I'm going to guess that the ranking is largely based off of this season and the perceived talent on the rosters.

You can't just completely disregard past history though. Especially when between the Chiefs and the playoffs, Baltimore is 0-4 the last two years.

That would be like disregarding Philip Rivers' penchant for throwing games away when ranking the Colts. Look how that turned out.

There has to be at least some context.

That's true. I'm just not sure what I would identify as a weakness for the Ravens, outside of recent playoff success, and this is CLEARLY a regular-season ranking.

Similar to the Chiefs, they somehow improved in the offseason.

It’s the Baltimore Chargers.

The weakness for the Ravens is that they're dependent on the script. They're built to pound out a lead. If that doesn't happen, they have to change everything and it doesn't work that well against good teams when you have an offense that's essentially designed around a gimmick (I don't want to diminish Lamar's skills too much but I can't think of a better word).

They're a really good team but they depend on everything going the way they want. They're used to imposing their will and if that doesn't work, things get shifty.

It's only week 1 anyway. Last season started this way too. We all know the Chiefs are a better team. I just wish I could watch sports coverage without having to hear about Lamar Jackson (or Cam Newton) the entire time.

I’m not worried about the Ravens in the least:

HC: Slight advantage Chiefs
QB: Significant advantage Chiefs
WR: Advantage Chiefs
TE: Advantage Chiefs
RB: Ravens have the depth advantage, but Chiefs have the starter advantage
OL: Slight advantage Ravens
DL: Advantage Chiefs
LB: Significant advantage Ravens
CB: Slight advantage Ravens
S: Significant advantage Chiefs

ST: Push

Chiefs are better in many ways. I don’t see anyway that an average pass rush and shit safeties even come close to slowing down Mahomes.

I'm not clicking through this shit, **** you for posting this clickbait shit.

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Reid is way better than Harbaugh.

Why do people keep saying the Ravens are pissed?

They get more media love than like anyone. Practically no one in the national media even dares to question Lamar Jackson as a passer even though he’s been beyond terrible in both of his playoff games (losses).

Even if they are pissed, who are they pissed at? They’re the ones that got obliterated by a team that we proceeded to curb stomp. Are they wanting respect to be given to them? How about they just go out and not suck ****ing dick in the playoffs for once?

I was being generous

What people?

Now close your eyes and picture having one of the worst games of your career but still leading your team from 10 points down with 9 minutes left to win the Super Bowl and being voted SB MVP.

The doorknobs at Yahoo had the Ravens at #1 before the season even started.
They created their initial power rankings a few months after watching the Chiefs come back from double digit deficits 3 times (and end up winning with a double digit lead in each game) in the post season to win the Championship while the Ravens fell flat on their faces. With these facts in front of them, they felt informed enough to label the Chiefs as the inferior team of the two.

The writer is just trying to get people talking about something he wrote.
He either fully understands that the Chiefs are superior to the Ravens and he's just trying to create a buzz OR he couldn't accurately describe the shape or color of a football.