{"id":777290,"date":"2026-02-26T10:06:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/777290\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T10:06:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:06:37","slug":"dont-want-to-lose-to-anybody-new-ravens-coach-jesse-minter-has-mission-of-dominating-afc-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/777290\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Don’t Want To Lose To Anybody:’ New Ravens Coach Jesse Minter Has Mission Of Dominating AFC North"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens have one of the NFL\u2019s greatest rivalries. Mike Tomlin and John Harbaugh were two huge parts of those battles, but now they\u2019ve both moved on to the next chapter of their lives. That might make some wonder if the rivalry will have the same intensity.<\/a> New Ravens head coach Jesse Minter made it clear that he\u2019s not in Baltimore to make friends with the other AFC North teams.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to lose to anybody in our division,\u201d Minter said Tuesday on NFL on CBS\u2019 YouTube channel.<\/a> \u201cYeah, I hate them, in a sense like, I respect the rivalry. When I was here prior, Mike Tomlin, who\u2019s a mentor of mine, there\u2019s a high, high level of respect for the Steelers, their organization, how they operate, Bengals, their organization, how they operate, Cleveland, their organization, how they operate.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the same time, those are the teams you need to beat to be successful. There\u2019s just a higher level of priority on those teams. When you operate, when you\u2019re building your systems, it\u2019s to be able to win those games.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Minter was the Los Angeles Chargers\u2019 defensive coordinator before becoming the Ravens\u2019 head coach, this isn\u2019t his first stint in Baltimore. He previously coached for them from 2017-2020, so he\u2019s very familiar with all of the AFC North rivalries.<\/p>\n

The Ravens went 3-5 against the Steelers during Minter\u2019s time as an assistant with them, so he\u2019ll be looking to improve upon that record. Unfortunately, he won\u2019t be able to do it against Tomlin, with whom he\u2019s got a long history.<\/p>\n

Minter\u2019s father, Rick Minter, was the head coach at the University of Cincinnati from 1994-2003. Tomlin was a coach on his staff there from 1999-2000, and there, he formed a relationship with the younger Minter. The two have remained close over the years, as Minter explained before the Steelers played the Chargers last year.<\/a><\/p>\n

It would\u2019ve been a full-circle moment for Tomlin and Minter to face off as AFC North rivals. However, it wasn\u2019t meant to be. Instead, Minter will battle Mike McCarthy, who should be very familiar with the AFC North rivalries as a Pittsburgh native.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a new age for the Steelers and Ravens, but it sounds like losing Tomlin and Harbaugh shouldn\u2019t diminish their rivalry at all. The two teams played in a classic to end the regular season last year, with Pittsburgh coming out on top. While Minter wasn\u2019t with the team for that, the players will still be looking to avenge that loss.<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens have one of the NFL\u2019s greatest rivalries. Mike Tomlin and John Harbaugh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,2282,7,10097,6,18248,57,169],"class_list":["post-777290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baltimore-ravens","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-baltimoreravens","tag-football","tag-jesse-minter","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-on-cbs","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-ravens"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116136377284963330","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}