{"id":338261,"date":"2025-09-03T12:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/338261\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T12:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:01:10","slug":"baltimore-ravens-lead-eight-nfl-favorites-to-hoist-lombardi-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/338261\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore Ravens lead eight NFL favorites to hoist Lombardi Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keegan Abdoo<\/a>: Ravens over Packers. \ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeffLamar Jackson<\/a>\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff has his long-awaited postseason breakthrough, pushing the Ravens out to an early lead and holding on through the end of the game.<\/p>\n

Michael Baca<\/a>: Ravens over Eagles. At long last, Lamar Jackson lifts the Ravens past the AFC’s other perennial contenders, and the Eagles walk into a buzzsaw in their effort to repeat as champions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mike Band<\/a>: Ravens over Eagles. Lamar Jackson and the talented Ravens shed their postseason underachiever label, topping \ufeffJosh Allen<\/a>\ufeff at home in the AFC Championship Game before outlasting the defending champs in an I-95 showdown.<\/p>\n

Judy Battista<\/a>: Ravens over Eagles. Finally, Lamar Jackson and what might be the league’s most complete roster get their Super Bowl.<\/p>\n

Ali Bhanpuri<\/a>: Ravens over Packers. My annual Packers jinx! (You\u2019re welcome, fellow Bears fans.) Green Bay unquestionably acquired a true franchise-altering piece, but the Ravens still boast the league’s most valuable one<\/a>. It\u2019s finally Lamar\u2019s time.<\/p>\n

Tom Blair<\/a>: Ravens over Buccaneers. Lamar v. Baker<\/a> for all the marbles lives up to the hype I’ll build in my own heart, producing a thrilling reminder of the AFC North rivalry that should have been.<\/p>\n

David Carr<\/a>: Ravens over 49ers. A healthy Christian McCaffrey<\/a> turns in one of his finest seasons, while Robert Saleh brings discipline and stability back to San Francisco’s defense. But the story of the year belongs to Baltimore. The Ravens prove to be the league’s bully this year, riding another MVP season from Lamar Jackson and a defense transformed by the emergence of rookie Malaki Starks<\/a>. On the biggest stage, their impact shows as the Ravens win a 30-27 thriller.<\/p>\n

Brooke Cersosimo<\/a>: Ravens over 49ers. A healthy 49ers team gets back to the Super Bowl for the third time in the Kyle Shanahan era. Standing in the way, however, is the best roster in the NFL and Lamar Jackson, who puts together a campaign for the ages and delivers on his draft night promise<\/a> seven years ago: “They’re gonna get a Super Bowl out of me. Believe that.”<\/p>\n

Gennaro Filice<\/a>: Ravens over Lions. The Lions hit the Super Bowl for the first time in franchise history but fall victim to a dual-threat superhero for the second straight postseason. Lamar Jackson caps his third MVP campaign with his first ring.<\/p>\n

Dante Koplowitz-Fleming<\/a>: Ravens over Eagles. The best roster in the NFL lives up to its potential as Lamar Jackson wins Super Bowl MVP and the Ravens knock off the defending champions.<\/p>\n

Dan Parr<\/a>: Ravens over Eagles. It feels like the right time for Lamar Jackson and Co. to shake the ghosts of playoffs past. In an old-school slugfest, the Ravens outlast the Eagles, ending Philly\u2019s hopes for back-to-back titles.<\/p>\n

Kevin Patra<\/a>: Ravens over Eagles. Lamar Jackson, snubbed for another MVP, outduels Patrick Mahomes<\/a> and Josh Allen before besting the defending champs to hoist his first Lombardi.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gregg Rosenthal<\/a>: Ravens over Lions. The two No. 1 seeds face off in a scorefest that ends with a Lamar Jackson pop pass to Charlie Kolar<\/a> with :27 left.<\/p>\n

Marc Ross<\/a>: Ravens over Lions. One year after their dominant 2024 campaign was derailed by injuries in the postseason, the Lions finally make it to the Super Bowl. However, the Ravens have the most talented roster in the NFL and are led on the biggest stage by Lamar Jackson, who silences his doubters.<\/p>\n

Nick Shook<\/a>: Ravens over Lions. Two teams that have finished painfully short of the mountaintop reach the biggest stage, where Lamar Jackson silences his critics once and for all by taking down Detroit and bringing home a Lombardi Trophy.<\/p>\n

Lance Zierlein<\/a>: Ravens over Eagles.\u00a0Lamar Jackson finally gets all the way over the playoff hump and stars in a thrilling, last-second Super Bowl win over the Eagles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keegan Abdoo: Ravens over Packers. \ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeffLamar Jackson\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff has his long-awaited postseason breakthrough, pushing the Ravens out to an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2068],"tags":[90,117,53,256,258,113,25,7,345,110,6,59305,61315,609,242,109,2476,252],"class_list":{"0":"post-338261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-analysis","9":"tag-baltimore-ravens","10":"tag-buffalo-bills","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","12":"tag-denver-broncos","13":"tag-detroit-lions","14":"tag-eagles","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-green-bay-packers","17":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-nfl-season-predictions","20":"tag-nfl-season-predictions-super-bowl","21":"tag-no-minute","22":"tag-philadelphia","23":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","24":"tag-philadelphiaeagles","25":"tag-san-francisco-49ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115140262887514548","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}