Scott Van Pelt blame Zay Flowers & Isaiah's toe for Ravens lost Chiefs 27-20 & Lamar missed TD

well hello Sports Center continues or for those that have just clicked over High Scott Fel here in the nation's capital first game of the NFL season a rematch of the AFC Championship from a season ago between Kansas City who of course went on to win the Super Bowl in the Baltimore Ravens incredible game so many story lines so much Intrigue and then the game plays out as it does as we went to break my breath my wind coach looked at me I looked at him let's freaking go let's get this win man congratulations thank you so much let's go great to have Damen Woody with us as he is Thursday nights during the NFL season an incredible start to the year let's just let's just start with with the I think the obvious these are two excellent football teams that we presume we will see late into the winter into the playoffs Fair absolutely okay so the so the result gets is it is it it'll be forgotten perhaps as as time goes on but if you're the Ravens you're like man they're an inch away from being able to go for two and get the victory I want to ask you about the flowers play because he was wide what happens on that play from what you saw it's almost like a scrambled drill Scott like usually you know those type of plays are practiced where the quarterback is running around and then you're taught as rece at this point in the game man you're just you're trying to do whatever you can to try to try to win the thing and it's hard to explain unless you've been on the field and I've been standing there waiting for games to end you have 22 enormous human beings in a tiny little tiny little plot of land it's hard to find room I give Kansas City a ton of credit because it seemed that largely they were able to keep Lamar off of his ability to make ons scheduled throws so much of the the completed pass tonight were were improvisational that's that's the credit to Kansas City secondary is it not absolutely but Lamar Jackson had his cape on tonight didn't like Lamar Jackson had literally like 400 yards of offense just by himself and you know we talked about in in the in during the game how you know in the AFC Championship Game how Lamar Jackson didn't really utilize his legs enough well I think that that he put that to bed early and often tonight because we saw that in this game the the Baltimore Ravens had three new starters on the office line they struggled some in pass protection but Lamar Jackson was just utilizing his legs left and right in this game this was one of the plays where that I mean let's it could be the offensive line it could also be the fact that Jones is in that front for Kansas City who that that's such an underappreciated part of what makes them great is that defense um but they were able to get that fumble there but Baltimore's defense held him to three they they were able to largely keep Kansas City from getting away from them but how about Xavier worthy a rookie out of Texas I mean you hear about speed guys right right okay but let let's see what it looks like right Saturday and Sunday only separated by a couple hours on the calendar but it's it's very different what did you see in terms of Kansas City's ability to implement his speed into what they want to do well so much what we talked about with Xavier Worthy is what he did at the comound but this guys a football which he's going to do quite often because of the speed he has and you saw his impact in the game he's going to have as the season goes on he's going to have a a bigger and bigger impact because again the one thing you can't teach is speed and that's what he's going to bring to the table on this offense the touchdown didn't count for the Ravens but they're so aggressive and it's it cost them a couple years ago they rolled the dice and they they crapped out in a number of occasions but they've shown this is what we're going to do how do you do you endorse that that philosophy because that immediately and again they didn't get to go for two because the the toe of likely is on the line we're going for two we're trying to get out of here with a dub you like that in this instance I love it because you're on the road you on the road You' clawed yourself back you essentially tied the game and in this situation why not go for the win I think that's what most coaches would do in situation instead of playing for overtime again you're on the road right against the defending world champions let's go out here put it put the ball in your in your best player's hand in Lamar Jackson I mean that's literally like his bunion just over the line right there man gota have bu have bu all right uh John Harbaugh spoke just moments ago we'll come back to some more conversation from the Victorious side of the Chiefs as for the Ravens this close from having a chance to try to steal the win but no good hardfought football game uh very exciting football game a lot of lot of a lot of back and forth uh I'm proud of the way our guys played you know I think the way we fought the way we competed uh the the challenges that we face just by the situation of the game and all the things going on around the game and obviously the challenge that uh our opponent presents us which is a great opponent and uh I the the adversity throughout the course of the game is a challenge and I thought our guys uh you know met met all those things all those setbacks at times and uh and uh and fought like crazy to overcome it you know and looked like we had an opportunity there to to to tie the game up or try to win it with a two-point conversion so uh didn't happen at the end but uh proud of the way the guys fought we're only going to get better from here on out and I'm looking forward to that I'm really looking forward to getting back to work next week and getting ready for the Raiders just starting with obviously Isaiah just was huge guys all the night and batt back to get on the field that last possession what you see out of him what you tell him after coming so close oh I think Isaiah played just a great football game a courageous game I made so many plays especially down the stretch play after play I put Lamar obviously in the same category all those guys I mean those guys were making plays and fighting the offensive line I thought did a heck of a job out there a lot of question marks had you know the pundits and the prognosticators had about the offensive line saying that without offensive line we couldn't do anything and uh to see the way they went out there and played against that defense I thought was pretty impressive and that's a challenge especially in this environment communication and there's going there were there were problems on both sides uh but uh I thought Isaiah played a great football game I was proud of him and a lot of other guys too what are kind of emotions though at the end of the game when you feel like okay you've tied the game and then you're told no I don't really talk I'm going to talk about emotions you know you're disappointed you you thought I mean I don't know what it looked like on the replay so I can't say but uh really couldn't tell on the big screen you guys probably had a better Viewpoint of it so so much of of the the bulk of the game right now gets lost because of how it ended but when Baltimore goes back and they put on the tape and they look at the amount of flags that they had thrown at their feet for formational penalties what what were you seeing as a guy who made us living up there on the line trying to get lined up you're shaking your head I mean what what was all that about it's a whole new world Scott what is it like get your behind up there on the line of scrimmage because for so long you know and I obviously played offensive tackle played on the offensive line you would kind of creep back a little bit more a little bit more than buy yourself some time against some of these Premier Edge rushes where now you know it seems like the league is is trying to reset a little reset things a little bit and give those defensive guys a little bit of an advantage here well but it I'm sure Baltimore is going to say didn't they do it also oh yeah well it didn't get didn't get flagged nearly as much on Kansas City did it well listen it might be a little bit of home cooking there I'm not saying that I'm just saying it might be I'm just saying it might be under but I mean there were it look it's everybody's excited that the NFL's back and it's an incredible game with two great teams I do think it's reasonable to say that at some point the ref show in this game was a bit excessive you agree uh yeah I think they were trying to send a message and that that feels reasonable in a sense that you just want to let everybody know hey look we're we're calling this I mean you know everyone's watching this tonight so dudes that play from left tackle to right tackle across the NFL like yo make sure that we're lined up correctly right yeah I listen moving forward I'm like I don't want to be that guy I don't want to be that guy you know especially tomorrow you know with the Prime Time game down in Brazil you don't want to be the guy that's that's getting called out okay so we're Baltimore comes this close there's a bunch of penalties this and that Kansas City won the football game let's not let's not lose that for one second they they have potentially a star in the making in worthy certainly a guy whose speed is going to translate but I just we talked about this as we watched them and this is where I land with the Chiefs they were really pedestrian last year for about a month and change lost four of six lost at home three times then they got to the playoffs and nobody was yelling louder than me let's see momes go on the road then he went to Buffalo went to Baltimore they beat the Dolphins the bills the Ravens and the Niners in a row and and it's like are there any questions not for me no and so I it almost doesn't matter to me what they do I'm just going to presume that they're going to be just fine to great and a night like tonight to me just shows you how difficult it is to beat them at all like what's your sense of who the Chiefs are as they try to make a third straight Super Bowl and win it so it reminds me so much of like New England days where you know we were just so dominant we would find all different types of ways smile not as big smile as he had on Monday night not as big a smile as you had Monday night when B College we'll get into that went down to do and got a dub but I mean look you lived it when you knew our best is you got no shot to beat but maybe our our B minus game is not you can't touch that too what's that like well we are you know we had talked we had talked earlier about more more teams plays when we needed to play he could make that play and that's really the difference between teams that are really good and guys who are like alltime great and that's what we're seeing out of Patrick Mahomes yep so I mean it's it's the trajectory of the guy's on as he passes a Chief's grade in lend awon tonight and obviously the young man's in his 20s he's going to put the number so far out of reach that it'll it'll never be it'll never be uh encroached upon you can't I can't imagine I'm just looking at these numbers it was just what a fun night right I mean we're all excited all day long man nearly nearly four hund yeah and likely's toes on the line hello for spee I [Music] I [Music] it's I [Music] hello foreign spee sh look I [Music] he for [Music]