I just want to mention this.

They're obviously on a four game winning streak, and just so people understand, because we talk about the teams they played recently.

That winning streak includes the Cowboys, the Browns, the Jaguars and the Giants.

Are C is what we're seeing out of Lamar.

Is this really a return to form, or is this a guy who's beating up on bad teams?

You know, I think Lamar Lamar is playing better, right?

Lamar is getting to a point where I believe he understands the experiment or wherever.

He was trying to move with his game.

Wasn't him the pocket passer of the guy that wanted to utilize his mind more than allowing his athleticism to get him outside the pocket and give him those options that he's, that he's the best that in the NFL?

And I think he's moved back to what made him the M v p ah year ago.

I just don't think this team is as good.

This team is Mawr urban legend than it is actual substance, right?

We've watched him beat up on some bad teams later on in the season.

They've obviously played a really good game offensively against the Cleveland Browns, but we're still living on Last year were living on what we thought the Baltimore Ravens could be coming into this season.

And so now we talk about this team is being a scary playoff team based on what we believe they could be, but not necessarily seeing it all the time.

And so for me, I think this team will be scary.

I think when you prepare for somebody as unique as Lamar Jackson, it's a headache.

But I still don't believe they are where they were.

Yes, last year, entering the playoffs.

Yeah, and I wanna ask you that question.

You can.

By the way, I don't mean to say the Browns are a bad team.

I want people beating up on me.

But, nikh, is this a better team?

Do you think right now, then that team we saw last year coming into the playoffs?

If they make it, hell no, not even close there.

I mean, that team last year was 14 and two and taking the league by storm, but that doesn't mean they can't win a game in the playoffs.

I don't see them going to the Super Bowl or even the A F C championship game.

But I think everything that everyone said is right.

I don't think anyone is lining up to play the Ravens.

No one's looking forward Toa going after that blitz package, but I do think that one of the problems is they've been beating up on these bad teams.

But one of the problems is Grass mentioned.

It is that defense is built on their secondary being able to cover and allows them to do all types of tricky things up front.

And their secondary has been on and off healthy this season.

If those guys can't be healthy, this team can't win the end of that Cleveland game.

They were playing coverages that I I don't think I ever see them play just because they couldn't trust the guys that they had out there in man coverage.

They couldn't blitz the way they wanted to blitz.

So I think this team is certainly not someone not wanting to be kind of disrespected.

But let's cool it.

Smith.

They're not close to that 14 and two team.

Last year they were saying records.

No, it's not even close.

Yeah, but but one thing I think about grass when I look at this team and I know we talk about Lamar, and I think he takes an unfair amount of the blame.

But I think what we're seeing in him in these last four games is a guy who's really, in many ways, returning to form.

Does that bode well for him going into the playoffs?

And I always say, If they make it, yeah, absolutely.

Again, You're dealing with a team that that that definitely last year was 14 and two.

They believe themselves to be potentially great, right?

They've been great.

They know what it feels like.

A month ago, they were probably had reason to doubt themselves.

But even though it's been against bad teams, you start playing the way they're playing.

These guys, I'm sure, can talk this.

If you start putting together winds like this and dominating people that can Onley help that confidence.

And if you believe you have that greatness inside of you as the Ravens dio Yeah, I think that does make you dangerous.

Even if you're not going in as the one seed this time around, R.

C, what do you think?

Yeah, I mean, I just I just think it's tough, you know?

I mean, you come out last year, you drop, get rich or die trying, and you feel really good about yourself and then you come give us The massacre is just not the same.

It's a good album, and it sells, but it doesn't win.

And so I think that's where the Baltimore Ravens are right now.

They're a team who remembers what they used to be but don't have.

They do not have the roster and the team that's played that way this year.

And so going into these playoffs, you still go in limping and you go in.

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