Let's Talk About Baltimore (AFC Championship)

[SHOWTIME]

Headed back to the AFC Championship Game!!!! Discuss.

[FloridaMan88]

No way the Chiefs bring Skyy or Toney back for this game, right?

[St. Patty's Fire]

baltimores weapon group is really not that impressive. they’re gonna struggle to get separation against our secondary. even with andrews back, are the ravens catch passers even as good as the bills collectively?

its gonna be all about how much they can run the ball

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by KCChiefsFan88

No way the Chiefs bring Skyy or Toney back for this game, right?

Toney doesn't fumble.

Put him in.

We need the boost.

Hardman is giving you less than nothing on offense now. Toney might give us 2 for 30 and a tuddie.

[KC Shox]

We were fortunate to face two teams that were decimated on defense by injuries. Baltimore’s D is healthy and our D is a bit banged up. It’s supposed to rain in Baltimore and our wide receivers who can’t catch passes when it’s dry, are going to really struggle when it’s raining. A rainy day is going to favor the run and Lamar is simply a more dynamic runner than Pat. It’ll take a perfect game by the Chiefs and some fortuitous errors by Baltimore to escape with a win. We lose 37 to 20 because we kick FGs and they’ll score TDs.

[Hammock Parties]

if it's raining....advantage KC

straight ahead power running and all-weather mahomes

you think lamure wants a wet ball

[Jerm]

Originally Posted by KC Shox

We were fortunate to face two teams that were decimated on defense by injuries. Baltimore’s D is healthy and our D is a bit banged up. It’s supposed to rain in Baltimore and our wide receivers who can’t catch passes when it’s dry, are going to really struggle when it’s raining. A rainy day is going to favor the run and Lamar is simply a more dynamic runner than Pat. It’ll take a perfect game by the Chiefs and some fortuitous errors by Baltimore to escape with a win. We lose 37 to 20 because we kick FGs and they’ll score TDs.

Get the **** outta here...

[Wallcrawler]

Originally Posted by pugsnotdrugs19

The blowout predictions are still a little mind-boggling even if you’re picking the Ravens.

In this season in which the Chiefs were just so vulnerable and not nearly as good as we are used to, they lost a whopping one (1) game by two scores. And it was the October game in Denver that was randomly cold as **** while Mahomes was battling the flu.

And that’s the regular season team I’m talking about — one that isn’t recognizable compared to the Chiefs we’ve seen in the playoffs.

The blowout takes are valid. This Chiefs team, all season, struggled to even reach 20 points. They've beaten up on some depleted defenses these past 2 games, and still gave horrendous redzone gaffes that keep them from putting up 7.

Baltimore has literally destroyed teams with winning records this year, including treating the assholes of the Lions and Niners like heads of lettuce and two thumb tearing them apart.

For all intents and purposes, this week is the superbowl for the Ravens.

Mahomes is the one thing standing between them and cruising to a title.

The past 4 meetings with the Chiefs, the Ravens have scored 30+ in 3/4, the one exception being a 34-20 win in Baltimore in covid year.

This is the best defense Spags has ever had, but it's tge worst offense Andy has had in the Mahomes era.

If we cashed the redzone, or made less mistakes from the sideline, the talk would be different.

We need a perfect game from the sidelines with no dumbass personnel choices and cute bullshit, and we need the personnel on field to execute at the level they're capable of.

We need Playoff Travis.
We need AFCCG MVS
We need Rice to continue to beast.
We need to feed Pacheco all game.
We need the Grim Reaper.

If we can get one classic Mahomes era offense performance of 30+, Spags and that defense will handle the rbqb.

[Rainbarrel]

Toney is probably practice Lamar. He may hurt

[pugsnotdrugs19]

There’s a track record of games in which Spagnolo challenges his defense and says if we stop the run, we can win this game — if we don’t, there’s no way. Last year’s Super Bowl he said that happened. The Derrick Henry AFC championship game. The 49ers Super Bowl.

I’ll bet this is one of those weeks too. He couldn’t really say it last week, Josh Allen is good enough that even if they didn’t run the ball that well, they could’ve still beat us. But if you put Lamar consistently in second and third and long? I’ll take our chances every single time.

There’s simply no chance he plays it safe like last week and says we can’t let Lamar have explosive plays with his arm. They’re going to challenge him to do that and make running the football difficult.

[RunKC]

Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

if it's raining....advantage KC

straight ahead power running and all-weather mahomes

you think lamure wants a wet ball

Lamar threw for 3 TD's and 300+ yards on the Rams in the rain.

[duncan_idaho]

Originally Posted by OneWinningDrive

Was there anything notable about those Bengals/Titans teams? They were fine teams, but that's it. They didn't go all the way, they didn't put up historic numbers during the regular season, and they weren't full of guys who will be remembered of all-time greats.

Compare to this Ravens team, which has the most victories over teams with winning records in NFL history--including the playoffs (proof: youtube.com/watch?v=vrAyCa9CDtc). They also have the most wins of 14+ points versus teams with winning records in NFL history (proof: twitter.com/FrontOfficeNFL/status/1741592576506069308). And they have at least three guys who are more likely than not to make the Hall of Fame (Harbaugh, Tucker, and Lamar) and two more who are young and already stack all pros (Kyle Hamilton and Roquan Smith).

And again, the Ravens as a franchise have more championship-level pedigree than the Titans, Bills, Bengals, and Eagles all put together.

All I'm saying is that if Ravens fans are confident, they have good reason to be. The only team with more of a right to be confident is... the Chiefs

You’re placing a lot of pride and credit on beating a lot of teams with winning records and DVOA. I get it. Those accomplishments point to consistency, good coaching and a strong roster.

But despite all that, the Ravens haven’t faced down and dominated an elite QB. The best thing they faced was an already-injured Joe Burrow.

If the Ravens win and win in convincing fashion against KC, that’s strong support for them being as good as the numbers suggest.

Re: the 21 Bengals, they had an elite scoring defense, elite QB, and the best trip of WR weapons in the NFL. That 19 Titans team had Derrick Henry at his peak, all sorts of “hot momentum” and a really strong OL. And good coaching all around on both, with no major or fatal flaws.

[Kman34]

Watched the game from a couple of years ago.. After two INTs Lamar was really good.. We moved the ball at will and the MEH fumbled the game away.. Their defense is much better and so is ours.. Our offense isn’t as good as that 2021 team.. Lamar is a dynamic runner and we won’t stop him from getting his yards.. low scoring game… 17-14… Patrick finds a way to win it…

[St. Patty's Fire]

Originally Posted by Rainbarrel

Toney is probably practice Lamar. He may hurt

what

[RunKC]

Originally Posted by pugsnotdrugs19

There’s a track record of games in which Spagnolo challenges his defense and says if we stop the run, we can win this game — if we don’t, there’s no way. Last year’s Super Bowl he said that happened. The Derrick Henry AFC championship game. The 49ers Super Bowl.

I’ll bet this is one of those weeks too. He couldn’t really say it last week, Josh Allen is good enough that even if they didn’t run the ball that well, they could’ve still beat us. But if you put Lamar consistently in second and third and long? I’ll take our chances every single time.

There’s simply no chance he plays it safe like last week and says we can’t let Lamar have explosive plays with his arm. They’re going to challenge him to do that and make running the football difficult.

Spags was very conservative in the Bills game until the very end. Chris Jones wasn't even rushing most of the game so they could force Josh to stay in the pocket.

It feels like now is the time to put Sneed/Trent on islands and bust out the blitz packages like he did to Burrow last year.

Speed up Lamar and he'll crack. Especially since he isn't making the throws outside the numbers.

[Sassy Squatch]

The game may very well be decided in the first half. The Ravens absolutely thrive on being ahead and are all but crippled when being behind.

If they jump on us early it allows them to run Jackson a lot more and let their defense pin the ears back and try to force mistakes that ultimately snowball into the blowouts we've seen them put on other top contenders.

If it goes the other way and we're up early they may be forced into relying on the arm of Jackson more than they'd like to and their defense, while still very good, is relatively vulnerable.