Chiefs at Broncos - Week 7 - Record: 5-2

Mahomes refusing to get on the cart
and walking off the field after his injury

Certainly everyone in the Chiefs Kingdom is still holding their breath. They've been holding it until sometime in the middle of the 2nd quarter. We'll all be holding our breaths until we find out more about what happened. Early reports are that Patrick Mahomes had a dislocated kneecap. At least there was no ACL injury or anything, and so far they've determined there is no break. An MRI will determine if there is any ligament damage or anything else to be really concerned about.

The announcers were saying that Chiefs personnel appeared to be less worried than you'd think about his knee, that they feel he'll be okay. Still holding breaths though. I'd like to think that if the injury is not so bad they'll still keep him out for a few games just to be on the safe side. We're 5-2 so we have at least a little cushion in that category. If it is more serious, well, let's just ensure that he's good to go for future seasons.

It doesn't mean we can't still do well this season. Tonight we clobbered the Broncos, and the reason was our defense. They were saying on the television that the Chiefs were getting tired of all the discouraging remarks, all justified, really, watching them play against the Texans: "You're not good pursuers. You're not good block shedders. You're not good gap fillers. You're not good tacklers. You're not good pass rushers. You're not good."

They definitely took it personally.

The Chiefs registered nine sacks on the night, including a strip-sack fumble returned for a touchdown and an alert stop on a fake punt. So please -- please please please stop already with the criticism of Frank Clark. The guy was monster on defense when we got him, he was a monster when you didn't think he was, and he will be a monster for a while.

I have to add that it was really good to see Anthony Hitchens back in there. He made a world of difference in our run defense, and of course he got help from all of our front seven who again decided they needed to actually hit somebody out there.

One more thing because it is late. It's all good except for all of our breath-holding we're still doing.

Tyreek Hill.

When Matt Moore went in for Mahomes, he was taking some time to get a feel for being out there, not doing much. For quite a while he wasn't getting Tyreek into the mix. Sure enough when I noticed it, and when the announcers noticed it, well, finally Andy Reid noticed it. We started to see more of him. That sweet deep floating pass from Moore to Hill, oh my. It dropped into Hill's lap and he could just turn on the jets to score the TD.

Still holding my breath though...
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