Showtime Mahomes in a Motown Showdown

Showtime Mahomes in a Motown Showdown – to listen to Chiefs fans this week, you would think that we’ve already won our fourth game of this season.  To say that our fans are over confident is an understatement.

Thankfully, the Chiefs players and coaches don’t hold that same view. As always, they’re focused on the biggest game of the year … that is, the next game. Which in this instant is against an undefeated (yes, a tie counts) Detroit Lions team currently holding down first-place in a historically hard-hitting, bruiser of a division, but is also, arguably, the toughest division in football this season.

Please don’t misunderstand me.  I firmly believe that the Chiefs will win.  However, I am not looking past them, as they do have weapons that can cause headaches for the Chiefs.  These weapons include, a defensive mastermind in Detroit head coach Matt Patricia. Patricia was the New England Patriots in various roles from 2004 to 2017 (DC from 2012 to 2017).  The Patriots won three Super Bowls in Patricia’s time with him on their staff.

“Yeah, we’re just — none of that really matters. We’re just trying to go play well this weekend.” – an unimpressed Lions HC Matt Patricia when informed that the Lions lead the NFC North for the first time since 2017.

The Lions also have a wily 11-year veteran quarterback, Matt Stafford, who holds over 18 NFL QB-related records, and  seemingly all the Lions franchise records. This is the part where Lions fans would do well to stop reading.

I get a kick out of the following points being made by the Lions fans:

• Ford Field is a domed stadium and Patrick Mahomes has never won an NFL game in a domed stadium. GASP!!!!  I won’t even respond to that one, but I’d just like to leave these here:

• The Detroit Lions have promised us 130 decibels at Ford Field this week.  That’s adorable!

• The Lions have announced that they will wear their rarely used throwback jerseys for this week’s game. They normally only where them for special occasions like Thanksgiving or a nationally televised game. Whoa, watch out!

That’s cute, too.  At first, I got a little scared, but then I had a childhood flashback:

Okay, that’s enough of those shenanigans. Actually, I had some interaction with Lions fans this week when writing my Friday piece (The Great Meme War of 2019: Chiefs vs Lions), and they are really cool fans (particularly those guys at reddit.com/r/detroitlions), and are just as passionate as those our Chiefs fans.

If the Chiefs looked past this game, there would exist a greater possibility that the Lions win, but Reid does not make that kind of rookie HC mistake, nor does he allow his staff or his players to do that either. The Chiefs team that takes Ford Field on Sunday will be specifically and methodically prepared to beat the Detroit Lions. It’s called Andy-ball.

Fodder for Thought

• • The Lions have come out on top in their last two meetings with the Chiefs at Ford Field, winning in 2011 and 2007.
  • The Lions will announce their All-Time team this Sunday at halftime.
  • Should the Chiefs win, this will be their third straight 4-0 start. Kansas City has scored 25-plus points in NFL-record 25 consecutive games.
  • This will be Andy Reid’s 100th game as Chiefs head coach. He is 68-31 in the regular season as the Chiefs HC.
  • Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes has an NFL-record 13, 300-yard passing games in his first 20 starts.
  • Mahomes needs 363 yards passing this Sunday to break Kurt Warner’s record for yards passing through four games.
  • Breakout Chiefs RB Darrel Williams had career-high 109 yards from scrimmage last week against the Ravens.
  • This will be Chiefs FB Anthony Sherman 100th consecutive game, that’s the longest active streak at that position.
  • Chiefs DT Chris Jones has recorded a sack in six of his last seven road games.
  • Should the Lions win, this will be their first undefeated mark through four games since 2011.
  • Detroit is the first NFL team this season with four players registering 100 yards receiving and a touchdown in a game through Week 3.
  • Lions RB Kerryon Johnson has scored in his last two home games and gained 80-plus yards from scrimmage in his previous five home games.
  • Lions DE Trey Flowers had eight tackles and sack last week.
  • Lions CB Justin Coleman had career-high three passes defended at Philadelphia.
  • Lions CB Jamal Agnew scored this season’s first kickoff return for a touchdown last week. Agnew had an NFL-high three scores off returns since 2017.

On any given Sunday, anything can happen… from a bad call here (hard to believe in the NFL, right!)… to a key injury… to missed communication from QB to WR… to just a lackluster and apathetic performance. NFL history has proven this to be true.

However, such won’t be the case this week. The Chiefs win a resounding victory over the Lions, 49-24.  And I ain’t lion (see what I did there)!

Michael Travis Rose — ArrowheadOne

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