10. Joe Flacco and John Harbaugh winning at least one playoff game in each of their first five seasons (2008-12)
In truth, this streak is more of a team accomplishment, but it’s impossible to ignore the fact that the Ravens hadn’t won a playoff game since the 2001 postseason when Flacco and Harbaugh arrived on the scene in 2008.
Their successful run culminated with a win in Super Bowl XLVII, but it goes without saying how incredible it is that Harbaugh is the only coach in NFL history to win at least one playoff game in each of his first five seasons and Flacco is the only quarterback in league history to win a playoff contest in each of his first five years. The two will forever be linked together and will receive plenty of credit for the best five-year run in franchise history — to this point, anyway — that included a Super Bowl title, three trips to the AFC Championship, and two AFC North crowns.
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Baltimore Positive is the vision and the creative extension of four decades of sharing the love of local sports for this Dundalk native and University of Baltimore grad, who began his career as a sportswriter and music critic at The News American and The Baltimore Sun in the mid-1980s. Launched radio career in December 1991 with Kenny Albert after covering the AHL Skipjacks. Bought WNST-AM 1570 in July 1998, created WNST.net in 2007 and began diversifying conversations on radio, podcast and social media as Baltimore Positive in 2016. nes@baltimorepositive.com
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