Laddie Morse
I know that Halloween was a couple of weeks ago, but since 13 is a lucky number for me and the Kansas City Chiefs have been nothing but scary this year… I’m going with it. Sure, we could put Rashee Rice’s knee injury on this list, but I’m not counting that nor am I counting Hollywood Brown’s season ending injury on the first play of preseason. Sometimes the scariest moment comes by way of… a scary-good performance and sometimes it comes by way of… that almost ended his season. That leads to…
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Anytime you see your franchise QB go down, it’s time to worry. When Patrick Mahomes went to the turf following his 7-yard TD heave to RB Samaje Perine, I was worried. Not necessarily because the Chiefs have a bad backup QB, they don’t, but because our starter is critical to the teams success. Here’s Patrick Mahomes close call of a season ending injury.
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Mahomes didn’t miss a snap and the Chiefs went on to another victory.
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This play comes from earlier in the year, back on January 7th, I believe.
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That was the last day of the 2023 regular season, but it meant so much to Chris Jones.
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We’ve already talked about “Patrick Mahomes Almost” getting injured and then missing the rest of the season, but when Kingsley Suamataia entered the game last week, there was nothing funny about his performance. He alone was the reason, more than any other, that Patrick Mahomes was nearly injured. So many times when he was in the game, Patrick was nearly decapitated. David Bell and I have noted before about how Barry Richardson used to play the game so poorly that we’d joke about it: Ole or Turnstyle Barry… or as Patrick Allen of ArrowheadAddict once put it: The Worst Tackle in the NFL. Kingsley Suamataia is currently that bad.
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“I don’t know why the Broncos didn’t set a defender in a wide 9 every play. Kingsley Suamataia was getting cooked every time. Kingsley flashes his insane athletic ability, but his technique is awful. He has ways to go.” –@RobertRaymond46 Of course, Peyton Hendershot (#88) and his chip-less dip didn’t help either.
Also, Cole DeRuse of “How Bout Those Chiefs” said of Suamataia, that he is almost, “un-playable.”
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When it was discovered that the Chiefs had drafted the fasted man in football, Xavier Worthy, every other team feared they’d jump right back into deep-ball mode and that his speed would take over. Things haven’t actually turned out that way. However, here’s what his speed has shown early in the season. With about 6:00 minutes left in the first quarter of the first game of the year, on his first touch of the season, #1 (Xavier Worthy) shows off his, need for speed.
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To bring this piece up to date, the Chiefs blocked a field goal to win their last game, a game against the Broncos: a walk-off blocked FG. To be more specific, LB Leo Chenal blocked a field goal attempt with one second on the clock to secure a 16-to-14 victory… which would have been a 17-to-16 loss if he’d not gotten a hand on that ball. Here’s Mitch Holthus on the call:
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As HC Andy Reid points out on Turning Point, “but that’s also something we work on like crazy….” (1:16)
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In the after math of that win Patrick Mahomes was sure to point out that Leo Chenal is as strong as a defensive lineman, plus how special it is to experience a… “walk-off whatever.”
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Here’s Travis Kelce’s contribution. He has to get into the act of course!
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What do you think?
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Laddie Morse — ArrowheadOne
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