Well it is a high stakes game. Only one team gets a playoff bye and winning this gives you a big edge on your biggest competitor. Baltimore also has a much easier schedule than KC.
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Until they win one, they are the Chiefs from 1994-2017. A team that looks fierce in the regular season, but can't get it done in the playoffs.
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They are giving up 11 points a game so far. They dont have the edge rushers but Campbell and Judon are pretty good players their corners are better than the Chargers.

If we play like we did the first half against the Chargers we will lose.
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Which means they’ll beat us on MNF & lose in the first round of the playoffs.

That’s typical Marty Ball.
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They lost their next 2 games after that.
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His bell is still ringing.
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Not confident in this one...
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Having to play opposite coasts on back-to-back weeks after an overtime game will normally result in an L.

This is a Reid team, though. They win a lot of games that go against common wisdom, and lose some that are baffling.
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They have talent on defense no doubt, but is their D-Line good enough to pressure Mahomes without committing extra guys to do it? That’s what the Chargers were able to do as well as the Niners in the SB.
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KC needs to play a crisper 1st half, no doubt.

And as good as Humphrey and Peters are (extremely good, elite pairing), their third CB situation is much, much worse than the Chargers'.

With their slot CB blowing out his knee yesterday, the Ravens will be down to either playing a pretty bad player on the slot, or flipping Humphrey onto the slot and using Jimmy Smith at outside CB. Either option makes them worse overall at CB and worse at S, where Smith had been getting some reps.

It's a much, much different defensive matchup to face than the Chargers.

Judon is good. He's no Joey Bosa. Calais Campbell is good, but he isn't what he once was (and honestly I'm not sure he is better at this point than Jerry Tillery, who was the THIRD-BEST guy on the Chargers' DL yesterday).

It's an incredibly tough matchup, but I'm more concerned with slowing down the Ravens' running game (which seems impossible if Ben Niemann is on the field in base 43 sets) than with being able to move it offensively.
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Great question.

The Ravens' top 4 "front-line" defenders are:

Calais Campbell
Matthew Judon
Derek Wolfe
Brandon Williams

Calais likely would start, but he'd be the third-best guy, at best, for LAC, and with the way Tillery has come on and how good Linval Joseph is (An underrated addition by the Chargers), that's not a slam dunk anymore.
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The added importance this year of having the 1 seed makes this game feel like almost a playoff game in September.
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Chiefs will be fine, until someone brings up 16-0 again.
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Baltimore is probably going to have to move Marlon Humphrey to the slot based on everything I’ve read and that isn’t good cause then they’re going to have to provide their best cover corner help a lot as he will see plenty of Tyreek.

Man we need Watkins to get out there for this one but I’m not counting on it. He could roast Peters and run right through him with the ball in his hands. Of course, Hardman might just run away from him anyhow.
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It’s pretty scary what the Chargers showed yesterday. I was counting on Tillery being a bust after last year — apparently not.

Their rush is 2019 49ers-ish at this point.
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