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Its the media. They are always looking for angle. No team is afraid to play any team anywhere. Some teams just have much better chances. For the most part the Patriots are all but unbeatable at home. Its rare that any team can win here, much less regularly. The Ravens have won here. So THE MEDIA sees it as less of a guaranteed win, so THE MEDIA needs to frame that angle so they say the Ravens aren't afraid of playing in NE.But then so does every other team that isn't the Rams. But it isn't "sexy" to use other teams because there aren't other examples of close games. So they use the Ravens as sort of an Exorcist type team for some reason. You can make a case the Seahawks "aren't scared" to play the Pats either, but you don't hear that enough.
Its really just a way of saying the media isn't overconfident that the Patriots can't lose, like they normally are because this team has won here before. Of course, laundry doesn't win games and there are very few players left from the last Raven team that won here, but somehow that escapes them too.