Ravens' Jesse Minter Era Kicks Off With a BANG

Ravens’ Jesse Minter Era Kicks Off With a BANG

September 15, 2026



We all know Sundays are jam-packed. They’re so busy, in fact, that we can’t possibly cover every game from the day in our Sunday night recap show. And that’s why The Hangover is back once again in 2026. Every Tuesday, we’ll dive deep into a handful of games we didn’t get to on Sunday, and this year, we’ll plan to save at least one meaty game per week for the Hangover. In the Week 1 edition, that game is the Baltimore Ravens’ 41-23 win over the Indianapolis Colts. After that, Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen dig into the New York Jets’ win over the Tennessee Titans, and the Las Vegas Raiders’ handling of the Miami Dolphins on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. Sponsored by @usbank

0:00 Welcome to the show
0:12 We’re hungover
0:54 Ravens – Colts
3:29 Derrik Henry
8:17 Lamar Jackson
10:43 “One-of-one shit”
12:30 Zay Flowers
15:13 Matthew Hibner
17:20 Jesse Minter’s defense
18:07 Roquan Smith
19:59 Travis Jones
25:33 Colts defense
28:02 Titans – Jets
29:37 Jets offensive line
31:00 Frank Reich’s offense
34:04 Garrett Wilson
35:04 I can make it rain if I want to
35:31 Titans defense makes Derrik LOL
36:26 Jets defense
36:41 Azareye’h Thomas
37:43 Demario Davis
40:05 Titans offense
41:10 Cam Ward
47:49 Raiders – Dolphins
47:59 Klint Kubiak
48:38 Spencer Burford
48:55 Mike Washington
50:15 Ashton Jeanty
52:17 Michael Mayer
1:00:34 Dolphins defense
1:02:01 Raiders defense
1:06:09 Malik Willis
1:09:39 Treydan Stukes
1:12:11 Kirk Cousins/Fernando Mendoza

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  4. the more tape ive seen on the titans game, the more i blame Cam for bailing out early and just flat missing dudes. OL wasnt great but they dont look as bad on the tape as they did during the game.

  5. I think Robert keeps missing the point on his Lamar 2025 take- through 2 weeks, he was clearly the best QB in the league by the stats and grades. That changed vs the Lions in Wk 3 where he said he was first injured. He still played, played poorly and on that bad hamstring played worse in Week 4 such that he had to be pulled out of the game and had a injury-riddled season

    So when ppl pushed back and say “it’s the injuries” it’s bc what you are attributing to poor play was quite literally after he got injured. (But regardless you got of stop bringing it up and let it go. Who cares if randos disagree lol)

  6. You keep saying Lamar didn't play well the first month last year which is just factually false. He was leading the league in MVP talk. He had 10tds to 1int. He had over a 130 average qb rating through the first 3 games. He got hurt initially in the lions game, week 3, and didn't even finish the game week 4. Then he was awful playing hurt for the rest of the season. The defense was atrocious. The coaching would get super conservative with a lead also.

  7. I wasn't as impressed with Washington. He looked a lot stiffer than Jeanty. For all the preseason hype about a 50/50 share was greatly overstated. There are levels to this thing and round 1 capital is a thing

  10. I think Kaelon Black is being slept on a bit. His situation is off the charts and he played snaps on the first drive. This will finally be the season CMC doesn't get abused and Black has standalone value IMO (Flex in deeper leagues).

  11. I think the pushback to the analysis of Lamar’s “struggles” to start the season stem from the lack of attention or blame on the offensive line. He had 10tds to 1 int and a 130 plus passer rating through 3 games. He balled out in spite of a struggling oline and terrible defence

    The interior oline was criminally terrible and yet we blame Lamar for being panicky. Whereas Herbert’s oline was mentioned as reasons 1,2 and 3 when he struggled last year

  16. "Ravens – Colts"
    *22 min covering Ravens
    *3 min covering Colts

    Disappointing! Let's hope we get back up to the best offense in NFL history so TAFS is forced to discuss us with some level of detail!

  22. Good analysis. However, Lamar had the worst guards in the NFL last year that let him get blasted by Oliver from the bills and still played well until week 5 .😅 He got hit over, and over all season, he had two hammy,s , a toe , and both ankles taped up, and his back was hurt due to free runners .I guess he wouldn't look the same as 2024 .

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