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The Ravens Lounge

Ben Solak Talks About New Coaches' Scheme, Ravens' Biggest Priority to Improve, the Next Step for Lamar Jackson And More

The Ravens Lounge

Baltimore Ravens

Sports, Football

4.9659 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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ESPN's Ben Solak joins Garrett Downing and Clifton Brown to talk about what Jesse Minter will bring to the defense and how Declan Doyle will change the offense, how the offensive line should be the offseason focus, how Lamar Jackson can improve his game by doing less, and more.

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0:00.0

Welcome into the lounge presented by Draft Kings.

0:06.4

I'm Garrett Downey here with Clifton Brown.

0:08.0

Today we're excited to sit down with Ben Sulek from ESPN.

0:10.9

And Ben, let's talk a little bit about the Ravens in this offseason.

0:14.0

Obviously it's been an off season to change for this group with Jesse Minter coming in.

0:19.8

From your view, what kind of impact will the arrival of Jesse Minter and this new coaching staff have on this team? Yeah, I'm excited. And I think that I was a guy who believed a lot in Harbaugh, and I would have felt great about another year of Harbaugh. But obviously, they decided to make this shift. And when they do so, I think they do it with an idea in mind of what Mentor can be as a head coach because they had the familiarity. They wanted to get in before, you know, the getting was gone as it is.

0:41.7

Now, Minter, you know, with everything that he talks about in the way that he speaks, heavily,

0:45.5

analytically minded, has a modern view on defense, right? Things about things is the way that Mike

0:48.7

McDonald did, all extremely exciting stuff. You go and you say, all right, like, what are you going to be able to do with the OC spot? Who do you know, right? How deep is your NFL role that actually haven't been here for

0:56.0

very long? Declan Doyle was a big name now, right? This was a hire that I think got a lot of people excited and what Declan's done in his background with Lamar. Like, that's a very unique player relative to what he's done in the past.

1:06.3

And so you're impressed

1:06.9

always filled out of the staff,

1:07.8

got weave back in the building.

1:09.1

Like that's, you know,

1:09.6

another enormous deal for that defense.

1:11.4

And so everything Minter is doing so far,

1:14.1

to me,

1:14.5

is the sort of sound like, you're impressed always filled out the staff, got weave back in the building. Like, that's, you know, another enormous deal for that defense.

1:11.5

And so everything Minter is doing so far, to me, is the sort of stuff that you would expect,

1:15.5

you know, first year head coach make a high impact.

1:17.6

And then, you know, defense would have did with the chargers in terms of the talent that they had

1:20.6

and the juicy guy out of that squeeze.

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