Welcome to Season 11, Episode 3 of the Unconventional Preview, a serious yet lighthearted, nostalgia-tinted look at the Patriots’ weekly matchup.
The initial inclination is to suggest that any supposed rivalry between the Patriots and Ravens must at the least be acknowledged as lopsided. After all, the Patriots have won 9 of 11 regular-season meetings with Baltimore, including their most recent matchup in Week 10 of the 2020 season, a 23-17 Patriots win in rainy Foxborough.
But if we’re telling the whole truth, it probably is a rivalry, inasmuch as the Patriots have actually had a rival other than Peyton Manning over the last 20-plus years.