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Originally Posted by TwistedChief
Honestly, it boils down to something very simple.
The Ravens were without question the better team this year. More consistently dominant throughout the season, and they earned a lot of those flowers.
The hope for Chiefs fans rests on the fact that we have the best player in the league and experience. We've been in these wars before. We've fought the hot teams no one wants to play and vanquished them (Colts '18, Titans '19, Bills '21, Bengals '22). We've battled the teams with far better rosters (Niners '19, Eagles '22) and come out on top. We've had wars in the postseason that best resemble Balboa/Drago.
If you want to believe your eyes from the regular season, this game won't be close and the Ravens will run away with it. Easily. Not even close.
But if you want to appreciate this team's DNA and how it's played the last couple weeks and if you want to be mindful of the fact that this team has found ways to turn it out when it matters for multiple years in a row, then the Chiefs have every bit of a chance in this game.
The Chiefs fans have a history of watching this team overachieve in this situation. The Ravens fans want to believe that this current season's iteration thus far is the only thing that really matters.
Time will tell. I still think the Ravens win this game 60% of the time, but I wouldn't bet against Mahomes. A lot of people picked against the Chiefs last SB, were wrong, vowed to never bet against this team again, and have now spent the last 2 weeks picking against them again.
**** around and find out, perhaps.
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There were a couple snarky comments of "they're now Patriot fans, super smug" ....well, there IS a lot of truth to that.
We've been through this for years now and everything you said is absolutely true... and FFS, forget OUR experience, do Ravens fans even remember 2019? Point differential champions losing to a 6 seed? And they can excuse away that season, it's different this time, etc.... buuuuut, weren't you (probably) saying that in 2019, too?
We know the difference between teams proving themselves to the world in the regular season (2020-2021 Bills, '22 Eagles, '19 and '23 Ravens) and teams that have more important things to concentrate on in the regular season so they can flip the switch when it really matters.
The Ravens could absolutely, 100% be real this year, but no amount of regular season wins is going to prove that to anyone who's been here 6 years straight now and has heard it all every single year from different flavors of the week.
If you want to impress more than the Skip Baylesses of the world, beat Patrick Mahomes first, then we'll talk.