Sneed was going to house that if McDuffie didn't deflect it.

Looks like Ravens are getting Mark Andrews back. That's a big one.

**** Mark Andrews.

Guys, Prisco picked us to win.

This is not good

Even a blind squirrel nuts twice a.day!

You're right

My faith is restored!!!

BELIEF IN CHIEF!!!!

Injuries
For the second day in a row, running back Isiah Pacheco won't practice for the Chiefs. Reid said the sophomore man did participate in the team's walkthrough, however. This is more of a rest situation than anything else, as Pacheco indicated on Wednesday that he plans to play this weekend.

The biggest positive news for Kansas City is that safety Mike Edwards is expected to return to practice on Thursday.
While it's unclear whether Edwards will clear protocol in time to play this weekend, he appears to be progressing well. Reid said the Chiefs will exercise caution with his practice plan.

Reid said his veteran linebacker is battling some neck stiffness and suffered a setback in the team's last playoff game. Gay is trending in a solid direction for Sunday but if he can't play, Reid is satisfied with Drue Tranquill's ability to offset some of the production lost.

Your desperation knows no bounds! You want so badly for your team to be what the Chiefs have built. But the biggest difference in the teams is your quarterback will never be in the same stratosphere as Mahomes… regardless of how this season ends for you. You should check out how many quarterbacks that never won a SB on their rookie contract, have never won a SB. Maybe then you’ll have a better understanding of what you’re up against (but I doubt it because you’re a delusional, pillow biter. Get your 1000 posts in now, cuz come Sunday evening you’re probably gonna have a gun to your own head!

Man we ****ing NEED Pop to be a full go on Sunday.

This isn't particularly accurate or fair.

The Christmas Raiders game was pretty discouraging, and even I was pretty down on KC's chances to get it together.

But it turns out, it was a turning point, and they've been much better since. And while I don't think anyone is particularly SUPREMELY CONFIDENT, I think most will take Mahomes + a great defense in any single game.

That's not the same thing as the GDT shitweasels, who just cannot wait to go full blame-game at the first opportunity.

And I'm with you, those posters ruin everything for those of us who would like to follow the game and chat football in real time.

But let's rein it in a little bit here.

*Discord Plug goes here*

Mark Andrews probably let’s Vance McMahon poop on his head

I BELIEF!

BELIEF IN CHIEF! BELIEF IN CHIEF! BELIEF IN CHIEF!

I've rarely had anyone on ignore through the years, but it works wonders for the GDT since people don't get quoted much... and it's funny/sad because something bad will happen and you'll see blocks of "this user is on your ignore list" when all the chicken littles show up at the same time to tell people it's all Veach's fault someone dropped a pass and how the Chiefs aren't making the playoffs because they're down by 3 in the first quarter of a week 6 game.


With all due respect, that's also the place people go when they've been booted from a GDT and then get butthurt about it for 4 years, so it doesn't feel like it would be much better?

Options options... ;)

So did Florio.

Lucky for us they might be the only two.

Florio picked them because they were his preseason pick. He picked them last week, too.

Seemed like it was grudging/he doesn’t really believe it, though.

True, and besides scrolling after the fact, I never think of it during games to check (I mean, if I wasn't banned after my last comment LMAO).... the two playoff GDTs were night and day.

The Dolphins game was great, even when the Tyreek touchdown happened.... and the Bills game was doom and gloom throughout (granted, I didn’t read much of it in the 2nd half), even when it was obvious the offense was going to have its way with the Bills.

You'd have to sign up to get banned ;)

People are on tv this morning saying KC cannot compete physically with Baltimore. Seems to me that Baltimore is going to get a lot of personal foul penalties.

Happy Red Friday folks

And do not forget, they gotta play us. Six years, six years that the AFC team who wants to go to the Super Bowl has to beat Patrick Mahomes.

people don’t realize how physical the chiefs are. they still think we’re the finesse team we were in 2018

The ones who are paying attention understand.

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Chris Jones can earn another million by winning this game. He’s going to give that oline hell.

This was by design, didn't want to get beat by Josh's arma and trade FGs for TDs with our offense humming against their beat up D. Josh made two crazy throws and great catches by their WR's for a TD and a first down at the 1 on 3rd and long, or it would have been worse. When Spags needed to tighten, he tightened.

Not to be underestimated.

I was MightyMike for a bit and then vented at BL after seeing him shouting into the void several times and making completely false statements about this place.... and then I logged out and didn't care enough to see if it was responded to or deleted or whatever.

Likely is good.

If a rusty Andrews takes snaps from Likely, that's a positive.

Now if Andrews takes snaps from Nelson Agholor and they grind us up with 12 personnel, that's not ideal. But they haven't had those two on the field together a lot and Likely isn't really a plus blocker at this stage of his career so it may not be the time to lean into those packages.

We'll see. If Andrews is a problem, Likely would've been as well. It will be a scheme problem more than a personnel mismatch.

He's been making business decisions all year on run downs and early parts of the game, so hopefully we get full gear Chris this week.

Yeah, I thought the Bills' game plan was pretty good and really tough to defend.... they used all 50 yards horizontally and basically had an extended running game on both sidelines and up the middle to defend, and still had to respect hero ball and Allen taking off.

And with how they were getting blockers out to help with the quick screens and then using those blockers to rugby push forward... it's tough to defend.

As a defense, you aren't going to simply say you're defending all of that all the time, and it takes time to adjust to their script.

Just like every other "scary" running team ever, you let them run the ball and don't get sucked into it too much.... there's no "establishing the run" and "gotta stop the run"... you just can't let it get out of hand to the point the offense is picking up first downs on 1st and 2nd downs (happened on 2 drives last weekend). You still have to make enough early down stops to force them into passing downs, then defend those without letting Allen run wild.

Let them take 13 plays to march down the field.. it's what all defenses do these days. People get pissed early in games when "they're running right down our throats!" and then they settle for a FG and everything is okay again. Rinse, repeat.

Excellent… just need a maximum motivated Chris Jones for two more games.

Every time I watched Likely play, he made 2-3 big plays at a key moment.

Then I check his stats, and they’re pretty pedestrian. I must have seen every big play he made.

If you can't be motivated playing in the championship game to go to the SB, you're in the wrong profession

He's super raw.

Nobody remembers Antonio Gates rookie year, but he didn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. Likey was kinda like that - just very raw but an incredible physical talent. I'd friggen love to have had him here to learn behind Kelce.

When the lights come on for him, he'll make everyone forget about Mark Andrews, IMO. He could be the league's next superstar TE.

It it just far easier to throw the ball to RBs out of the backfield than I realize or have we simply sucked at defending that for 25 years? Do we maybe NOT suck at defending it now and it's Bootleg PTSD?

Crazy to me that we constantly get gashed by the same thing. Then again, my memory is that the Ravens system doesn't really throw to the RBs very much. Gotta figure they'll go to the TEs and Flowers from the slot a lot on play fakes as a proxy for those RB throws.

I dunno, there were times this year, like the Eagles game, where they were practically in the Eagles' huddle, sniffing out every play and knowing what they were doing before they did it (and then of course everyone else figured it out (except the Bills)).... and then games like last week where they were a step slow for 2.5-3 quarters and the offense looks unstoppable.

I thought the Bills did a good job of getting the ball out quickly and outnumbering the defense, and then had some misdirection and RPO type of stuff, too. And then when they really needed a play, Allen would figure it out with a lateral or that touchdown pass to the pylon. Definitely not dismissing the plays where they'd fall forward for 8 yards after contact or would completely leave a guy out of the backfield uncovered.

The worst of it for the defense probably comes down to the defensive line needing to blow up shit before it starts, and this week needing closer to a burrowhead level of effort from them.

If I’m Spagnuolo this is the game plan. Lock the Everyone 1 on 1 on outside and put as many man in the box. If Lamar beats you throwing I can live with that but letting his beat you with his feet is unacceptable.

Mark Andrews is officially back.

The big plays drop your jaw. There just aren’t very many of them. Yet.

He’s a ball player though. I like him.

I want Lamar throwing the ball 30+ times. Stop the run, show blitz/loaded boxes frequently, and play plenty of zone to allow the secondary to keep eyes on the quarterback.

If the Chiefs lose, the NFL is not rigged.

Zero chance the League would pass on Taylor Swift at the Super Bowl.

Some Darren Waller to him. Not quite as big, but probably more athletic.

If the chiefs main perpersonnel is 13, then 3 tight ends/one rb/one wr that won't do good against the ravens.

Superman does good.

That wouldn't do well.

Seriously Lamar, you really should be studying right now. Not arguing with your betters on the internet.

I want Lamar to throw it as well, especially if he doesn't want to throw it. You're right, make Lamar play QB instead of RB. But not on his terms. That's the key.

In fact, I would just focus on stopping Lamar from running. Now with that, you're going to give up yards to the other RB's, but I'd gladly give up something to get something much bigger in return.

You don’t have a clue what the Chiefs run just like you don’t have a clue how to spell “personnel “ edit.. Apologies to Whogotitbetter..

ROFLROFLROFLROFL OMG I apologize to our guest..

You could probably come up with some creative stuff with him out of the backfield.

Didn’t Chris Cooley used to do a lot of that stuff?

Yeah - what did they used to call him? A J-Back?

Edit: H-back. J-back was our high school terminology for the TE in a triple option.

This will be the first time we have played Baltimore without Mathieu, who admittedly did a lot to limit them over the MOF in the past. But this is a different offense we are facing and defense they are facing as a whole too.

He had two easy picks in that game. One for a TD.. But did a lot of the sidestep tackling… I don’t miss that.

I just watched the highlights from that game.

Man, that defense was so bad. It’s night and day from this year.

Wasn't that the 'Man, this Chris Jones at DE thing may end very poorly' game?

Oh yeah. He got embarrassed by Lamar on the edge multiple times.

46 defense

That pretty much has to be the plan, right? Given the strengths/weaknesses of both teams, seems obvious that the Ravens will go 12 and just try and run it down our throats the entire game, mixed with short passes to the TEs and Flowers. I can't see any situation where their gameplan is to stretch the field and challenge our DBs, unless they somehow care about the narrative around Lamar.

We need to get them playing from behind, force them out of their plan.

I wouldn't mind having the 2016 Eric Berry for this game.

Correct.

I think we should still defer if we win the toss, but this may be one of those instances where you consider taking the ball.

If you get a score and a stop, you're one drive away from putting the Ravens in a real bind. You get up 10 or 14 on them, it'll take a lot of willpower to not start opening up the offense a bit. Especially since they saw this happen not too terribly long ago against Tennessee. Some doubt WILL creep in.

Harbaugh's a good coach - they may be able to ignore all that. That's why I'd probably still defer. But I'd understand if Andy didn't.

Yep. Kinda glad we put that on tape in a pretty meaningless regular season game against Baltimore.

Now we know we can’t run Chris out at end in this Championship matchup. At least not outside of obvious passing situations.

I'll take 1990 DT, who had 20 sacks that year. Quickest 1st step EVER.

DT was great but Lamar is slippery as an eel. Back then most QBs were statues in the pocket.

Ravens are soft. Pound Pacheco and when Lamar gets hit he folds

Ace screen name ROFL

Pasta Little Brioni?

Baltimore’s defense was manhandled in multiple games this season.

See Cleveland bludgeoning them for almost 200 yards rushing… led by a back-up RB.

He’s clearly practicing auto asphyxiation, while jerks it to LameArm highlights. He’s cut the oxygen level off too late a few times apparently.

Quite honestly, I find the Bills MUCH more difficult to defend than Baltimore especially having to account more for Josh's arm and the undefendable throws that Lamar could never make

I did see a fairly interesting breakdown somewhere on their defense vs. quality of QB.

Against roughly half their schedule full of shite QBs (plus Stroud in his first NFL game), they gave up 9 points/gm. Against the other half against high quality QBs they gave up 23 points/gm.

Again, the Eagles parallels start to surface again. But then again, the DVOA stuff does attempt to adjust for that. I just don't worry much about how defenses performed against anyone that WASN'T Patrick Mahomes. He's just a different cat.

Can he have a bad game? Sure - but if he's on, the quality of your defense just doesn't matter. I think it was 2 years ago he kept going up against the #1 scoring defense; like 2 or 3 times that seasons - and averaged 30 odd points/pop against them to re-set the rankings.

Guy rises to challenges far more often than he doesn't.

I mean there's really not a ton to say. On paper, the Ravens should win by less than a score. But in either event, these are two teams that are REALLY evenly matched in most ways. It should be a damn good game.

Though I'd be content with a Chiefs blowout win as well...

You can't play single high against the Bills too much. Josh will destroy you.

You do it all day against Lamar. All ****ing day.

Legendary Chiefs defensive game coming.

I'm also glad we have the early game where there's still a decent chance it'll be raining in Baltimore at kickoff.

Can Conner play single high? I kinda doubt he has the eye discipline he needs to do that effectively just yet. He'll get there (god I love the range he's shown) but that's a massive risk at the moment.

Edwards doesn't have the wheels that Conner has, but he's not bad in that regard and he's clever out there. Combine that with the generally stout coverage we'll get on the outside, and I would be pretty comfortable rolling a lot of single high out there.

Reid down in the box can do some pretty stout work to shut down that TE passing game and prevent a 3 yard run from becoming an 8+ yard run.

Someone give Buddy Ryan a call and do a crash course on the 46 Defense, stat!

Some piece of shit backup destroyed you from Cleveland and you got bludgeoned over and over so ya you are soft. How many games has Lamar missed? INCLUDING a playoff game he chose not risking a contract over playing a game he could have.

Joe Burrow was destroying that defense before he got hurt with 6 mins left in the 2nd quarter.

He was 11/17 101 yards 1 TD and a 100 rating

I think 20-21 points could very well win this game. Two elite defenses. Both sides have every incentive to try and run the ball. Explosive plays could be very rare.

If it's a clean game from both sides with no really costly turnovers, I think 21 points does it.

Latest update looks like the rain will be done by kickoff.

Spags doesn't want to play a bunch of single high though. He knows he can let his CBs play extremely physical if they have sure help behind them.

He's gonna play games in the front 7 - McDuffie will blitz plenty, the LBs too. But I don't expect a bunch of one-high.

Every legit QB other than a green rookie torched that defense