PHOENIX — With Odell Beckham Jr. landing in The Land, Ravens coach John Harbaugh admitted Tuesday that the Browns are the team to beat in the AFC North.

“They’re the most talented team in the division,’’ Harbaugh said at the coaches’ breakfast at the NFL annual meeting when cleveland.com asked him about OBJ. “There’s no question about that right now. And we’ll see what that means, you know? I know this. That’s right now. The best team in the division is the team that’s going to win the division. So we’ll see what the best team is.’’

Harbaugh, who’s 19-3 against the Browns since 2008, acknowledged that Beckham, Baker Mayfield, Jarvis Landry and Co. present an enormous challenge for the Ravens’ reigning top-ranked defense, which is also in transition with the departure of Terrell Suggs, C.J. Mosley and Eric Weddle.

“My thoughts are, we have to figure out how to defend them, him and Baker and the rest of their offensive weapons, which are many,’’ said Harbaugh. “We’re going to have to put a defense together that can stop those guys.’’

Mayfield beat the Ravens 12-9 in overtime in Cleveland and then almost prevented them from winning the division in the season finale before he was picked off by C.J Mosley on the final play. The Browns lost 26-24 to finish 7-8-1 and the Ravens narrowly edged the Steelers to win the AFC crown with a 10-6 record.

But it marked a changing of the guard in the AFC North, with Mayfield vs. fellow rookie Lamar Jackson, Baltimore’s dynamic QB of the future.

“If you look back at the Ravens-Browns games, that’s what they have been,’’ said Harbaugh. “The one just this season went into overtime. They’ve always been like that that I remember. I just remember them always being really tight games. But I do think with the players they have now and the coaching staff and stuff, it adds a new twist because they’re just so darn talented.’’

Still, he’s not conceding that he finally has to be on high alert for the Browns.

“That’s the theme and I get it," he said. “But I don’t think so. We’ve played the Browns many times over the last 11 years and every one of them’s been a really hard-fought game. We’ve had to block field goals in overtime and take them for touchdowns to win. They’ve beaten us. We’ve been good enough to find a way to win a lot of those games, but the AFC North is unique.

“We’ve literally had dogfights with the Browns and every other team in our division every single year. So it’s no different for us, for the Ravens. We’re not sitting here going ‘Oh, it’s the new Browns.' The Browns have always been tough. The Browns have always been a handful. Yeah, they’re even better. They’ve got a great quarterback now and to me it’s the Browns, we’ve got to beat them.’’

But he’s conceding nothing with the Browns getting all the love.

“You’ve got to take care of yourself,'' he said. "The games will be played, and somebody will win. We plan on being that team.''

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