Chiefs: What's Wrong With Em? -

Laddie Morse

It may sound like the Kansas CIty Chiefs are 0-and-3 instead of 3-and-0, but if there is anything I can tell you that’s true, it’s that these Chiefs are a whisker away from being the former instead of the later. If I had told you before the beginning of the season, that by this time, Travis Kelce would have 69 total yards receiving… and Patrick Mahomes would average under 220 yards passing per game… and they’d be missing the services of Hollywood Brown and Isiah Pacheco for months……… you be as shocked as I am that the Chiefs have the record they have and you’d likely be saying, as I am: “three-and-OMG!“

Good, Lucky, Mystique?

(2:11)

Chris Broussard of “First Things First” makes a great point: “The Chiefs are winning these games ugly.”

Follow this reasoning… if the Falcons decide to kick a field goal and make the score 20-to-22 on their second to last drive, then kick a field goal on their last drive, they could have won, 23-to-22. Right? Wrong. If they kicked a field goal on their second to last drive, they would have had to kick off and K.C. would have likely gotten the ball at their own 30 yard line (perhaps even more). Then, if the Falcons D stops the Chiefs right there, K.C. would then boomed a punt deep into the Falcons territory and Atlanta would have a long way to go for a FG… which is also highly unlikely to happen against a determined Spags defense.

Or, then the Chiefs drive — for the last few minutes of the game — and score if necessary. However, the Falcons HC Raheem Morris didn’t want to give the ball back to Patrick Mahomes with that much time on the clock. No. He. Did. Not. Which is totally understandable.

So, that reasoning, or take, is pure zirconium, especially

when you thought you were getting diamonds.

Greatness or Luck

Here’s what Adam Shein on MadDogSportsRadio had to say about the Chiefs (2:12)

Bad Call

Many have made reference to the ref’s call near the end of the game when Chiefs DB, Bryan Cook, grabbed ahold of Falcons TE, Kyle Pitts, in the end zone and Kirk Cousins pass to Pitts hit Cook in the back, instead of it being a completion (0:09).

Here’s a Falcons player explaining that it wasn’t that play alone that was the cause for their loss:

Why is it that everyone is crying except the very team that was involved in the play? Media & fans need to take note. Not just saying this as a Chiefs fan either. I'd expect the same from the Chiefs & #ChiefsKingdom if we were on the wrong end of a call where we have been plenty. https://t.co/JGXgzC9COg
— lael (@laelvc) September 23, 2024

17 and David Bell

David Bell has “17” as the magic number of points that the Chiefs defense must keep their opponents at or under to win a contest. While “What’s Wrong” with the Chiefs is mostly an offensive challenge point, here is Andy Reid explaining that he was proud of the defensive effort (2:51):

Patrick Mahomes and the Offense

Wrong Routes

Andy Reid said Xavier Worthy didn't mess up his route on the lost play late in the fourth quarter. Said he slowed down to avoid running into someone else's space – they were the one who ran the wrong route.
— Jordan Foote (@footenoted) September 23, 2024

So, who was it that ran the wrong route? My take is… Andy Reid was covering for Worthy when he said that. What do you think?

The Chiefs have lost Hollywood & Pacheco, have a backfield consisting of a guy cut by the Broncos after the preseason, and an UFA that they list as a FB, a rookie starting WR, had to bench their rookie LT, Kelce hasn't gotten going and Mahomes has been sloppy.

They're also 3-0.
— Patrick Allen (@RPatrickAllen) September 23, 2024

Almost every week now, we hear Mahomes tell us that he needs to get better (0:22):

Where Oh Where Has Our Big Dawg Gone?

Is Travis Kelce done?

This the the third week in a row that Travis Kelce hasn’t produced at his normal Hall of Fame level. 69 total receiving yards so far? Give me a break. NBC announcer, Cris Collinsworth has also taken notice:

“I’m just flabbergasted. I mean, one game, big deal.

2 games, alright. This is the third game now where

we haven’t seen the magic of [Patrick] Mahomes &

[Travis] Kelce, and I can’t really explain that one.”

If Patrick Mahomes is to be believed, the reason Travis Kelce hasn’t gotten going is the opposition is double and triple teaming him so Mahomes has no alternative but to go to other receivers. Mahomes says they have called lots of plays where Kelce is to be the primary target but the coverage dictates he goes elsewhere with the ball. Andy Reid indicates the opposing defenses will soon catch onto Rashee Rice needing to get extra attention and his point is meant so that it may open things up for Kelce once again. I’m not so sure.

I asked recently,

“Shouldn’t we be talking about DC Steve Spagnuolo

as much as we’re talking about Patrick Mahomes?”

The defense of the Chiefs not only appears to have won us the most recent Super Bowl, but now they have shown up again at the beginning of the 2024 season and won us the first three games… all “toe-tally” defensive victories (see what I did there?).

Viewership Record

One thing that wasn’t “wrong” with the Chiefs performance on Sunday evening was the viewership.

Ari Meirov tweet – Credit

The Chiefs last win may not have actually had anything to do with a “toe”… that’s because it was due to a defensive player: Nick Bolton!

What do you think?

Laddie Morse — ArrowheadOne