Ravens been getting the best of them. And we love to see it because iron sharpens iron. This is what joint practices are for, to make each other better. And there's been a whole lot of that happening. But yesterday during practice, it was said that Danny Pinter, they had to bring out the cart for him. And you never want to hear stuff like that because it's always scary. But I was holding out hope that it would end up being like Nate Wiggins because if you recall last week, Nate Wiggins had the cart brought out for him. And now this week, he's out there locking down Justin Jefferson. So, I was thinking, "All right, Jesse Mentor, please give us an update like that." But I should have known yesterday with the way that Jesse Minter spoke about Danny Pinter that it probably wasn't going to be good. >> I I I was able to go over there and see him. Uh don't have any updates yet. We'll probably have that, you know, hopefully as he gets some things done, get some tests done. Uh but we'll see how that shakes out. >> So hearing him comment on Danny Pincher, he didn't have that same enthusiasm or positivity that he had when he spoke about Marlon Humphrey and when he talked about Nate Wiggins being hurt the previous week. So that kind of gave me a more negative outlook on it. But then today confirmed everything. When we got this report from Mike Garafel, it says Ravens center Danny Pinter suffered a torn patella tendon in yesterday's joint practice with the Vikings. A rough one for Baltimore and Pinter who had impressed while working with the starters in camp. And yeah, he had. And it was said that Jeff Ree talked about how Danny Pinter had been running with the ones pretty much all offseason. Now, the plan was for Ethan Posk to run with the ones this week, but now they're forced to do that. They don't have a choice because Danny Pinter is going to miss a huge chunk, possibly all of the 2026 season. And that's tough, man, because when you work so hard, you finally get an opportunity. This was going to be his chance to earn a starting role because he hadn't really had that before in Indianapolis. But now, just like that, it all changes in the blink of an eye. But [snorts] see, the Baltimore Ravens, they did in a way get ahead of this because they didn't just bring in Danny Pinter as the only center on the roster and say, "All right, this is going to be our guy." They have competition. They brought in a Nick Dawkins, undrafted rookie free agent. They brought in Jovon Gwyn from the Atlanta Falcons. They also have Corey Bulock who he seemed to have fallen out of the race, but with this injury, it may get him back in the competition. So, this injury sucks. It is terrible, but the Ravens are still in a position to where they can overcome it. Two words we've been hearing all off season long, Jacobe Lane. And it seems like it's not going to stop anytime soon. every obstacle that gets put in front of Jacobe Lane, he just continues to overcome it. Third round draft pick, he's a rookie. What are the expectations for him? All right, he's a jump ball receiver. He's a contested catch receiver. But some people say, "Oh, man. Well, his route running, it ain't the best. Oh, he struggles getting open against man coverage. Jacobe Lane has done nothing but show up and show out the entire off season. First, it started in practice for the Baltimore Ravens. He was beating Ravens corners without no pads on then. Oh, all right. Let's put the pads on, then see what he's got. He put the pads on and guess what happened? It still didn't stop. Then we were like, "All right, well, what about in a preseason game? How about that? How's he going to do against another team?" What did he do? He came out in his very first NFL game, three catches, one of them went for a touchdown. So, all right. Well, maybe it was a fluke or something like that. How is he going to be against a better defense, better quarterbacks? Oh, we got a joint practice coming up against Brian Flores in that defense with the Vikings. Oh man, he's going to be in for an unfair treat with that one. What does Jacobe Lane keep on doing? What do we keep hearing about with Jacobe? The same thing. This man is really I don't want to say it too early, but I maybe it's not too early. Jacobe Lane is looking like the real deal. He He really is. He's looking like he is going to be something special. He's looking like he is going to be something significant because he keeps on doing the same thing over and over and over. All he does is make plays. That's it. That that's that's it. And when you see him catching passes, so many of them are coming from number eight, Lamar Jackson. So that's showing that they are continuing to build chemistry. And to me, it's still showing that Jacobe Lane, he gonna get a lot of play time this season. He going to be out there on the field a lot with the starters. And another positive for our Ravens is the test that the secondary has been getting this week going against one of the best, if not the best wide receiver in the entire NFL, that being Justin Jefferson. He is really testing all corners. And we've been hearing from Jeff Reik that Maron Humphrey has been having an excellent two days of joint practice. Nate Wiggins, he's been making plays. But somebody that I really appreciated seeing some clips of was Bal Kate because the clips that I saw, there was one where he did technically he got beat. He got beat, but it ain't like Justin Jefferson just left him in the dust. He was completely wide open. He did get some separation at the end of the route, but Bolog K, he was sticking with him for the most part. And then Val Con made an excellent play against Kyler Murray where he turned around and ended up catching a pick. But this is such a confidence booster for him because he missed all the last season due to an injury that took him out for his entire rookie year. So now being able to not only just be back on the practice field, but be back on the practice field and go against one of the best. And you could hang with him like that. Oh, you know how much that can do for somebody's confidence. So we're happy for Bal Coney. we're happy for our entire secondary. 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But I don't understand the whole Harball hate thing. He's a Hall of Fame coach and deserves his flowers for that. He bet on Lamar enough to relegate an entire offense around him. I understand coaching collapses and failures where it felt we lost games due to so many terrible coaching decisions. I was on the side of firing Harves because I believed his loyalty to his guys was way too harmful way too often such as Zack or Falele. But the tinfoil hat of Harbaugh trying to ruin Lamar is just wrong. That's a that's an interesting way to start us off. But hey, let's get to it. So, I can't say it's a tin foil hat. You see what happened the and Daniel Filele and that move alone, that's evidence right then and there because Daniel Fle was the starting offensive lineman for Lamar Jackson for not one but two years, two seasons. Two seasons. And in both of those seasons, we saw him struggle obviously 2025 way more significantly. And guess what Harbaugh did to help out Lamar Jackson when his start one of his starting offensive linemen struggled so bad? Nothing. Not a single thing. In two seasons, Harbaugh did nothing to make any adjustments, any changes to provide any help. File blocks for Jackson Dart for one game in a preseason game at that. What happens a couple days later? He's traded. He's shipped off just like that. So there's no tinfoil hat. You you have a lot of evidence that John Harbaugh and really the the the Ravens organization, they did not do their best for Lamar Jackson. But with John Harball specifically, cuz a lot of people use the word sabotage. So when something is sabotaged, that means somebody they did it on purpose. They messed something up on purpose. It's hard to argue against that when you see so much of what was done and what really wasn't done for Lamar Jackson. You see the way that so many of these other quarterbacks got treated, what was provided for them, the weapons that was provided for them, even down to coaching staff. We talked about this with John Hall with how they were a lot of times when he held on to guys just way too for Greg Roman for example, held on to him way too long. Way too long. Way too long. and we would just saw stuff and we just saw these it was malpractice. It was so bad. Again, Greg Roman, amazing introductory uh offensive coordinator, but his offenses they they stall out. And this was a this happened in with San Francisco. This happened with Buffalo. This happened everywhere Greg Roman went. It's been the same thing. But John Harbaugh kept holding on to him also with there and this not even just Lamar Jackson but John Harbaugh you talked about it yourself he's way too loyal and his loyalty was way too harmful way too many times Brandon Stevens is another example Brandon Stevens is somebody he had an excellent what was that 2023 I think it was 20 I forgot what year was where he just woo he went crazy with it he was amazing even locked down Jamal Chase on but >> [snorts] >> um Brandon Stevens A lot of times he it was rough for him. He he he struggled big time. But John Haw still allowed him to remain the starter at quarterback. Even when he had options on the bench like a Tradavius White, who when he did play, he looked a lot better than Brandon Stevens. Looked a lot more comfortable and a lot more aware of his surroundings than Brandon Stevens. What did Harball do? Nothing. He left Brandon Stevens out there. even in the playoff game and all even when it was obvious like we would joke about it a lot like during the games during the streams and videos like this and whatnot but it was true if teams needed a first down it was third and long they would target number 21 on the Ravens they did it so much so many times and that was one of those cases where there's a lot of truth behind the joke but it almost got laughable to a point because it's like hold up we we see it at home that this guy's getting targeted like crazy, especially on third downs. So, the coaching said they they got to see it too, right? Another thing too, we we we talk about wide receivers so much. That's why a lot of times uh even I know for me this off season, I didn't give our new coaching staff a shot initially when it came to the wide receivers because I really wanted them to bring in a veteran wide receiver. I'm thinking like, oh, if anything happened, we need some more. and they still could have and I wouldn't have been mad at that. But um I was still so just messed up from the previous regime and how they treated wide receiver and it was something that they treated as an afterthought. Like you look at Kyler Murray. Kyler Murray got what? He got AJ Green. I know AJ Green was way past the price but he got a nice DeAndre Hopkins. DeAndre Hopkins that he was not old by any means when he went to Kyler Murray. They also drafted what? Marvin Harrison Jr. You look at Tua, he got uh uh baller and Tyreek Hill. Jaylen Wadd uh Jaylen Herz, he got AJ like AJ Brown. Whoa. AJ Brown uh in [snorts] his prime. Devonte Smith. Like we we could keep going. We could keep going. What did the Ravens do for Lamar? Zay's been nice. Zay has been amazing. And Hollywood was nice, too. But what were some of the veterans who they acquired for Lamar Jackson to pair with those rookie receivers at the time? You had Sammy Watkins who was unfortunately injury-prone. He dealt with a lot of injuries and that continued with the Ravens. You had a Dez Bryan who they brought in, hadn't played football in like four years. You had a Odell Beckham Jr. It was fun. He hadn't played football in a year and a half and he was still dealing with an injury. He wasn't all the way healthy. Uh DeAndre Hopkins, he he could still catch, but that this was DeAndre Hopkins way past his prime. Deshawn Jackson who hadn't played football in about a year and some change. You see, so this is why when people say sabotage and again John Hall is to blame for a lot of it, is Eric Dasa, too. But we always say that with the GM, they just follow what the head coach wants to do. They follow the head coach's vision for the team. And the head coach tells the G, "Hey, this is what I want to do. This is how I want to build this team." the GM like all right it's my job let me go get these people for you let me go do this for you so that's why with Eric Dcasta with seeing him with a different head coach we like all right Eric Dcasta give you another chance I mean Stephen Shotty going to give you another chance he's still looking at you though he got all eyes on you now to see how you do with Jesse Mentor but with John the way that they built this team and and the lack that they did for a Lamar Jackson they never really went all in on him they never did they never did and it it was really sad to see. Uh for the past eight years, we of course had plenty of great moments. We all we had a lot of phenomenal moments uh with the Ravens and we wish we could have got the job done, but for so many different reasons. Um it it was too many games where it just felt like the Ravens, they lost before they even stepped foot on the field. It it seemed like the game was over and it wasn't fully up to the players. Obviously, the players got to execute. The players got to play. They ones on the field. But there were way too many games in my opinion. There were way too many games that got decided from poor decision making. Whether it was challenges, whether it was the strategy on the field, whether the play calling, uh whether it was the personnel, who was playing and who wasn't playing, we saw that so many times. So again, with John Harball, it's not a tinfoil hat. is things that we continuously saw over and over again. Speaking of Harbo, next question came from my guy Pablo. He said, "EDC still working for the Harballs?" What you talking about, Pablo? Let me see. He said, "What's up from Mexico City? First things first, I hope you and the family are doing great. And if not, that that's the case entirely. I know that it will be so very, very soon." Okay, I I appreciate that. We doing good though, man. He said, "Thanks for all the great content and the channel you give us every single day. I truly appreciate it and enjoy every single video. Hey, thank you very very much, man. He said, "Okay, let's get to the meat of this matter." Whoa. He said, "Did you ever wonder for whom EDC is working?" I mean, is he truly working for the Ravens organization? We all know the close ties he has personally with the Harballs and some of the mistakes and bad decisions in the past administrations make me wonder if there were m they were mistakes at all. For example, Katon, you remember how no matter how great the player he was, they just never offered him any deal. Now, remember that same contract year, uh, the Chargers happen to need a running back and the Ravens never played Katon as if they wanted to preserve him because he was already promised. Uh, I I I I can't That's interesting. See, now now that that might be some tinfoil hat stuff right there, uh, Sebastian, not not the whole Harball thing, but um, with Keith Mitchell, they Eric Costa did make a really good point about paying I think it would have been like $3 million, something like that, to a third string running back. Now, Keith Mitchell with more opportunity, I think Keith Mitchell could have been fantastic, but the only thing with Keith Mitchell is that he was nice. He just he would get hurt. He would get nicked up quite a bit. That was that was the one thing with him. And I think in the back of Ravens minds, I think that they realized that and they understood that. And [snorts] it it was frustrating because there was so many games like, "Hey, where's Keith Mitch? Why we not playing Keith Mitchell?" Especially that that excuse Haw gave in the beginning. Oh, well, we don't want to tip our hand. We don't want to give it away. The the defense's antenna is going to go up if they see Keith Mitchell out there. How? Come on, man. what we doing anyway. Um, but I I don't think it was they were like, "All right, hey, no, we're not going to play you because you going to the Chargers." I don't think it was anything like that. Um, I just think they didn't value Katon Mitchell like that. Uh, and I also think they sometimes I think Ravens would overthink a lot of stuff sometimes. Um, with Keith Mitchell, I I just think that they might have been and they could have been thinking about the injury, but at the same time, you also got to give him a chance to show that he is healthy cuz Keith Mitchell is a playmaker. He was a play maker for sure. Keith Mitchell was explosive, man. You just never knew he could get a big run out of nowhere or a big catching run out of nowhere, too. He could turn nothing into something like Keith Mitchell was nice, man. But Ravens just he was an afterthought with them. He was afterthought way way too often. So it was frustrating. So I I don't think it's anything like they were like, "All right, Chargers, you going to get this guy when we let him?" No, I don't think it was anything like that. But they they obviously didn't value him cuz Yeah. He said they didn't offer him no kind of contract at all. He said, "Think of this and other very questionable decisions on that administration and how those decisions ended up in the benefit of the Chargers or this year with the Giants. Just to think about it, uh gives me the chills." Okay. Hope you have a great day and peace. Um that and that's just part of the business. John Harball didn't know he was getting fired. Uh he and they talked about that a lot like this. Everybody thought John Hall stand players and all they thought John Harball stand. I certainly thought John Harball stand because I never thought the Ravens were going to fight John Harbaugh ever. Ever. I was a million% sure he was walking out on his own terms. But boy, I I was wrong. And Stephen Shotty said he said he went against what everybody else thought and he had to make the decision on his own against EDC against everybody and he had to hit up John Harbaugh said nom we ain't doing this no more it ain't happening no more. So with that being said I I don't it's part of the business like if your if the head coach gets fired yeah he going to take some players that he likes especially if those players get paid some nice amounts from the new general manager in the new team. Oh yeah they're going to go to the new team. Oh, even if they ain't like the head coach, that money talks, man. This is a business. So, they getting paid. They like, "Oh, I'll let bygones be bygones. I'm sure everything will be f They getting that bread, man." But yeah, John Hobo, of course, he going to take people from the previous regime. And with the Chargers, their former GM, he Ravens former scout. Oh, what was Joe Hortise? I forget what his director player personnel mean. I forget what his position was, but he went over to the Chargers. It's like I know he used to be with the Jets I think too. It's like all all these when the when the front office when the front office from the Ravens they go to other teams then that's going to happen a lot too. They're going to bring in players from the Ravens because they know how those players get down. They know how the Ravens get down and they respect it because that's where they came from. So they already going to have those connections. I hope y'all enjoyed today's video. If you did, make sure you subscribe to the channel. We're trying to get to 90,000 subscribers. And also leave a like on the video. Click that thumbs up button cuz it really does help out a lot. I appreciate you watching so much. If you would ever like your question being featured in the video, just send me an email at teamkeepitcle@gmail.com. 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