Are the Ravens for real?

This is the question that is being bandied about all throughout the media, and by fans in general. Is this Ravens team as good as they appear? Everyone knows that the Ravens have long been identified as a team with a mediocre offense and a suffocating defense. That M.O. got them to a Super Bowl victory, but they haven't been back since. Last season the team got as close as you can get to going back to the show but fell to the often dispised, and vastly overated Pittsburgh Steelers. So the question begs to be answered, are this years Ravens good enough to clear that last hurdle and get back to a Super Bowl birth?