It's not often that a punter is the man hyping up the home crowd. It's also not often that he gets the first game ball from the head coach after a win .

But that was the kind of historic day that Jordan Stout had in Baltimore. In what has been a breakout fourth (contract) season for Stout, Sunday's 23-10 victory over the New York Jets was an exclamation point.

Stout tied the Ravens' franchise record for longest punt with a 74-yard missile. His 61.5-yard average on four punts is the sixth-best in NFL history in a single game since 1960.

"If I'm not mistaken, the Jets were the No. 1 special teams in the country," Stout said. "We knew that, so we all were going out there trying to prove that it was us."

Stout's career was a rocky one his first three years. There were flashes of why the

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