NFL Picks - Baltimore Ravens vs Kansas City Chiefs Prediction, 9/5/2024 Week 1 NFL Expert Best Bets

it's football Thursday at docsports.com hope you all are doing well I'm Scott spritzer docsports and we do have our plays being released for the entire football weekend College week two NFL week one on Thursday afternoon you can get all my plays for the weekend at least seven plays college and pro football combined the coolest thing about docs is you get all those plays in one package you don't have to buy college and pro football separately you don't have to buy individual packages for every single play it's all grouped together and all of mine will be available on Thursday afternoon at docsports.com at least seven plays it includes a sevenstar main event it includes a six-star play uh to go along with it in College of pro football and wanted to mention the record below you see it there 758 and 540 that's 58% long-term in College of pro football combined 58% is the long-term run in college 59% is the long-term run of the NFL and so we'll look to have a big season of course in 2024 I did not win last week in college football we don't claim to win every single week of every single season um and I did lose last week in college but we're back love the card this week and I do have that multiple game c card in both college and pro football uh so let's kick it into gear up over 4,400 bucks at my college football run despite last week and again we'll look to continue the winning ways I wanted to mention also that I do have a play outside of football on Thursday it's a four-star play in Major League Baseball afternoon game last night we split overall in baseball the four-star run now stands at a 38-21 and up over 5900 bucks if you want to jump on board you can do so again on my homepage at docsports.com uh I might have a by the way a prop in Friday's NFL game I'll talk a little bit more about that on tomorrow's video talking about Friday night NFL of course that game in Brazil between Green Bay and Philly but my only play in the NFL on Thursday is the one that I'm going to talk about right now which is the Chiefs hosting the Ravens 8:20 p.m. Eastern is the kickoff at Arrowhead Stadium uh right now looking at my books I got about 20 books in front of me right now on my line service I see 18 threes and I see two two and a half so it's probably going to be hard unless things change you know overnight into uh Thursday to find a two and a half but that tells you I'm going with the Chiefs here uh you know the talk surrounding Lamar Jackson you know throughout his career as he can't one of the playoffs he can't win the big game whatever what we do know for sure is that he struggles against this Kansas City Chiefs team I mean he's one and four against KC in his career and and check out the differences in the starting quarterbacks when these two teams face each other not only is Patrick Mahomes four- one straight up KC but Patrick Mahomes has averaged 344 yards passing per game in those five games against Baltimore he completed 73% of his passes 13 touchdowns only only two ints a passer rating of 115.5 on the flip side Lamar has really struggled against KC he's uh connected on less than 56% of his pass attempts uh in those five games 78.1 passer rating remember I just mentioned Mahomes 115.5 Lamar 78.1 five touchdowns and five games three interceptions so certainly we've seen much better quarterback play from Patrick Mahomes than Lamar a lot of that has to do with what Patrick Mahomes has to work with and of course Andy Reid doing a great job prepping his team Baltimore's got a pair of All-Star offensive linemen there's no doubt about that that are going to be coming back but they're also missing a couple of lineman they've got four new coaches on this John harbal staff that'll be taking over certain coaching positions and I really think it's going to take maybe a week or two for Baltimore to be able to gel around these coaches and what they're trying to do on defense and I expect guys for KC like rice Watson Kelsey I think these guys can come up big for Mahomes in this game uh I I don't think by any means it's going to be a blowout so don't get me wrong there but I think Casey wins this game by about 10 points seven to 10 points in that neighborhood the Chiefs are the free play the comp play for Thursday night NFL man I'm just so happy that the NFL has finally arrived in the regular season can't wait to see this game hope you guys uh jump on board whether you like the Ravens or Chiefs and uh again check out all my plays uh for the upcoming weekend of football on Thursday afternoon available at docsports.com multiple game card at least some plays in College of pro football combined all right if you like the videos click on the thumbs up be sure to subscribe I'm Scott spritzer let's put him in the wind column everybody