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Originally Posted by StalkRavenMad
I appreciate your honesty. That's all we are saying. You guys have played 2 defense thays been decimated by injuries and think your back. This weeks will tell the true story. Truth be told beating the Bills on a missed fg with all those injuries isn't anything to right home about. Not for the big bad Chiefs who has the best coach, HOF QB, and best playoff DC this league has ever seen. Surely you should have boat raced a team that was missing WR 2, LB1, 2, 3, CB1, amongst other guys
Come in and put up similar numbers againat a relatively healthy Ravens team and you may be on to something.
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I agree. Beating a Bills team that was shredded with injuries, after they'd been playoff-level intensity football for 7 consecutive weeks already wasn't a huge test. And the fact that KC only won by a FG isn't great by any means. The fact that the WRs only managed to catch 7 balls against their secondary isn't great.
Look, we know what the Chiefs are this season. They aren't the super explosive, offensive juggernaut from a few seasons ago. Or even anywhere close to what they were last season. There's no "13 seconds" offense here in 2023.
This year's Chiefs are dominated by their defense. They defense won more games for KC in 2023 than the offense did; pretty much everyone knows that around here. Hell, pretty much everyone in the football universe knows that.
And the offense has been searching all season for some kind of consistency and chemistry. An identity. And to us, it seems like they've finally found their identity over the last couple games. And that identity looks like a very balanced run-pass ratio (34/41 vs. MIA, 23/24 vs. BUF) and a very methodical 'matriculation" down the field to get into scoring range.
That's going to be the crux of it right there. Can the Chiefs offense matriculate the ball down the field enough times to score enough points to hold off BAL? Because I think BAL will score around 27. Probably no more than that against our defense and Spags.
Because as talented as your offense is, it's still operated by Lamar, and he's not a great passer. He's better than he was a couple seasons ago, but he's not among the very best pocket passers if he can't throw to his first read or two.
And Spags will take away his first two reads. He's going to pressure him, simulate pressure, give him a new look on every 3rd down, take away the middle of the field, and generally rush him in a way that prevents Lamar from just taking off, and force him to throw the ball deep to beat us. Which is definitely not Lamar's forte.
So I don't see BAL scoring more than somewhere in the mid-20s. 27 on the outside, because you have Justin Tucker and I can see him booting one from 65 at the end of the half or something.
So the only other question is how efficient can the Chiefs offense be vs. your defense. Can they score in the mid-20s? Because if they can, and the score is close in the last minutes of the game and the Chiefs have the ball, sorry not sorry, but the Chiefs are going to win, baby.
That's just how it is.