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No, but they were both contenders for quite some time. The Ravens were back in the title game this year.
You're saying that winning one super bowl is insignificant?
The ravens were 10-6, 7-9, 10-6, 9-7, 6-10, 13-3, 5-11, 11-5 since then, that's with Elvis Grbac Kyle Boller (a first round bust) and Joe Flacco ( a late first round pick) They were in the title game this year, but because their defense was unstoppable and Flacco didn't make many mistakes. He didn't light up the scoreboards, they ran the ball well and depended on the defense to force lots of turnovers. They picked off pennington in one playoff game almost as many times as he threw picks all season.
And the buccaneers had been successful for years prior to their super bowl. The core defensive players had aged and many left for lucrative contracts elsewhere. from 97 to 01, under Tony Dungy and led by the quarterbacking corps of Trent Dilfer, Shaun King, and Brad Johnson, they went 10-6 8-8 11-5 10-6 9-7 and then Dungy was canned cause they didn't think he could get it done in the playoffs, brought in Gruden and went 12-4 and won the super bowl. But by then the aging defensive guys weren't the same as they used to be, what followed was a decline in the defense and all sorts of blunders in the handling of the team by Gruden who is an "offensive guru" QB coach kind of guy. Also they had given up first round picks to get gruden and had significant salary cap issues.
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