I try to tell the kids, Im not trying to run away from where I came from.

Today, the Ravens answered: What is our identity? 'We are the same old team. We can play the same style of football.

I think as a kid I never really understood the magnitude of a hurricane and what it could do.

Going in is really more of an acknowledgment that kids in poverty, in their situations, can get out of it, and it doesn't always come from sports.

Once it's in you to being a starter, you always want to be that. But you understand the circumstances and you understand what you can and can't do. And that's the reality of it.

The disconnect between [offensive coordinator] Todd Haley and [quarterback] Ben Roethlisberger is so blatant you can just see it.

I try to tell the kids, Im not trying to run away from where I came from.