Back in the summer of 2024, Jesse Minter could have easily told me that I was reaching when trying to find similarities between his coaching philosophy and that of Mike Macdonald, who had just left his post as the Ravens’ defensive coordinator to become the head coach of the Seahawks.
At the time, the Ravens defense was all the rage and reporters like myself tried to figure out how Macdonald made it the best unit in the league. Minter had an idea as to why the Ravens defense had flourished, having coached there as a defensive assistant from 2017 to ’20.
