Ravens 'Best Team in NFL!' Colin Cowherd Raves About Lamar Jackson and Baltimore

Ravens 'Best Team in NFL!' Colin Cowherd Raves About Lamar Jackson and Baltimore

The national TV people are notoriously fickle in these matters, and as we often like to say, the true measure of which team is the NFL's best is reflected clearly, in black and white, in this thing called "the standings.''

Having said that, by most any measure, the Baltimore Ravens are presently perched pretty high on every list - including in the AFC standings, where with a 5-2 record they're just one game behind the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs.

"That,'' said FS1's Colin Cowherd after watching the NFL Week 7 slate of games, "is the best team in the NFL."

Lamar and the Lions / © Tommy Gilligan-USA TODAY Sports

This shouldn't be too shocking to anyone, especially anyone who understands the concept of "recency bias.'' The Ravens are after all coming off a Sunday blowing out of the Detroit Lions - one of the teams some critics thought was the NFL elite - by a 38-6 score.

"Yesterday wasn't about Detroit,'' Cowherd said. "It was about Baltimore's Super Bowl-good-enough defense and about having to face Lamar Jackson for the first time. You cannot prepare for Lamar Jackson.''

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Again, that is quite a hyperbolic statement. But the numbers are real: Jackson completed 21 of 27 passes for 357 yards and three touchdowns in the victory while rushing for 36 yards and one touchdown.

"This Lamar is the best Lamar,'' Cowherd said, noting that Jackson's work in London against the Titans was the NFL's QB high-water mark for the year. "Between that coaching, that defense, and Lamar and those receivers, that's the best team in the NFL."