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BY PETE SWEENEY
Not solely are bye weeks higher while you’re undefeated; they’re additionally higher while you’re undefeated having handled the sheer variety of well being points the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs have confronted all through the 2024 NFL season.
The Chiefs started their preseason by instantly dropping vast receiver Hollywood Brown, who had been introduced aboard to alleviate a few of the offensive points the crew encountered in 2023 when it appeared that they didn’t have sufficient weapons on the vast receiver place.
Clyde Edwards-Helaire started the yr on the non-football harm record, and two video games in, fellow working again Isiah Pacheco fractured his fibula. Beginning defensive finish Mike Danna needed to miss final week’s recreation because of a calf harm, and within the recreation, vast receiver Rashee Rice suffered a nasty knee harm.
If Kansas Metropolis knocks off the New Orleans Saints on Monday night time, they are going to enter their bye week with a 5-0 undefeated report, an inconceivable feat contemplating the harm adversity it has confronted.
And that’s the place we begin our Chiefs-Saints recreation preview:
I believe the plan has to alter while you lose a participant the caliber of Rice.
Week 4 in opposition to the Los Angeles Chargers provided a glimpse of how the Chiefs may purpose to win video games shifting ahead after dropping Rice, who nonetheless leads the crew with 288 receiving yards.
Head coach Andy Reid and quarterback Patrick Mahomes made it a degree to get tight finish Travis Kelce and working again Kareem Hunt concerned, unlocking their manufacturing with the risk instilled from the 54-yard bomb rating to rookie Xavier Worthy.
It helps that regardless of a season-high 89 yards, Kelce was unhappy with the efficiency.
“An enormous recreation is like, I rating a landing or one thing,” Kelce stated on this week’s version of New Heights. ”I used to be accountable this recreation, I didn’t have any drops, which is what occurred in Atlanta to make me really feel like I had a foul recreation. I didn’t have an impressive recreation.”
It may’t simply be Kelce contributing, although. If the Chiefs are to proceed to win regardless of all of the accidents, they are going to want manufacturing from the secondary receivers akin to Justin Watson and JuJu Smith-Schuster, too.
I requested Mahomes about their significance throughout his press convention on Thursday.
“These guys are all the time the blokes that do it the best manner,” answered Mahomes. “They’re all the time in the best place. They do what they’re alleged to do. They get guys lined up, and I believe having these guys is a luxurious. You understand that they’re going to be there, they’re going to get open, and so they’re going to make performs when their numbers are known as.
“I believe (normal supervisor) Brett Veach did an amazing job of continuous to construct inside that receiving room. Clearly, [I was] not anticipating two massive accidents (Rice and Hollywood Brown) earlier within the yr in that receiving room. However having the assist of the blokes to come back in and step up and make performs at any time when these guys aren’t in there.”
Smith-Schuster’s solely landing of the season got here in opposition to the Atlanta Falcons when Rice needed to miss a play.
What else is on this version?
Pete has two extra preview factors to observe on Kansas Metropolis’s Week 5 matchup in opposition to New Orleans.
Rocky Magaña highlights the return of former Chiefs gamers to Arrowhead Stadium.
John Dixon explores the matchup of Kansas Metropolis’s protection vs. Derek Carr yet again.
The Editors Present has returned!
Here’s a preview of this week’s Editors Present that includes Pete Sweeney and John Dixon.
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Brandon Kiley is again with Arrowhead Satisfaction as a Tuesday columnist. Right here’s an excerpt from his providing this week:
The Chiefs are susceptible. It’s not enjoyable to listen to, however everyone knows it’s true.
Their No. 1 vast receiver shall be out for an prolonged time period, and their greatest working again shall be on the shelf for the following month. They already made a change at left sort out, and it took practically a month earlier than we noticed Travis Kelce featured within the passing recreation.
This crew is ripe for the taking, however is anybody within the AFC up for the problem?
The Chiefs’ 4-0 begin, whereas uneven, provides them some margin for error. The one different groups within the AFC at the moment boasting a report above .500 are the Buffalo Payments, Pittsburgh Steelers and Houston Texans. The Payments simply obtained humiliated on the highway and have a date subsequent week in opposition to the Texans. The Steelers have scored greater than 20 factors in a recreation as soon as by way of the primary 4 weeks and simply misplaced on the highway on the Colts. The Texans are 3-1, however their offense has sputtered, and their protection leaves one thing to be desired.
So, I’ll ask once more – does anybody within the AFC have the products? The Chiefs stay the perfect crew within the AFC till confirmed in any other case. However, truthfully, that claims extra about the remainder of the convention proper now than it does the Chiefs.
In our post-game publication, Pete shares his three ideas stemming from every efficiency, Ron Kopp delivers his very first have a look at the movie — and Jared Sapp captures every thing being stated concerning the turning level of the sport.
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