Name: Is Kansas City's NFL Playoff Hope Dimming After Denver Loss?
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Is Kansas City losing to Denver? I think it's the biggest result we've seen so far this season. It does not, well, maybe for some, it will suggest Kansas City is fraudulent, not all that good. I, I wouldn't go that far, but what I would say, Is this team could miss the playoffs, and the market has reflected that now. This team has a shorter price by a lot to miss the postseason than win their division, which they have won year in and year out, and that goes back to before Mahomes with Alex Smith, we saw consistently this team take the top of the division. And a win here would have put them as favorites to do that again. They would be a loss back of Denver with one to go in Arrowhead. They are now 3 losses back of the Broncos sitting at 5 and 5, entering week number 12. Lacey, how panicked should Kansas City Chiefs fans and backers be following this result? I think very, Kevin, you and I had talked about it in the pre-game that I actually thought the wrong team was favored in the matchup, not to take away from the dominance of the Kansas City Chiefs. But entering that matchup, Denver had won 7 straight. They were undefeated at home, 5-0, and they won those games by an average margin of victory of 12.2 points per game. Their quarterback Bo Nix, Al Doul's Pat Mahomes, 295 to 275. The defense forced turnovers and at the end of the day they hold Pat Mahomes and the Chiefs to 5 of 13 on third down conversions. That was a dominant effort from the Defensive perspective and the Kansas City Chiefs are on the back nine. They're an aging team when it relates to Travis Gels and the defensive side of the ball. I think their defense isn't as dominant as they have been in recent years, and teams have exploited them. And Sean Payton and the Chargers and some other teams in the AFC have now closed the gap, and now they're they're a mortal football team fighting for their playoff lives. This is a team who right now is 2 and 4 against projected playoff teams. I didn't include Jacksonville in that. I did include Detroit and Baltimore. They are currently 0 and 4 against teams that are making the AFC playoffs as of today, and. You can use those things to certainly point at how good is Kansas City really because that is a a real question right now. But it is also so important when we talk about tiebreakers. The reality with this loss for Kansas City, Joe, is the margin for error is gone. They have to finish with a better record than the Jacksonville Jaguars because they have already lost that tiebreaker as Jacksonville gets a huge win against the Chargers. They have to beat the Chargers next go around just to pull even with them on this season. This is a team who has to still play the Houston Texans, and we might think, oh, that'll be fine. The Texans are playing better ball. They have to play the Indianapolis Colts who will be coming off of a by a loss there, you're 5 and 6. The Chiefs are favorite in that game, we'll break that game down when the time comes, but it's not a gimme, it's not a layup, they're not a 14 point favorite in this spot or anything of the nature for the Chiefs. Do I think they're one of the, Four best teams in football, no. One of the 10 best teams in football, yes, but this isn't the college football playoff. You don't get in based on perception or you, you get in on your record. That's how you make it, and Kansas City's record, Joe, is alarming. They've never been 5 and 5 before. With Patrick Mahomes, and they are being smashed in the face with regression in one score games. They lived in these 1 score games for 2 years and they won them all, it felt like. They are 0 and 5 in one score games this season, Joe, a jarring jarring number. Yeah, let's take it a step further, Kev. 5 of their losses, right, 4 of them have come on the road or on a neutral field. They lose to the Chargers, Jags, Bills, and Denver, all on the road or on a neutral field. That was the week one matchup, and they're all potentially playoff caliber teams. So when you look at this team big picture and you say, are the Chiefs viable to make An AFC championship run, whether they make or win the AFC West, I would say I'm betting against it. Now they might squeak into the playoffs as a wild card team, but knowing their body of work this year where they have struggled to win not only close games, but games on the road that potentially they would pull out, that is a cause of concern because the more A good team as you win games at home and you win one or two on the road. The mark of an elite team is that you step up in road environments and that's something that Kansas City hasn't done, coupled with the fact they don't have a dominant rushing attack. If they were running the football much more consistently than what they are right now, you would say that they potentially have a shot because of the rushing attack. Mahomes. Their defense, I said, has regressed. They don't have a consistent rushing attack and they're losing games in neutral in road environments. That is alarming as you went to the playoffs. So again, big picture, I'm selling this team. They don't have the mark of an elite caliber team where they could just turn it on and turn it off, and I think they've been exposed this year.

Is Kansas City's NFL Playoff Hope Dimming After Denver Loss?

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