In an opening week fight between two AFC North teams, the Cleveland Browns and the Baltimore Ravens, we ended up learning one big thing.
Well, actually, we might have learned three big things. The Ravens, maybe one of the NFL’s safest bet on paper to make the Super Bowl, took the Week 1 victory against the rival Browns— who didn’t go down without a 38-6 fight (if you can call that a fight), but couldn’t keep up with a Ravens team clearly in a class above.
But in the good and the bad, both the Browns and the Ravens made their opening statements.
Here are three things that we can take away from each of them.