Do the Ravens have a legitimate shot at the AFC crown?

Yahoo Sports host Andrew Siciliano, senior NFL writer Frank Schwab and senior NFL reporter Jori Epstein break down the Frank’s playoff bracket prediction for the AFC. Check out the full conversation on “Inside Coverage” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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Yeah, Frank, I don’t disagree with you that the Bills and the Chiefs and the Ravens are, or at least the Bills and the Chiefs, I should say, are not going to win their division.

But if I were to ask you now, you have to place your bet, who is representing the AFC in the Super Bowl, and pool one has the Bills, the Chiefs, and the Ravens, and pool two has the Colts, Patriots, and Broncos, are you more willing to bet that either Bills, Chiefs, or Ravens will represent the AFC in the Super Bowl, or Colts, Patriots, Broncos?

Wow, you just easily the Ravens out of it.

Yeah, the Chargers getting no respect around here.

Joey, wow, all 12 Chargers fans are coming after you.

All right.

Can we get Lad McConkie back on the line?

Well, yeah, right, like the lad not not doing that anymore.

Lad, by the way, until he’s like 50 years old.

I, I, I, whatever bucket of teams the Ravens is in because I think the Ravens won the AFC this year.

There you go.

They win the AFC.

I said this, not the AFC North.

Absolutely, they win the AFC.

This is such, this is how sports work.

So you’ve seen the stories like this play out when the Ravens have been in the driver’s seat.

They’ve been the number 1 seed.

They’ve had these awful losses, and now this year when everybody gave up on the Baltimore Ravens, they were 1 and 5.

This is the year Lamar Jackson cashes in and makes the Super Bowl.

I fully believe that.

I think the Ravens are going to the Super Bowl.

Are, are you saying that because you’re sticking with the pick you made in August?

Yes, Andrew, or you’re saying it because you still believe it?

I believe in Lamar Jackson.

I, I still think Lamar Jackson is the best player in the NFL.

He’s not gonna win MVP this year, but I think Lamar Jackson is the best player in the NFL.

I believe in John Harbaugh.

I think that defense is showing signs of improvement.

They still have Derrick Henry for those cold games, and I just think the, kind of like Peyton Manning winning in 2015, I think the football gods owe Lamar one here, and I, I, I don’t trust anybody kind of above them.

You talk about the Colts, do I really think Daniel Jones is making a Super Bowl?

No, honestly, if I had to be that way.

The Broncos.

Look, the Broncos’ defense is not getting enough respect.

When we talk about the Broncos, the first thing that gets brought up all the time, Broncos’ offense stinks.

Yeah, of course, their offense stinks.

Their defense is awesome, OK?

But I still don’t trust.

I, I would pick the Ravens over them.

I would pick the Ravens over the Patriots too.

The Patriots are a good team that’s, they’re, they’re the commanders of this year.

A very, very good team that’s not quite there yet.

Uh, their defense still isn’t all the way there.

They’ve gotten really lucky with a soft schedule.

They, hey, they have quality wins too.

Uh, they’ve validated everything.

Which team above the Ravens among those division winners, do I really trust over the Ravens?

None of them, none of them at all.

Do the Ravens have a legitimate shot at the AFC crown?

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