BALTIMORE — Just two years ago, the roles were reversed.
The Ravens met the Cincinnati Bengals on the last Sunday of the 2020 regular season and made mincemeat of their divisional foe, bashing out 404 rushing yards to clinch a playoff berth for the third year in a row. At that point, they had won their last three games against the Bengals by a combined score of 114-19.
Little did we know the seeds of change were already in the ground. The Bengals had parlayed their futility into a franchise quarterback, Joe Burrow, who had demonstrated his promise in the face of terrible punishment through that 2020 season. Four months later, they would draft another offensive superstar in wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase.
