HUGE Chiefs Injury Update + Kansas City Chiefs Will Beat The Commanders On Monday Night Football If…

HUGE Chiefs Injury Update + Kansas City Chiefs Will Beat The Commanders On Monday Night Football If…

Chiefs Kingdom. We are just a few days out from our week eight matchup on Monday Night Football against the Washington Commanders and we’ve got some enormous injury news to discuss that’s going to have a huge impact on this game. You’re watching the Chiefs Report by Chad Sports. My name is Jackson Durham. Let’s get right into this thing. [Music] So, like I said, guys, we are heading into a big one in week eight. Got the Washington Commanders coming to town to Kansas City for another home game for us on back-to-back home games. Looking for back-to back win. We’re looking to make three in a row wins, excuse me. Let’s talk about what’s on the agenda for today. So, first up, we’ve got some enormous injury news to discuss around one of the Commander star players and a couple players on our end as well. Some breaking news as I was getting ready to film this video. Had to add a little bit to it. Some injury news on our end. Once we get through all that, we’re going to focus on our keys to victory. Some things I think Kansas City absolutely needs to do to beat this talented Commander team. Even dealing with some injuries, they’re a good squad. We can’t take them lightly. And lastly, I need you guys to hit that subscribe button, guys. We are so close to 74,000 subscribers on this channel. As I was getting ready to film this, we were just 10 away. I know we can get there today. It’s the birthday of the channel today. I believe the channel turned six years old today. Help us celebrate the birthday. Help us get to 74K. Let’s get into the news, though. So Ian Raptor tweeting yesterday, Commander quarterback Jaden Daniels, who suffered a low-grade hamstring strain on Sunday, is out for Monday Night Football against the Chiefs. According to sources, Marcus Barota to get the start. The Commanders went on to confirm that this morning. And that means for the first time since 2016 in the wildard game, we are set to see Marcus Mariota start in Arrowhead Stadium. And I don’t need to remind you guys of what happened in this wildcard game. Derel Rivas, legend that he is, batted the ball right back to Marcus Mariota, who catches it, runs it in for a touchdown. They end up getting the win in this one over Alex Smith and the Kansas City Chiefs just before the Mahomes era got going. And Mariota in his career is 2-0 versus Kansas City as a starter. is a guy who’s had some success against us, but this is an opportunity for revenge, an opportunity for us to take advantage of an injured commander unit. No Jaden Daniels in this one. Don’t have to worry about their extremely extremely talented starting quarterback. I cannot stress enough for you guys how big that is. How much of their offense is designed around Jaden Daniels being the feature point there. He accomplishes so much for their run game, both being a huge element in in and of itself, also on the option. And they have some of that with Mariota as well, but he is just not the level of athlete that Jaden Daniels is. He’s not the thrower of the ball that Jaden Daniels is. And you could see his stats from this season absolutely back that up. He’s a solid quarterback, not a starter at all in this league anymore, though. And you can see that he’s just not at that level. 60% completion percentage, 426 yards, three touchdowns to two interceptions in two starts in which they are 1-1 and a passer rating of 85.6. And he’s unfortunate or Jaden Daniels is unfortunately not the only injury that the Commanders are dealing with. We’re never rooting for injuries, but these are very notable for us as we plan for this team. Dorance Armstrong, their edge defender, one of the best defensive players on this squad, is out for the rest of the season dealing with an ACL tear. he that’s a huge loss for them. It’s hard to understate how big that or overstate, excuse me, how big of a factor not having him in the pass rush is going to be, especially since we’re still expected to miss Josh Simmons this week. Debo Samuel is questionable for this game with a heel injury, as is Terry McLaren. They’ve been missing Terry McLaren a lot. They do expect to get both of these guys back this week, but that’s kind of a refrain we’ve heard over and over again from Dan Quinn in this commander staff around Terry McCorin and around Debo Samuel. They were both expected back in week seven against the Cowboys. Expected to practice all week. However, neither ended up practicing much at all. Actually, Debo did practice that week, but they held him out anyway. Terry didn’t practice at all, and neither of those guys ended up playing against the Cowboys. So, you can’t really just take Dan Quinn’s word that they are expected to play in week eight or that they’re trending to play in week eight. This is something I’m going to keep an eye on for you guys. I’m going to have some shorts coming out around their status. So, make sure you hit that subscribe button because you got to stay up to date around this news. And you also need to stay up to date around our own injury news. For those of those of you who are subscribed, I already put out a short on this so you’re a little up todate with this information or more up to date than everybody else. Trey Smith missed practice today dealing with back spasms. Very significant. Our right guard out once again. And unfortunately, he missed obviously left week seven pretty early on in that game dealing with this back lockup. And it does seem like it’s going to be a more long-term issue than we were originally hoping for. The speculation during the game was that he could have come back and played if the game was closer that he would have finished the game. But obviously we were destroying the Raiders. There was no need to put Trey Smith at risk. But this kind of makes you question whether or not that was the case in the practice window leading up. Or are they just being safe with Trey? Is that what the continued approach is? Because that is the approach for Kareem Hunt. Uh Andy Reid confirmed several other chiefs missed practice today. Josh Simmons still dealing with the personal matter. We’ll talk about him in a second. But Kareem Hunt also missed practice dealing with the bone bruise in his heel. We saw him pull up in I believe the third quarter of our game against the Raiders. Actually, no, it was the second quarter. It happened in the first half. Uh because he only played six snaps in the second half. Very much limited in the second half for Kareem Hunt after he got that bone bruise in his heel. And he did not practice on Thursday. But this is one where Andy Reid was very quick to assert that this is not going to be a long-term issue for Kareem Hunt, that this is just something that they’re taking it easy with. He wasn’t that clear about that with Trey Smith. So definitely a little more cause for concern with this back spasm issue with Trey. On to Josh Simmons though. This is something we’ve talked about a lot. Did a whole video around the Josh Simmons situation. We finally got a little bit more of an update on that one from Andy Reid today. Here’s what he had to say. He said Josh is dealing with a personal situation, which we kind of already knew, but he confirmed that the Chiefs have been in communication with him. And more importantly, he said that this is not a negative situation. So, all of the speculation, which I again do not love the speculation from Chief’s King, Chief’s Kingdom around the situation, at least the negative speculation. I understand that people are very curious, but I don’t think we need to run wild with the theories. And the theories that people did run wild with, the really negative ones, those are not true. Josh Simmons isn’t dealing with any sort of negative situation. He’s just taking care of his family, according to Andy Reid. That’s exactly what we want to hear. And again, we continue to support Josh Simmons. We’re sending all the best his way. Let’s focus on how to beat Marcus Mariota right now though. Number one, the biggest key to knocking him off his game, you go back in his career, a heavy dose of the blitz. Get pressure in his face. This is something we’ve struggled with all season long, getting pressure with just rushing four. We’ve talked about this over and over again as we get into trade rumors, as the trade deadline approaches. that defensive line could be a target area for us. But obviously, until we make a move like that, we’re going to have to rely on the Blitz to create real pressure and that’s what we’ve done all season pretty successfully. I think we can do that again against this Commander team and against Marcus Mariota who really does struggle with that. Number two, we want to take away the easy stuff from Marcus. He thrives on the 5 to 10 yard area passes. If you give him stuff like that, he’ll take it and he’ll hit it pretty efficiently. He’s completing about 75% of everything he throws between zero and 10 yards away from the line of scrimmage. We want to make him take some deeper shots. We want to take away the easy stuff and force him to take chances down the field because Terry McLaren, Debo Samuel, even if they play in this game, they’re not going to be 100%. His best two weapons not at 100%. We could cover those guys down the field. I think we can run with them. We can force him to throw some risky balls down the field, force him to commit some turnovers. And lastly, we’ve got to take away the QB run game. Our linebackers have got to play well in this. We’ve got to have an athletic approach there with Leo Chanel. I would love to see him playing the QB spy role in this one. I think he’s the kind of athlete that can handle Marcus Mariota be sideline to sideline. Do not let him beat you with his legs because he can create explosives for this commander offense with his legs if you allow him to do that. And speaking of explosives, guys, speaking of explosively good plays, explosively good food, I think of Omaha Stakes. Some of the best stakes in the game. And I was talking about it last week. I’m heading down to Oak or up to Oklahoma this weekend to meet my family to go see the Sooners take on Miss on Saturday. 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Let’s get back to our keys to victory against the Commanders. Number one, continuing our conversation around Marcus Mariota, we want to make them win through him. This team changes a little bit when Marcus is in there. Every team’s going to change when you have to make a change at quarterback. I think of the teams in the NFL, the Commanders have done a great job of structuring their depth chart at quarterback so that they don’t have to make so much of a drastic change. But it’s 100% clear that while this team is committed to the run always, they’re the number two rushing offense in the NFL, they commit to it more than anybody else. When Marcus is under center, check this out. Carry splits for them with Jaden Daniels under center, 27 and a half on average. That ranks them 13th in the NFL. Once again, they’re always committed to the run. They’re always going to be running hard and frequently. But when Marcus is in, they run it literally more than any other team in the NFL. They run the ball 34 times a game. 34 times a game. A lot of that with Marcus Mariota. He’s a huge part of their run game. They can do it with the QB option. They’ll do it with the QB draw. And like I said, he’s perfectly capable of creating explosives all on his own. But they’ve also got an arsenal of other guys that they can lean on. A great depth chart at running back featured with Bill Crosky Merritt and Jeremy McNichols. Also, Chris Rodriguez Jr. has been making some big plays as well. They did lose Austin Eckler, but we want to focus on Bill Crosky Merritt because Kroski Merritt has had a really, I’m gonna say up and down start to the season to be honest with you. He’s had some great games at times. He’s also had a bit of a fumbling issue and I think there’s some things we can take advantage of in Krosky Merritt’s game for a rookie, especially an undrafted rookie, either undrafted or seventh draft. He was undrafted. Uh, he’s playing really well. 73 carries, 377 yards, four touchdowns. He’s averaging 5.2 2 yards per carry. But the fumbling issue for him that’s popped up in the last couple games, I do think that’s something we can take advantage of. And if we can stifle the run game from them, I think we can force them to go to Marcus Mariota. I think that can be a huge win for us as a defense in this one. If we can force them to lean on Marcus’s passing attack, I just think they’re not built to throw the football that way. And you look over the last three games for Jaory Crossing Merritt, like I talked about, fumbling has been an issue for him. Against the Chicago Bears, he had a fumble. Against the com or against the Chargers, he had a fumble despite having a really great game. He actually had his worst game of the season by far last week against the Dallas Cowboys. So, I think this is something we could take advantage of, especially because of how good our run defense has been over the last couple of weeks, especially when you compare to the first few weeks of the season where run defense at times was an issue for our defense. I think it’s something that’s evolved into one of our biggest strengths, especially in the last three games. If you look at the last three games worth the stats, first four weeks we were on average allowing 26 carries for 127 yards, an average of 4.8 yards per carry. We had 15 runs against us of 10 or more yards. We gave up four rushing touchdowns in those four games. But the last three games, 20 carries per game, 77 12 yards, down to less than four yards per carry allowed. We’ve gave up a third as many 10 or more yard runs. really doing a much better job of containing the explosives in the run game and we’ve only allowed two rushing touchdowns. This is the approach we have to have. I was so impressed with the way we defended the run against the Lions, against the Jags, and even against the Raiders as well. Not a great rushing offense there like you have in the Jags and in the Lions. But again, we need to replicate those performances. If we can do that, we can force Washington to do what they don’t want to do, which is go away from the run game, to lean on Marcus Mariota, and we can win this football game. But I want to hear from you guys. Who do you guys have in this one? I’ve made it pretty clear I think the Kansas City Chiefs are going to win. We’re going to do a couple more reasons why I think they will and things they got to do, but I want to hear from you guys. Type KC if you’re rolling with our Kansas City Chiefs. Type W if you’re rolling with the Washington Commanders. Let me know down in the comments. Key to victory number two, we got to vary the attack on offense. This is something I was so impressed with last week against the Raiders and it’s something we talked about with getting Rashi Rice back that he can open up things in the offense for just about everybody. It’s not just about Rasheed when you get four back. It’s about what Rashi does for everybody. Again, that consistent reframe of everybody’s got to eat that you’ve heard over and over again from this com or from this Chief’s locker room. It’s clearly something they embody and it’s something Patrick Mahomes embodies in his distribution of the ball. Six or more receivers with 20 plus yards in each of the last two games. Seven against the Lions, six against the Raiders. 13 total guys with 20 or more yards in the last two games. Not 13 total guys, but 13 receivers, some of them being the same over the last two games going for more than 20 yards. That’s fantastic. That’s great ball distribution from Patrick Mahomes. And one of the guys that really stepped up in my opinion, someone that I think needs to step up again this week is Brashard Smith. Brashard Smith was so key last week, guys. He was key obviously because he was productive both as a runner and as a receiver. 14 carries for 39 rushing yards, five receptions for 42. But look at what he was able to open up for Noah Gray. We’ll go back to the first quarter of this game. I took some stills. Check out this fake screen. So, we hit the hit this screen to Bashard Smith probably six times in this game. Just quick little outs to him. Was more or less effective. Uh, but what it did was set up a fake opportunity. So, I have the circle on Brashard Smith. Obviously, you could see that, but I also want you to look at that linebacker for the Raiders. See where his head and where his body is faced. He is fully keyed in on that screen to Brashard Smith because he’s seen it before because we’ve already run this play. But what is he missing? Noah Gray running right by him. And what does it lead to? Noah Gray getting a 28 yard gain. That honestly should have been a touchdown. He should have been able to make a guy miss, get in the end zone in my opinion. But look at that linebacker. He’s five yards behind Noah Gray. He’s stunned that Noah Gray was actually the target of this play. And that’s great offensive play calling from Matt Naggie and Andy Reid. It’s great design and it’s what happens when everyone on the football field is a threat to get the ball at any time. when defenses can’t just key in on one or two of the guys on the dep chart. I want to see everybody on this dep chart touch the ball. I want to see everybody on this dep chart be a threat. I want to see Jaylen Royals get involved for the first time this season. I think the more guys on this team that are true threats to touch the ball, when you can threaten in so many ways like that, when you have so much talent in the room like we do and you use it effectively, you create a nightmare for the defense. When the defense has to account for so many threats, it is a huge win for you. So the more we can vary our attack, the more Patrick Mahomes can continue to be this kind of distributor who’s passing to as many guys using as all of his available options as humanly possible. We are going to beat the commanders. And the last thing we need to do to beat the commanders in my opinion, force, third, and medium or longer. This was interesting. When I was doing my research on this game, when I was watching tape, something that comes up over and over again as an issue for Washington with Mark Smear to under center is third in medium. So you go to third and five or more. They got 12 of these instances under Marx Maroto. On those 12 instances, they converted and continued the drive just two times. That’s bad. That is a less than 20% rate of conversion of keeping your drives alive. Their two conversions were interestingly both in garbage time of losses. One on a third and 17 and the other on a third and 12. So bad bad on third and medium. If you can create third and longs for this offense, you’re going to get them off the football field. And that again goes back to their inability to rely on the pass. That’s why we need to force them to go away from the run because they really can’t do it in critical moments. This is great evidence of that. And something that the Chiefs have been great at, speaking of, over the last couple weeks, is getting their opponents off the field on third and five or more. We only got the Lions into third and five or more just twice in that one, but we got them off the field both times that we did. And the Raiders, of the seven times we got them into third down, six of those seven were a third or five or longer, and they failed to convert on all seven of those third downs. That’s huge for our defense. That is great at taking advantage of the opportunities you create for yourself. One of the most frustrating things you can do as a defense is get your opponent into third and medium or or longer and then allow them to convert. You create a lot of momentum for your offense when you get the defense off the field in these situations. If we can continue that, if we can continue to force third and long and third and medium and continue to succeed in that distance, we can win this football game. Once again, I’m going to reiterate, this is very, very winnable. You do these three things. You handle a team that’s leaning on backups, you win, you continue the the success we’ve seen over the last few weeks, get to five and three, and take first place in this division. Get some help from the Broncos and Chargers. Hopefully, they lose this week, we can take first in the AFC West. I’m going to see you guys for takeaways. Hopefully takeaways where we’re discussing being first place in the AFC West. Take care and I will see you guys on Monday. [Music]

Chiefs news around Kansas City’s Week 8 matchup with the Washington Commanders. In today’s episode of the Chiefs Report by Chat Sports, host Jackson Durham breaks down the injury report for Chiefs vs. Commanders, which Jayden Daniels highlights, and how it will impact the Week 8 matchup. With the Jayden Daniels news, it’ll be important for the Chiefs defense to get after backup QB Marcus Mariota. He also discusses the Chiefs injury updates on Trey Smith and Kareem Hunt as well, both of whom appeared on the NFL Week 8 injury report. He also gives his Chiefs vs. Commanders preview and keys to victory, including forcing Marcus Mariota to throw deep, stopping the run game through Bill Croskey-Merritt and involving everyone on the Chiefs’ depth chart on offense, especially Rahsee Rice and Brashard Smith.

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Week 8 Chiefs vs. Commanders injury report:
– Trey Smith, KC: Back spasms
– Kareem Hunt, KC: Bone bruise in heel
– Josh Simmons, KC: Personal matter
– Dorance Armstrong, WAS: Out (Knee)
– Deebo Samuel, WAS: Ques. (Heel)
– Terry McLaurin, WAS: Ques. (Quad)

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Chiefs’ keys to victory vs. Commanders:
– 1st: Make them win through Marcus Mariota
– 2nd: Varied attack for the Chiefs offense
– 3rd: Chiefs defense forcing 3rd & medium

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– YDS: 426
– TD/INT: 3/2
– RTG: 85.8

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