 good morning youtube team keep it clean uh what's going on it's in graven here with another video um happy happy thursday morning but even better than that happy football day man football is finally back uh tonight and we get well football's been back uh for about a month now a month and some change but regular season football is back so we now we finally get a regular season game that counts that goes on your real win and loss record not pre-season and this is the start man this is finally the start um good morning to everybody i can't really see everybody that's coming through right now but just know that i do appreciate it um and something else that i know you guys appreciate is when i introduce myself so let me take care of that right now uh me i'm in graven vids and this is my youtube channel in graven vids and i'm a ravens fan but on here uh we just talk about football period so if you're a ravens fan make sure you subscribe if you're a patreons fan make sure you subscribe if you're a cheats fan make sure you subscribe if you're just a fan of the game of football period make sure you subscribe and turn your notifications on so you never ever ever have to miss a thing um and i just know that i really do appreciate everybody on here man i really do um and if like i said if you're new here welcome and if you're old here appreciate you staying around um but in tonight or tonight we got the the chiefs versus the patreons chiefs versus the patreons in this game i'm hoping i don't think it is though but i'm hoping it'll be a lot closer than expected um i said in the video that i did last night um that i think it will be uh either 24 to 13 or 35 to 14 or 13 um i don't see the chiefs really scoring many points um just because of alex smith i don't i just feel like with alex smith um and i said this a lot of times before and i'll say it again because i really do believe it and i stick by it uh but i feel like alex smith is he's already hit his peak he's already hit his peak he's already reached his max potential and i don't feel like he is going to get any better um and not that he's a bad quarterback because he's not so don't take it that way um but i don't feel like he's going to elevate that team any more than he's already elevated them um so can the chiefs get to the playoffs can it be a playoff team yes they certainly can and you know uh if they get to the playoffs then if any team gets to the playoffs then technically anything can happen but not with alex smith because alex smith is not like um he's not like some quarterbacks and i mean i just use him as an example because he's the best one that i know um he's not like a joe flacco where during a regular season you never know what you're going to get uh he could play terrible one game he could play great one game it's always up and down up and down up and down um it's like a roller coaster with flacco well that would be all around it but uh it's like it's like a seesaw with flacco because you he gets his play will be up and down it's so inconsistent um but then when it comes to playoffs you know you are going to get the best flacco that you've ever seen in your life um but that's that's not how it is with alex smith with alex smith his play is going to be consistent where he he doesn't really turn the ball over but the thing about that is he doesn't score many points so that's what you got to take with alex smith you you really got to think man can our defense make enough plays throughout the entire game uh to help us win this thing and if it's a low scoring game oh so be it alex smith that's your guy um because he is in a low scoring game where offense is really on moving much he'll be just fine because he is not going to put your he's he's more or less than likely to put your uh team being the chiefs in a bad situation by throwing like a bad interception or something like that because he just doesn't do that alex smith doesn't throw he doesn't throw a lot of picks it doesn't but he doesn't throw a lot of touchdowns either um and his his touchdown to pick ratio it always looks nice but is he doesn't score many points he doesn't score many points um because he doesn't he doesn't get the he doesn't get the ball downfield enough he doesn't throw the deep pass too often he's a check down king man he is a check down king um but he he throws a lot of safe passes and sometimes uh as a quarterback sometimes you just got to chuck it down the field man even if the the pass ain't so safe sometimes you got to take that risk you got to be willing to put yourself out there uh for the greater good of your team um because if if you forever doing check downs and us ravens fans we definitely know especially from last year uh if you're doing nothing but check downs especially when it comes to second and long third and long um even on the fourth and long and oh boy one of the worst decisions that flacco ever made on the fourth and long it ended up we ended up getting uh bailed out because it it shouldn't have been the first day it was fourth on the fourth and twenty eight or fourth and twenty nine where he threw the check down the ray rice this dude like if you look back at that it's like man this dude really threw a check down to ray rice on fourth and twenty eight or fourth and twenty nine oh man i'm over here i gotta i gotta remember this is school zone i gotta slow down this is school zone but there ain't no school okay that makes sense um but anyway yeah he he threw a he threw a check down on the fourth and twenty eight or fourth and twenty nine um and that it ended up being the first down even though in that field out it was a really bad spot it took him probably like 1015 minutes to get that spot right because i remember watching that game at home and we were just sitting there waiting forever uh to find out what the ruling was going to be but anyway back to alex smith he i can't if this is a shootout then it's only going to be one team firing uh it's only going to be one team firing that being the patriots um like i said in the video from last night y'all make sure y'all check that out the gauntlet video um i just felt like with the patriots i felt like it was a case of the rich getting richer uh because they i feel like they they only got better they only got better their uh their safeties are still intact patrick young and um one of the best in the league uh james i'm no devin recording excuse me james is his brother uh they still got their safeties in their secondary got upgraded because last year they had uh malcom malcom ryan i feel like that's i feel like i'm saying his name wrong was it malcom smith man i malcom smith malcom butler there we go malcom butler there we go i forgot it i knew i i knew that name didn't click they had malcom butler they had logan ryan um and i forgot who their other corners back corner corners were but now and they won a superbowl with that which was fine but now this year they went out and got uh staphon gilmore man like and when they they were the ones that signed staphon gilmore i couldn't believe it i'm like wow what like where are they getting all this money from uh how are they able to sign one of the one of the best free agent corners in the league one of the best free agent corners in the league i didn't say one of the best corners in the league i know somebody gonna try to take that and twist it i said one of the best free agent corners in the league at that time i i just i was like wow they got them um then they went out traded they with first round draft picks you never know how they're gonna pan out uh they could be rated the best player ever in college and then they ended up they ended up being terrible look at your markets russell um look at alex smith he was the first overall pick i believe uh but he was here he hasn't been terrible though um but anyway you never know what you're gonna get from the first round draft pick so patriots say you know what we don't know what we're going to get from a first round draft pick so let's trade the first round draft pick and get Brandon Cook so they they got him from the same so i'm like man what are y'all doing then they go and trade uh trade for colts titan backup titan dwayne allen uh then they uh gron kowsky's coming back um they just traded for philip door set from the colts uh and man they i know they lost edamon but they got amondola steel um they and you know that they don't even they don't even need the best of the best ever receiver they don't need the tallest of the tall they don't need the fastest of the fast they don't need all that to to continue to run a good offense they're actually a great offense i hate it sucks being a ravens fan and watching teams have great offenses or even good offenses because you get jealous you get jealous because it's like oh man if only my team could have that but they don't so anyway um i think it's going to be like 35 14 tonight um the closest i think it'll be is 24 13 i'm hoping that i'm wrong um it's one of them cases where i just want i just want a great game man i just want a great game sometimes that's all we can ask for uh as football fans it's just a great game or just you know but we still appreciate the fact that it is a game that actually counts that's on tonight so anyway appreciate y'all man thank you um i'll see you on the next video y'all enjoy the game let me know what you think it's gonna take you man i'm out bye