Baltimore Ravens - Kansas City Chiefs live online: stats, scores and highlights | NFL Week 1
Mahomes had Smith-Schuster right at the goal line but he had the ball jarred out of his hands by Williams and the FG unit comes on.
4th and 9 from the BAL 13.
Mahomes over the middle for Gray, the other TE in KC, and he gets 11 yards to make it 3rd and manageable.
3rd and 9 from the KC 13.
Mahomes saw Pacheco on the wheel route out of the backfield but that was just a bit too far out infront of his RB.
2nd and 20 from the BAL 24.
Pacheco out of the wildcat and he takes it to the left side for a short gain but a holding call on KC will back them up 10 yards.
1st and 20 from the BAl 24.
FUMBLE!!!
Jones with a rush up the middle and stripped Jackson in the backfield and Anudike-Uzomah falls on it at the 14!!!
1st and 10 Chiefs in the red zone.
Araiza's punt sails into the endzone for a touchback.
1st and 10 from the BAL 20.
WE ARE AT THE END OF THE FIRST QUARTER FROM KANSAS CITY!!
The pocket collapses on Mahomes and he is wrapped up for a loss of 10 as the first quarter comes to an end.
4th and 18 coming up.
Mahomes to the flat for Rice but he is wrapped up after a short gain of 1.
3rd and 8 from the BAL 46.
Pacheco up the middle but he is stuck at the line for a gain of a yard.
2nd and 9 from the BAL 47.
Slant pattern from Rice and he breaks it for a 19 yard catch and run over the middle.
1st and 10 from the BAL 48.
KC takes over from the 10 yards line and the cameras found Taylor Swift during the break.
Dump off to Pacheco and he breaks it for a big gain of 23 to start the drive.
1st and 10 fro the KC 33.
Dump off to Hlll on the right side but he is stuffed after a gain of 1 and the Ravens will punt. What a play in the open field by Reid.
4th and 5 from the 50.
Jackson to the right side for Flowers who drags it in for a short gain of 3.
3rd and 6 from the BAL 48.
Henry gets the handoff and he is stopped at the line of scrimmage.
2nd and 10 from the BAL 45.
The Ravens will take it from the 30 after another touchback and Jackson finds Likely on the lob pass over the middle for a gain of 15 yards to start the drive.
1st and 10 from the BAL 45.
TOUCHDOWN CHIEFS!!!
Worthy on the end around and he turns on the jets and races to the endzone from 21 yards out!!! The fastest man ever in the NFL scores a touchdown on his first touch as a pro.
It's all tied up at 7-7 with 5:55 to go in the first quarter.
Slant pattern over the middle from Rice and he takes it in stride for a big gain and a late flag for a horse collar penalty.
1st and 10 from the BAL 21.
Pacheco up the middle and he picks up 4 yards.
3rd and 6 from the KC 48.
Mahomes saw the pocket collapse on his and gets dropped right at the line fo scrimmage.
2nd and 10 from the KC 44.
KC take over from their 33 yard line after a nice run back from Steele and Mahomes finds Rice over the middle for a gain of 11 and a first down on the first Chiefs play of the season.
1st and 10 from the KC 44.
TOUCHDOWN BALTIMORE!!!
Henry takes it in from five yards out and the King has the first TD of the NFL season!!! How many will he finish the season with? It could be record breaking.
BAL lead 7-0 after the first drive of the season.
Henry with a couple runs to set up a 3rd and 1, and Jackson moves the chains with a QB keeper for a gain of 11 yards.
1st and 10 from the KC 13.
Flowers makes the catch over the middle and moves the chains for a 19 yard gain.
1st and 10 from the KC 33.
Jackson going deep for Flowers and he was held up and interfered with, but another illegal formation is going to cancel out the pass interference call.
3rd and 9 from the BAL 48.
Jackson's pass to the flat was batted at the line and falls incomplete.
3rd and 9 from the BAL 48.
Henry up the middle and he is stuffed after a gain of one.
2nd and 9 from the BAL 48.
Short pass to Hill out of the backfield and he races to the marker for the first down to stretch the drive.
1st and 10 from the BAL 47.
Jackson finds Hill on the dump off to the right side and he gets the penalty yardage back.
3rd and 8 from the BAL 32.
Jackson to Flowers with a short pass for a couple yards on the right side but an illegal formation will back the Ravens up.
2nd and 13 from the BAL 27.
Henry gets the handoff on the first play of the season and he takes it for a couple yards on the left side.
2nd and 8 from the BAL 32.
The new dynamic kickoff gets us underway and it's the Chiefs kicking off to the Ravens and here we go from Arrowhead.
Touchback and the Ravens will get the ball from the 30.
THE 2024 NFL SEASON IS UNDERWAY FROM KANSAS CITY!!!
MVP odds
It should come as no surprise that Patrick Mahomes comes into the year as the favorite to win the MVP award. What might comes as a surprise is Lamar Jackson outside of the top five in favorite for MVP. A guy who has won it twice, and coming off an MVP season, with a few more weapons around him on the offensive side of the ball has dropped to +1600, behind Jordan Love (+1400), Jalen Hurts (+1000) and Josh Allen (+850). Here is the complete list of early season MVP candidates courtesy of our friends at MGM Grand.
Patrick Mahomes +500
Josh Allen +850
Joe Burrow +900
Jalen Hurts +1000
C.J. Stroud +1100
Jordan Love +1400
Aaron Rodgers +1500
Lamar Jackson +1600
Dak Prescott +1800
Brock Purdy +1800
Super Bowl odds
It may never have been done in the history of the league, but that doesn’t stop the odds makers from siding with the Chiefs to complete their three-peat this season. They come into Week 1 the favorites to win it all this season at +500 on the betting boards. The NFC Champion 49ers are second favorite at +600 while the Ravens are 3rd at +1000 according to our friends at MGM Grand. Here are the next seven favorites to round out the top ten. Notice that Aaron Rodgers’ Jets aren’t on the list, sitting in 11th at +2000
Eagles +1200
Lions +1200
Bengals +1300
Bills +1600
Texans +1600
Packers +1600
Cowboys +2000
Chiefs chasing history
The Chiefs know what’s on the line this season. No team in the history of the league has done it, but Kansas City has a chance to three-peat. Not the Steelers of the 70s, nor the Niners of the 80s, or the Cowboys of the 90s, not even the Patriots of the 2000s were able to three-peat. But you wouldn’t bet against Mahomes and the Chiefs considering their recent history. As soon as the confetti started to fall in Allegiant Stadium, Mahomes was already focused on bringing KC the three-peat. In the press conferences afterwards, he made sure to let everyone know that he would enjoy the win for a bit, but the mission is to be right back to where they were in mid February doing something that no team has ever done before.
Last year's AFC Championship
Sure, you can’t chalk up a loss to just one play, but the Zay Flowers fumble on the one yard line is as close to a game losing play as you can have in the NFL. It’s a shame because Flowers was the only one really doing anything down the field for Lamar Jackson. He had 5 receptions for 115 yards and a first quarter TD, but he will be remembered for the fumble at the one with a chance to cut the lead to 17-14 on the first play of the fourth quarter. Jackson would get picked off on the next possession and that did the Ravens in as critics continued with the narrative of Jackson not being able to win the big one. He is certain to hear much of the same this season, but this might be the best team he has had around him.
Swifties back in action
Get ready for the madness to begin. As if there wasn’t enough excitement with the NFL season starting back up, this season we have a whole new demographic chomping at the bits for kickoff Thursday to get underway. The Swifties may not have been to enthused when Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs kicked off the Super Bowl against the Detroit Lions last year, but this year there will certainly be a bump in ratings thanks to those looking to get a glimpse of Taylor Swift in the Kelce box at Arrowhead. While she didn’t go to every game last year, she was at a healthy amount of them and was there standing aside her man as the Chiefs celebrated their third Super Bowl in five years. Swift may be going from mega fan to play caller and designer after Patrick Mahomes revealed to Chris Simms that she has been drawing up plays, and knowing Andy Reid you wouldn’t put it past him to incorporate some of those plays.
The King's new castle
One of the most dominant, more feared, most unstoppable running backs is in Baltimore chasing a title he never won with the only team he ever knew. Derrick Henry spent nine seasons with the Tennessee Titans, and took them to the AFC Championship back in 2020, but that was the closest he ever got to Super Bowl Sunday. Coming into his ninth season he still has plenty in the tank, and the Ravens will be hoping to use that championship desire to their advantage with him and Lamar Jackson in the same backfield. He ran for 2000 yards a few year ago, and is coming off a season in which he ran for 1,162 yards and 12 TDs on a team that didn’t have much for weapons outside of King Henry. That will not be the case with Baltimore.
Star watch: Ravens
Lamar Jackson only has one thing on his QB resume to check off, and that’s to win a Super Bowl. He has done just about everything else. Starting back in college when he won the Heisman Trophy with Louisville and just three years later he was named NFL MVP for the first time. It took him just two years to win the award for the league’s best player, and it looked like the Ravens were going to be contenders each and every year for a long long time. Unfortunately there were some contract disputes and some injuries that kept Jackson and the Ravens from reaching their ultimate goal as he would struggle to finish seasons, but once his contract got sorted, Jackson was back to his best and brought Baltimore to within just a game of the Super Bowl.
Star watch: Chiefs
We could highlight the revamped WR corp that Patrick Mahomes has at his disposal, or Travis Kelce, or Isaiah Pacheco who is one of the up and coming running backs in the game, or the Chris Jones and the defense, but this is the star watch portion of the preview, and who else are we going to highlight other than Patrick Mahomes? Mahomes has been nearly perfect in his six years as a starter in the league. A couple of league MVPs, three Lombardi Trophies and three Super Bowl MVPs have assured him of his place in history, but Mahomes isn’t content just being named in the GOAT conversation, he is looking to be the only one in the conversation. Whether you like it or not, he is creeping closer and closer to Tom Brady’s invincibility, and if does it against this year, it would be hard to not talk about the torch being passed from TB12 to the Chiefs No. 15.
Last year Ravens
The Ravens looked like the best team in the league for most of the season. They finished the season with massive wins over the Rams, the Niners and the Dolphins to secure the top spot in the AFC and ensure that the Chiefs would have to go through M&T Bank Stadium in the playoffs. After a first round bye, Baltimore took on the up and coming Houston Texans and the MVP of the league put an end to the Offensive Rookie of the Year’s dream season as the Ravens smashed the Texans 34-10. The Chiefs were up next and Baltimore kept it close but a couple of key fumbles were enough for KC to edge the Ravens.
Last year: Chiefs
The Chiefs won it all last year, but it wasn’t smooth sailing for much of the season. Patrick Mahomes had one of his worst statistical numbers of his career as he and his receivers struggled to build the chemistry and understanding we are used to seeing the KC QB with his pass catchers. The big improvement last year came on the defensive side of the ball. The Chiefs D had previously been their liability, but last year didn’t just keep the Chiefs in games, but showed they are able to win games. The Chiefs finished the regular season 11-6 and for the first time in this era, they had to go on the road and win games on their way to the Super Bowl. They went into Buffalo and Baltimore and came out with narrow wins to reach Super Bowl Sunday for the second straight year, and took on the San Francisco 49ers in the title game. KC kicked a late field goal to send the game to overtime and in the waning seconds of OT Mahomes hit Mecole Hardman for the game winning TD pass.
We are live from Arrowhead
Hello everyone and welcome to Kansas City where the Chiefs will be on a season long pursuit of history as they look to make it three Lombardi Trophies in a row. Tonight they start the season taking on a team that is one of the most likely to knock them off their throne. Last year’s NFL MVP Lamar Jackson took his team all the way to the conference championship but they had their hearts broken by a little Mahomes magic and fantastic defensive performance. This year, everyone will be gunning for the Chiefs, the question is: can anyone stop this generation’s dynasty?
Ravens vs. Chiefs NFL Kickoff Thursday
Football is back baby! The Kansas City Chiefs begin this season after ending last season under a shower of confetti in Las Vegas as Patrick Mahomes led his side to a third Super Bowl in the last five years. The Chiefs bring in the new season for the second straight year, and tonight they take on the Baltimore Ravens in a rematch of last year’s AFC Championship. AS English will be with you tonight and throughout the season as we bring you live coverage, stats, highlights and analysis of the first game of the season from Arrowhead.