Point/Counterpoint: Ravens vs Chiefs NFL Picks & Game Predictions
That Sunday everyone ought to be excited about the matchup between the Ravens and Chiefs. Doug Upstone and Swinging Johnson share their NFL picks.
It is Week 3 of the NFL and also among the most fascinating games is with Kansas City, Baltimore and just two unbeatens from the AFC. While there’ll be ample discussion regarding the Chiefs being a 6.5-point preferred to their home opener, there is another aspect to the contest, the total.
The NFL chances opening launch was 51.5 and that shot up almost instantly to 55.
As is usually the case with SBR writers Doug Upstone and Swinging Johnsonthey ae two those who see the glass – Half Full or Half Empty – and also share their ideas.
Doug Upstone: Mr. Swinger, Mr. Johnson, everything you prefer, you got the best of me with an astute Arizona selection. Kyler Murray threw the pigskin all around the lawn but couldn’t score enough points for that which might have been a gigantic upset.
That gives me you personally, which makes me happy as Ben Roethlisberger and Drew Brees in the present time my first drawback of the football season.
I discovered it curious sportsbooks released those NFL football and this total and pound it. Around the Over, 95 percentage of stakes are at last look on Tuesday. You agree?
Swinging Johnson: Ah Doug, the kind of you to acknowledge my handicapping art. In predicting the Cardinals yes, I was nothing short of magnificent last week. Maybe we can dwell on that just a little bit?
Alright then, sufficient patting me on the trunk (true confession- it’s never enough), let us talk about the total, or over/under since the newbies say, in what ought to be a litmus test for the Ravens.
This game will prove whether they are of owning their life to start, the inheritance, or if they are really, a force to be reckoned with at the AFC. I’m partial to the past but that’s neither here nor there because we’re focusing our eyes on the joint points scored in this competition which is currently sitting not pretty at 55 if you are likely to discuss the posted total.
Sure, it is a whole great deal of points, but hey, you’re a lot of girl and you do not hear me complaining. And dammit, I will not whine here since KC is gonna get theirs from a Ravens’ defense which is not nearly as stout as they appeared contrary to the Arizona and Miami offenses which are, quite frankly — offensive!
Mahomes is currently going to shred this secondary as readily as I chased my Achilles when trying a reverse crescent kick at my nephew’s wedding in which I landed in the punch bowlwith tears streaming down my cheeks and a look of despair in my eyes. It was sad indeed, heading from Bruce Lee into Peggy Lee at the blink of a eye. However, I digress, as I am not to do.
In addition to it appears as though Shady McCoy is going to be satisfied up after an MRI on his ankle revealed that the words – Week 3 TD’s!
Inform me Doug, why do you believe a crime that is dazzling like the Chiefs will succumb to some defense like the Ravens? Oh, and there is a fella by the name of Lamar Jackson that would like to get a word in case you are likely to opine that the Ravens won’t score then.
DU: Swinger, let me send you a Lamar Jackson fitting jersey as your obsession may require a call to the fire department to cool you off set in my Amazon Prime account from Baltimore and Louisville.
Have to mention Swinger, I do not share your view the Ravens are still an average defense. They did make modifications from last year, letting go of several players, but they got quicker and younger in the process.
No question agent Gabe Gabriel’s newest client (State Farm commercials), Mahomes, is an incredible talent who drops bombs into recipients waiting hands, but he’s not ideal.
His defensive team and coach John Harbaugh will heat up Mahomes and with a couple of backups playing wide receiver, they will find out the difference between the Oakland secondary and the one that Ravens have.
Let us also not forget the game in the exact same location of last’s year. Kansas City won the amount that was closing and 27-24 was 48. An adjustment of three factors trading your superhero for Joe Flacco is sensible. But 48 to 55 gain in the total is SJ.
SJ? Why Doug, you never told me you’re a person of ways. Okay, so send me the LJ gear and I will buy you a snow cone.
But return to whether the Ravens can score around the Chiefsnot forget that playing at Arrowhead is the graveyard of opposing offenses. Lamar Jackson has a toy that year wasn’t possessed by him and his name will be first-round pick Marquise Brown. The child has two trips into the end zone within the first two games of his NFL career and also Miles Boykin from Notre Dame’s accession can help Jackson too from the aerial assault.
The Chiefs have allowed an average of 18 factors like the Jaguars and especially the Raiders to crimes. His group of Ravens and jackson have to be great for at least a touchdown more. Now you are flying around 50, and while you do create a salient point about last season’s game and the corresponding total, I have to trust this one goes far higher with a Chiefs 38 — Ravens 27 score a reasonable projection.
DU: 65 points! Holy Mahome! Let me lay a little cool talk about you. For all the hoopla around K.C, under Andy Reid, they are 15-6 Beneath at home after two or more successive wins against the spread. The Ravens follow this at 13-3 Beneath after obtaining even more or 375 total yards in games.
SJ: Good material Doug, but I don’t care, my mind is composed. What I am looking forward to is up evening the string slate and I’ll be thinking of you while I’m sipping on a glass of Cristal and dining table on a delicate foie gras, paid for my 5Dimes, Bookmaker and BetOnline accounts in your cost. Until next week, monsieur!
DU: Yes Swinger and I hope you win all your NFL picks this weekend for you. I think I am and if I am correct, I’ll get an autograph six-pack Keystone Light delivered personally to you by Keith Stone.
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