CROSSOVER: Daniel Jones, Indianapolis Colts Host Lamar Jackson, New-Look Baltimore Ravens

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1:0414 every day. All right, welcome back to Cross over Thursday. That's right. It is already the first one of the year. I am Jake Arthur of Lockdown. Colts joined by my friend Kevin Ostryker of Lockdown Ravens and we are back with you guys. Again, cannot believe it is already here. Kevin, I mean, it's been an event fall off season for both sides. You guys are dealing with a new regime change for the first time in almost two decades. The Colts, it almost feels like they're getting a whole new team back because of all the injuries. Man, we made it. It's incredible that we're here. I know I've been waiting for football for so long and obviously with the way that Raven season ended, I mean, it's kind of, it was a difficult thing to recover from. But you know what, there's been a lot of change in Baltimore for sure. And for Indianapolis, no, they're a team that's looking to get off to a hot start too. So I think it's two teams that have potential to make some ways in the AFC facing up on

2:05week one. Yeah, two teams with identical records. The first two out in the AFC, no playoffs for the Colts. It's been five years. The Ravens aren't quite used to that. But today, guys, we're going to take you through what each team needs to do to win on Sunday. It's a 1pm Eastern kick at Lucas Oil Stadium on CBS. What each team needs to do to win. We're going to look at kind of some individual matchups that might really be key in this one. But first, let's start up with the biggest storyline. So Kevin, obviously, we kind of alluded to it already, but it's the first game of the year. There's a lot of change. So what is the biggest thing that is kind of circling around the Ravens right now? Yeah, I just think it is all the newness and the excitement of it and just kind of the anticipation, right? I think one of the advantages the Ravens have in this game is there's no film on who this Ravens team is anymore. We have not seen a Jesse Menter defense called by Jesse Menter and Baltimore. Not seen in Declan D'Oreal offense called by Declan D'Oreal and Baltimore.

3:06It's that uncertainty, but it's the anticipation of knowing what that is. So overall, Baltimore heads into this thing, relatively healthy, the big question and I guess one of the bigger storylines overall. And I'd probably say the biggest, just a narrow down to one, is the potential availability of Nambi Menter-BGay who suffered a neck injury and week number two last season was out for the remainder of the year. Actually, we're main the Ravens sack leader with two sacks for half of the season. It was that bad. It was fast-versus, it was that bad last year. But he's a huge part of their defense. It's felt like a return a week one was almost a long shot, but we really see him take a lot of the good steps and really nice progress. So he was limited in practice on Wednesday. Obviously, it doesn't mean he's playing or not playing, but I think that people in Baltimore are just really excited to see him back on the field because interior past rush is getting harder and harder to find in the NFL or at least good interior past rush and past rushers. And so Nambi kind of transforms what they do defensively. If he's not in there, the Ravens have enough depth, I think, to survive him not being

4:09there. This year, they signclay his Campbell back after a couple years away. They have Travis Jones, Nes Peebles is there. They sign Tray Hendrixson as well on the outside to be able to generate some pressure as well. But Nambi coming back would transform everything and against that cult offensive line, would do some damage if he was in there. Yeah, cults in a similar boat to Forest Buckner season also ended because of a neck injury. And he is also an incredibly important three tech that provides that interior past rush. For the cults, I would say they've got it. They don't have experience obviously with this specific Ravens team, but they faced Jesse Mentor last year when he was with the Chargers. They faced Anthony Weaver when he was with the Dolphins. They had success against both, but I'm still a little bit weary. I think Shane Steichen knows how to attack that scheme, but there's Kyle Hamilton. There's Rook Wands Smith. There's those really good defensive backs. This is still, I know it was tough times last year, but this is still a Ravens defense

5:13that I worry about a little bit. When it comes to the cults, it's not newness necessarily, but I think we're finally going to see number one, some of what really brought a spark to the cults early in the season. Last year got off to that incredibly hot start, eight and two. They were on top of the NFL, but also what they were lacking throughout a lot of the year. So like Daniel Jones, he's back. He has been full ghost since training camp after tearing his Achilles in December. You're getting sauce gardener back. After they traded for him in November, he had a cap injury that limited him to just two full games. They wanted to pair a sauce gardener with Charvary's Ward, and Ward had big time concussion issues. Three concussions that landed him on IR twice, played in just seven games. They're finally going to be able to see their pairing of two shutdown corners together. I mentioned with the forest buckner coming back as well.

6:13Alec Pierce was healthy last year, but he missed the entire off season. He's going to be getting transported into this wide receiver one role. So for the cults, it's a lot of additions of their own players, really. The season completely went off the rails last year when injuries pile up. Daniel Jones goes out, but in the back half again, they didn't have buckner or gardener or ward. And you're missing all these important players. And they went from where the playoffs felt like a certainty. They had like a 95% probability at one point to losing the final seven. And they just barely missed the playoffs, really. It's kind of crazy to think about. Everyone has just been kind of waiting for these guys to return to see if they pick up where they left off with how hot of a start they had. So there aren't like a ton of new faces with the cults like it is Baltimore, but it's just kind of a site for sore eyes type of situation where it's like, oh, thank god, you're back type of thing.

7:16Daniel Jones is special. I think everyone was a little skeptical nationally about his really hot start last year. And then here we go again, gets injured, which has been the story of his career. I think everyone's waiting to see the on-core now. Like for the first time in your career, Daniel, do you put together two solid years? Do you get hurt again? Like he's a guy that has a lot of things to prove out there. Yeah. And I think the big thing for the Ravens kind of going on that same breath is that Lamar Jackson is fully healthy this year, you know, as well, where he admitted he and we obviously knew it, but I mean, he missed a ton of time last season. All things considered. I mean, I think it was it was only four games. He was banged up for practically the entire year on the injury report with like three or four different lower leg injuries and got injured in week three before he got injured. He was on pace for another MVP caliber season ranked in the top one or three and many of the different passing categories out there. And obviously also lost a lot of his explosiveness. It was his worst rushing season of his career as low as the temp.

8:18So I mean, like all of that factored into what was a not up to Lamar Jackson's standard of his season last year and him being back healthy and also just the belief that I think we're we're seeing from these players, you know, one of the first things that Jesse Mincer and new offensive coordinator Declan Doyle talked about is relationship building, you know, they really have taken the time to build up their relationships with Lamar Jackson and the rest of these guys. And you can tell that the buy-in is there from everybody on what they're doing offensively and defensively and just around the team in general. It's just felt during the end of John Harboss tenure, you know, I had questioned all year like I'm not really sure the message is getting through anymore. You know, you've been there for 18 seasons, you got to switch up your message and sometimes it just goes stale, especially because, you know, winning here is everything. And Baltimore wasn't doing a lot of it early. They started one in five last year and you know, somehow miraculously made it to a point where it was in the hands of their rookie kicker at AcreState even Pittsburgh that either

9:20sent him to the playoffs or sent him home and unfortunately the latter is what happened. But I think there are definitely a lot of what ifs, you know, if Lamar never got injured but all this stuff kind of, I think the excitement level in Baltimore is around the fact that, you know, clearly it just, they'd reach their ceiling with the John Harboss Lamar Jackson pairing. And Lamar, he's not 24 anymore. Lamar Jackson is going to be 30 at the end of this season. So, you know, it's not like he doesn't have plenty of years left, I think he does. But, you know, he also, this is year nine for him. It's crazy to think about that he's in year nine and you know, it's every year you don't win the Super Bowl at Lamar and Jackson is a year of his prime that you are wasting. And again, like it's very hard to do that. There are many great quarterbacks that have never won a Super Bowl before. But at the same time, you know, you've had a lot of chances that you fall in short on 2019 when they went 14 and two in the more second season. You won his first MVP that year. 2023, they were one of the most dominant teams in NFL history and they losing the AAC

10:22championship game at home to the Chiefs. And, you know, for reasons of like, yeah, Lamar has not been the best playoff quarterback of all time. And I won't sit up here and say he is. But, you know, it's also coaching. It's also defense and lack of turnovers. And so, I think that Lamar Jackson has used the term breath of fresh air a lot of times from describing kind of what it feels like right now in Baltimore. And I think that's a pretty good way to put it because it definitely feels like the vibes are better and it feels like there is a sense of just kind of turning the page to a new chapter here in Baltimore and seeing what happens. I guess the good news is last time we saw Lamar healthy. He had an unbelievable season in May or may not have been robbed of the MVP. We don't know. But yeah, we'll talk more about Lamar here in just a moment. I'm sure, but guys, we're going to get to some individual matchups that could be really key in this matchup and determine who wins or loses. Football is finally back.

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14:28Well, I do need to say this because I think I have made it very clear. Grover Stewart was one of my favorite flaggers in the entire NFL. I want him on Baltimore for years. So you and I can negotiate that after we're done. Perfect recording this. But I think that the Colts, the Grover Stewart and the Colts interior defensive line against Javon Gwynne, who is the new Ravens starting center is one that I'm really looking at, especially up front because everything starts in the trenches for me. And the Ravens had a really poor offensive in my season. It was horrendous. I think they upgraded their guard spots. They brought in Vanguio Wane for Daniel Falele, which I've said might be the single biggest upgrade in the entire NFL, based off how that went last year. And then John Simpson comes back to Baltimore for Inju Voorhees, who is now a backup with the Ravens. But they lost Tyrell Lindervo. And Lindervoam's a great center. He goes to Las Vegas on a contract. I probably think it's going to end up being a pretty big outlier at that position for a while. But still, the Raiders have the money and they paid him and the Ravens said,

15:29you know what, we're good on that. So they had a center competition throughout the entire off season, which they'd include former Colt Danny Pinter, who unfortunately suffered a very serious injury that will keep him out for the entire season. He was actually, I think he probably had an inside track to win the job before going down and the joint practice with the Vikings. So really unfortunate situation for him. I think the Ravens really liked what he brought to the table. But if Vanguio Wane after Pinter went down, he ends up winning the job over veteran Ethan Posick, who's coming off a 20-killies, that he suffered in December. So with offensive lineman, you always got to wonder about the burst coming off of injuries like that. And one of the things the Ravens have preached to Ton, new offensive linke goes to Wayne Leford, is speed off the ball. And so that's something that is there. You know, I think Gwen is someone who is very athletic. He moves side to side very well. We saw on the preseason and in joint practices him being able to get to the second level very effectively and impact the game that way. But you know, it's funny because Linda Ball, obviously, is an undersized center. And I think a lot of people in Linda Ball and left, you're in Baltimore are like, all right, we're going to get this like, Ethan Posick is six six for examples.

16:30Like, yeah, we're going to get this big guy. It's center. It's going to be different. And Javon Gwen is the same height as Tyra Linda Ball and five pounds heavier. So it's got to like, I had described it as like the Thanos. Where does your failure bring you back to me? Like it's the same thing. But at the same time, I do think Gwen has a lot of potential. But going up against some of those guys and that cool, interior defensive lineman, it's a tough test in week number one. Especially considering if you want to talk about the ground game in general, Indy was a top two rush defense last season in terms of yards per attempt. So it's something where if you want to establish that, yes, you have Derek Henry, you have Lamar Jackson, in his ability with both his arm and his legs. But you're going to have to be able to make room up front because as good as Lamar and Derek are, they can't do everything by themselves if they're guys in the backfield in two seconds. So that's a massive number they're looking forward to. I actually had that same one circle that I'll throw, DeForest Buckner and Aditonuwa Adibari into there as well. So you got to imagine that trio is going to be going up against Gwen quite a bit.

17:32Buckner, again, December neck injury, he's back, head surgery and December, he's been full through at least the last few weeks before the season starts. And he looks pretty explosive still. He's got this devastating swim move that he's always been able to work with. He has some power, but he does a lot of good finesse stuff. He moves very well. He's a bigger body guy, six foot seven, like 293 pounds. Whereas Grover, as you know, he's the big spacey or well over 300 pounds, a lot of power there. And then Aditonuwa Adibari, he's more of an inside pass rusher, a bit undersight. He's got a really interesting frame. He's got long arms, but he's a very short, lighter defensive tackle. But he's very explosive as well. Zach and I on our show have kind of singled him out as a guy who kind of a sneaky potential to get like six or seven sacks this year. He's got a great summer. So if the Colts can attack this center matchup with their deep hits

18:33attackles, which it does look like they have an advantage. But from what I've seen, it sounds like Gwen has had a pretty good summer. Is that about right? Yeah. Yeah. So that's, I think it on paper, it favors the Colts, but, you know, the big X factor being, you know, Derek Henry coming at this run defense. I think that could be a little bit concerning. So another one I had circled here is Colts' rookie safety, AJ Halsey. So he missed the last two weeks with an ankle injury, but he's back this week. So if, you know, if he keeps practicing, it sounds like it's pretty promising from the play. I think him defending Lamar Jackson in the run, I don't know who they're going to use to spy Jackson. I probably won't, I don't know. But Halsey, you know, I think when it comes onto it, even if he's not the spy, him being the box safety, it's going to come down to him a lot. I think him defending Lamar in the run, but also Mark Andrews, I'm guessing, is going to be a big part of this, this offense as well.

19:35Now that he's a little more healthy, I imagine. And there's no Isaiah likely. You know, it seems like Mark Andrews might be back into a more prominent role. I think AJ Halsey is going to be a big, big part of defending those two things for Baltimore's offense this week. And as a rookie, I really like him, but that's a tall task in week one. Yeah, Andrews is looking for a bounce back. It was definitely in tough year for him after obviously what happened in the previous years, playoffs and Buffalo with the Fumble and the drop two point conversion. But he is the guy, you know, the Ravens drafted two rookie tight ends and that Hibner and Josh Quavis, they will probably factor in as well. And then Durham's Smite, who's more of a blocker, came over from Chicago with Declan Doyle, who's their offensive coordinator. But, you know, I think one of the really intriguing things just within that matchup is, you know, Baltimore running a lot more under center looks and play action looks as well. And I think if Baltimore can establish their, I mean, that's why I think that in the trenches is so important. And, you know, both things that we've talked about kind of go hand in hand,

20:35because if the Ravens can establish their ground game against that cold defense of front, then naturally the safety and linebackers are going to have to take a step up on whatever it looks like a handle. And you can work guys over the top if you're Baltimore in that regard, because if you have that play action and it's a good play action fake, you know, defenses are automatically going to need to be like, all right, we need to, like Derek Henry's average nine yards of carry, we need to go and stop Derek Henry and they're automatically going to creep up and take that step. And then they'll be caught in between Iraq and a hard place with either Andrews or someone else going right in the sweet spot or even behind the defense. So I think that, you know, with a lot of this on both sides of the ball, it's going to be a lot about discipline, whether it's cat discipline or discipline on those play action looks because we saw it even during the preseason. It was very, very, very fun now. Obviously, you're not going to show your whole playbook in the preseason. But, you know, we saw a lot of play action roll outs from Tether Huntly, which I thought was really cool. And Jo Fignano was love me at the teams that they're a quarterback. I think that it's a really intriguing matchup for sure because Andrews is somebody that I think

21:39needs a fast start here. And, you know, the cold drivers going to look to shut him down. And that's what teams have done in the past. It's kind of like takeaway, Mark Andrews and see who else can beat you. But now you do have Zay flowers for shop baiters hoping for a bounce back to Kobe Lane. It's been like the talk of the NFL this preseason with what he's been doing. So the Ravens have a lot of options as well. Yeah, without a doubt. All right, guys. So coming up here in a moment, what is either side going to need to do to win this matchup? Because I don't think it's one of the sexier ones so far that people are talking about. But Coltson Ravens, I mean, it's got quite a bit of juice to it. We're going to talk about that in just a moment. Welcome to your most rewarding NFL season ever only on Fandall. How rewarding are we talking more rewarding than a touchdown with time expiring? More rewarding than an 18 point comeback? Maybe even more rewarding than an O-Lime and catching a touchdown? This season, Fandall is making the excitement go beyond what happens on the field with the all new Fandall rewards club featuring exclusive offers, surprises and more.

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24:48And Kevin there's a lot of new stuff going on here especially with Baltimore. You got a new head coach, new decordinator, new offensive coordinator who's a first-time play caller. So how do you see this, you know, what is Baltimore really need to do to win when it comes down to it? Yeah I think there are a few things. I mean first of all I think that Baltimore needs to win like we talked about be able to establish the run game. It's easier to set and done with that front the Colts have but I think that's really big. The second of all it's being able to stop the Colts in conversions scenarios. The Colts are really good at that last season, eighth and third down percentage and fifth and red zone percentage and you need to be able to stop that. I think red zones one of the biggest keys to be here offensively because again the Colts were at top five red zone offense last year. The Ravens were a bottom five red zone offense last year. So I know that's really big. I mean three points compared to seven points is a really big deal and so I do think that you know it's still the unknown and the uncertainty of like okay what is that one little call in the red zone is going to be different from what Todd Mokin called in the red zone but I think

25:50he has a lot of talent at his disposal. That's really where I am with that. I also think that Baltimore does need to make sure that the Colts cannot get any big plays behind their defense. You know obviously you know the Colts are going to want to probably stretch to feel a little bit, maybe try some Alec Pierce deep shots but you cannot let that get behind you. You have to let everything stay in front of you. You know if you allow some of the short stuff to you know kind of get the course down to feel a little bit. Ideally what the Ravens have done in the past has been don't break and you can hold them to fuel goals in that situation and like I say if you hold a team that kicks the entire game and you fuel goals or punts if you're that Ravens offense you're probably winning the game considering who you have on that side of the ball and then I would also just say you cannot have penalties. You know penalties were a killer last year for the Ravens and they are for all teams but it just felt like for Baltimore you know key moments came up big first down or big third down stop and nope there's laundry on the field. This advantage bolts more so you need to be able to do that because again this is a game of momentum it's a game of run

26:51sometimes and you know you can lose momentum or you can give the other team momentum if you have a penalty that isn't a big spot or a big moment so I think this is going to be a good game and I'm anticipating both sides putting up a fight but I think it'll just come down to who executes more cleanly on both sides of the ball. Yeah so when it comes to the Colts offensively I think Daniel Jones has looked great physically throughout the summer you know he's moving well he doesn't look like a guy coming off in the killies but you don't want to put him at a disadvantage so as long as like the blocking holds up just fine not just the offensive line which I'm confident the offensive line very little turnover there but like the peripheral blocking like Jonathan Taylor and Seth McGowan on passing downs picking up blitzes you know Tyler Warren Moelle Cox the the Titans you know sealing things off well on the edges keep Jones relatively comfortable if possible and that also includes in the kickoff return game which the Colts the Colts think they've kind of

27:51found a secret to success they are investing in kick returners who are more running back types bigger guys who they think can kind of run through what they feel are like kind of rugby scrums on kick returns and have good vision and kind of contact balance looks like it'll be Ashton Dylan and Seth McGowan if those guys can give them good field position and it doesn't allow you know Minter and Weaver to use that defense to kind of smell blood in the water and send a bunch of pressure there then I think the Colts offense can string together some momentum you know be successful on third downs and just kind of keep putting up points on the board doesn't have to be a touchdown every time but I think this could be a game where whichever team gets to 23 24 points can win like it doesn't have to be like a super huge high scoring game but I think as long as they do that and then on the defensive side of the ball we're going to be very skeptical therefore man rush throughout the season so you got to be very careful obviously sending

28:53pressure at Lamar because it takes someone away from the back end of the defense typically so get home with the blitzes if you're sending pressure make sure it's something that is really going to affect Lamar otherwise you could be looking at a big gain from his feet so I think if you could keep those things under control then you know you can wind up coming out on top I don't think either team is really going to separate itself by a couple scores I think this could be one where you know again a team that gets to 24 can win like a 24 or 20 type of game I don't see either team dominating this one but I think either side could win yeah I'm really excited for it you know I think that these are two teams that are looking to get off to a really fast start and I think fast starts are important Baltimore started so slow these last two seasons they started oh and two almost oh and three two years ago one and five this past year you know you can't afford to do that a third year in a row because again like the Ravens were a kick away from making

29:57the postseason this past season but it's like what if they had just been able to win one of those close games earlier so like my saying that I kind of coined and probably should trade market this point is that September losses don't matter in September but they certainly do matter in December when you're fighting for playoffs bus and so for both these teams and in AFC that honestly is wide open to me or there's not a ramps in the AFC there are a lot of teams that are really good and I think these two teams are in that conversation but they're like 10 or 12 teams that you can maybe make an argument for like yeah maybe maybe maybe maybe less than 12 like maybe like 10 of these teams can make them playoffs oh breaking news they're only seven spots so you got to be able to get off these wins early in the season give yourself a cushion so stuff does go wrong and I know for the cults they did exactly this and it still didn't work but like even still you got to do it because like it took a very big outlier situation with the injuries within the Annapolis and everything to happen the way it did for it to not work but assuming that both teams

30:58have a more clean bill of health this year fast starts are really important and you know I think it'll be a really good fight that is without a doubt all right guys well hopefully you feel a little more prepared for this matchup I feel like I know more about this iteration of the Ravens now after you know knowing the vibes for the last like 18 or so years there's a lot more to learn about this team now so cults fans I hope Kevin taught you quite a bit there stick with us throughout the week we got shows on Friday we got shows coming up after the game thanks for joining us today on Lockdown Coltson Lockdown Ravens on video we're going to send you to our 24-7 Lockdown NFL YouTube channel for the 2026 NFL season preview all three episodes are airing right now until Sunday at 1 p.m. Eastern what team will be the final one standing if you're on audio find it on the Lockdown NFL feed wherever you get your podcasts if you don't already follow at Jake Arthur NFL and at K Ostracker 34 on social media with that thank you guys have a great day and we will

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