 Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. You see this ridiculousness and see that's not even my words That was a quote from my boy Victor who had sent me this list that he found on BR Good. I am and this list was called the five NFL teams most likely to disappoint in 2023 now To to be put on a list like that Then that would show that hey You got high expectations you got very very high expectations your team has high expectations, but We think y'all gonna fail and we think you are one of the top five teams that have the top five highest expectations But have the top highest chance at failing and not fulfilling those expectations. So let's just Read this this sort of a preface by be all great Optimism for just about every NFL franchise while a few clubs are admired in a rebuild and extremely unlikely to contend in 2023 Most fans are heading into the new campaign with the belief that their team has a viable path to winning a Super Bowl That will quickly change once the meaningful action gets underway in a few weeks roster flaws will be quickly exposed Injuries will mount and only a handful of contenders will be left standing at the conclusion of a grueling 17 game schedule Even some of the projected best teams could find themselves hanging on by a thread or even out of the playoff picture by season's end It's difficult to remain a consistent force in this parody driven league and the combined negative effects from aging roster salary cap Constraints and lower draft picks could cause these clubs to take a step back in 2023 So Here we go with that in mind. Here's a look at five teams predicted to finish over 500 courtesy of draft kings. We don't care about that that will come up short this season All right, here we go Number one I don't know if this was listed in any particular order But the Baltimore Ravens were the first team listed in this article And so it gets straight into it says their 2023 win projection 10 and a half wins Okay, so they could see the Ravens going 10 and 7 or 11 and 6 So anyway says the Baltimore Ravens may have celebrated this summer when they finally inked Lamar Jackson to a contract extension Yes, but the good vibes could sour if the quarterback doesn't leave this team back into contention Jackson has been unable to finish either of the last two campaigns because of injuries resulting in his Ravens missing a playoff Birth in 2021 and quickly getting eliminated in the wild card round last season His health and production will be crucial for Baltimore to live up to his lofty win projection in 2023 That paragraph is true It's true. There's no fighting that there's no arguing that Lamar Jackson has missed the end of both of the past two seasons And that was concerning fluke injuries. Yes, but it happened. Yes So this year that's why I keep saying health is wealth health is wealth Lamar Jackson stay healthy all them say healthy really because there's a lot of injury concerns Really around the Ravens with a lot of different positions, especially on offense, but Health is wealth if they can stay healthy. They got it But it's important that they stay healthy now a big part of that Again, they did get rid of their head strength and conditioning coach Steve Saunders And they moved in a different direction even though the person who's take who took over was still part of his staff But hopefully they they got a different vision. They got a different view on things They they they handle things differently with the injury aspect. So we'll see we'll see and it's important that the Ravens make small decisions too I mean, you can't prevent every single thing but They got it. Hopefully anyway Continuing to say the Ravens front office did its best to provide Jackson with more weapons this year as well They certainly have after going into last season with one of the leads weakest receiving corpse Team brass brought in both a proven pass catcher and Odell Beckham Jr And a young prospect priming with talent in first round picks a flowers Hey, and see they didn't even include Nelson Aguilera Laquantre, well, I get why they didn't include him but still and that's no offense to him, but I Don't he's not a lot to make the roster anything's possible. We'll see but anyway, moving on Um It said the two will augment incumbent number one wide-out Rashal Bateman to form one of the better receiving corpse out there Health is still a big factor at this position though as Bateman has only played 18 of a possible 34 games since entering the league And Beckham missed just missed the entire 2022 season with knee issue. So yeah, that's true. Again health health is wealth Health is everything this season, man. Ravens. They they they put in a lot to this season, which I appreciate a lot. Thank you, Ravens Thank you So now it's time to reap the benefits of what the Ravens did this off season But time to reap those benefits in season need a healthy squad Uh continuing it says uh while the receiving overhaul was welcome It will be difficult for Baltimore to max out its passing effectiveness If the ground game isn't firing on all cylinders That will be easier said than done if top back JK Dobbins continues to be played by injuries Dobbin missed the entire 21 2021 campaign and over half of last season with ailments. So again So I I get what they're getting at so but with everything that they said thus far um Why they feel like the Baltimore Ravens are one of these five teams that could disappoint Because they're not talking about anybody's play. They're not talking about how the oldest person is not good at this position And this person struggles at this position. No, no, no, no It's none of that the only thing that they're talking about throughout this point thus far the article is health It's health. They talked about the health of Lamar Jackson The the health of Odell Beckham jr. The the health of Rashad Bateman and now they're talking about the health of JK Dobbins That's been it because we know all of them can ball all of them can play But health has been the only concern Continuing last paragraph it says with other key pieces such as starting left Takarani Stanley consistently banged up again talking about health There's a lot that needs to go right for Baltimore to have a good year while it's certainly possible This group largely stays healthy and matches or even exceeds projections It seems more likely that an injury or two will submarine the Ravens 2023 season Okay So initially when they got put on this list That that's what I thought it would lead to would be health Especially because health has been a big issue for the Ravens, especially over the past couple of years So the way that the article went it was no surprise. Um, but again, yeah, we just hoping that they stay healthy That's that's that's the biggest and that's the only thing the Ravens can stay healthy They will be good to go And another important thing with health depth quality depth Because guys are gonna get banged up I mean, it would be great if every single Ravens player could stay completely healthy Nobody would miss any time and and that would be that that would be amazing But we know that just doesn't have hopefully it'll happen, but I just feel like man, like right right Ravens deserve a shot this year, man They deserve a healthy shot because they they ain't had no healthy shot in the years man but they they they deserve to uh Be healthy throughout the season down the stretch and the playoffs and all that Because I was talking to my god, Jason a couple weeks ago And he's just talking about how that that just has not been closure. They hasn't been proper closure with the Baltimore Ravens season because We just haven't gotten to see Them in the playoffs all the way because remember 2020 Lamar Jackson went out with concussion 2021 He didn't finish the season Ravens missed the playoffs then last year 2022 He didn't finish the season. They made a playoffs, but he didn't play in it So we didn't we haven't gotten to see a full Lamar Jackson playoff game of Lamar Jackson Ravens playoff game In years So we've been missing that So and we know what they could do on a regular set. We know that already We get that we know what these boys can show we know they can play and we've seen The Baltimore Ravens do their thing um with lesser talent on offense Not no talent off but lesser talent on offense now Ravens like It's looking good on offense on paper man. It really is But again health is everything That is everything that is the one thing that could be the major role block for the Baltimore Ravens But hopefully this is the year where they plow right through it