Forget the joint practices. The clip everyone's talking about from the Ravens' trip to Minnesota is Jesse Minter's mic skills.
Video captured by rookie defensive lineman C.J. Okoye and shared on Instagram shows Baltimore's first-year head coach stepping up during a team dinner and delivering a full, committed performance of Eminem's "Lose Yourself" — the kind of moment that looks completely unplanned. And his players loved it.
Ravens HC Jesse Minter GOING CRAZY on the mic with some Eminem😭😂🔥 pic.twitter.com/IJFhc20THY
— Kevin Oestreicher (@koestreicher34) August 21, 2026
The clip has already been picked up well beyond Baltimore, with Yahoo Sports, Deadspin, and The Big Lead all running it within hours of it hitting the internet — a pretty good sign of how fast this one traveled. People are saying the Ravens will win the Super Bowl because of it, alluding to new energy for a team with Lamar Jackson at quarterback and Minter, known for his defensive schemes and play-calling, about to start his first year as head coach.
It's also a fitting soundtrack for where Minter is in his own career right now. He will be coaching his first regular season game as an NFL head coach this season after a long climb through the profession — Notre Dame in 2006, a graduate assistant job at Cincinnati, linebackers coach at Indiana State, defensive coordinator at Georgia State, three seasons on Baltimore's own defensive staff starting in 2017, and two years running the Chargers' defense before the Ravens brought him back to lead the whole operation this January.
Whether or not "this opportunity comes once in a lifetime" was intentional, it tracks.
And it's one of those team bonding moments that won't show up in any box score, but are important. Before traveling to Minnesota, Minter told reporters on Monday, "Looking forward to the trip. It is a great opportunity for our team just to kind of be together, be away, spend time together in football and out of football."
We're not sure if channeling his inner Marshall Mathers was already on Minter's mind then, but either way, it came out. (Eminem is a Detroit Lions fan, of course, so wondering what he thinks about all this.)
The team dinner came as Baltimore wrapped joint practices with the Vikings ahead of Saturday's second preseason game between the two clubs, following a 24-7 win over the Eagles in the preseason opener. If Minter's coaching half as well as he raps, the Ravens should be fine.