Chiefs' Chris Jones: Ravens Were 'Hands Down' Best Team in NFL During 2023 Season

The Kansas City Chiefs are Super Bowl champions for the second straight year, but the Baltimore Ravens can at least take solace in something.

Chris Jones believes they were the best team in the NFL this past season.

"I think we faced the best team in the league in the Baltimore Ravens, hands down," the star defensive lineman said in a postgame interview following Sunday's 25-22 victory over the San Francisco 49ers:

Jones is right about Baltimore being the best team in the regular season, as Lamar Jackson and Co. finished with a 13-4 record. Nobody else in the AFC finished with more than 11 wins, while the 49ers, Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys each had 12 wins in the NFC.

But the NFL isn't the Premier League, and championships are decided during the playoffs in January and February and not over the course of a long regular season.

The Ravens had their opportunity to clinch a spot in the Super Bowl with a home game against Kansas City but let it slip through their grasp during a 17-10 loss.

Jones and the rest of the Kansas City defense kept Jackson in check throughout that game and forced three turnovers, two of which came from the MVP quarterback.

Perhaps the Ravens can get some revenge next season if they are once again among the realistic Super Bowl contenders, but bragging rights belong to the Chiefs for the rest of the offseason.