The Kansas City Chiefs defeated the New Orleans Saints, 26-13, to remain undefeated on the season in front of a national television audience on Monday night.<\/p>\n
A true three-phase victory, Kansas City piled up 460 yards of offense, converted four field goals and held New Orleans \u2013 the No. 1 scoring offense in the NFL \u2013 to a season-low 13 points.<\/p>\n
“It was a great atmosphere for a football game [tonight]. The guys could feel that, and they rose up,” said Head Coach Andy Reid. “I thought all three phases did a nice job tonight. It started with the offensive and defensive lines, they put a lot of pressure on the quarterback and took the pressure off [our] quarterback, and we ran the ball well.”<\/p>\n
Indeed, Kansas City rushed for 139 yards on Monday night courtesy of a strong outing by veteran tailback Kareem Hunt, who amassed 102 yards and a touchdown on 27 carries. It was Hunt’s first 100-yard performance since Week 10 of the 2020 season.<\/p>\n
“He’s playing hard,” quarterback Patrick Mahomes said of Hunt. “For someone who didn’t have training camp to have that [many] carries and catches, [plus] the pass protection and being able to pick up blitzes. That’s the stuff that goes under the radar, and he’s done great at that stuff.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kansas City Chiefs defeated the New Orleans Saints, 26-13, to remain undefeated on the season in front…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[501,346,7,497,118,110,896,55,2572,2571,6,498,499,397,505,503,502,504,500],"class_list":{"0":"post-214011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-andy-reid","9":"tag-chiefs","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-geha-field-at-arrowhead-stadium","12":"tag-kansas-city","13":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","14":"tag-new-orleans","15":"tag-new-orleans-saints","16":"tag-neworleans","17":"tag-neworleanssaints","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-nfl-football","20":"tag-patrick-mahomes","21":"tag-saints","22":"tag-super-bowl","23":"tag-super-bowl-iv","24":"tag-super-bowl-liv","25":"tag-super-bowl-lvii","26":"tag-travis-kelce"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}