Rich Eisen on the Kansas City Chiefs’ “Bleak” Chances to Reach the Playoffs This Season

Rich Eisen on the Kansas City Chiefs’ “Bleak” Chances to Reach the Playoffs This Season

Listen, the folks out there who are Chiefs fatigued, and there’s a lot of you out there, I know. Uh for those of you out there who have been waiting for the Chiefs to finally stumble and not get up, well, guess what? The first alert, Kansas City Chiefs have arrived. They have fallen. And I don’t know if they’re going to be able to get up because at this point in time, we will have a new AFC West winner for the first time in 10 years. That we are know uh we know for sure. We are assured of that when the Kansas City Chiefs lost last night and the Denver Broncos earlier in the day took care of business for their 10th win in a row. That now gives them a lead over the Kansas City Chiefs. Too large for the Kansas City Chiefs to overcome with their four remaining final games. They cannot get to 11 wins. The Broncos have 11 wins. That is all she wrote on that front. And the question is, can the Kansas City Chiefs make the playoffs at all? And I don’t know if they’re going to be able to. Chiefs fatiguers out there, it’s your special day. That day has arrived because everything has gone wrong for the Kansas City Chiefs that could go wrong this year. Every single break that they used to get, everybody thinking, well, you know what, the refs are in the bag for them. The football gods are in the bag for them. As if they weren’t talented enough on their own to do what they were doing. Every single thing seems to be going against them right now and many of it self-inflicted. The Houston Texans deserve a lot of credit for what we saw on Sunday night to bring all of this about. That Houston Texans defense is as good as anybody else’s. And we see some pretty darn good ones. the aforementioned Denver Broncos. The Kansas City Chiefs um saw both of those defenses already this year and lost to both of them. The Green Bay Packers have a pretty darn good defense. The Seattle Seahawks are just boat racing a bunch of people on that side of the ball. The Rams have got a terrific defense. I could go on and on. The Chiefs defense has let them down at times where the Chiefs defense needed to pick them up. And the Chief’s offense has let the Chief’s defense down at times when the defense needed to be picked up. Honestly, nothing’s working. And I’m just wondering if the Chiefs could wave a wand and go back to Brazil. Week one, I was sitting in that booth in S. Paulo, Brazil. There’s Kurt Wonder on my right without the puffy jacket, belly full of cheese bread. And we were Oh boy. Can confirm. Oh boy. Third snap of that game. Xavier Worthy goes one way, Travis Kelce goes the other way, and they met right in the middle of the field. Worthy knocked out of the game, knocked out of action. for a couple weeks and that was the beginning of a nightmarish season that just feels cursed. That’s how the game began. The game ended with the Chargers needing just one more first down and the Chiefs defense getting the Chargers to a third down on offense, needing to just get off the field. Chris Jones takes the wrong path to Justin Herbert who runs around the end that Chris Jones was supposed to occupy. Slides for the first down. Drew Tranquil goes in Chris Jones’s face. They start barking at each other and the Chiefs lose. Next week they go home to Arrowhead taking on the Philadelphia Eagles. This game was a struggle as it should be against the defending Super Bowl champs in a rematch right off the bat in their home opener in Arrowhead. Chiefs are down by three but inside the 10yd line. Six yd line to be exact. Second and goal from there. Fourth quarter. Mahomes sees Kelsey doesn’t put it right on him. Ball pops up in the air. Interception taken essentially to midfield from there. no points and the Eagles go down the field and score. Make it a two-score game. And that was all she wrote. The Chiefs are 0 and2. You could take a look at every single one of their losses this year. Jacksonville want to talk about an red zone interception as well. Marching right down in Momes flips the ball. There’s Kelsey. There’s Ju Guu Smith Schustster, but Devin Lloyd snatches it out of the air and recreates essentially a James Harrison moment. Pick six flips that game and just the breaks that normally go their way. Like say uh a team decides to go for it cuz they need that touchdown, they’re basically out of timeouts. the quarterback and Trevor Lawrence slips and falls. Normally that’s a break the Kansas City Chiefs get and win the game. He gets up and runs it into the end zone and Chris Jones is caught on all 22 standing there. Future Hall of Famer, first Bell Hall of Famer talking about how breaks sometimes don’t go your way and then basically had to come out later on that week and say, “My bad. Everybody saw what they saw.” That happened to the Chiefs. They lose to Jacksonville on a Monday night just when they thought they could get above 500. But no, they’re now two and three and then go on a nice little win streak that comes to an end in Buffalo. What happened there in week nine? Well, Mahomes on third and 10. Joey Bosa comes in in a fourth quarter of a 28-21 game cuz sometimes the offensive line has not been able to protect Mahomes. forces Mahomes to put it up in the air. Throws it into double coverage. Interception. Massive turnover. They lose that one. 28-21. Next week in Denver, they’re actually up in Denver. They could basically say, “Nice win streak you’ve had here, Broncos, but this is our division. We’re in your house. We’re up on you in the fourth quarter and stop you and get the ball back up by three.” But two straight three and outs, Denver does what it’s done all fourth quarter season long. Come back and win and win in a one-sore game. And at that point in time, the Chiefs, who had been undefeated in one-score games the previous season, part of the reason why they went to the Super Bowl, fall to 0 and5 in them. They pull one out of their orifice at home down 20 to9 against the Indianapolis Colts. need overtime the next week in Arrowhead. They’re back. They’re back going into Dallas on a Thanksgiving. We all know what happened there. A game that is a one-score game. 28-21. Mahomes is driving down the field. Third and eight. There’s Rashi Rice wide open over the middle. Hits him right in the hands and he drops it. Dallas gets the ball back. Marches down the field. Makes it a two-score game. almost pulled it out when Mahomes escaped the sack twice, kept his balance and found a wide open Xavier Worthy down the field to think it’s going to happen again until it didn’t. Too many mistakes there. Then last night, we saw three interceptions by Patrick Mahomes and no touchdowns. Three of them. Last time that happened where a Kansas City Chiefs quarterback had no passing touchdowns and three interceptions in the same game. Tyler Pelco, everybody has entered the chat. Week 12, 2011. That’s how long it’s been. And the Texans defense came in and hit him in the mouth. That Jaylen Petri tipped one in the air and then recircled back to grab it. He was flying his body all over the place. And so when Mahomes is just a hair off and the defense is laying the wood, you’re going to see drops or you’re going to see a moment where Andy Reed starts to get impatient and says, “I’ll make the mistake this time. I’ll go for it on fourth and one for my own 31 with 11 minutes to go and my defense is looking like the Texans defense. I’ll go for it. Doesn’t work. Mahomes is Hector. Tries to flip it to Rice. Doesn’t connect. A gift. A gift to an offense that had not been doing a lick. Short field. Touchdown. Then another moment going for it. This time on fourth down with five minutes to go. This one was a little bit more understandable from their own 41. This one Ray Rice just had it in his hands. I don’t know what happened to him over the last couple of weeks. Oh man. Rashi Rice, pardon me. Dropsies. And then one last moment similar to the week 2 loss to Philadelphia. Ball not right on Kelsey. Up in the air, interception. And um that’s all she wrote. Too many mistakes from all the folks that know what it takes to win in this game is such a slim margin. And they’re now under 500 through 13 games for the first time since the 2012 season when they were 2 and4. I don’t know what’s going on. I’m shocked as just anybody else. And I know all you Chiefs fatiguers are loving seeing people like me pound the table saying I will have to see it to believe it. And you you know and you heard Collinssworth last night. All the people who think that Collinssworth has been uh it’s been a lot. It’s a bit much. I’ll say it tonsil tickling to use the phrase of the day. You know that that they have they they were just loving that. Coupe is one of them. I don’t know why Am I It’s cuz his older brother loves Taylor Swift even though she appears two seconds and I love her too and so does her sister and so does his so so does his mother. I don’t know Coupe Coupe the Patriot fan. He’s sitting there at home. He’s he’s like you. He’s texting you having a party. Coup’s my boy. I don’t know why I’m I’m I’m raising a Chiefs hater. It’s not from dad. But I know all you folks out there are loving watching people like me going I don’t have answers. It’s Uncle Brock. Oh, they don’t have answers either. I think I see Mahomes keyed up. Hit it. Yeah, I mean you’re just getting late in the season and you’re not going to get um these opportunities back and um that’s a good football team, but we had chances and and we didn’t um execute at at the right time to win it. We know the chances are getting lower and lower, but um I know the guys on this team are going to give everything they have, every opportunity we get. The NextG stats machines gives them a 16% chance. I I I That seems high. Well, I mean they’d have to you have to win out. So, they have to remove all these mistakes. I just keep on saying that crops up. Um, I I I did say last week I identified the Colts as the team because they’ve already beaten them. That’s the team that finishes second in the AFC South and is in a wild card position and the Chiefs can pop out out of their back pocket that tie break that they have because they beat the Colts. The problem is the Colts are now no longer a wild card team and I don’t even know how they’re going to finish with Daniel Jones now out and the Texans are now sitting there in that seven spot and they’re two and a half games behind them. I I don’t know, man. There’s a mosh pit of teams at six and seven right now that’s two behind a Colts team that’s not even a wild card team right now. That’s how bleak it is. And the division’s gone. So, congratulations Chiefs fatiguers. You’re getting what you want. I I I don’t like the way you put that. It’s the truth. What’s wrong? This this this type of season and regression was easy to see coming. I don’t know how that’s the case. Based on last year, they literally got every bounce and break, ref stuff, whatever, that you could possibly get 11 and0 whatever the number was in one score games. That just wasn’t going to maintain. That’s not sustainable. And the way the roster is constructed, it’s just not a good roster. They’re old. They’re slow. They’re not old and slow. I I’ll push back on that. There’s zero explosivity in this offense. Your best runner is the quarterback. And andy Reed, I think we need to have an honest conversation. He’s lost a little bit on the fast. That was a major major blunder last night, especially the way his defense was playing. Well, let’s have him uh give the reasoning behind it. Hit it. I I thought we could get it. That was the decision. You know, I was was confident we could, you know, we could do that. So, it’s important uh that you take advantage of opportunities. I thought it was an opportunity. I was wrong. No, I mean, hindsight, it was wrong. We’ve been pretty good on fourth downs, so uh you know, I mess that one up. I mean, and that’s as honest as you can get. And why wouldn’t he think that, right? That’s earned arrogance the way they’ve played in these situations in the last eight seasons. Again, I was talking to the team with Kurt before week one. They were all like, Xavier Worthy is going to have a much bigger role in this offense. Three snaps in, he’s gone. He’s not only just gone for the game, he’s gone for the month. Rasheed Rice gets suspended. He’s gone. Again, if I I’m wondering if they go back in the Delorean, you know, do they go and and grab Bree Hall from the Jets for a three? How does that change things? I bet they wish they would have done that. They go back in the Delorean and they go back and find whatever whatever they did to step on a rake and then have the entire season go just feel cursed. They go back there and they just have Worthy and Kelsey run uh routes of a different depth. It just started a whole season. Now I understand you’re saying, “Hey, you can’t get the breaks and yada yada yada.” But they still had the roster and they also believe they had the left tackle who’s now gone who also was gone for a couple weeks due to personal reasons as well. I’m not making excuses. I’m just saying that I believe if anybody feels that the window is completely closed. I I would pump the brakes on that a little bit. They need kind of an overhaul. Well, they have the general manager who the last time he saw something so glaring in a Super Bowl loss, they hit it and then they went on a run for the ages, I might add. That does appear to be over. Certainly on the front of the AFC West and maybe just for the playoffs at all. Hey, you made it all the way to the end. Thanks for that. Check us out every single day streaming live on Disney Plus and the ESPN app 12 to 3 Eastern.

Rich Eisen weighs in on the Kansas City Chiefs’ crushing Week 14 loss to the Houston Texans and what it means for Patrick Mahomes & KC’s chances to make the playoffs this season.

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