Jack MurraySeptember 2, 2024
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Justin Tucker is not thinking about reviewing the past.
The Baltimore Ravens kicker made headings for his pregame regimen in the 2024 AFC Championship when Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes both differed with Tucker’s devices remaining in the location of where Mahomes was heating up.
Tucker did not engage with the disappointment at the time and it appears like his position has actually not altered ahead of the rematch versus the Kansas City Chiefs to open the 2024 season.
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“All I’ll state about it is I’m thrilled to enter into a fantastic environment, play versus a fantastic football group, with fantastic gamers, excellent coaches, and do whatever I can to prepare myself to be prepared to add to the Ravens winning a football video game,” Tucker stated, per Jamison Hensley of ESPN. “And that’s all I got to state about it.”
The Chiefs won that video game over Tucker’s Ravens, 17-10, and eventually beat the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII 2 weeks later on. This was the 2nd successive Super Bowl win for Kelce, Mahomes and the Chiefs and strengthened the group’s claim as the group to beat in the AFC.
Heading into that Conference Championship, Baltimore believed it would take that claim. The Ravens had actually gone 12-5 in the routine season and made the No. 1 seed in the AFC. The group would beat the Houston Texans in the Divisional Round which chance versus the Chiefs looked appealing.
With that experience in the rearview, Tucker will intend to stay an elite kicker and assistance Baltimore make another No. 1 seed and advance to the Super Bowl for the very first time considering that 2012.
The Ravens will deal with the Chiefs on Thursday at 8:20 p.m. ET.