Kansas City Chiefs Edge Closer to Super Bowl Glory

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00:00The Kansas City Chiefs yesterday take down the Houston Texans in a covering effort.

00:08Yeah.

00:09I mean, hanging a banner, right?

00:1127-19, they cover the three and a half points spread.

00:14The total in that game, 42 and a half, 43 and a half.

00:17Lisa, I know you absolutely love the over in that one.

00:21It's interesting, but for Kansas City, it was still technically a one possession game,

00:25but this actually feels like maybe their best performance since week one against Baltimore.

00:34And look, it was at home where they haven't lost all season, and they're one step closer

00:39to making sure that as long as they win their home games, they're playing in another Super

00:42Bowl.

00:43They had a balanced effort offensively.

00:44Now, they fell behind 10-7 early.

00:46C.J.

00:47Stroud on that offense were able to put some pressure on Kansas City, but Pat Mahomes and

00:51the Chiefs answered them.

00:52You saw Marquise Brown get involved in terms of the offense.

00:55Pat Mahomes, his ankle looked fine.

00:57He rushes for the touchdown.

00:58You saw De'Andre Hopkins step up.

01:00They got a touchdown pass to Xavier Worthy as well.

01:04Now, he was hurt in the second half.

01:05We've got to see how he fares the rest of the way, but at the end of the day, it was

01:08a balanced effort.

01:09And again, when the game is on the line, especially in Arrowhead where Houston's within striking

01:14distance, Donnie, all that defense does is get three and outs.

01:19They force turnovers.

01:20They get off the field and they give Pat Mahomes the football with about five or six minutes

01:24left, and it's Seinfield delivered a point win yesterday.

01:27Yeah, you take a look at, you know, good football teams make their own breaks, pun intended

01:31on this one.

01:32This game was going to be a one-point game.

01:33Tank Dell having an unbelievable game, makes a great touchdown catch on a perfect throw

01:37from C.J.

01:38Stroud.

01:39A little bit of friendly fire.

01:40He leaves the game probably going to be out for who knows how long into the next season

01:43even at this point.

01:44But it's just one of those things where you watch every Kansas City game.

01:46I don't know.

01:47We like to get online and say, hey, the refs are always helping out Kansas City because

01:50apparently it's what happens when you're just watching the big games and you have a rooting

01:53interest, maybe going against them.

01:55But they've broken perfectly this season with whether it's dropped snaps, missed field goals,

01:59made field goals, key injury players, because also that game was 17-16, 15-minute delay

02:04on the field.

02:05Ice the kicker and really did.

02:07He misses the extra point and away they go.

02:09It's just the Chiefs now.

02:10But as Kevin points out, the key ingredient in this whole thing is Kansas City is going

02:14to be at home with what looks like to be a healthy Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid.

02:18Good luck beating them.

02:19They'll probably be in the Super Bowl again.

02:21They're going to be, let's see, did they flip the favorites once again to win the conference?

02:26Nope.

02:27I don't know, man.

02:28Like Buffalo's just another world.

02:29So here's, I don't want to, I'm not getting into the Baltimore-Pittsburgh game yet, but

02:33just the Baltimore win gets them another step closer to the three seed.

02:39If this bracket falls, KC, Buffalo, Baltimore, there's no way anyone other than Kansas City

02:44can be favored.

02:46It doesn't matter what you think of the Baltimore Ravens.

02:47They're going to knock each other out, right?

02:49Yeah.

02:51Kansas City has to play at most one of those teams.

02:54So that was, to me, the one thing that I was wondering, and I didn't think it was the case

02:59if the books were saying, you know what would be tough for KC is if they ended up playing

03:05a one-versus-six round two game against Baltimore, where they're only a two-point favorite, which

03:12is I think about what that line would be.

03:14Again, in the same way every game result is, you know, breaks for Kansas City, it looks

03:19like the bracket might break, right, for Kansas City in a similar way.

03:25I think the bigger takeaway then almost ends up on the Houston side, this is now two straight

03:32years, right?

03:34It's going to be a successful season because you're going to win your division, you're

03:36going to make the playoffs.

03:37But you look around at the end of the season, you go, where is everybody?

03:43How are we even here?

03:44Like I actually now feel, Donny, that the conversation around Houston won't be, man,

03:49we thought Stroud was going to have a better year.

03:51Maybe I'm off base.

03:52I feel like it's, okay, so by the time they got to the playoffs, the only wide receiver

03:57left was Nico Collins, who missed a month because he had a bad hamstring.

04:00I mean, it's incredible.

04:01Yeah, it is incredible, and it seems like year to year this always happens, but this

04:04is the NFL.

04:05If you've watched for the past 10 to 15 years, Houston makes the playoffs, they stack them

04:08in the very first game they have because the draw is going to be weak, and we know that

04:12maybe they'll survive a game but certainly get knocked out in game number two.

04:15But it is unfair because the top end spectrum that we were hoping to get for Houston this

04:19year, you saw glimpses of it but never got a lot of play.

04:22Stephon Diggs coming over, Nico Collins healthy, Tank Dell, a couple of the wide receivers,

04:26like, wow, let's just see if CJ Stroud can even take the next jump after what was almost

04:30an MVP performance by a rookie quarterback.

04:33We never got to see it.

04:34Credit them.

04:35They're nine and six.

04:36They won that division.

04:37They won't do any damage in the playoffs, but what can you ask them to do anymore?

04:39It's now going to be Joe Mixon, who's like, we know they can't, we're trying to run the

04:43football.

04:4414 carats, 57 yards.

04:45He's been pretty quiet.

04:46But at the same time, Joe, that wide receiver room that was going to be so electric and

04:49also a shoulder-tight end is now down to a fraction of what we anticipated.

04:52Certainly not the same explosive offense that we saw last year where CJ Stroud could light

04:57it up for 300 at any point in time, right?

05:00And that was with, to Donny's point, a limited wide receiver core outside of Nico Collins.

05:04Right now you add the new dimensions and they're struggling to find consistency.

05:09They've had injuries.

05:10I also think, Kev, it's a, I don't want to say sophomore regression, but they were a

05:14young team last year with a rookie head coach.

05:16They win the division, they win a playoff game, and then all of a sudden all that expectation

05:22from year number one falls on year number two.

05:25And because they're young, you see slight regression in terms of handling that type

05:30of pressure.

05:31We saw it with Jacksonville when they got the victory the year before, you know, two

05:35years ago in the wild card game against the Chargers, right?

05:38They start last year very fast, eight and three.

05:41And then all of a sudden that expectation to win the division and maintain that momentum

05:45from the start of the year to the end of the year, they fell off a cliff.

05:48So this is actually a positive that they're still solidified as the division leaders and

05:54they're going to make the playoffs.

05:55How do they handle that once the playoffs start?

05:57That remains to be seen.

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