We Need a Better Record Against the AFC North

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(02-01-2024, 07:54 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Doesn't change the fact that when Lamar starts at least 13 games in a season, the Ravens...

Won 15 games and swept us.
Won 11 games and swept us.
Won 13 games and swept us.

If you can't beat the Ravens, and you struggle against the rest of the division (even if they come back down to Earth), you're going to have to just hope Lamar gets hurt if you want to win the division. That's not a plan, that's literally just a hope.

I totally get your point, but the Ravens just got whooped by the Chiefs too.
And they didn't have to play the Chiefs nor the Bills in the regular season.
Had they, it's possible/likely that they would have lost either or both of those games and those had a worse record.
They benefited from a weaker schedule.
But guess what? They get to play them next year, so we'll see if they can morph enough to beat them.

The goal is not to win the division. The goal now is to win a Super Bowl.
Doesn't matter if you are a division winner or wildcard.
If you continually beat the Ravens, Browns, and Steelers but get trounced before or in the AFCCG, that's also a failure (arguably worse than what the Bengals have gone through the past few years).