Baltimore Ravens Secure Playoff Spot, Top AFC North

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00:00And Baltimore clinched their spot within the AFC postseason and avoided Pittsburgh clinching

00:12this division.

00:13For the Steelers, it is not going to be easy, though they do still actually at the moment

00:19sit atop the division and they are only plus 125 to win it.

00:24So it is not out of bounds that they can still find a way to the top of the North, Donnie.

00:30But I think it is very difficult to not take that result, look at what these two teams

00:35have left and think, yeah, Baltimore is probably going to get it done with Pittsburgh having

00:42to play Kansas City and Cincinnati the rest of the way, although both are at home.

00:45Now you're right.

00:46And certainly from that game yesterday, you take the momentum and say, well, who cares

00:50what happened before with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Rabins.

00:52That game was a very good Rabins look.

00:54And the one thing that I do watch that game and say, it's cold weather, like the conditions

00:58were bad, which is, again, they went over the total when they had two good defenses

01:01going up against each other.

01:02But just remember this blueprint, Baltimore, 23 total attempts for Lamar Jackson, three

01:07touchdowns, one interception.

01:09On the ground, 38 carries as a team, 220 yards, 5.8 yards per carry against one of the better

01:14run defenses in the NFL.

01:16This is what makes it so scary because, Kevin, I know you bring up this point and rightfully

01:20so.

01:21A couple weeks ago, like they're eight and five.

01:22They're nine and five.

01:23Now they're 10 and five starting to look better, but there's still five losses.

01:25They're not unbeatable.

01:26But whenever, Joe, I see this type of game and go, this is the best of the Baltimore

01:31Ravens.

01:32If they use this type of, again, you're not always going to get a buck 62 out of Derrick

01:35Henry, but you're going to get stunted once in a while.

01:37But the game plan is what works for Baltimore.

01:39It was perfect yesterday.

01:41Just don't lose that.

01:42And Derrick Henry, 24 carries, 162 yards.

01:45We've seen Derrick Henry have limited carries sometimes in terms of the Baltimore losses.

01:50When they're eating, it's when Derrick Henry's ripping off 125, 150 yards per game because

01:56that opens up the play action for Lamar.

01:58And then you have everything at your disposal.

02:00Look at Zay Flowers yesterday.

02:02Five receptions, 100 yards, you're able to distribute the football.

02:06The defense has to worry about Lamar in regards to the edge in terms of the RPO game.

02:11So now you're having defenses defend the whole field as opposed to just one section.

02:16And that's what Pittsburgh was able to do in the first matchup, right?

02:20They grinded it out.

02:21It was a lower scoring game.

02:22They got Lamar and put Baltimore into long third downs.

02:25They dialed up blitzes.

02:27They forced throws underneath coverage.

02:29That wasn't the case yesterday.

02:31Baltimore dictated the tempo from the onset.

02:33And I think if they were to play like 10 times, Baltimore would want to play exactly the way

02:39they did last night to pull out that victory.

02:42Now, can they maintain that in a playoff situation?

02:45We'll see because that's still the weakness of Baltimore.

02:48Lamar Jackson, when the game is on the line and he has to throw the football up until

02:52this point, he got to an AFC championship game but couldn't win it.

02:55So I want to take what you guys just said and kind of dive into the way this game actually

03:03played out.

03:04Because the final score is shiny.

03:06It was a touchdown game.

03:08Derrick Henry hit a 44-yard run to put them at the 11-yard line.

03:13You know what they did on the next play, Donnie?

03:15Yes.

03:16They picked off.

03:17Now, what was the saving grace?

03:19Good old Russell Wilson.

03:22Again.

03:23It's coming.

03:26Baltimore keeps telling me it's going to end the way it always does.

03:32With us sitting here going, yeah, I don't know if Lamar can get it done.

03:35Yes.

03:36I don't know if this team can get it done.

03:37I don't know if his core can get it done.

03:39That's what they're telling me.

03:41And until the books give me a number where that is even remotely priced in, I will never

03:48consider betting them.

03:49So that number right now to win the Super Bowl is 7-1.

03:53Would you take 13-14?

03:56So is that what you would need to bet them for a Super Bowl price?

03:59For me, especially due to my investment on Philly and perception on Philly, I'm not betting

04:05anyone to win the Super Bowl unless Wentz takes over for Mahomes.

04:10I would bet Baltimore to win the AFC at like 6-7-1, you know, the type of numbers Minnesota

04:17gets booked at.

04:18You know, Minnesota gets booked for like 10-1.

04:21Minnesota controls their destiny to be the one seed.

04:23Hold on.

04:24Minnesota controls their destiny to be the one seed.

04:27Baltimore is almost a coin flip to win their division.

04:30But the difference is that Baltimore has a two-time MVP and Minnesota has a journeyman

04:35backup that's getting it done.

04:37So that's why the perception from the books is Minnesota's not built for the long haul.

04:41But you just look at the Ravens and know what they can be, but you know betting on them

04:46to win a Super Bowl.

04:47Then they find themselves in Kansas City and Spagnola just goes, I know the exact blueprint

04:51to stop this guy.

04:52And Lamar goes 17-41, three interceptions, they don't run the football, and they lose

04:56by four points.

04:57And we go, why didn't they just run the football?

04:59Because why?

05:00We see it every year in the playoffs.

05:01It's the same rinse and repeat.

05:07It's the same rinse and repeat.

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