{"id":490175,"date":"2026-03-23T01:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T01:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/490175\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T01:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T01:41:10","slug":"analyst-reveals-incredible-ravens-expectations-for-jesse-minter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/490175\/","title":{"rendered":"Analyst reveals incredible Ravens expectations for Jesse Minter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/uk\/nfl\/baltimore-ravens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore Ravens<\/a> head coach Jesse Minter isn&#8217;t walking into a coaching job like most first-timers do.<\/p>\n<p>There will be no honeymoon period or a soft landing if things go south &#8212; he&#8217;s coming to win a Super Bowl. Well, that&#8217;s the expectation, at least, given Baltimore&#8217;s roster as it stands. And that means Minter will be under pressure to produce from Day 1.<\/p>\n<p>For a first-time head coach, that is a hard thing to do, but Minter has the weapons on both sides of the ball to challenge for the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>And for Bleacher Report&#8217;s Gary Davenport, he has a realistic expectation of the Ravens under Minter in Year 1 to end with a 12-5 record.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn paper, the Ravens have the best roster in the AFC North, led by a two-time MVP quarterback in Lamar Jackson,&#8221;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25409169-realistic-expectations-1st-year-head-coaches-after-early-2026-nfl-free-agency\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Davenport wrote<\/a>. &#8220;But this is a team that is expected to do more than just make the postseason. The Ravens are expected to make a real run at Super Bowl LXI.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Ravens have an excellent chance of making the playoffs, but this team could win a dozen games, and Minter&#8217;s first season will still be viewed as a failure if the Ravens bow out early in the playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/uk\/nfl\/minnesota-vikings\/news\/3-time-all-pro-wr-makes-stunning-vikings-plea\/132cdb131a9ec781e7ce6ed9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">3-time All-Pro WR makes stunning Vikings plea<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Minter in unfavorable position<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it is great to come to a team with players like Lamar Jackson, Derrick Henry, Mark Andrews, Kyle Hamilton, and Trey Hendrickson.<\/p>\n<p>But what that does is put the pressure on Minter and his staff to win right away. The Ravens can&#8217;t afford a slow start or, at worst, missing the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Minter knows he is under pressure from Day 1, and that is an unenviable position to be in.<\/p>\n<p>And a 12-5 record in Year 1, and it still be a failure? That is what is confronting Minter and his Ravens.<\/p>\n<p>More NFL news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Baltimore Ravens head coach Jesse Minter isn&#8217;t walking into a coaching job like most first-timers do. There&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-490175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}