Chiefs-Ravens preview: Is Baltimore really this bad?

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Thanks to Matthew Stevens over at SB Nation's Ravens blog, Baltimore Beatdown, for answering my Chiefs-Ravens questions. Our Q&A is below.

The Ravens have been in a lot of close games. Are they as bad as 4-9 suggests?

BB: Yes and no. If the ball were to bounce the opposite way just once, the Ravens could be 12-1 right now. Yet, I'm a big proponent of the idea that a good team will find a way to win those close games. Maybe it would be throwing fewer interceptions or actually catching one of them that would have turned this season around. Sadly, with this many…