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Originally Posted by Bearcat
Yeah, it's a strange feeling.
IMO, it's either the Ravens win by a little or the Chiefs win by a little. In their losses to the Bills and Eagles, and Lions earlier in the season, it wasn't just one or two mistakes, there were a lot of issues; and they still should have won each of those games, and still kept it close. It wasn't 'play a flawless game and win', it was 'clean up a few of the 20 mistakes you made and win'.
Is it possible some of the regular season issues come up, or even all of them? Sure. But, even when it happened in the playoffs before against the Bengals, it took a ton of missed chances and ****s up to only lose in OT.
I'd just think if the Ravens lose by a lot, it means the wheels fell off... not sure I'd give it a much higher chance than it happening to the Ravens.
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I still don't think we've seen this team play an A game.
A clean game where they execute well throughout. Sometimes you can do that and still have negative plays or even turnovers here and there, but that's not what happened even last week. Last week they still had the Hardman flub that was just flat-ass stupid; a completely unforced error.
Buuuuut - last week was close. It was almost as well as they can play. Take last weeks game, remove the Hardman mistake and the Mahomes miss to MVS in the endzone, then add a full four quarters of effort from Chris Jones (because I do not think we got that last week) and substract Matt ****ing Dickerson (which, sadly, I don't think we'll do) and I think you'll have a 'complete' game from this football team.
That's a 34+ point effort and that team maybe gives up 17. At least against that Buffalo squad.
Against Baltimore? 31 points for, 21 against? Buffalo's offense was largely intact last week and couldn't do much once we made some adjustments with the front (i.e. we stopped getting cute and told them to play bully ball).
This team's played 19 games and we STILL don't know what it's actually capable of. How strange is that?
I can't even hazard a guess as to how this game will go. We just don't know enough about what this team can truly do?