Chiefs at Bucs Preview

Just some thoughts I had to pound out in a Chiefs post.

First of all tonight I'm seeing all over the web how the Dolphins QB got severely crunched tonight. I didn't see it and I don't really want to see the replay. Apparently he had some concussive incident on Sunday as well, and the expressed concerns are that he was rushed back out there just four days later to more of a liability to be seriously injured. As I've heard so far they say he'll be okay.

Obviously the NFL absolutely has to do more to protect their quarterbacks. Whatever it is, they've got to do it. It blows my mind that they won't do more to protect players like Tua -- and our own Patrick for that matter, and all of them -- when they otherwise have a snit when a Chris Jones says to the other quarterback "Your momma" after a much nicer sack and the Chiefs lose the game because of it.

Please.

Now I believe the Chris Jones thing was just because the NFL loathes the Chiefs -- it is just one of those things we all have to live with. It was also one of those phenomenally stupid things that often enough seem to pile up against the Chiefs, especially when we play the Colts for some reason.

On my Twitter feed I have absolutely no Chiefs things showing up -- I deliberately make it that way -- but I do follow Seth Keysor who writes terrific things about the Chiefs on his Substack. One of his latest is an inventory of the 31 things that went wrong with the Chiefs offense on Sunday. 

Oh wow, did it ever. It just wasn't hard to see. I noted that Eric Bieniemy said the Colts kicked our butts so we should all just deal with it. Again, that's a fine attitude to take into next week, makes you work that much harder to prepare for the next game, that's great.

But no, Mr. Bieniemy, the Colts should've been smacked 38-20. Had little to do with the Colts. They won mostly because of, yes, the incredible legion of stupid Chiefs things.

Over and over and over again it seemed something weird or silly was happening with the Chiefs. Whether it was a ridiculous late ref's call or a goofy missed assignment or Mahomes just plain making the wrong throw or awkward scramble or the shadow-then-instant bright sunlight to mess with our vision a number of times in the 4th quarter -- over and over and over again.

31 times by Mr. Keysor's count. That's unreal.

This week we are at the Buccaneers place for a rematch of Super Bowl LV, again at their place, yet all week a massive hurricane was bearing down on Tampa. They'd actually made contingency plans to have the game in Minneapolis, but the storm ended up going a bit more south and devastating Fort Myers. The damage was pretty intense there, but it wasn't so bad in Tampa so they'll have the game there after all.

But yeah, wow.

Thing is, if you remember, the most famous major downpour regular season NFL game ever -- and no, I'm not exaggerating that it is indeed the most famous -- was in December of 1979 when a monsoon hit the game in Tampa between the Bucs and -- wait for it -- the Chiefs.

Go figure.

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