I'll just throw up some Flacco stats: Last season, he had the second best average QB rating in the NFL after the first 2 games of the regular season. He lead the Ravens to the playoffs three years in a row starting on his rookie season, (tied with Dan Marino, about to be beating Dan Marino). He has thrown for 3000+ yards two years in a row, tied franchise record.
He's pretty damn good. And he has good receivers, a great running back, and two up and coming tight ends.
And our defense is just great, simple as that.
They are a championship contender. So what if we choked last year against the Steelers. We shouldn't have had to play the Chiefs in the first round of the playoffs last year so we could have had more time to focus on the Steelers.