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Old 01-29-2024, 10:54 AM  
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Baltimore Sun: Crown Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes, one of the best ever


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Sunday’s AFC championship game was supposed to be a defining moment for Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson.

It turned out to be a bigger one for Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.

With Kansas City beating Baltimore, 17-10, at M&T Bank Stadium, there is no doubt that Mahomes is the best quarterback in the modern era of pro football. The difference in styles alone puts him up there with some of the all-time greats such as Joe Montana, John Elway and Tom Brady, but he’s been nearly unbeatable in big games throughout his storied seven-year career.

The road to the AFC title had to go through Baltimore, but the road to the Super Bowl still goes through Mahomes and the Chiefs. He has led Kansas City to six straight AFC championship games and two Super Bowl titles, winning the game’s Most Valuable Player honors in each victory.

He was the NFL MVP in 2018 and 2022, and he added yet another impressive win to his resume Sunday. The elusive Mahomes completed 30 of 39 passes for 241 yards and a touchdown, finishing with a passer rating of 100.5 while improving to 14-3 in his postseason career.

He was hot in the first half, became ordinary in the second, yet still put the dagger in the heart of Baltimore. Up by a touchdown with 2:19 left and facing a third-and-9, Mahomes, under duress and falling backward, completed a 32-yard pass to Marquez Valdes-Scantling.

It ended the Ravens’ season.

“It’s tough. One of the top two quarterbacks in the league, him and Lamar [Jackson], whatever way you want to rank them,” Ravens linebacker Patrick Queen said. “It’s tough. He can make plays, he can throw, he can buy time. That’s what we try to limit him from doing. But there were times when he just did what he does. We had opportunities to capitalize, but we just didn’t get it done.”



Mahomes has been on a roll this postseason. He completed 23 of 41 passes for 262 yards in the Chiefs’ 26-7 wild-card-round win over the Miami Dolphins and then connected on 17 of 23 throws for 215 yards and two touchdowns against the Buffalo Bills last Sunday.

He has been hampered by receivers dropping passes throughout the season. The Chiefs’ receiving corps outside of tight end Travis Kelce and rookie wideout Rashee Rice is nothing to call home about. Tyreek Hill is catching bombs in Miami now, and JuJu Smith-Schuster, who caught 78 passes for 933 yards for Kansas City last season, now resides in New England. No matter.

Some Ravens fans said they wanted to see Mahomes in the postseason because they wanted to face the best, but they might want to rethink that one.

“Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce — they have great players,” Ravens defensive tackle Michael Pierce said. “You scheme yourself [and] try to put yourself in positions to stop those guys. We got it done. It’s just way too late, so credit to them. They played a great game, especially early. Our defense just got … we got started way too late.”

Meanwhile, Jackson, the favorite to win the NFL MVP Award, struggled with the same issues that have plagued him throughout his career. He completed 20 of 37 passes for 272 yards but consistently overthrew and underthrew receivers because of sloppy fundamentals. The Ravens couldn’t match up on the outside with Kansas City cornerbacks Trent McDuffie and L’Jarius Sneed, and Jackson had problems throwing to the outside of the field.

He easily could have had two other passes intercepted outside of the one that was picked off in the end zone when he tried to force a pass to tight end Isaiah Likely, who was triple-covered, midway through the fourth quarter in a two-score game. Pocket awareness? He struggled with that as well.

Jackson, of course, would prefer to win a Super Bowl than be league MVP. It’s reminiscent of watching former Ravens and Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Lewis run directly to the locker room after every playoff loss because he didn’t win a Lombardi Trophy.

That type of spirit drives competitors.

“I’m very proud of my team. We had a new system, offensive coordinator [Todd Monken] different things,” Jackson said. “There were different things we saw like motions and stuff like that. We had adversity at the beginning of the season. We [weren’t] playing well. People didn’t know what the Ravens offense or defense was going to look like, and we made it all the way to this point.

“Our goal was short. We made it here, but we’ve just got to finish next time, but I’m very proud of my team [on] all phases.”

But Jackson can’t be blamed totally for this defeat. The defense allowed 319 yards, including 221 in the first half when the Chiefs scored all 17 of their points. Offensively, the Ravens weren’t able to sustain many long drives, something that had become their signature this season. It was one of the key differences in the game — Kansas City had long, controlled drives, especially in the first half, and won the time of possession battle, 37:30 to 22:30.

That’s been the Ravens’ formula for success and part of the reason they couldn’t run the ball, which they gave up on early. They rushed just 16 times for 81 yards, and eight of those were by Jackson, who had 54 yards. Baltimore also struggled protecting Jackson, who was sacked four times.

The frustration showed. It showed as Jackson kept trying to force passes to veteran Odell Beckham Jr., who couldn’t get separation, and it showed in the penalties, all eight of them for 95 yards. Queen and middle linebacker Roquan Smith looked especially frustrated as the game wore on.

But many of the problems stem from the Ravens failing to contain Mahomes. He made and extended plays with his legs. He threw from various angles and looked very much in control of the Chiefs’ offense.

It’s why when the game was over, Mahomes and Kelce, who had 11 catches on 11 targets for 116 yards, including a 19-yard touchdown to cap the Chiefs’ opening drive, were up on the stage holding the Lamar Hunt Trophy.

The road to the Super Bowl still goes through Kansas City, and ultimately, Mahomes.
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Old 01-29-2024, 10:55 AM   #2
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Author acts like the Ravens were just second best by a whisker. Chiefs dominated the game and the Ravens did nothing on offense until we laid back in the fourth and gave them everything underneath, and we turtled up on offense to choke the clock out. Baltimore was never in danger of winning that game.
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So how many more times are the Ravens going to allow Ray Lewis to come storming out of the tunnel before big games?

I'm sure Mahomes didn't take the Ravens trying to flex on him and the Chiefs too personally, though.
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So how many more times are the Ravens going to allow Ray Lewis to come storming out of the tunnel before big games?

I'm sure Mahomes didn't take the Ravens trying to flex on him and the Chiefs too personally, though.
Someone was interviewing him when I first turned the pre-game on, and I just caught the end of him talking about how much the current players revere him.

That guy is such an egotistic jerk. He's basically a sweatier Thurman Thomas. If he was half as good a player as he thinks he was, he'd have 20 Super Bowl rings. I'm glad he didn't play and murder people in Kansas City, because I would hate to watch his spastic Urkel thing and listen to him dote on himself before every game.
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It’s tough. One of the top two quarterbacks in the league, him and Lamar [Jackson], whatever way you want to rank them,” Ravens linebacker Patrick Queen said.
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Someone was interviewing him when I first turned the pre-game on, and I just caught the end of him talking about how much the current players revere him.

That guy is such an egotistic jerk. He's basically a sweatier Thurman Thomas. If he was half as good a player as he thinks he was, he'd have 20 Super Bowl rings. I'm glad he didn't play and murder people in Kansas City, because I would hate to watch his spastic Urkel thing and listen to him dote on himself before every game.
agreed - at least Buffalo has the sense to not trot the Juice out to fire up the table-breakers!
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