How was everyone’s holiday? Anyone receive any notable sports-related gifts (aside from Greg‘s Orioles tix)? If not, never fear, for the giving season isn’t over quite yet. It’s up to the Ravens to deliver the one thing the fans secretly jotted down on their wish lists but never really believed they’d get: a playoff berth. [...]

From what I’ve been able to gather — please correct me if I’m wrong — the Ravens control their future. If they win out (at Dallas this week and then the Jaguars at home) they will make the playoffs, regardless of what anyone else in the AFC does. Not a bad place to be, despite [...]

Two weeks on from the last installment, it’s time again to size up the AFC Playoffs. As in the past, the projections are broken down into three categories: Locks, Probables, and Bubble. All analysis here builds on what I said in the last two installments, so if something doesn’t make sense at first it might [...]