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Some teams don’t like to watch the bye week so early in the season, but for the Baltimore Ravens Star Safety Kyle Hamilton it comes at the right time.
The biggest surprise throughout six weeks of the 2025 NFL season is perhaps that the ravens are 1-5, the mirror in a four-match’s losing row as they enter the city week. This was a strong Super Bowl practitioner coming into the year, but a combination of injuries and inconsistent games has them off an uphill just to enter the playoffs in January 2026.
But while sports talk shows and fans rant and rave over what has gone wrong for Ravens, Hamilton knows that his team has the opportunity to put together a “great story” with their remaining schedule.
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Kyle Hamilton from Baltimore Ravens responds after a game against Detroit Lions during the first half of a NFL football match at M&T Bank Stadium on September 22, 2025 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Cooper Neill/Getty Images)
“There are still 11 matches left as we are guaranteed,” he told Pakinomist Digital before attending a RAV’s NFL flag clinic with military children and their families on the team’s practice facility on Monday. “So it’s up to us to fix the ship and steer it in the right direction because the season isn’t over. We know it, and that’s why I’m going back to the bye week. It’s good for us to just reset, focus and hit the ground when we get back.”
Hamilton’s first three seasons in the NFL were filled with success in the season as Ravens has done the end game each season. But every NFL player knows that adversity will come to a team no matter what the record says.
So this bye week is a crucial time at a time when the ravens can take a step back and assess, individually and collectively what has gone wrong.
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“Every year I’ve been in the league, it seems that the bye week is coming at the perfect time,” Hamilton added. “I think it shows you can use a bye week when it is upon us, which it is now. It’s even more necessary now than before. I think it would be good for the team just to hold it simpler than it should be. Lean back and don’t have to over-think things for a week. Obviously we’re preparing for the bears when we come back and things like that, just self-self-cleanse. ” “.”
Bye Weeks can also help teams get healthier, and two key players have been out for Ravens: Quarterback Lamar Jackson and Middle Linebacker Roquan Smith.
Jackson, the two-time MVP, has been unable to participate in the last two matches, and Ravens’ violation has suffered as a result of his absence. But head coach John Harbaugh expects him to be back in week 8 when the Ravens faces Chicago Bears much needed return.
Kyle Hamilton from Baltimore Ravens responds during an NFL football match against Los Angeles Rams at M&T Bank Stadium on October 12, 2025 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Michael Owens/Getty Images)
“These two guys are heartbeat for our team, especially Lamar. No violation of tranquility, he is obviously a big heart beat of our team. But Lamar is our quarterback and he is the guy who puts shutters in seats in the stadium, sells tickets and wins games for us,” Hamilton said. “Obviously we contribute to it both defensively and supports guys on the offense. But at the end of the day, [No.] 8 is what makes this thing go. “
Coach Harbaugh also noticed after losing to Los Angeles Rams on Sunday that he believes his team has what it takes to tear the necessary victory to enter the playoffs later this season. After all, many players were on this list in 2023, when Baltimore won 10 out of 11 games before resting their starters in the final in regular season to secure playoff health.
Only four NFL teams have been able to overcome a 1-5 start to the season and do the end game. But as Hamilton said, this group has what it takes to make the great story.
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“Obviously we’re not in the position we’d be in as a team. But if there’s any [team] It can do that, it’s us, “Hamilton said.” I think this is the mindset that everyone in this building has right now. Of course, players, coaches, fans, anyone who supports us, are disappointed with the results we have had for this point of the season.
“We have to come at the end of goodbye and do what we say. It’s all until we actually go out there and win games.”
The ravens have had a tough schedule to start the season, but their last 12 weeks are expected to be more easily based on how their opponents have appeared to start the season.
Kyle Hamilton from Baltimore Ravens warms up before an NFL football match against Detroit Lions at M&T Bank Stadium on September 22, 2025 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Cooper Neill/Getty Images)
Of course, these are different circumstances than in 2023, but the usual “one game at a time” is thinking a hamilton wants. It starts in week 8.
“I think it’s good to focus on one day at a time, one week at a time, and I think victories start stacking up when you do. But we can’t get too far ahead of ourselves and say, ‘We have to win eight games in a row to get in,’ or whatever it may be. We just have to win a game,” he said.
Affecting military children
A change of tempo in the bye week can be good for a fighting team, and that was what Hamilton saw on Monday when he collaborated with Toyota to help create a positive influence for the Baltimore military community by hosting a raven’s NFL flag clinic for Kids of Service members through “Our Military Kids.”
After all, flag football was invented right down the road from Raven’s practice facility at Fort Meade in the 1940s during World War II.
Baltimore Ravens star Kyle Hamilton participates in flag football event via Toyota with children from “Our military children.” (Toyota/our military children)
“It’s super fun and I’m honestly grateful to Toyota that allows me to be part of it,” Hamilton said of the event. “I know Toyota has been a big spokesman for NFL flags and helped 300,000 people. I know there’s a slogan they like,” all, all season, “and I think it’s very true with what they have done with this program and NFL in general.”
Toyota’s belief that football is growing societies has driven its support for more than 300,000 youth NFL flag players nationwide through sponsorships to date.
