Tuesday: KC’s In Trouble

Now the Chiefs are 2-3 with even more holes. Time to panic?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Last night, the Chiefs and Jaguars played Monday Night football.
The baseball games were The Dodgers game was pretty good
last night. I wasn't too co thrilled with the Cubs
and the Brewers, but anyway, I watched a lot more
football than I thought I was last night, and I
thought the Chiefs had this one pretty well put away
for a little bit, even though they weren't playing that great.
But then Jacksonville made the the last ditch score and

(00:26):
Kansas City ran out of time, and that's usually the
way Kansas City wins games. You know. The one thing
I'm gonna ask Jeff about this on the radio show
tomorrow night. College football has become with kickoffs kind of
just a waste of time. Ninety percent of the kickoffs,
I'd say ninety eight percent of the kickoffs go into
the INZONEA and it's out of the twenty five Should

(00:48):
we and when the football rule that the UFL did
was given to the NFL last year and is continuing
this year, I was I was kind of lukewarm on
the idea. I didn't like it, but I kind of
like it now because it's encouraging running the ball back
and I guess when you take off from the thirty
yard line running to go get a player, you're not

(01:10):
as apt to hurt them as you are when you're
running from the other thirty five from back behind the
fifty yard line. So I'm wondering if I like the
kickoff rule. But there's one thing I don't like about
the kickoff rule because with twenty seconds to go in
the game last night, and even though the Chiefs were
going to be in hell Mary mode anyway, I would

(01:32):
have liked for them to have an opportunity to be
able to get a fair catch or a touchback of
some kind and get at least the twenty five yard line.
I know, if it doesn't land in the landing zone,
they get at the forty. If it goes out of bounds,
it's at the forty if you if it gets kicked
it goes into the end zone. I guess it comes
out to the twenty. There's all kinds of variations of

(01:54):
where that ball goes. But I'd like for the if
for the Chiefs to get at the twenty five yard
line without any time e lap, I would like for
that option to be available because with twenty seconds to
go in the game, they basically had to get to
the forty five of Jacksonville to set up a game
tying field goal opportunity, which is thirty yards. So if

(02:14):
a ball is at the twenty five yard line, I
can throw two out patterns thirty yards and I can
maybe even throw a pass over the middle to Kelsey
or somebody get up there and spike it and give
Buckner a chance to kick a field goal from sixty
yards to win the game or to or tie the game.
So I would like to see that option. But once
it was twenty seconds to go and then they got
they had to run the ball back, and then they

(02:34):
got the holding penalty and they were back at the
ten or fifteen yard line, it was pretty much lights
out from there. I think Kansas City is still a
potential playoff team, I don't know, and right now they
may even still win the division. I think the Broncos
and the Chargers still have some holes to work out.
The Broncos are getting better, and they've got a terrific
coach in Sean Payton, and so do the Chargers with

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Jim Harbaugh. But there's something about the Chargers that I
I just don't necessarily like that much, and so I
wouldn't count Kansas City out from winning that division and
getting back in the playoffs. And the one thing I'm
really interested in seeing is what they're gonna look like
when Rashid Rice comes back, and he should be back,
I think after next week. I think it was a
six week suspension, so we're going into six into week six,

(03:19):
and so he'll be back next week. But I'm kind
of looking forward to seeing if Kansas City's offense gets
a little better when he's back.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
First off, Andy, I think that you don't trust about
the Chargers is history, which can obviously askew how we
feel about teams. But when it comes to the Chiefs,
I the offense at the very least of the last
two weeks seems to have seems to have found itself,
because for the first three weeks they seemed off. They
weren't really getting the ball down the field except for
guys like Taekwon Thornton Hollywood Brown was able to make catches,
but they were missing opportunities when need be. The interceptions

(03:48):
that Pat Mahomes threw in the red zone, he never
throws those. That's an issue I had, as you're not
even I.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Think I think Kelsey not because of Taylor Swift or
not because of distraction, but because of age. It's kind
of checked out a little bit. I think he's like, man,
what did I do this year? This is more than
I bargained for? And I think he sees the life
of less pain by getting hit all the time. And
to me, he's he's still a good player, but I

(04:17):
don't know that he likes it as much as he
did a year or two ago, or even when he
was younger.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Well, you know how men are. Whenever we get engaged
and everything's about the wedding, you know, that's all it's
on our mind. But when it comes to Travis Kelcey,
there are times that you definitely see like, oh he's
still in effect if he's still in his groove. But
we've seen too many times this year through five games.
He runs the route way too shallow, he's not fast,
he will drop a pass. But the interception that he
allowed against the Eagles really cost him what should have

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been a win for them. Travis Kelsey doesn't look the same.
Mahomes is head of alling guys like Taekwon Thornton, who's
a re vitalized his career after being essentially a second
round bust in New England. And the Jags. I don't
know what it is, but they're taking all these guys
everyone thought were busts on defense, whether it's whether whether
it's Devin Floyd or whoever on the defense, Tremon Walker

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another guy. They're making them effective players. They're making them
threatening players, and they found a system that in there
that works. So this could be. Yeah, the Chiefs are
losing the groove. I think also, by the way, since
you talking about guys getting older, Chris Jones looks he
does not look the same for the first five weeks.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Look, he looks slow, and I don't think he has
some of the help. You know, they lost some of
their defensive backs that were part of their Super Bowl is.
I think they lost Snead a couple of years ago.
They've lost some other guys on that defense. And so
in playing defensive line and in the NFL, you don't
sub as much as you do in college because you
don't play as many plays. That's a lot of play.
That's a lot of wear and tear on a player,

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and that's why they want to get paid as soon
as they can because they know they've got a really
short shelf life. Speaking of the Chargers, I had no
idea about this until somebody brought this up the other day,
But the fastest player in NFL history to reach a
thousand career catches is Keenan Allen. And I don't think
we ever think of Keenan Allen is this great wide receiver,
but if you look at his numbers, he's among the

(06:05):
best ever. And they were talking about some other accolades
that he had. I saw something come down on a notification.
But he's the fastest player in NFL history to reach
a thousand career catches and he did it in his
one hundred and fifty ninth game. Marvin Harrison needed one
hundred and sixty seven, and he's the sixteenth player in

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NFL history to have at least a thousand catches.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
Good for him. I know he had multiple hundred yards
one hundred catch seasons and he was always He's kind
of like Mike Evans. He was kind of like an
afterthought Pro Bowl, maybe second team All Pro type receiver,
but he was never considered the best. He was always
kind of in the back of your mind of the
best receivers. Right, he was never the guy you thought, oh,
he's the best one in the league. He was always
someone you kept you in your in your wheelhouse. Though

(06:48):
I didn't even realize that he that Marvin Harrison was
the fastest to one thousand receptions. That what is keenow
thirty three, thirty two, something like that somewhere in there.
You yeah, And he's just been he's nothing else. He's
been affected for the enjoy of his career because early
in his career, you remember, he was marred by injuries.
That was his thing is he's going to be a bust.
But then after, like he spent the first two years,
it felt like on and off. Ir he went like

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seven years in a row of being one of the
best receivers in the NFL at the very least, the
guy with the best hands, and even still to this
day is a really good route runner.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
All Right, Joe Flacco's got a new home. He just
has to go from one city to the next in
the same state. And we'll get into OHU in Texas
in the five o'clock hour. That's all straight ahead. It's
for the Andy Everette Show. On the ticket