Hard to call it sinking at 7-4, especially with an extremely winnable schedule.

Rams, Jags, Bears, Texans, Jets, Bengals are their remaining schedule, and even with DTR (or worse) you probably figure 3 of those are wins at a minimum. Considering the Ravens have a MUCH more difficult remaining slate, the state of the Burrow-less Bengals, you’re basically in a race with Pittsburgh for a wildcard slot, and division title is still not mathematically ruled out

The Browns managed to cough up the ball enough to give the Broncos a massive edge in a game that also cost them Garrett

Did I miss an update? Last I heard, Myles was just sore.

Homer take, but Steve Bisciotti seems to be a good owner, and these are some of the observations I’ve either gleaned or imagined:

• Care about the community you belong to. I know lots of teams do it, but it seems like the Ravens are giving back to the community *every week*, and unlike a lot of teams, where it’s new draft picks and third stringers going out and giving back, we actually have Lamar Jackson handing out turkeys to those who need them.
• Care about your team’s culture and know how to hire for it. It’s hard to hear the words “Baltimore Ravens” on sports talk shows without a comment about how well we’re run. With *extremely* few asterisks, ex-players always brag about how much they enjoyed their tenure here. It is absolutely common when a trade happens that the traded player was more interested in us because of an ex-Raven they asked about us.
• Care about character at every level. Yes, we’ve had bad apples on the team. Every team has and every team does… but ever since Ray Rice’s very public incident, we’ve attempted as much as possible to steer away from players with character concerns. This one kind of goes hand in hand with the one above, and maybe it’s just a homer-stance, but y’know, we weren’t pursuing anyone with $230 million worth of allegations (nor should we.)
• Be realistic about when to push the pedal. It’s hard knowing when your SB window is open and when it isn’t, and if you put all your chips in thinking it is and are derailed by injuries, it’s hard to come back from. I think that the Rams did a great job going all-in trying to establish a new fanbase after moving from StL, but generally that’s not a workable strategy. The cap *is* real, and someone has to care for it eventually.
• Know when to interfere. When not to. When to make a strong suggestion. Etc. This is the hardest one that I think most owners get wrong (or recency bias has Tepper in my brain) but I’m just going to leave it vague here and let you infer that this should recommend being the opposite of Dan Snyder.

God yes. I’ve already posted about this in a comment somewhere else, but AI right now should be able to COMPLETELY fix

• Delay of game
• Encroachment / Offsides
• False Start
• Illegal Motions
• Illegal Formations
• Too many men on defense / offense
• Illegal Shift
• Illegal Substitution
• Illegal touch / player out of bounds
• Ineligible man downfield
• Intentional Grounding
• Sideline Infractions (ahem, MIKE TOMLIN)

This isn’t remotely all the penalties in football, and there are still tons that I think would be very hard for CV/AI to tackle right now (holding, taunting, etc.) that are wildly subjective calls, but if we can knock off all of the above penalties as things that referees no longer have to worry about, then perhaps it frees up more bandwidth to spend on the more subjective calls.

Obviously, as AI and computer vision develop, other things can be added in, and I still think there’s a need for humans on the field in officiating, but every year it seems like officiating gets worse.

In person, Ravens / Chiefs (the one we won)

But the loudest I’ve ever experienced on television was when I was working in Albany, NY. This was years ago, back when the Bills still sucked, and had for a long time. Fitzpatrick was the QB.

I was hanging out at McGeary’s, which was an awesome Bills backer bar. Bills / Pats was on TV, and I got a work call. Realizing how loud the bar was, I went out of the bar, across the street, and around the corner to take it – of course at some point the Bills did something good and the bar erupted so loudly that my boss said “Sounds like someone got a touchdown!” I laughed it off and said “Yeah, sure did.”

Went back into the bar after, expecting the score to be 7-0 or maybe 7-7 or 7-14 or something, but it was still 0-0. “I heard you guys screaming all the way around the corner? What happened!”

“Oh. We got a first down!”