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Kansas City Chiefs Edge Closer to Super Bowl Glory
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12/22/2024
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The Kansas City Chiefs yesterday take down the Houston Texans in a covering effort.
00:08
Yeah.
00:09
I mean, hanging a banner, right?
00:11
27-19, they cover the three and a half points spread.
00:14
The total in that game, 42 and a half, 43 and a half.
00:17
Lisa, I know you absolutely love the over in that one.
00:21
It's interesting, but for Kansas City, it was still technically a one possession game,
00:25
but this actually feels like maybe their best performance since week one against Baltimore.
00:34
And look, it was at home where they haven't lost all season, and they're one step closer
00:39
to making sure that as long as they win their home games, they're playing in another Super
00:42
Bowl.
00:43
They had a balanced effort offensively.
00:44
Now, they fell behind 10-7 early.
00:46
C.J.
00:47
Stroud on that offense were able to put some pressure on Kansas City, but Pat Mahomes and
00:51
the Chiefs answered them.
00:52
You saw Marquise Brown get involved in terms of the offense.
00:55
Pat Mahomes, his ankle looked fine.
00:57
He rushes for the touchdown.
00:58
You saw De'Andre Hopkins step up.
01:00
They got a touchdown pass to Xavier Worthy as well.
01:04
Now, he was hurt in the second half.
01:05
We've got to see how he fares the rest of the way, but at the end of the day, it was
01:08
a balanced effort.
01:09
And again, when the game is on the line, especially in Arrowhead where Houston's within striking
01:14
distance, Donnie, all that defense does is get three and outs.
01:19
They force turnovers.
01:20
They get off the field and they give Pat Mahomes the football with about five or six minutes
01:24
left, and it's Seinfield delivered a point win yesterday.
01:27
Yeah, you take a look at, you know, good football teams make their own breaks, pun intended
01:31
on this one.
01:32
This game was going to be a one-point game.
01:33
Tank Dell having an unbelievable game, makes a great touchdown catch on a perfect throw
01:37
from C.J.
01:38
Stroud.
01:39
A little bit of friendly fire.
01:40
He leaves the game probably going to be out for who knows how long into the next season
01:43
even at this point.
01:44
But it's just one of those things where you watch every Kansas City game.
01:46
I don't know.
01:47
We like to get online and say, hey, the refs are always helping out Kansas City because
01:50
apparently it's what happens when you're just watching the big games and you have a rooting
01:53
interest, maybe going against them.
01:55
But they've broken perfectly this season with whether it's dropped snaps, missed field goals,
01:59
made field goals, key injury players, because also that game was 17-16, 15-minute delay
02:04
on the field.
02:05
Ice the kicker and really did.
02:07
He misses the extra point and away they go.
02:09
It's just the Chiefs now.
02:10
But as Kevin points out, the key ingredient in this whole thing is Kansas City is going
02:14
to be at home with what looks like to be a healthy Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid.
02:18
Good luck beating them.
02:19
They'll probably be in the Super Bowl again.
02:21
They're going to be, let's see, did they flip the favorites once again to win the conference?
02:26
Nope.
02:27
I don't know, man.
02:28
Like Buffalo's just another world.
02:29
So here's, I don't want to, I'm not getting into the Baltimore-Pittsburgh game yet, but
02:33
just the Baltimore win gets them another step closer to the three seed.
02:39
If this bracket falls, KC, Buffalo, Baltimore, there's no way anyone other than Kansas City
02:44
can be favored.
02:46
It doesn't matter what you think of the Baltimore Ravens.
02:47
They're going to knock each other out, right?
02:49
Yeah.
02:51
Kansas City has to play at most one of those teams.
02:54
So that was, to me, the one thing that I was wondering, and I didn't think it was the case
02:59
if the books were saying, you know what would be tough for KC is if they ended up playing
03:05
a one-versus-six round two game against Baltimore, where they're only a two-point favorite, which
03:12
is I think about what that line would be.
03:14
Again, in the same way every game result is, you know, breaks for Kansas City, it looks
03:19
like the bracket might break, right, for Kansas City in a similar way.
03:25
I think the bigger takeaway then almost ends up on the Houston side, this is now two straight
03:32
years, right?
03:34
It's going to be a successful season because you're going to win your division, you're
03:36
going to make the playoffs.
03:37
But you look around at the end of the season, you go, where is everybody?
03:43
How are we even here?
03:44
Like I actually now feel, Donny, that the conversation around Houston won't be, man,
03:49
we thought Stroud was going to have a better year.
03:51
Maybe I'm off base.
03:52
I feel like it's, okay, so by the time they got to the playoffs, the only wide receiver
03:57
left was Nico Collins, who missed a month because he had a bad hamstring.
04:00
I mean, it's incredible.
04:01
Yeah, it is incredible, and it seems like year to year this always happens, but this
04:04
is the NFL.
04:05
If you've watched for the past 10 to 15 years, Houston makes the playoffs, they stack them
04:08
in the very first game they have because the draw is going to be weak, and we know that
04:12
maybe they'll survive a game but certainly get knocked out in game number two.
04:15
But it is unfair because the top end spectrum that we were hoping to get for Houston this
04:19
year, you saw glimpses of it but never got a lot of play.
04:22
Stephon Diggs coming over, Nico Collins healthy, Tank Dell, a couple of the wide receivers,
04:26
like, wow, let's just see if CJ Stroud can even take the next jump after what was almost
04:30
an MVP performance by a rookie quarterback.
04:33
We never got to see it.
04:34
Credit them.
04:35
They're nine and six.
04:36
They won that division.
04:37
They won't do any damage in the playoffs, but what can you ask them to do anymore?
04:39
It's now going to be Joe Mixon, who's like, we know they can't, we're trying to run the
04:43
football.
04:44
14 carats, 57 yards.
04:45
He's been pretty quiet.
04:46
But at the same time, Joe, that wide receiver room that was going to be so electric and
04:49
also a shoulder-tight end is now down to a fraction of what we anticipated.
04:52
Certainly not the same explosive offense that we saw last year where CJ Stroud could light
04:57
it up for 300 at any point in time, right?
05:00
And that was with, to Donny's point, a limited wide receiver core outside of Nico Collins.
05:04
Right now you add the new dimensions and they're struggling to find consistency.
05:09
They've had injuries.
05:10
I also think, Kev, it's a, I don't want to say sophomore regression, but they were a
05:14
young team last year with a rookie head coach.
05:16
They win the division, they win a playoff game, and then all of a sudden all that expectation
05:22
from year number one falls on year number two.
05:25
And because they're young, you see slight regression in terms of handling that type
05:30
of pressure.
05:31
We saw it with Jacksonville when they got the victory the year before, you know, two
05:35
years ago in the wild card game against the Chargers, right?
05:38
They start last year very fast, eight and three.
05:41
And then all of a sudden that expectation to win the division and maintain that momentum
05:45
from the start of the year to the end of the year, they fell off a cliff.
05:48
So this is actually a positive that they're still solidified as the division leaders and
05:54
they're going to make the playoffs.
05:55
How do they handle that once the playoffs start?
05:57
That remains to be seen.
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