If a team keeps playing down to the level of its competition, it will soon find itself behind it.
That's the dilemma facing the Baltimore Ravens, who have done the unthinkable: losing two straight home games to teams that feature two of the worst defenses in the league.
The latest failure, a 16-10 defeat at the hands of the Washington Redskins -- that franchise's first regular-season win in Baltimore in 61 years -- had to be especially galling, considering how well the team started and how flatly it finished.
