Let's Talk About Baltimore (AFC Championship)

[SHOWTIME]

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

[Kiimo]

I do love it when fans are like "man they are so overconfident! We're going to shock them!"



You guys, we don't play in the game. Our confidence levels affect the outcome 0%.

Acting like we're all bandwagoners since we made 6 straight AFCCG, unfortunately no.

The bandwagoners don't post here. All of us are left over from the dark times. From the 30 years without a playoff win.

Before you even had a team.

[Hammock Parties]

At this point we've been here so many times and done this so many times, it's very hard to believe we won't do it again unless:

A) Lamar turns into Brady and our defense craters

B) Mahomes gets hurt

That's it. That's the needle they gotta thread.

A Chiefs team facing zero pressure is dangerous.

[Tribal Warfare]

Originally Posted by Kiimo

I do love it when fans are like "man they are so overconfident! We're going to shock them!"



You guys, we don't play in the game. Our confidence levels affect the outcome 0%.

Acting like we're all bandwagoners since we made 6 straight AFCCG, unfortunately no.

The bandwagoners don't post here. All of us are left over from the dark times. From the 30 years without a playoff win.

Before you even had a team.

They had the Colts then they bolted, now they usurped Cleveland's would be success by taking the Browns aka "The Ravens"

[philfree]

This Chiefs team has found it's offensive identity late in the season and through two playoff games. The defense is still holding up too so looking at this team through a regular season lens doesn't look like what we are now. This should be a great game with the Chiefs and Mahomes coming out on top in the end. Probably come down to a kicker. Harry Buttkicker for President!

[Kiimo]

Originally Posted by Tribal Warfare

They had the Colts then they bolted, now they usurped Cleveland's would be success by taking the Browns aka "The Ravens"

I'm aware that the Baltimore Colts existed. I too am old.

[Bearcat]

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.

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.

[tredadda]

Originally Posted by TwistedChief

This is my favorite:

“Spagnulo charged [sic] his style of defense and copied a lot of what Mike Macdonald has done here and at Michigan.”

Absolute favorite. The guy with multiple SB rings who as a DC prevented the first perfect season since ‘73 has copied a second year DC. Priceless.

I know you ignorant morons are reading this. Please be sure to defend that take on your forum.

They are typical overconfident fans that KC sees all the time. They think that because over here we aren’t crowning the Ravens as SB Champions already we are somehow giving bulletin board material.

There are some solid posters on the Ravens board I checked out, but the majority of it is essentially “We are gonna smash KC because our team is so awesome!”

Nothing different than we heard from Titans fans, Niner fans, Bills fans, Bengals fans, and Eagles fans to name a few.

Could they win? Sure. This isn’t the strongest Chiefs team of the Mahomes era. But a win (and blowout for that matter) is no guarantee.

I do know that if they lose the usual excuses will fly. “Rigged!”, “Scripted!”, “Swift!”, “Goodell!” etc. They are so confident of their superiority that a loss to the scrappy Chiefs is unfathomable. Nothing else will explain a loss but some sort of conspiracy.

No acknowledging that KC has played in 6 straight AFCCGs, 3 of the last 4 SBs while winning two of them. They are the defending champions for a reason.

Personally I love this position. KC has already won multiple Lombardis. If they win, I get to enjoy another SB. If not, I look forward to next year. A loss won’t be as devastating as it will be to the self crowned Ravens. Look at Buffalo fans and their despair and hatred for KC.

I respect the team and I really do like Jackson. If they win I will be pulling for them vs SF (if they make it). That respect doesn’t mean I will annoint them as some All Madden team that will blow out the Chiefs.

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by Kiimo

I do love it when fans are like "man they are so overconfident! We're going to shock them!"



You guys, we don't play in the game. Our confidence levels affect the outcome 0%.

Acting like we're all bandwagoners since we made 6 straight AFCCG, unfortunately no.

The bandwagoners don't post here. All of us are left over from the dark times. From the 30 years without a playoff win.

Before you even had a team.

Yeah, it's easy enough to look at all of our start dates on this board (much less when we actually became fans)... you're reading a bunch of 50-60 year old dudes (uh, nevermind the Texas Tech avatars (jk)).

[Rainbarrel]

"The papers! Where are the papers?" purple 52

[mlyonsd]

Everyone rest easy. I was informed today by a raider fan at work that we are a lock to make the SB. The Chief/Bill divisional game had the highest rated viewership because of Travis/Taylor. The NFL will rig the AFCCG so we make the SB to keep the number of viewers high.

His advice was to take all the money you can risk and take KC on the money line. He says we're a lock. Now that he spoiled it I might not even watch the game.

[tredadda]

Originally Posted by Bearcat

Yeah, it's easy enough to look at all of our start dates on this board (much less when we actually became fans)... you're reading a bunch of 50-60 year old dudes (uh, nevermind the Texas Tech avatars (jk)).

I joined this board much later, but I remember listening to the Chiefs on the radio in the 80s before Marty and Carl arrived because they were never on TV due to never selling out.

[Kiimo]

My first jersey was Bill Kenney.



During the dark ages

[jerryaldini]

Aw man now they gone and dissed chiefzilla.

Can you give me a link on that money line? I'm gonna pay the tax on my 401k and let it ride.

[WilliamTheIrish]

Can’t even muster up any GAF for the Ravens. They’re just … in the way.

Like last week, it’s house ****ing money the Chiefs are playing with. And unlike a few chronic delinquents, I’ll never doubt this QB.

Going back to the last Chiefs team that won two playoff games on the road, they vanquished the defending world’s champion Jets with Joe Namath on the greatest goal line stand in AFL playoff history. Then went on the road to Oakland to win the last AFL title.


Many similarities with this squad. Great defense. Timely offense that can be a big strike, but can cut you a thousand times, taking the flats and mid range over the middle.

Like I said last week, this will be our favorite Chiefs team ever when all is said and done.

[Chieftain]

Fans of the rat team today are no different than whiner fans from a few years back who were so overconfident in their team winning but failed to realize they were facing up against Patrick Lavon Mahomes the 2nd.
I can't see Lamar replicate what Allen did on Sunday against our defense. In fact, this game will be an easier win for the Chiefs based on the huge discrepancy at QB.