{"id":293634,"date":"2025-11-15T17:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T17:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/293634\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T17:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T17:50:10","slug":"title-ravens-need-to-be-first-when-afc-north-race-is-settled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/293634\/","title":{"rendered":"Title: Ravens Need to Be First When AFC North Race Is Settled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ravens&#8217; path to the postseason could hinge on this question.<\/p>\n<p>Will they win the AFC North? It&#8217;s imperative for the Ravens to capture a third straight division crown, <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/nfl-playoff-picture\/2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">because only one team from the AFC North may make the playoffs this season<\/a>. Trailing the Pittsburgh Steelers (5-4) by just one game entering Week 11, the Ravens face an important divisional matchup against the Cleveland Browns on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>A victory would keep the pressure on Pittsburgh and give Baltimore a season sweep over the Browns (2-7) for the first time since 2020. While the Browns have been struggling, something about facing Baltimore seems to bring out their best, especially in Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an AFC North game,&#8221; Head Coach John Harbaugh said. &#8220;It&#8217;s going to be one of those \u2013 it&#8217;s going to be cold; it&#8217;s going to be rainy; it&#8217;s going to be windy. It&#8217;s going to be on the shores of Lake Erie. We&#8217;re used to this; this is Cleveland, and this is how these games go. We just have the utmost respect for how they play. So, we have to be at our best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here are my thoughts as the Ravens prepare to face the Browns, all in 50 words or less:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ravens&#8217; path to the postseason could hinge on this question. Will they win the AFC North? It&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[19683,19686,257,11179,349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-293634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-50-words-or-less","9":"tag-clifton-brown","10":"tag-general","11":"tag-homepage-centerpiece","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}