Ravens Hire Jesse Minter As Head Coach

The Baltimore Ravens are ending their caput coaching hunt by bringing connected committee a acquainted face.

Per an charismatic announcement from nan team, nan Ravens are hiring Los Angeles Chargers protect coordinator Jesse Minter arsenic their adjacent caput coach, replacing John Harbaugh aft 18 years astatine nan helm.

Jesse Minter Becomes Ravens Head Coach

Minter was speculated arsenic nan adjacent Ravens caput coach for a while, moreover earlier Harbaugh was fto spell by Baltimore. The Ravens firing Harbaugh was not owed to a rejection of nan team's civilization but alternatively conscionable needing a caller voice. Minter brings a operation of nan aged pinch a hint of nan new. And that's precisely what nan Ravens were looking for.

Minter joined Harbaugh's unit pinch nan Ravens successful 2017 arsenic a protect assistant. He was past promoted to adjunct protect backs coach earlier becoming nan protect backs coach successful 2020.

He spent nan past 2 years moving pinch John Harbaugh's brother, Jim, connected nan unit pinch nan Chargers arsenic their protect coordinator. Before that, he was pinch Jim connected nan University of Michigan's unit arsenic protect coordinator, wherever he helped bring a nationalist title to Ann Arbor.

This past season, nan Chargers had nan fifth-best defense successful nan league, which is simply a motion that Minter knows really to tally a beardown defense. The Ravens' protect portion did not play up to their accustomed modular this past season. Minter's occupation will beryllium to move that astir successful his first play pinch nan Ravens arsenic nan caput coach.

Minter brings a no-nonsense cognition to nan Ravens, and he is hoping that will permeate from nan apical of nan coaching unit to nan bottommost of nan roster and believe squad.

"A batch of coaches person crazy egos, and I deliberation there's a quality successful being assured successful yourself and judge of yourself, and past having an ego," Minter said via nan team's website. "I've ever tried really, really difficult to not person an ego, to really effort to build a business wherever everybody feels for illustration they person value, wherever everybody feels for illustration they're portion of nan success."

It remains to beryllium seen really Minter will build nan remainder of his staff, but it wouldn't beryllium a astonishment to spot immoderate assistants from nan Chargers travel complete and immoderate acquainted faces pinch nan Ravens to instrumentality around. While John Harbaugh is expected to bring immoderate of his coaching unit to nan New York Giants, location could beryllium immoderate continuity from past year's unit to this one.

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