AFC North: Baltimore Ravens
What’s the deal with this era of Baltimore Ravens football? Every year, people buy into them as a Super Bowl contender, and they continually come up short and squander under the brightest lights. We saw that last year as they lost the AFC championship game at home despite the Kansas City Chiefs playing mediocre football at best. Looking at the other NFC North squads, the Cincinnati Bengals are healthy, the Cleveland Browns are loaded with talent if they can get reliable quarterback play, and the Pittsburgh Steelers never go away quietly. I still expect the Ravens to be a postseason team, but I like the Bengals more than them to win the division, and I have no reasonable expectations for this team to make it to the Super Bowl.
