Overview
- Flowers, speaking Friday on the 4th and South podcast hosted by Jarvis Landry and Leonard Fournette, said the Ravens were in full pads as often as possible and still doing one‑on‑ones in Week 17.
- Under NFL rules, teams can hold 14 padded practices in the regular season, and Flowers said Harbaugh used the full allowance with high‑contact drills late in the year.
- Flowers linked the workload to injuries and said players could not manage the grind, calling the load heavy and saying fatigue built up by season’s end.
- He said new head coach Jesse Minter told him practices would be easier on players’ bodies to keep them fresher for games.
- Coverage shows conflicting 2025 injury tallies for Baltimore, with reports ranging from the 12th‑fewest games lost to 27th in man‑games missed, and the comments come as Harbaugh takes over the Giants with his practice approach under scrutiny.