The Baltimore Ravens, who visit FirstEnergy Stadium on Sunday to meet the Browns, aren’t a great team by any measure.

With just a 7-6 record and on the outside looking in if the playoffs started now, they are average, at best. A team put together by the best general manager in the game, Browns Pro Football Hall of Fame tight end Ozzie Newsome, the Ravens have had about the same number of nightmarish moments – in the span of four weeks, they suffered back-to-back losses to the Jacksonville Jaguars and Pittsburgh Steelers by a combined score of 70-16, and they fell to the Chicago Bears, who went into the weekend tied for the third-worst record in the NFC at 4-9 – as highlight-reel ones – they have recorded three shutouts, which, in this day and age of points aplenty in the NFL, is nothing short of remarkable.

Even with that, they’re obviously better than the 0-13 Browns, and the biggest difference is at quarterback. While the Browns continue to look for their franchise guy – unsuccessfully so in the expansion era – the Ravens had theirs in Joe Flacco for nearly a decade.

Yes, Flacco has fallen off some in the last three seasons and is pretty pedestrian this year with 13 touchdown passes and 12 interceptions for a 78.0 quarterback rating, the fact remains that since he arrived in 2008 as the No. 18 overall pick in the NFL Draft, the Ravens went from hit-and-miss in making the postseason to a team that got into the playoffs in each of his first five seasons, winning a Super Bowl and getting to the AFC Championship Game on two other occasions.

This is yet another example of why quarterback is the most important position in team sports, and why new General Manager John Dorsey’s No. 1 job is to find one for the Browns. If he does nothing else other than that, then he will have done a great job.