OWINGS MILLS, Md. — The Baltimore Ravens haven’t brought in another kicker to compete with Tyler Loop, whose missed 44-yard field goal in Week 18 against the Pittsburgh Steelers kept the team out of the playoffs and brought on an offseason of change around the organization.But what the Ravens have done — and will continue to do, according to head coach Jesse Minter — is create as many pressurized situations as possible in practice that force the second-year kicker to deliver.“Any time that’s your position, you kind of realize that you have to live through some good times and bad times,” Minter said Wednesday. “It’s a process-driven position. You have to be able to flush out bad things that happen and trust your process. I thought he had a really good rookie year overall, but of course, you’re judged by some of the biggest moments. We want to create opportunities for him to have these moments in front of people, in front of the team.”In Wednesday’s final day of mandatory minicamp, that meant putting Loop out on the field with a chance to send the players off the field about 25 minutes before the scheduled end of practice and canceling post-practice meetings.Loop confidently told a few of the coaches to get ready to go home. He then stepped up and booted the ball through the uprights, triggering a modest celebration.“He did his thing, so I love him,” Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson said after practice. “All of us love him.”Other than Jackson, a two-time league Most Valuable Player and one of the faces of the NFL, no Raven will be as scrutinized this summer and continuing through the regular season as Loop. Ending an uneven rookie season that saw the 2025 sixth-round pick make 30-of-34 field goals, but only one of four attempts from 50-plus yards, and struggle to adapt to the new kickoff rules, Loop sent the potential game-winner and playoff clincher at Acrisure Stadium wide right.Loop stood up in the locker room after the game and answered every question, explaining how he mishit the ball. He watched the kick the next day and the video confirmed what went wrong. He then focused the rest of the offseason on moving on from the miss. He hasn’t watched the kick since.“The biggest thing I did was just acknowledge and accept it and took a day or two,” Loop said following practice. “I would say moving on from the kick itself was pretty easy. I know you have to be ready for the next kick. You have to put it behind you and be confident in the process that I developed. But the biggest part of moving on was letting the people I care about and the people that care about me know that, ‘Hey, I’m good. Nothing has changed for me. I still feel confident in my abilities.’ Then, it was easy to move on and be like, ‘All right we’re in the offseason. It’s time to reset and reload.’”Loop said that several NFL kickers reached out to him to check in and their wives even contacted his then-fiancee (and now wife) to show their support. Otherwise, Loop said he’s gone about his preparation for the season as he normally would and his teammates have tried to not make more of it than necessary, either.“We’ve all had stuff look bad, go bad for us in the NFL,” safety Kyle Hamilton said. “You play this game long enough, you’re going to have some down moments. We’re all grown men and we are here to support each other, but at the same time, stuff is going to happen. At the end of the day, it’s up to you to mainly look inward and say, ‘How can I adjust this?’ … You shouldn’t need attaboys to kind of get yourself right. That’s how I kind of approach it. I may be kind of cynical in the way that sounds, but I think we all have faith in Loop. If he missed that field goal in Week 6, nobody would be talking about it. You come back and get better.”The Ravens brought back veteran special teams assistant Randy Brown, considered one of the top kicking specialists in the league, and also promoted Anthony Levine Sr., an assistant on John Harbaugh’s staff last year, to be their special teams coordinator. While they lost holder/punter Jordan Stout in free agency, they replaced him with Ryan Eckley, who they considered the top holder in the draft.Now, it’s up to Loop to thrive while being in the unenviable position of essentially having to wait for his first game-winning kick attempt to start rebuilding some of the trust lost when he missed that kick in Pittsburgh five months ago.“Nobody wants that kick back more than me, but I’ve got to move on,” Loop said.Jackson feels Doyle’s wrathJackson knew that he had messed up in Tuesday’s practice and if he hadn’t, first-year offensive coordinator Declan Doyle let him know about it pretty quickly.“He cursed me out yesterday,” Jackson said. “I love the coaching. I’m a coachable player. Sometimes he sees things that I don’t see. Sometimes I see things that he might not have thought of. It’s great to piggyback off each other. I feel like we need things like that.“It’s football. I like the coaching. I want to be detailed as well, keep the defense honest. We’re doing everything right, the little things right. The defense doesn’t know what we’re doing, what we’re capable of any given play. With the type of coaching I believe (Doyle) is bringing, I believe the sky is the limit.”As for why Doyle “cursed” him out, Jackson said he was supposed to run a naked bootleg and he pitched the ball instead.“He was like, ‘Lamar, what the (heck) are you doing? I’m like, ‘Damn, that’s on me.’ There was more to it. It wasn’t like he flat out cursed me out or nothing like that. I laughed. I wasn’t used to that. He was just being a coach, nothing more, nothing less.”Is Pinter the favorite?All indications are that veteran Danny Pinter remains the favorite to start at center, but Minter stopped short Wednesday of giving him that designation. Minter said he still considered it a three-player competition between Pinter, Jovaughn Gwyn and Corey Bullock. Bullock has been sidelined in recent weeks by a minor physical issue.“I think (Pinter) and Jovaughn both have done a great job,” Minter said. “Corey’s dealing with something minor these last couple days. Expect him to, again, be fully ready for camp and throw his hat in a ring as it gets physical and more stuff. With that position, they’re new, that’ll definitely sort itself out, maybe a little more as we get pads on it.”Of the three candidates to replace Tyler Linderbaum, Pinter is the only one who has made an NFL start. He’s started 10 games in parts of five pro seasons.Quick hittersDoyle made clear that his tolerance for pre-snap penalties would decrease as the offseason moved along and he wasted no time Wednesday in sending veteran tight end Mark Andrews to the sideline after he committed a false start. … Undrafted rookie wide receiver Octavian Smith Jr. had a tough sequence, getting hit in the helmet by a Tyler Huntley pass and then being berated by the quarterback for his route. Smith, though, responded later in practice by making a nifty catch in the middle of the field on a ball that was behind him. … Rookie wide receiver Elijah Sarratt was the only new addition to the list of non-participants. He watched practice with a sleeve on his left leg. … Dayton Wade has had a strong offseason, but he dropped a potential touchdown in a red zone drill and then went to get his shoulder looked at behind the play. … Jackson said there are no plans to get together with his pass catchers during the monthlong break before players report back in late July for training camp. … Minter’s wife, Rachelle, and the couple’s three kids watched practice and met several players after it. … Brian Newberry and the Navy coaching staff also spent the day with the Ravens. Baltimore’s first-year safeties coach PJ Volker was Navy’s defensive coordinator last year.