Er, I'm not following that. They beat the shit out of the Pats. Worse than they beat objectively worse teams even. Which don't doubt that'll be the Pats "motivation" game that they seem to need every year, so I'm not sure I'll read much into it when it comes to playoffs, but they made the Pats look bad. It was enough that people immediately wondered if they had massively overrated the Pats (because of course they can't ever learn their lessons; unless the Pats have a losing record, the media should just go "we assume the Pats will make the playoffs and probably be one of the top 2 seeds", otherwise they shouldn't talk about them being overrated or not talk about them like last year as we see how both ways turn out).
Which, Baltimore's a good team for sure. But they've lost both times to the Chiefs when they had Jackson. Of course then the Chiefs go and lose 4 games that they should have won (only one of which was without Mahomes) and then won at least one that they probably shouldn't have (Lions game), so I can't really say they're the better team. I think they have similar issue that the Chiefs had last year, they need to get a lead going early and then they win pretty handily. If they don't, they're quite vulnerable (the Chiefs because their d isn't/wasn't good enough, the Ravens I'm not sure, but I don't think Lamar has yet hung in a real shootout - where both teams are matching each other and putting up points, he can put up points, but there's only so much that even stupendous single players can do when the other team is rolling as well; that's not a knock on Jackson as I'm not sure Mahomes has won such a game yet, they lost against the Rams and against the Pats twice and those are the types of shootouts I'm talking about; I think the closest Jackson has been in there were the two Chiefs games and then 2 Browns games he's played in, and he's 1-3 in those; and if those count then I think Mahomes is like 7-3 in those types of games; actually I'd say even including those other 3 games Mahomes is about even in shootouts, with only one, maybe two of those losses really being able to be put on him in much regard as usually some manner of big f-up happened; I'm not sold that Jackson could keep his team hanging in there if they shut his running down and force him to pass to keep up - I'm not saying he's a horrible passer either and its tough for any QB including all time greats - although that often was what defined them, with Brady and Montana being the legends they are because of it in the biggest games, with Elways being good other than usually the Super Bowl - even his two rings were likely more because of Terrell Davis; heck Manning faltered plenty too obviously his struggles against the Pats and even his rings were hard to give him full credit for; they're obviously great QBs though).