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#211 |
Consuming CP souls
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: U.S.A.
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#212 |
I Like The Kansas City Chiefs
Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: Shawnee, KS
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#213 |
MVP
Join Date: Mar 2021
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Where the game is played has changed as well. Warm, good chance of rain and a bee you tee full sea of red
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#214 |
Choco Favre
Join Date: Jul 2012
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Their d-line doesn’t look…great
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#215 |
M-I-Z-Z-O-U
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Kansas City
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Chiefs OL should be a better unit in this one, too.
Thuney didn’t play in the AFC Championship and Suamataia is a good bet to provide Smith’s level of play (especially when you consider the things he can do in the screen game and as a movement player that Smith just could not). Clubber Lang prescription coming in. |
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#216 |
MVP
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Liberty, MO
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Little worried about this one. Ravens are a running team of course. Jones and Bolton have been out most of the preseason. Hopefully just precautions.
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#217 |
Hello
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: South Dakota
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Three-Pat
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Colorado Springs
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#219 |
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Springpatch
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I really think the Chiefs have this game, with one wildcard factor.
I think both teams usually come out very hot, the Chiefs and the Ravens. Both are very well coached, and both have MVP QBs. The difference is, I think the Chiefs D will make life harder on Lamar than the Ravens D will have on Mahomes. Spags usually has a good gameplan for Lamar, and the Ravens simply don't have a great OL anymore, or enough weapons to consistently punish the Chiefs other than Lamar going ham on everybody, which he usually doesn't do to us. I trust Reid/Mahomes to get us to 24 points or so, even with the tackles struggling against a tough Ravens passrush. Kingsley is going to get baptized by fire, I think. But Mahomes and Reid can make that work, so long as Taylor holds down RT -- which I think he will. The one wildcard here is Derrick Henry. The biggest reason I think the Ravens are going to merely be a very good team this year rather than a super good team is because I don't think Henry is going to be the massive plus that's being expected of him. He's not running behind a good OL and he's 31. However, he could still very much be the Derrick Henry Of Old for Week 1. And I fully believe that he's simply not going to be at that level come the playoffs, he could still beat the tar out of this Chiefs run defense if Pennel and Jones don't come ready to play. If this were December/January, I'd take the Chiefs 9 times out of 10. That's how confident I am that we will be the better team at that time. Right now, you're probably getting the best version of the Ravens you'll see all year. I'd still give this game to us 6 times out of 10, though. It would not surprise me if Henry runs well and the Ravens win. It would surprise me, however, if Henry doesn't run well and the Ravens still win. I simply think they need him to go off to have a chance. |
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#220 |
Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2013
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We might get run over a little. I think it's fine. How our defense handles this challenge isn't indicative of how they'll perform in January/February.
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#221 |
I love your mom
Join Date: Feb 2020
Location: Sturgeon Falls, Ontario
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#222 |
Three-Pat
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Colorado Springs
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#223 |
Hockey Town
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Kansas City, Missouri
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The Chiefs are in the Ravens heads...they melted down in the playoff game. On top of that they have a new DC, and are missing players. Add on that Lamar likely feels major pressure and their OL downgraded.
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