Baltimore Ravens Not Taking Pittsburgh Steelers Lightly - 'It's A Week-To-Week League!'

The Baltimore Ravens are the most in-form team in the AFC North, but head coach John Harbaugh isn't taking anything for granted ahead of a trip to Pittsburgh in Week 5.

The Baltimore Ravens have had a decent start to the season and after the first month, sit atop the AFC North after the 28-3 beatdown of the Cleveland Browns. The win moved the Ravens to 2-0 in the division ahead of another away matchup against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

With the rest of the AFC North struggling to find any kind of consistency, the Ravens have a chance to create quite the buffer in the race for the division title.

But despite the rest of the division struggling, Ravens head coach John Harbaugh isn't taking anything for granted.

“The message is it’s a week-to-week league,” Harbaugh said. “What you think you see last week, doesn’t really mean anything for this week and I think when you look at the games, you would have to agree with that. Look at last week compared to the week before, so to draw any real conclusions right now other than [team] records are what they are right now.”

Harbaugh is right. On any given Sunday, anything can happen and through the first month of the season, we have seen many favorites fall to lesser opponents.

But despite that, the Ravens already appear to have a stranglehold on the division after winning two road division games, with a third coming on Sunday. That means that during the run home, Baltimore will face all of its division opponents at M&T Bank Stadium. This makes the game on Sunday against the Steelers even more crucial.

The Ravens have a chance to create some separation in the AFC North on Sunday / Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports

But for Harbaugh, despite the Steelers being up-and-down so far and even with quarterback Kenny Pickett in doubt, he isn't focused on anything else other than writing the next chapter in the Ravens' season.

“[We are] only four weeks in, only four chapters have been written and we have to write chapter five, that’s all we have to think about right now,” Harbaugh said. “We just have to focus on chapter five, which is a division game, in Pittsburgh, playing the Pittsburgh Steelers and we understand what they’re about, what they stand for, what kind of football team they are and we know what it takes to go play that team, we respect them. We’re going to have to be at our best.”

While the Ravens, based on form should win this game, Lamar Jackson has struggled against Mike Tomlin's team.

He has a 2-3 record and has lost the last two games while throwing for 461 yards, three touchdowns, and three interceptions while being sacked 11 times.

So this next chapter in the Ravens season is anything but straightforward and with a chance to create serious separation between themselves and the rest of the division, Sunday's clash has a lot riding on it.

We might only be four chapters into this Ravens novel, but it already feels like we are about to see a defining moment that could shape how it turns out.