The Ravens have five players on defense who were Pro Bowlers last season - Humphrey, Roquan Smith, Kyle Hamilton, Nnadmi Madubuike, and Kyle Van Noy. However, Humphrey believes there are times when the Ravens are so eager to make a play, they try to do things individually rather than collectively.
"I think everyone wants to make a play," Humphrey said. "Do your job, and if the play comes to you, it comes to you. Working on that maturity comes in practice.
"We're in the perfect calls for a lot of the things that happened, and we didn't execute the calls properly. That's why the loss hurt so bad, because we knew exactly what they were going to do in a couple different situations, and all 11 guys couldn't get together."
Outside linebacker Odafe Oweh said the intensity level of the defense dropped after Baltimore took its 15-point lead against the Bills. That mistake proved costly against a quarterback of Josh Allen's caliber, who threw for 397 yards, 251 of which came in the fourth quarter, and rallied Buffalo to victory.
"We took our foot off the gas," Oweh said. "We knew how much we don't like the team, how much we wanted to really dominate them coming into the game. That's why we started beating them out a lot. But we got complacent. We thought we had already won the game way too early, and we took our foot off the gas. That's a good team. You can't do stuff like that."
The defensive players met for dinner this week, something they had planned even before the Buffalo game. But instead of celebrating a victory, the conversation turned to what went wrong and how to fix it.
"I don't need to express what was said, but things were talked about," Van Noy said. "We have to turn the page and focus on the Browns and make sure that we don't start like last year. 1-1 sounds a lot better than 0-2."