By Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun (TNS)

It was a gorgeous, sun-splashed Sunday afternoon at M&T Stadium. The setting also belied the dark clouds suddenly hovering ominously over the Ravens’ season.

Just five games into its 2025 campaign — one that began with Super Bowl expectations from within and the favorite from the outside — Baltimore is broken, literally if not figuratively.

With eight starters missing, including quarterback and two-time NFL Most Valuable Player Lamar Jackson and five on defense, the Ravens were always going to be facing an uphill climb in their critical AFC showdown with the Houston Texans. It quickly turned into a 44-10 avalanche , leaving the season teetering on the precipice and hanging on by the thinnest of threads.

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