{"id":74457,"date":"2019-10-10T18:57:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T22:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/?p=74457"},"modified":"2021-03-26T22:38:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T02:38:32","slug":"2019-kansas-city-chiefs-just-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2019\/10\/10\/2019-kansas-city-chiefs-just-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"R-E-L-A-X, the 2019 Kansas City Chiefs Will Be Just Fine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yikes, Sunday night was a rough game. It\u2019s wild to think about how, after a little more than a season of Patrick Mahomes<\/a><\/strong>, we as Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> fans have forgotten about losses like this. This is the first game in Mahomes\u2019 career that the offense has scored less than 23 points (they scored 13). However, that detail should be looked at within the context that the top two receiving options (Tyreek Hill<\/a><\/strong>, Sammy Watkins<\/a><\/strong>) were out with injuries, and the offensive line suffered injuries with left tackle Eric Fisher<\/a><\/strong> out and left guard Andrew Wylie<\/a><\/strong> getting knocked out of the game. If those two pairs of injuries weren\u2019t bad enough, Mahomes reaggravated his heel injury, which killed the mobility that makes his game great. The Colts did a lot right, the offense did a lot wrong, but injuries were the main culprit of Sunday\u2019s loss. <\/span><\/p>\n

The recent signing of veteran left guard Stefen Wisniewski<\/a><\/strong> is already a sign that the Chiefs are being aggressive in their efforts to remediate the issues from Sunday night. Tyreek Hill is also back to practicing which is a good sign that the number one deep threat in the NFL will return soon. When healthy, the 2019 Kansas City Chiefs offense is the best in the NFL. When injured, as they were Sunday night, they look mortal.<\/span><\/p>\n

2019 Kansas City Chiefs: No Need to Panic\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

An Overview<\/h3>\n

At 4-1, the Chiefs have a one-game lead over the second-place Raiders in the division, and the tiebreaker if they match the Chiefs record. They\u2019re still second in the AFC behind the 5-0 New England Patriots<\/a> (who, not to be bitter, have only played one team that has themselves won games [the Buffalo Bills<\/a>, who were 3-0 at the time]). The Chiefs are a better team than the Patriots when healthy, but when having to ask the lower levels of their roster to step up in prime time with a hobbled Mahomes, these are the results you\u2019re probably going to get. The Chiefs will correct the ship, get healthy, and, come February, we\u2019ll all be laughing about this weekend.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s why the Chiefs are going to be okay: the defense stepped up in a big spot. I\u2019ve been doing film reviews on the defense earlier this season and will be back soon with more film reviews, but they gave the offense opportunities. Mathieu had himself a game, forcing a red zone interception. The Chiefs gave up yards on the ground game to Marlon Mack<\/a><\/strong>, allowing 180 rushing yards. The Colts ran the ball 45 times, with an average of four yards per carry. Mack, with 29 carries, put the Colts offense on his back.<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve heard time and time again people say that the best way to beat the Chiefs is to keep Mahomes off the field and dominate time of possession. In the past, teams that tried to do that would come close, but like in the Ravens game last season, Mahomes did his magic and found his receivers. Remember the Pat to Tyreek fourth and nine? Yeah, well Hill wasn\u2019t in this game and Mahomes got hurt. Watkins was out of the game, and Byron Pringle<\/a><\/strong> had to step up in the bright lights. Even Travis Kelce<\/a><\/strong> had a rough night.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’ll All Be Fine<\/h3>\n

The offense just wasn\u2019t clicking. We\u2019ve already explained the injury side, but another aspect is how early it is in the season. This team is still finding its identity. The offense already knows its identity, but it struggled to fulfill that with misses on Pat\u2019s part, drops on the receiver\u2019s part, and a costly fumble on McCoy\u2019s part. We\u2019ve seen worse starts to seasons. Never forget the 2015 season, for example, where the Chiefs started 1-5 and then didn\u2019t lose another game until the divisional round in Foxboro. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Chiefs aren\u2019t out of the woods yet, with a road game this week against the Houston Texans<\/a> and a Thursday night game off the short week against the Denver Broncos<\/a>. That said, expect the Chiefs to know their issues and be hard at work fixing them. It won\u2019t be overnight, but don\u2019t abandon Super Bowl hopes off one bad night. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Chiefs took a beating on Sunday Night Football, but they’ll be just fine. Don’t buy into the media hysteria. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1827,"featured_media":74489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_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":[16,54],"tags":[39,311,56,122,1576],"class_list":["post-74457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chiefs","category-editorials","tag-afc","tag-afc-west","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-patrick-mahomes"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74457","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\/1827"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}