To say that the Baltimore Ravens are off to a bad start to the 2025 NFL season would be an understatement, but head coach John Harbaugh isn’t ready to throw in the towel.
“Our focus is going forward and what we can accomplish for the next 11 games to try to earn our way into the playoffs, which obviously, as [it was] identified final evening, has not been achieved fairly often with the report we now have. However, we nonetheless imagine we will do it,” Harbaugh stated concerning the Ravens’ 1-5 begin as a part of a gap assertion at his Monday availability.
“All of our focus goes to, actually, two issues; the bye week and dealing via each side and subject that we will [to] discover each manner we may be at our greatest going ahead with the gamers we now have.”
In Week 1, Baltimore blew a 40-25 lead on the highway in opposition to the Buffalo Payments with 7:16 remaining within the fourth quarter. Following a bounce-back win in opposition to the Cleveland Browns in Week 2, the Ravens misplaced to the Detroit Lions after which misplaced famous person quarterback Lamar Jackson to a hamstring harm in a 37-20 defeat by the hands of the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs.
Baltimore has misplaced each full video games that Jackson has missed, being outscored at house in opposition to the Houston Texans and Los Angeles Rams by a mixed rating of 61-13. Furthermore, the Ravens are with out All-Professional linebacker Roquan Smith (hamstring) and fullback and five-time Professional Bowler Patrick Ricard (calf), amongst others.
Via six video games, the Ravens are surrendering essentially the most factors within the NFL (32.3 per sport) and are twenty ninth in opponent complete yards (380.8 per sport).
If the Ravens managed to proper the ship and make the postseason, they’d be simply the fifth group to make the playoffs after beginning 1-5 for the reason that 1970 AFL-NFL merger. Underneath Harbaugh, the Ravens have posted 10-plus wins in six of the previous seven full seasons, lacking the playoffs in 2021, the one yr that they did not log double-digit wins over that span.
Baltimore is coming into its bye week, which it follows with a house matchup in opposition to the Chicago Bears on Oct. 26. Jackson and Smith are anticipated to return to motion for the aforementioned Week 7 sport.
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