Months have passed since we watched the Baltimore Ravens‘ dreams end. Super Bowl 59 was supposed to be our moment. The 2024-25 season had a Cody Rhodes feeling to it. We were supposed to finish our story. Last year was about righting wrongs and placing the period at the end of the sentence.

We expected a redemption story. We wanted our sequel to the horror epic that was an AFC Championship Game loss two weeks before Super Bowl 58.

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We added The King, Derrick Henry. Sadly, however, heartbreak came again. We watched Lamar Jackson embrace Josh Allen as the loser.

Now what? The answer is simple. We dust ourselves off in Baltimore fashion and take our Lombardi Trophy, for real this time.

The Ravens are snubbed in a ranking of the NFL’s top games of the coming 2025 NFL season.

It feels like nine months since Baltimore’s dreams of Super Bowl glory ended vs. the Buffalo Bills. That hasn’t lessened our excitement for another run, though. The NFL’s schedule release approaches. We know who the Ravens’ opponents are. We need only see when the games are scheduled.

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Something caught our eye, though: a recent ranking of the NFL’s top games of the 2025 regular season. Give this one a gander, and let us know if something jumps out at you.

Lamar ‘Action’ Jackson is one of the game’s top signal-callers. He’s a two-time Most Valuable Player. Why is the Ravens’ game vs. the Los Angeles Rams ranked third? Why is a game featuring Lamar, the Ravens, Patrick Mahomes, and the Kansas City Chiefs ranked seventh?

We throw the challenge flag. We demand a recount.

Once upon a time, a field-goal attempt in Foxborough sailed wide of its mark in another AFC Championship Game. That, too, ended a Ravens date with glory. Baltimore won Super Bowl XLVII. You see where we’re going with this, right?

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In some ways, the months since last January’s Divisional Round loss in Buffalo have dragged. In others, they have flown by. We’re going to say what everyone else is thinking.

We seek glory and some closure, though it appears it may come later than we originally anticipated. Each game is a step in that journey forward. Each chapter will be an epic. Maybe we’re splitting hairs over nothing, but we can’t, for our lives, understand why the NFL doesn’t seem to recognize that.

This article originally appeared on Ravens Wire: Ravens get snubbed in 2025 NFL top games ranking