{"id":264104,"date":"2025-09-29T15:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/264104\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T15:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:20:11","slug":"pundits-size-up-ravens-playoff-chances-after-loss-in-kansas-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/264104\/","title":{"rendered":"Pundits Size Up Ravens&#8217; Playoff Chances After Loss in Kansas City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  <strong>Hamilton Earns Praise for Leadership Skills<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When asking a question to Hamilton in the postgame press conference, a reporter noted that the All-Pro safety was one of the few remaining healthy starters on defense, to which Hamilton used the podium to &#8220;knock wood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebanner.com\/sports\/ravens-nfl\/ravens-chiefs-kyle-hamilton-kyle-goon-WNBSRAUTR5APZP25FMV72YOZCY\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Baltimore Banner\u2019s Kyle Goon<\/a> said that if Hamilton were to end up being the last man standing on the unit, it couldn&#8217;t be in better hands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With injuries to Nnamdi Madubuike, Roquan Smith, Marlon Humphrey and a whole host of others, the Ravens&#8217; defense might just be too broken to fix this year. And yet, if there is one guy in the locker room you&#8217;d want trying to tackle a problem that may be too big to solve, it&#8217;s Hamilton,&#8221; Goon wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Goon noted that Hamilton&#8217;s undeniable talent is matched by his leadership skills.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We may be watching the Ravens&#8217; 2025 campaign implode. But I also believe we are watching Hamilton, who has established himself as one of the league&#8217;s best defensive backs, mature in real time \u2014 which reflects positively for the Ravens&#8217; chances to win Super Bowls beyond this season,&#8221; Goon wrote. &#8220;His leadership has been apparent when the Ravens have been at the top of the heap. Now that they&#8217;ve stumbled, his leadership is apparent as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Goon praised Hamilton for his accountability, which included apologizing for comments he made earlier in the week that rubbed some Ravens fans the wrong way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel like earlier in the week I used a poor choice of words just saying Ravens fans were spoiled. I retract that,&#8221; Hamilton said. &#8220;I meant that in a sense that Ravens fans have been accustomed to great defense, great teams. There haven&#8217;t been a lot of teams in Ravens history since &#8217;96 that have underachieved to the point where fans felt disappointed in the season as a whole. And I felt like as of right now in Week 4, obviously, a long way to go in this season, but we&#8217;re disappointed and I&#8217;m sure the fans are disappointed too.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hamilton Earns Praise for Leadership Skills When asking a question to Hamilton in the postgame press conference, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":264105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[834,13880,31153,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-264104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-general","9":"tag-homepage-centerpiece","10":"tag-late-for-work","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115288265400769010","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}