In the NFL, a “trap game” is commonly used to describe a matchup where a superior team that is favored to win could play down to their competition against an inferior opponent. It can be easy to identify potential trap games ahead of time or not realize it’s happening until the actual game occurs.
For the Baltimore Ravens, like most other teams, they’ve been victim to this situation plenty of times before. While the Ravens have been one of the league’s most successful regular season teams in recent years, they’ve still fallen short of expectations in some contests where they were heavily favored or widely expected to win easily.