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The Baltimore Ravens will have a lot of fire going into this upcoming season. The team made it all the way to the AFC Championship, suffering a brutal defeat to the Kansas City Chiefs, and they will look to complete the job this year and bring home a Super Bowl. Baltimore got one of the best running backs in the league during free agency signing the king Derrick Henry, and now head coach John Harbaugh has told the media that the team will be very different for this season.

Lamar Jackson had his second MVP season under offensive coordinator Todd Monken and led the team to a 13-4 record. The team did however end with a major collapse in the AFC Championship and now they have been trying to regroup to get the job done in 2024.

After their disappointing end to the season John Harbaugh has said, “there’s no doubt” that there will be big changes to come in 2024. The most notable is of course their new star running back Henry.

Harbaugh told the team’s website that the changes will be around the star quarterback

He’s got a lot of thoughts. I think he’s looking at every aspect of his game. He starts with himself; that’s what I love about Lamar. [He asks,] ‘What can I do better?’ And that’s why he continues to improve. Then, he goes to what we need, what we need schematically in his view, and he trusts the coaches. We talked and shared ideas schematically, also personnel-wise. We’re kind of working on that now, and then, he’ll come back, and he’ll look at everything, and we’ll want to know what he thinks. Like, ‘Do you prefer this or this? Are you comfortable in this direction or that direction? What do you like? [Are there] any other ideas you had since we talked last?’ Lamar will be part of the architecture. I believe he’ll be a big part of the architecture of the offense.

While many NFL analysts were highly critical of the Baltimore Ravens getting away from their run game in the playoffs, Harbaugh is letting the world know that the team will look to lean on their run game this season.

Having Derrick Henry would allow for Lamar to loosen up a bit, as he will take some pressure off of Lamar in the run game and the pass game. While Lamar and the Ravens have always had a great run game, that has been mostly, if not all, due to Jackson. He is arguably the best running quarterback of all time, and now with Henry, their run game should be by far the best in the NFL.

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Sashi Brown hints something new is coming for Ravens jerseys

The uniform watch is on.

Ravens president Sashi Brown spoke to reporters at the NFL’s owners’ meeting in Orlando, Florida, this week and hinted something exciting is on the horizon for the team’s jerseys.

With the exception of color combinations, the Ravens’ uniform design has not changed since 2000, when they removed the “raven in flight” logo on the sleeves and replaced it with the shield that was on the pants, according to a timeline on the Ravens’ website. That shield on the pants was replaced with an italicized gold B.

After that, they added a black alternate uniform, white cleats and commemorative patches, and they made tweaks to the collar when Nike took over as the manufacturer. The only major change prior to that came in 1999, when the Ravens replaced the team’s original helmet logo — a crest in the team’s colors with wings, a B in the center and Ravens over top — with the purple bird-head logo still in use today.

he essence of the jerseys has stayed the same for decades, and Brown said that isn’t going to change.

“We feel like we have really classic jerseys, and I think the team did a great job when we’ve had some minor modifications,” he said. “So we’re really cautious about making changes, something that we think really works well.

Brown also pointed out that the NFL sets the parameters for the uniforms. For example, it has rules about logo placement, the size of the numbers and when you can wear different helmets. It is strict about cleats, as well. Unless it’s the My Cause My Cleats game, players must wear shoes that completely match team colors (they can be different brands, though).

But the NFL does allow for classic, alternate or color rush uniforms, and that’s where the Ravens are exploring new ideas.

“The optionality that you see, particularly in other leagues, with different types of jerseys, color rushes, being tried — we’re exploring some things with some of the alternative jerseys,” Brown said.

Other leagues have different jerseys to align with different initiatives and marketing opportunities. For example, the Orioles debuted their City Connect jerseys last year after MLB introduced them in 2021, in partnership with Nike, as an attempt to allow teams to create jerseys that honor their communities. The Washington Capitals had a Reverse Retro jersey in 2021 after the NHL started working with Adidas to create jerseys that nod to teams’ history while creating a fresh look. However, those leagues have many more games — and many more opportunities to wear different uniforms.

Within the NFL, teams have gotten creative. The Philadelphia Eagles brought back their Kelly green throwback jerseys this year. The Seahawks wore action green jerseys, and the Detroit Lions sported their Honolulu blue alternate helmets with all-gray uniforms.

Brown dropped that something might be on the horizon for Ravens fans, but he refused to go into detail.

We have some stuff that’s coming, but if I said too much, my team would shoot me before I got back to the building,” Brown joked.