Frustrating to see so many folks seemingly happy we lost so we could slide a few spots in the draft. I don’t understand that mentality and it sets a terrible precedent. Our chances of advancing this year we’re slim to none, but I’ll take that over no chance any day. Especially in a weird COVID year like this.
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I don't care about the draft pick. I don't think it's all that significant.
I'm not a big "look ahead at the schedule guy", but it's pretty clear to me that a 4th place schedule is significantly more favorable than a 2nd place one.
We now play the Broncos, Giants and Jags. A second place finish would have resulted in either the Raiders/Chargers, Eagles and Colts games, instead.
At the end of the day, I was indifferent about the day. We're not a SB contender. People can talk all they want about "well anybody who makes the playoffs has a chance" and blah blah blah, but that's not real either. Even some of the wildcard teams that won SB's, like the Giants, had much, much, much better rosters and more talent than us. We just don't have the horses to go out and win 3-4 more games.
So I really don't have much interest in squeaking into the playoffs and then going and getting drubbed by the likes of Cincinnati, Buffalo, or KC, in the first round, and I think all of those teams would easily win by double digits against this current Ravens team. I would not expect Lamar to play, I certainly wouldn't expect him to play well (hasn't played in a month and wasn't playing well before that), and I wouldn't like our secondary at all to hold up against teams that can attack you throw the air, which all three of those teams could.
So for me, squeaking into the playoffs and getting drubbed in the wildcard round isn't appealing to me. That's what's going to happen to Pittsburgh, and I think I'd rather be us.
