Pundit Predicts Ravens Will Win Super Bowl This Season
Training camp just started last week, but some pundits are already making Super Bowl predictions.
Yahoo! Sports’ Frank Schwab put the Ravens at No. 2 in his power rankings behind the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles, but he believes Baltimore will take home the Lombardi Trophy.
“The Ravens were excellent by the end of last season, but they know that some weird losses (how did this team lose to the Raiders and Browns?) cost them in seeding, which maybe was the difference in that playoff loss to the Bills,” Schwab wrote. “I expect a focused Ravens team from Week 1, when they have a titanic matchup at Buffalo.
“Jackson might not win an NFL MVP award this season, because there seems to be some pushback against him getting his third. But he’ll win something even better for his place in the game’s history: Super Bowl LX MVP.”
The Ravens are the Super Bowl betting favorite and have the best chance to win it all based on DVOA projections.
Schwab said injuries might be the only thing that could dash the Ravens’ championship aspirations.
“The Ravens had only 16.3 adjusted games lost due to injury via FTN Fantasy. That was less than half of the team that had the second-best games lost to injury last season, which was the Eagles at 33.7,” Schwab wrote. “According to FTN’s Aaron Schatz, it’s the fewest AGL to injury since the 2017 Falcons. That will not repeat. So if you want to be skeptical of the Ravens being a Super Bowl champion, it’s that they’re due for many more injuries this season.”