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00:00A victory in Baltimore against the Ravens in the AFC championship game.
00:08It's an AFC title rematch to start 2024, where the Chiefs were a four and a half point dog
00:14in the Charm City.
00:15They will start this year at home as a three point favorite, 46 and a half is that total.
00:22DRS, what is your early thought in terms of the numbers for Thursday night?
00:27I think they're perfect.
00:28I think they make a lot of sense, particularly from a side perspective.
00:31It just sounds right here at that minus three for Kansas City.
00:34I do think Kansas City overall is the better football team because they have Patrick Mahomes.
00:39But I'm also interested to see, because you knew me last year, like I was a Ravens guy
00:42all the way through.
00:43I thought far and away, maybe a little bit different, but I thought they were for the
00:46majority of the season, the best team overall.
00:49And then on Christmas, absolutely hammered the 49ers and just sent me into overdrive.
00:53Like that was the team I bet before the preseason started last year to be my Super Bowl contender.
00:57And then right up through the end, the NFL playoffs, like this is perfect.
01:00You don't have to go to Arrowhead.
01:01You're in your home building here.
01:03You're a better team than the Chiefs here.
01:04Just play the same way you played the entirety of the regular season.
01:07And you're going to find yourself in a Super Bowl.
01:09And they did some of the most inexplicable things I can't even explain to this day by
01:13completely changing the MO of their football team just in order to get beat by Kansas City.
01:17So I say to myself, Ben, entering into this ballgame, did we learn anything from the Ravens
01:22backers?
01:23Did we say to ourselves, Lamar Jackson is electric, let him operate out of the pocket,
01:28but he doesn't have to drop back 40 times in this game.
01:29We just signed Derrick Henry, one of the ultimate smash running backs in the NFL.
01:34Let's use him a lot in this game.
01:35Let's control the line of scrimmage, which I do think they can do.
01:38And let's not get past happy because the one thing we do, Steve Spagnuolo is a wonderful
01:42defensive coordinator on a week to week basis, maybe none better than the NFL at devising
01:46schemes up because it's not as if they gave him the best overall talent in the NFL on
01:50a year to year basis.
01:52We understand that offense costs a lot of money and the defense has to sometimes say,
01:56we've got one great defensive lineman, a couple of athletic linebackers and some corners that
02:00can play.
02:01And we'll see if we can make that happen.
02:03If you see any sort of game plan like the Chiefs had been last year in the AFC Championship
02:08game, they're going to get beat in this one.
02:09I do think this game has the tendency and it's crazy to sound with these two offenses
02:13to stay under the total because I just think it's not keeping the football away from Kansas
02:17City.
02:18It's just having a balanced attack, which is what's going to work for the Ravens here
02:21opening night.
02:22Having said that, I still do think the Chiefs will win this game.
02:26And also, as I said, a slight lean to the under at the 46 and a half, but an awesome
02:30matchup right out of the gate.
02:31I just hope if the Ravens want to be competitive in this game, which I think they will be,
02:35it's going to be Lamar Jackson running for upwards of 65 to 70 yards himself and the
02:39same thing with Derrick Henry.
02:41Just don't get past happy and you can win this game if you're Baltimore.