How the Ravens Have Become the Defining Team of the Quarter Century
There have been a number of "best of the quarter century" lists recently that ranked the top teams in the NFL during that span, and the Ravens were well-represented.
The Super Bowl championship teams from 2000 and 2012 earned recognition, as did the 2019 and 2023 squads of the Lamar Jackson era.
The Ringer’s Diante Lee took a cumulative approach to the subject and concluded that no franchise has been better over the past 25 years than the Ravens.
"The Ravens have had three distinct eras in the past 25 years, from the early-aughts Baltimore teams that featured one of the best defenses in league history, to the Joe Flacco Ravens that caught fire in the playoffs in the early 2010s, to Lamar Jackson's current squad that's