 Over the past couple of years the Ravens have undergone major change They've undergone major change the personnel just their team identity It's not the same Ravens that it was a few years ago but one of the biggest changes that the Ravens have undergone has been in their talent and Not just their talent, but the age of their talent and they've become a much younger team Especially when it comes to offense. So what ESPN did they created what you know? I love another list again I don't like making lists, but I love reviewing lists and they went through every single NFL team with the top talent with the that's under the age of 25 25 or younger and This and let's just see how they graded the different players that they went through So it reads and this was by Scott Spratt from ESPN.com Said quarterbacks have generated a year of dramatic risers and fallers and football outsiders ranking of teams by their talent That is under 25 years old with the public pressure on teams to start their rookie passers in week one or at least as soon as their Placeholder veterans lose a few games. It's little wonder that players such as Baker Mayfield can swing their team standings By 10 or more spots once they accumulate more than their few hundred freshman pass attempts I don't know why they use Baker Mayfield as an example, but let's keep going after a different sort of regression One such player propelled his team to the top spot for 2020 despite their disappointing playoff exits the past two seasons They are in even better shape than the reigning champion Kansas City Chiefs to make Super Bowl trips over the next few seasons So I mean by the title of the video you already know who number one is and by me reading those first two paragraphs of the Article you already know who number one is number one who ESPN determined has the top talent That's 25 or younger is the Ravens, but let's keep going. Let's see how these ratings Get put together These ratings consider not just talent under the age of 25 But also the value and length of those players current contracts This will push up the teams with productive players who have several years left on Inexpensive rookie contracts and push down the teams that have already had to or will soon have to pay their experience young talent So by that paragraph the Ravens are gonna get pushed down Very soon within the next year because it's pay time anyway Okay, and this last paragraph was a nothing so Yo, actually this one is the paragraph right before this one was nothing but this paragraph It says here are rankings for this season all ages are of September 1st 2020 blue chip players are cornerstone assets from whom teams will likely derive their biggest future value Players are considered graduated if they have turned 25 Read through the full file from 1 to 32 or jump to your favorite team by clinking on the link here And I don't have to jump to my favorite team because they're number one. So they listed them first Let's read about the ratings. So there 2019 ranking with this same list was 25 They're blue chip players. Remember, we just explained what blue chip players are on this list Lamar Jackson, Marlon Humphrey, Orlando Brown, Mark Andrews and Hollywood Brown Now they're notable graduated players. So these are the guys that turned 25 Bradley Bozeman, Chuck Clark, Gus Edwards And says football outsiders research has shown that quarterbacks tend to make their biggest performance jumps from year one to year two But Lamar Jackson sophomore breakout was the Bob Beaman of those. I don't know who Bob Beaman is I guess I'm gonna have to look that up. But anyway Lamar Jackson, Marlon Humphrey, Orlando Brown, Junior, Mark Andrews, Hollywood Brown, Bradley Bozeman, Chuck Clark, Gus Edwards 25 or younger That's a beautiful thing because all of these guys they have big impacts on the Raven success Each and every one of them Lamar Jackson, obviously the quarterback, you know Marlon Humphrey Great cornerback one of the best cornerbacks in the game And Orlando Brown, Junior are starting right tackle Mark Andrews are starting tight end one of the best tight ends in the league Again, he's not there yet as the best, but he's working his way Hollywood Brown was our best receiver all the last year and he was hurt and now this year Oh, you can't wait and then Bradley Bozeman This is funny with these three guys injuries put them into the forefront Because Bradley Bozeman, there were injuries along the offensive line He got bumped up into and eventually being a starter with Chuck Clark Andry to Tony Jefferson ended up bumping him up to be a starter with Gus Edwards What Alice Collins just he just wasn't cutting it anymore and They ended up cutting him and Gus Edwards. He got more time and he used to be our starter for a little while He was a um But we obviously they got Mark Ingram and that bump Gus Edwards down and so on and so forth me but anyway This these guys are all significant players when it comes to the Baltimore Ravens And it's a beautiful thing when you have talent not only just talent, but also young talent and It's sort of tricky because it can work both for and against you It works a lot more for you But eventually it will work against you because when you have all this young talent all these young ballers all these Young guys that's out there getting it. That's nice and it your team will be even better But then how it works against you When you got a pay to When you got up because you cannot keep everybody and this is why the draft is so important This is why undrafted rookie free agents are so important because you have your diamonds in the rough You have your guys that are ballers in college and they come to NFL do the same thing But you have to continue to go through the process of drafting well So your team can continue to have success and replace guys because the football is gonna keep on going It's gonna keep on going whether you can keep guys or not NFL will still continue to go and Your team has to still continue to go and it feels not gonna stop for you just because all we can't pay that guy We can't keep him on. Oh, we can't pay this guy. We can't keep him. Oh, no You got to keep it moving But anyway back to the paragraph As a rookie Lamar Jackson was a product of a system that was designed to highlight his strengths and avoid his weaknesses He was an inefficient passer with the 58 completion rate and a negative 9.2 DVO a but he only threw 23 passes per game in 2019 Jackson became the kind of quarterback who can carry a franchise No matter their system or other problem His passing rate spiked to 66 percent completions and 34.9 DVO a his Russian efficiency flipped from negative 27.2 to 20.5 percent DVO DVO a thanks in large part to a reduction from 12 From 12 to 9 fumbles despite eight additional starts. Yeah, that yeah, it's his first year Oh, I'm fumble boy. I'm fumble to a rough Fumble to a rough man Jackson seems to have developed a talent to avoid big hits Even when he cuts toward the middle of the field and even when defenders appear to take the proper angle to tackle him can we all Can we get that like Framed can we get that sentence framed and we each everybody needs to take pictures put it on the Instagram Facebook Twitter If you do you to put in a background So can we all get that sentence framed because too many people they they don't say this And this is exactly what it can we please have this framed? I got to read that again I have I have to read this again because I'm just not used to seeing it acknowledged We know about it. We've been saying it, but I'm not used to seeing it get acknowledged Let's read it one more time Jackson seems to have developed a talent to avoid big hits Even when he cuts toward the middle of the field and even when defenders appear to take the proper angle to tackle him Breath oh, yeah, that's a breath of fresh air anyway Now, of course, he has still taken some big hits But the way that a lot of people make it y'all y'all know the conversation anyway All together Jackson led the position with an eighty one point eight QBR and was named NFL MVP Cool, but the Ravens don't need Lamar Jackson to solve all their problems They continue to use a system that takes advantage of Jackson's talents But they have also accumulated an exceptional young depth on both sides of the ball Jackson's favorite target Mark Andrews came from his same 2018 draft class the third round tight end finished seventh with 123 dy8r at a position whose efficiency leaders tend to be more experienced with veterans and made his teammate and fellow tight end Hayden Hurst expendable in a trade with the Falcons. Oh, no, y'all had to say it like that Y'all ain't had to say it like that. I mean, it would have been nice if we would have kept Hayden Hurst But you know the business man, you he wanted opportunity and Ravens like, you know what compensation. Oh, yeah We would compensation they'll trade anybody man Jackson seldom needed to open up the offense beyond his running game and tight end targets But 2019 first round of Marquis Brown still stretch the field with more than one-fifth of his catches coming excuse me Coming on passes thrown 20 or more yards in the air. Oh, that's interesting Myles Morgan can do the same and should also contribute more in the red zone in 2020 with his exceptional size of 64 220 pounds in leaping ability. Hey, that's what we all hoping for me. That's what we are all hoping for Third round receiver Devin Duvenay compliments Brown and Boykin with a slot quickness and second round running back JK Dobbin should seem it seamlessly replace an aging Mark Ingram either in 2021 when Ingram's contract escalates or 2022 when it expires Hmm, they went in a detail with this. Okay. I see your ESPN Finally right tackle and one thing I appreciate about this article is that it's not just the general stuff It's not just oh Well, Lamar Jackson's MVP blah blah blah, but they went into detail with the contract I got really appreciate this cuz um, and I know a lot enough ESPN guys they can't watch Ravens They can't watch every single team in detail like that Because they focus on all teams But it's just I really appreciate when they can do some in-depth stuff like this So this this was cool And he said finally right tackle Orlando Brown was one of the five Baltimore Ravens linemen with 500 or more snaps and a 1.5 blown back rate or better His development into a Pro Bowl blocker should help the team survive the loss of retired eventual Hall of Famer Marshal yonder It helps, but he is not a right guard, but he does help We'll see how they do that neither past Russia Jalen Ferguson with 15 hurries nor 25 year old Tyus Bowser to a 22 Hurries ascended to fully replace the Darius Smith Oh, well who has 66 hurries who left for the Packers in 2019 in free agency, but Excuse me the Ravens maintain the top three past defense thanks in large part to excellent coverage Anchored by our pro-corner back Marlon Humphrey Humphrey is Humphrey 67% coverage success rate and 5.5 yards allowed per target with top six among positional qualifiers Head even of defensive play of the year Stefan Gilmore Oh if the Ravens had any weaknesses in 2019 it was on run defense But the team likely erased that deficiency with this first and third round draft selections of linebackers Patrick Queen and Malik Harrison the former of whom has the speed and athleticism to excel in coverage and play all three downs The Ravens have so much talent that they could have pushed for the top spot in these rankings even with Lamar With even without Lamar Jackson under center hmm Interesting, and you know what one last guy man Tavon young how old is Tavon young? Let me look that up real quick How old is he oh He's 26, okay, cuz I was just curious to see how old he was and with market mark We'll just mark as Peter. He got to be like 27 there, right? He got to be cuz I'm just checking some other guys who I'm like, okay, how old are these guys? Oh, yeah He's 27. Okay. Okay That was it cuz um, yeah, so it listed the guys It listed the guys who have already made an impact on a team at 25 years or younger But then it listed some up-and-coming guys too who have the possibility Haven't quite really made that impact like a Bowser like a Ferguson Like obviously JK Dobbins. He's a rookie so he can't Justice Hill So these guys haven't really made the impact like that even Marshall Anthony Avery But they are up-and-coming And then it talked about like you like you heard it when it talked about Patrick Queen Malik Harrison So this was a very interesting article and again, like I said, I just appreciate the detail like Mark Ingham said look at the details look at the details Anyway, um team keep it clean. I hope you all enjoyed this other list like I love these lists man I love them and We these lists been riding out throughout the entire off-season man and guess what we less than a month away 33 as of when I'm recording this video cuz I'm recording this video on August 11th. So when y'all see it, who knows but As of August 11th, we are 33 days away until the Ravens play the Browns. So we're one month away man One month away We almost there. I love y'all team keep it clean. I appreciate y'all so much. We out