{"id":830504,"date":"2026-05-29T17:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/830504\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T17:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:17:15","slug":"how-zay-flowers-can-reach-1500-receiving-yards-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/830504\/","title":{"rendered":"How Zay Flowers Can Reach 1,500 Receiving Yards This Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hiring Jesse Minter Is Pundit&#8217;s Favorite Ravens Offseason Move<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7309904\/2026\/05\/27\/nfl-offseason-draft-free-agency-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Athletic\u2019s Mike Sando<\/a> named his favorite offseason move for every team. For the Ravens, it was hiring Jesse Minter as head coach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Ravens were coming off a 13-win season when they watched Mike Macdonald, their defensive coordinator, take over as the Seahawks&#8217; coach entering 2024. They ideally would have kept Macdonald for themselves, but the timing wasn&#8217;t ideal,&#8221; Sando wrote. &#8220;When the time came to replace John Harbaugh, they pivoted to another defense-minded former Ravens assistant, Jesse Minter. The move gives the Ravens the closest available comp for Macdonald, two years later.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Minter, who will call the defensive plays, is tasked with getting a defense that ranked 24th in yards allowed last season back to the franchise&#8217;s high standard.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/russellstreetreport.com\/2026\/05\/28\/out-to-lunch\/sorting-through-the-noise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Russell Street Report\u2019s Darin McCann<\/a> believes Minter and his defensive staff will do so.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jesse Minter alone brings me incredible optimism for the defense,&#8221; McCann wrote. &#8220;We&#8217;ve all watched him succeed in both college and the NFL, and there is no doubt in my mind the Ravens will enjoy a schematic advantage in more games this season than they won&#8217;t. And, even though he is now charged with the entire team and not just the defense, the addition of [Defensive Coordinator] Anthony Weaver to run the day-to-day also brings me optimism.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hiring Jesse Minter Is Pundit&#8217;s Favorite Ravens Offseason Move The Athletic\u2019s Mike Sando named his favorite offseason move&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":830505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[39],"tags":[834,10013,10014,31153,1232,62,67,132,68,183574],"class_list":["post-830504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-general","tag-homepage-latest-headlines","tag-inline-news","tag-late-for-work","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-zay-flowers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830504","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=830504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}