The Ravens played in Week 13, then barely got any play in HBO’s premiere episode of “Hard Knocks: In Season with the AFC North” last week.

No surprise, then, that after not playing in Week 14, the Ravens got even less action in Monday’s second episode. Unofficially, the team was featured for 74 seconds: a quick scene-setting shot of a team meeting after the Ravens’ loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. Joey Porter Sr.’s screen time might’ve been double that.

There wasn’t a lot for Ravens fans to watch, but here’s what you might’ve missed.

Best Ravens quote

“It’s been a tough schedule, and we’ve won a lot of games,” coach John Harbaugh told Ravens players at their team facility in Owings Mills before they left for their bye. “We’ve won a lot of big games, a lot of tough games. You know, but we’ve lost some tough games, including the one yesterday [to the Eagles]. Think we had to fight through 13 weeks of all these challenges to get this bye week this week right now to get us ready for the next eight games [four regular-season games, plus three playoff rounds and the Super Bowl].

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“We’re going to come back next Monday [so] that we just lock in and go to work and get better. We are a team that is fighting to win the championship, so get your body ready, get your mind ready on football, and most importantly, spiritually. Get your heart right. Get your heart right for what we’re doing. We’ve got an eight-game season in front of us. I’m proud of you guys. Let’s go to work.”

Only Ravens quote

See above.

Funniest out-of-context screenshot

Derrick Henry looks ... bemused? Skeptical? Like he just saw Khalil Mack in the hallway?

Ravens RB Derrick Henry during the second episode of “Hard Knocks: In Season with the AFC North.” (HBO/Max)

Most on-the-nose edit

As Harbaugh urged the Ravens to “get your mind ready on football,” the camera cut to kicker Justin Tucker, nodding. Because, well, yeah.

Ravens kicker Justin Tucker during the second episode of “Hard Knocks: In Season with the AFC North.” (HBO/Max)

Biggest abuse of the phrase ‘all-access’

Here’s part of HBO’s official pitch for this show: “The 18-time Emmy-winning series delivers all-access coverage of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Baltimore Ravens, Cincinnati Bengals, and Cleveland Browns as they battle for the AFC North crown during the final six weeks of the 2024-25 NFL season, plus the playoff run for the division winner and any AFC North Wild Card teams.”

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And here’s the disappointing reality: When teams get creative control over a show’s final cut, as they do in “Hard Knocks,” “all-access” becomes “no coverage” at the snap of a finger.

The division’s biggest off-field storyline last week was the Ravens’ decision to suspend wide receiver Diontae Johnson for a game over what general manager Eric DeCosta said was his refusal to enter their Week 13 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. Yet, in the season premiere, there was no footage of the sideline drama swirling around Johnson and the Ravens’ offense. And in an episode ostensibly intended to capture the fallout from that defeat, there was not a single indication of the headlines it created. No interviews, no news reports, no clues that anything had gone awry. Like Johnson himself, the situation was conspicuous in its absence.

Best non-Ravens quote

Steelers coach Mike Tomlin on Browns star defensive end Myles Garrett: “He needs no endorsement from me. Wikipedia him.” Because why use Google when Wikipedia’s there for you already?

Honorable mention: Garrett saying Cleveland quarterback Jameis Winston runs “like he already the ‘unc’ at the cookout.”

Easiest Ravens tormentor to root for

In his two games against the Ravens this season, Bengals wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase had a combined 457 receiving yards and five touchdowns. The Ravens’ season sweep of Cincinnati made those stats easier to stomach. Any lingering resentment from Ravens fans should’ve melted away with this episode.

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In his first real “Hard Knocks” showcase, Chase came across as downright likable. Among his episode highlights: creating a new touchdown dance with wide receiver Tee Higgins; hanging out with a young cancer survivor, Brixton Wood, before the game (”I just wanted to see a smile on his face and make a dream come true”); doing the celebration for Brixton after a touchdown; beating the Dallas Cowboys on “Monday Night Football” with a 40-yard catch-and-run score; and smashing a donut into quarterback Joe Burrow’s face in a postgame sneak attack.

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Worst pun

Near the end of the episode, Burrow and Chase got their hands on the donuts. Not just any donuts, though; these came courtesy of ESPN, which had aired an alternate telecast of “Monday Night Football” featuring “The Simpsons,” a show with a famously pro-donut character.

“No one’s dunkin’ on the Bengals tonight,” Liev Schreiber intoned cheekily in his voice-over. A Dunkin’ Donuts pun? For a scene without any Dunkin’ Donuts donuts? Or any team from New England, for that matter? Do we even know if Dunkin’ Donuts exists in the “Simpsons” universe? Ben Affleck must be shaking his head somewhere. We all expected more cromulent wordplay.