What's up, everybody? Welcome into today's episode of pushing the pile. I'm Mike Renner,

joined as always by Kyle Long. And today we're going through, on Tuesday show, we went through

playoff contenders, their Achilles heels. Now we're going to go through a bunch of playoff teams. We're going to make some small predictions. We're going to say teams that we think haven't been to this level yet. We're going to do Super Bowl. We're going to do deep playoff runs. We're going to do playoffs. Like teams that haven't been there in recent years. Who's going to do it? why they will, but also maybe why they won't. And so we'll start high. We'll start with teams who have not been to the Super Bowl of Lake, teams who have been on the precipice of the Super Bowl of late, but could get over the hump this year. Why they will make it and why they won't make it. So let's start with the Baltimore Ravens. probably no better place to start in all of football, given that one, they have this insane

roster. make it and why they won't make it. So let's start with the Baltimore Ravens. Probably no better

place to start in all the football, given that one, they have this insane roster, but two,

that they've had this insane roster for like half a decade now. And it hasn't led to anything

more than one AFC championship game, zero Super Bowl appearances. So Kyle, why will this year be

different or why won't this year be different? Well, I think this year

will be different because the offense gets another year with their two superstars, Derek Henry,

Lamar Jackson, no sign of slowing down from big Derek Henry. And obviously Lamar Jackson

is still an MVP form. I'll say this about the Ravens, they got better defensively and they're more

experience and there is a tremendous amount of value in a unit playing together and having

time on task with one another. Baltimore Ravens have just that. Obviously fell just

millimeter short last year in the front pylon corner of the end zone. This team year in, year out, is poised and ready to make a playoff run, Super Bowl run.

This year feels like it is the year, Mike.

It really does.

The more I look at it, and obviously injuries happen, it's a long season, 17 games, whatever.

But just looking at this defense, because this was two years ago, 2023, they were the one seed. That was the year they got

to the AFC championship game, right? Number one defense in the NFL. Obviously, lost Mike

McDonald, early season struggles. But week 11 on, they were once again, the best defense in the

NFL and bring back pretty much everyone from

that.

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