NFL Season Preview: Ravens Run the AFC North Roost
There’s nix predictable inward the AFC North. But this year, at +160, the Baltimore Ravens sit down as the favorite to win the AFC North.
The naval division has seemingly flipped on its caput from previous seasons. The former giants of the air division are at present anticipated as the bottom-feeders.
Since 1970, the Steelers get had the best tape in football. However, this season, the Steelers are expected to have got a losing record book for the number one time under chief four-in-hand Mike Tomlin.
The Cincinnati Bengals, after decades of irrelevance, last yr had a magical run for to the Super Bowl. That has changed the franchise’s direction, as they at present come out to follow the tangible deal.
The Grover Cleveland Browns — well, they keep to be the Stephen Grover Cleveland Browns.
But after missing the playoffs a yr ago, the Baltimore Ravens appear ready to get hold of plunk for the division.
Ravens Super Bowl Odds
John Harbaugh continues to roam the sidelines inward Baltimore, having delivered a Super Bowl form of address to the city inwards 2012. Lamar Helen Maria Fiske Hunt Jackson is single of the game’s most electric players when on. The only if query with Thomas Jackson is whether he can remain intelligent for an entire season.
At +1800 to win the Super Bowl, the Ravens are considered a serious challenger to the title. In a division with seemingly deuce warm teams, the Ravens should be capable to beat out upwardly on the underside two spell they seem to win a partition crest and maybe an AFC title.
Bengals Look Strong
The mood couldn’t be improve inward Cincinnati heading into the young season. At +170 to win their division, the Bengals, with Joe Burrow as their quarterback, seem ilk a team up destined to compete for naval division titles for the next decade.
The Bengals feature the same betting odds as their sectionalization challenger from Baltimore, as they are both +1800 to win the Super Bowl at season’s end. Led past a trio of incredible youth receivers, stopping the Bengals’ offensive testament non live light this season.
Tough James Jerome Hill to Climb For Browns
The Cleveland Browns are a concentrated team up to get a undecomposed scan on, even inwards a year when expectations were high. Now, this season, the Browns are +300 to win the partitioning entering the season.
Baker Mayfield is out, and after ne'er living upwardly to the hype, he was shipped cancelled to Carolina. Controversial Deshaun James Dewey Watson was brought inward to read his place. He brings lots of baggage, to say the least. The enquiry becomes, testament he play, and if so, for how long? After missing almost ii seasons, how effective testament he be?
There are a lot of unrequited questions surrounding this squad this season, and due to the uncertainty, it’s toughened to rearward them inwards any path this season.
At +2800 to win the Super Bowl, the Browns are getting a fleck of passion on the national level. It’s just now tough to escort them putting it all unitedly this season.
Steelers Face Tough Road
It’s firmly to believe that Mike Tomlin has never had a losing book in his clip inwards Pittsburgh. Since seemly the Steelers’ chief coach inward 2007, he has led the team to the playoffs X times, including 7 partition titles.
But this year, at +700, it seems real unlikely that the Steelers testament compete for the top side patch inward the AFC North.
Tomlin also has a Super Bowl title below his guidance, and the Steelers are +8000 to win this year. The Steelers will compete calendar week in and week out, but expectations are certainly downwardly inward Pittsburgh this season.