The Baltimore Ravens made some big moves during their bye week to try to turn things around from their 1-5 start.

They removed the ping-pong table, cornhole boards, basketball hoop and video game consoles from the locker room. Big stuff. The players should also respond well to, oh, I don’t know … getting Lamar Jackson back from a hamstring injury.

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It was seven years ago that the most dynamic player in the NFL first saved John Harbaugh from speculation about his job security. Can he do it again — and show that Derrick Henry is not washed up? Why not?

There are certainly believers out there — at 25-1, the Ravens have the same odds to win the Super Bowl as the 5-2 Seattle Seahawks and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. (I think you’re better off just taking Jackson to win MVP at 35-1 — c’mon, Baker Mayfield and Drake Maye? — but what do I know.)

The defense has to get a lot better, and I don’t even like the Ravens that much against the Chicago Bears on Sunday, despite it being a best bet (shhh, we’ll explain in a bit). But at least the players won’t have cornhole to distract them. Maybe the coaches are sneaking in and playing for beers late at night, too.

Hey, we happened to get the bag in the hole on four of our five best bets last week to make it two straight winning weeks. Our one loser scored 33 points in the fourth quarter. The ugly overall record?