Turns out the way the NFL arranged it meant that no matter what a Chiefs win would mean the Chiefs would get that No. 1 seed no matter what Buffalo does tomorrow. If that Monday night game had been completed with a Buffalo win we'd have to have won today and hope Buffalo loses tomorrow. The only thing now that would be a concession to Buffalo is if the Chiefs and Bills both make it to the AFC Championship game, that game would be played on a neutral field.
As it is we got the win, really putting together a dominant effort against the Raiders. This does mean we get the bye next week -- we have it right now, we don't have to wait to see what happens to either the Bills or the Bengals. We really got a nice deal with how the NFL addressed this thing, we have to admit.
The play of the day was an Andy Reid spectacular, they called it the "Snow Globe," and it was neat to see it drawn up for this game, one that really wasn't nearly as important as a playoff game when it would be doubly spectacular.
About the very end of the first half, Chiefs ball at around the Raiders 10, 15 yard-line, the offensive unit huddled in a circle arm-in-arm and spun around in an 11-man circle. Really. Just like on the 1st grade playground. They surely did it because when they broke the huddle they wanted to surprise the Raiders defense. Breaking from their "Ring Around the Rosie" fun they spread themselves all over the place, with Jerick McKinnon taking the shotgun snap and Patrick Mahomes lined up behind him.
McKinnon took the ball and after a quick RPO move pitched it back to Mahomes taking a few steps to the right, who after catching it immediately threw it back across the field to Kadarius Toney who wove his way to the end zone for the touchdown.
Wow.
Thing is they got one of our O-linemen for holding, so the play was nullified, but on the replay I just could not see where No. 52 who they called it on, or No. 62 who it may have been on, did any real holding at all.
Not to worry. Next play, Mahomes just very conventionally handed the ball to Toney for him to zip and zoom through the left flat to get the TD.
Couple quick notes. Really liked seeing Ronald Jones get a lot of reps. Most of them were in garbage time at the end, but he did get more other runs than in any other game. Good to see him get that work and do reasonably well at that, even scoring a touchdown. And our pass rush was on it today. We had something like five sacks I believe. Excellent play there will be critical for a deep playoff run.
See you in two weeks after we do the wait-see for who we'll be playing then!
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The image of Kadarius Toney is courtesy of Andrew Mather at the official Chiefs website, thank you.
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