Ray Lewis Says Chemistry Is Key to Defensive Turnaround

The 2000 Ravens defense was historically good. The 2025 Ravens defense is on pace to be historically bad.

The 2000 team gave up a record-low 165 points (10.3 points per game) the entire season. This year's team has already given up a league-worst 177 points (35.4 points per game) and is on pace to become the first to ever allow 600 points in a season.

Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Lewis, who led the 2000 team to the franchise's first Super Bowl championship, said the Ravens defense has the talent to turn things around.

"Talent is the last thing we're worried about," Lewis said in a sit-down interview with WJZ's Rick Ritter. "But now it's chemistry. How can we flow? There's too many individual mistakes. And when you correct that …

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