The Baltimore Ravens are staring down a nightmare start to the 2025 season. At 1-4, this team isn’t just losing— they’re unraveling.
Coming into the season with Super Bowl aspirations and known for defensive dominance, nowhere are the struggles more obvious than on the defensive side of the ball. A franchise built on toughness and takeaways has now become a weekly punching bag, and the latest numbers prove it’s reached rock bottom.
Over last two weeks, the Ravens defense has ...
— Jamison Hensley (@jamisonhensley) October 5, 2025
-Allowed 9 TDs
-Forced 2 punts
-Totaled no turnovers
Read that again. In two full games, the Ravens have essentially given opposing offenses free rein to score at will. For a franchise that once terrified quarterbacks, that stat is nothing short of disgraceful.
Texans expose Baltimore in every way
Sunday’s 44-10 demolition at the hands of the Houston Texans wasn’t just another loss — it was a complete embarrassment. C.J. Stroud carved up the Ravens like he was in a 7-on-7 drill, completing 23 of 27 passes with four touchdowns. Houston scored on five of its first six drives, and as a team, ran the ball very well behind Nick Chubb. Overall, the Ravens couldn’t get pressure, couldn’t cover, and couldn’t stop the bleeding.
“It’s just a complete disappointment,” Harbaugh said in his postgame press conference. “We’re going to have to find a way to turn it around, figure out who we are this next week, into the bye and out of the bye. We have more than half of the season left, we’re gonna have to find ourselves. That’s what our aim will be moving forward.”
There were simply no areas of success for the defense in Week 5. The pass rush was invisible again, even with veteran Kyle Van Noy back in the lineup. The secondary, already without Marlon Humphrey and Kyle Hamilton, looked completely disorganized. Missed tackles piled up, and Texans receivers ran wide open all afternoon.
For decades, Ravens defenses were defined by intimidation, physicality, and takeaways. But in the last two weeks, they’ve forced zero turnovers. Zero. That lack of playmaking is as telling as any stat.
At 1-4, the Ravens are at a crossroads. Lamar Jackson’s injury has magnified the team's failures; the defense is struggling the most it ever has. Even when Jackson returns, Baltimore’s playoff hopes mean nothing if the defense keeps collapsing like this.
Whether they adjust the schemes, shake up the lineups, or fix something within the coaching staff, this defense will continue to drag the entire team down.
Unless the Ravens dig themselves out of this hole and quickly, 2025 could spiral into one of the ugliest seasons in franchise history.