The Ravens have a lot to be thankful for when it comes to their 2026 schedule. And a perfectly-placed bye is certainly among them. General managers and coaches are always keeping their fingers crossed that the bye week comes deep into a season when their team needs it most . They don’t want it wasted in Week 6, when teams are hitting stride and they have worked through the September doldrums (because September is basically training camp for key veterans these days who do nothing in the preseason). Ravens rookie head coach Jesse Minter, and a largely inexperienced staff doing a lot of this for the first time ever , have to be doing cartwheels over how this broke down for them. And Ravens fans should be following suit. It’s not just the timing of that bye, but what is clustered around it, that really puts Baltimore in great position to make a late-season surge to return to the playoffs.…