{"id":247950,"date":"2025-09-24T21:33:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T01:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=247950"},"modified":"2025-09-25T10:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:25:12","slug":"love-and-war-chiefs-star-rejects-russell-wilson-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/09\/24\/love-and-war-chiefs-star-rejects-russell-wilson-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLove and War\u201d: Chiefs&#8217; Star Rejects Russell Wilson Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/chiefs\/\" target=\"_self\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/giants\/\" target=\"_self\">New York Giants<\/a> 22-9 on Sunday night with no mercy! Defensive superstar Chris Jones was the star for social media, for rejecting a jersey swap with Giants QB Russell Wilson. Jones said no!<\/p>\n<p>In his postgame interview with NBC\u2019s Melissa Stark, standing on the grass, Jones was asked if he approached Wilson again for the jersey. The veteran brushed it aside, saying:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don&#8217;t even want it,\u201d he said. \u201cIt&#8217;s all good. I don&#8217;t want that thing hey you know over time you kind of understand, and that now I don&#8217;t even want i. It&#8217;s love and war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chris Jones takes SHOT at Russell Wilson over jersey swap snub: \u2018Don\u2019t even want it\u2019.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4ITJr_rWYCs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Stark\u2019s question confirmed the refusal, though no details were provided about their very first attempt to swap jerseys. What was clear was that all was not well for Wilson. He struggled mightily, completing 18 of 32 passes for two interceptions and posting a 43.8 rating, leaving the Giants at 0-3.<\/p>\n<h2>The Reaction Back in Kansas City Was Just As Tense<\/h2>\n<p>According to the \u201cAll Chief\u2019d Up!\u201d podcast, fans are openly questioning whether this offense is truly an asset in the AFC race. One supporter put it bluntly on social media:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChiefs offense still su*ks,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI hate 95% of the play calling. Hopefully, Worthy and Rice help soon. Chiefs are averaging 20 points a game. Worst in the Mahomes era. The Chiefs will not beat the Ravens next week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chiefs fans are PISSED OFF after Giants game exposes THIS...\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qYBMnU_Axb8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The frustration is rooted in numbers &#8211; Kansas City ranks 26th in third-down conversions, failing to prevail when it matters most and leaving too many drives stalled. Critics have zeroed in on offensive coordinator Matt Nagy, with an analyst, Steve Williams, arguing he \u201cprobably needs to be canned after this season and probab[ly] should have been canned before the season\u201d because the players may no longer respect him. Right tackle Jawaan Taylor has also drawn scrutiny for repeated penalties in the red zone. With their backs against the wall, the Chiefs cannot afford mistakes from a starter they are paying too much to sit.<\/p>\n<p>However, the defense was the clear asset &#8211; Kansas City pressured Wilson on 54 percent of his dropbacks, with Jones and George Karlaftis each generating seven pressures. That resilience gave the offense just enough margin to hold on.<\/p>\n<h2>For Russell Wilson and Co., the Season Already Feels Over Before October<\/h2>\n<p>Wilson\u2019s showing was blasted as the \u201cworst quarterback game I have ever seen\u201d from a Giant, with turnovers and red-zone failures, including an intentional grounding on first-and-goal. Marshall Green, speaking on the \u201cGiants Now\u201d podcast, put the blame on ownership:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohn Mara you are the reason the New York Giants are the worst team in the National Football League record-wise since 2017,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=egzNPZXzRx4\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he said<\/a>. \u201cYou were too lazy to fire Brian Daboll and Joe Schoen. Because you didn&#8217;t want to go through another head coaching search, and you didn&#8217;t want to go through another GM search.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Next up, the Chiefs face another test against the Ravens. Young players like Tyquan Thornton and Noah Gray need to step up. Meanwhile, Giants fans are getting <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/09\/09\/is-russell-wilsons-time-already-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">impatient with QB Russell Wilson<\/a> and want rookie Jaxson Dart to play instead. The Chiefs&#8217; defense is doing great, but the offense needs to catch up or they&#8217;ll waste all their hard work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chiefs defensive star Chris Jones firmly rejected Giants quarterback Russell Wilson\u2019s long-sought-after jersey swap request.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5624,"featured_media":247310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,16,20,6431],"tags":[298,9079,4706,33129,122,92,7960,237,9349],"class_list":["post-247950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-chiefs","category-giants","category-nfl-teams","tag-chris-jones","tag-george-karlaftis","tag-jawaan-taylor","tag-jaxson-dart","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-new-york-giants","tag-noah-gray","tag-russell-wilson","tag-tyquan-thornton"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247950"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248074,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247950\/revisions\/248074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}