Let's Talk About Baltimore (AFC Championship)

[SHOWTIME]

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

[IowaHawkeyeChief]

Originally Posted by OneWinningDrive

Two years of glory. Still can't believe the Royals won a WS on the back of a bullpen.

We couldn't either... Bur unfortunately were back to losing 100+

[StalkRavenMad]

Originally Posted by Pasta Little Brother

We simply don't give a ****. Don't you get it? You are throwing out all these regular season numbers and they mean jack shit. You're facing Playoff Pat. You're facing a pissed off Lavon. This isn't the same team at all that slept walk through the regular season.

This is the best HC in the NFL, a HOF QB, and one of the best playoff DC in NFL history that has the best defense in the NFL.

YOU SHOULD BE AFRAID and you are.

I printed off your posts and wiped my ass with them. That is what "on paper" means to us as we roll into our SIXTH straight AFCC game

Their the best defense in the NFL under what Metric?

[Molitoth]

Originally Posted by OneWinningDrive

I'm already scarred for life from the Royals emerging from nowhere to steal the 2014 WS from the Orioles before promptly returning to the abyss again.

[StalkRavenMad]

Originally Posted by Megatron96

Pretty much what I came to say. This BAL defense is leagues/lightyears better than the two defenses we just beat to get here. MIA/BUF defenses were practically just window dressing with all their injuries.

BAL, on the other hand, is healthy on defense. And they generated the most turnovers in 2023 vs. teams that passed between the numbers, with something like 19 if I heard the guy on the radio correctly. And our WRs don't win a lot down the boundaries. And they're pretty good vs. the run as well.

So that'll be the test for KC right there. Can we still run the ball and throw it between the numbers vs. BAL? Because that's where our offense lives this season.

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.

[OneWinningDrive]

Originally Posted by IowaHawkeyeChief

We couldn't either... Bur unfortunately were back to losing 100+

At least you're getting a new stadium. And let me tell you as an Orioles fan, we survived through decades of losing baseball buoyed only by people agreeing that Camden Yards is a nice ballpark.

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Originally Posted by StalkRavenMad

Their the best defense in the NFL under what Metric?

cause a 7 nation army couldn't hold them back

[Pasta Little Brioni]

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.

Buffalo is a better organization with a better QB than Baltimore

[DRM08]

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.

KC never boat races other teams. They are the Cardiac Chiefs. It has been that way for many years. It was that way last year too. They are a team capable of losing to anyone. But also capable of beating anyone.

[StalkRavenMad]

Originally Posted by Bearcat

Sorry, we got bored and started laughing at all of you instead.

When ya'll start responding with more than chest thumping regular season stats and DVOA, we're here for ya.... several have thrown you bones all day.

I mean we responded with what he did in the regular season and you move the goalposts. " What QBs did he play." We responded that he has 10 wins over 10 win teams with 7 of them being playoff teams and what do you know you moved the goal post again. "What has he done in the playoffs." What pointed to what he did in his latest playoff game and what do you know move the goalposts a little further. "That was the Texan who didn't deserve to be in the playoffs. The good thing is in about 4 days the game will be played and the goalposts will no longer be able to be moved. Well you guys already have your built in excuses.
"It was a down year for us." "Kelce was hurt all season" "the wr let us down." "We were disinterested because we had been to 6 straight AFCCG and 3 straight SB." " Thuney was hurt" did I miss any?

[OneWinningDrive]

Originally Posted by Pasta Little Brother

Buffalo is a better organization with a better QB than Baltimore

Since 2018, when Allen and Lamar were both drafted, the Ravens have won more games, scored more points, and given up fewer points than the Bills. Lamar has won two MVPs to Allen's zero. And the furthest either has progressed is the AFC Championship game. The Ravens have a better combined DVOA between 2019 and 2023 (x.com/ASchatzNFL/status/1749805168168927467?s=20).

I won't even discuss the pre-2018 period because this is an unserious point.

[Raiderhater]

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.

Something to consider that really doesn’t even get talked about around here, but the drops and the penalties that have plagued this offense this year are abnormally high. Last season MVS was certainly inconsistent, but this season he has been very consistent - consistently bad. Toney’s drops through out the season were not consistent with his play last year, shit, he took time to adjust his gloves while high pointing a ball and then making the catch last season. Kelce hasn’t had this many drops since like maybe his 1st or 2nd season, we know this year has been an anomaly for him.

A good portion of our penalty problems stem from asswipe Collinsworth painting a target on our RT in game 1 and Taylor’s struggle to adjust in season out of the way he’s always played. Outside of that, it’s been just a lot of mental errors that are uncharacteristic of Reid coached teams.

I have been waiting all season for all of this to return to average - well, not Taylor, his situation is what it is for this season.

What does any of this have to do with your post? The fact that the Miami and Buffalo defenses were depleted doesn’t matter this week - at least not in the way you think - what matters is that it provided an opportunity, especially for pass catchers, to get some confidence back. MVS’s two big catches this past week were not just important for that game, but for confidence in the passing game as a whole going forward. Ditto Kelce being more reliable the past two weeks. That Baltimore’s defense is healthy might not be that big of a difference if the confidence and focus are back and working hand in hand with the incredible amount of post season experience on this team. We’ll know for sure come Sunday.

[Hammock Parties]

they. never. learn.

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

they. never. learn.

I dont understand why people think this will be such a high scoring game. This is the #1 vs #2 defense. Itll be like 20-16 or something.

[Hammock Parties]

i'm ready for mahomes 11-6 kurt warner game

[DRM08]

Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

they. never. learn.

At least they are not predicting KC to get blown out. Ravens have been a better team this season. Seems completely reasonable that 70% of the media folks would predict Baltimore to win.