I'll start with the latest on Rashee Rice. I saw a quick note somewhere that said he was now officially out for the season. Then I looked around to get confirmation, but I saw nothing else on that -- no other news or notes anywhere. Are we still waiting with that sliver of hope that he'll somehow be okay?
Over the course of the 1st half we had our way with the Saints, really. The only thing the Saints had was a nifty long-bomb TD pass from Derek Carr to Rashid Shaheed. That was absolutely it for them. Our D-line was doing great work stuffing Alvin Kamara. Bryan Cook snatched a nice pick early to get us started on the drive for our one 1st half TD.
Meanwhile we got terrific play from our O-line busting Kareem Hunt free for regular big yardage runs, including a 5-yard TD run. Mahomes was stepping it up, elevating that Mahomes-like play to that next level, nice, really having a good feel for the pocket tonight, making connections when he could and when he couldn't he scrambled nicely.
The highlight of the game so far: After being stuck with a 2nd-&-34 on a Carson Steele messed up fumble thing then a Trey Smith penalty, we spectacularly got it down to 4th-&-2 at the 24 yard-line! How? That patented Kelce catch-&-flip thing! He caught it, ran a bit, then threw a spiffy hip pass right to Samaje Perine whereupon he gained about 15 more yards. Still, we had to settle for a Butker FG.
With minute left in half, the Chiefs used some really nice passing connections from Patrick to JuJu to do some major matriculating. Still could only muster another FG. Up 16-7 at the half.
Here as the 2nd half starts they received the kickoff and continued matriculating until they got stopped and, alas, Butker bonked his 50-yard FG attempt off the upright. Eegh.
We managed to stop the Saints yet again and yet again we matriculated beautifully until......
At the Saints 2 they get one of those stupid ridiculous plays that always used to wreck the Chiefs. Mahomes throws a strike to JuJu at the goal line and he simply can't hold on. It pops right into the hands of Khalen Saunders of all players, who runs it all the way back out to the 35 yard-line. EEEEEEgh. What is so grating is that right before that play the TV shows photos of Travis and Khalen's brother dancing the night away with Taylor Swift at one of her concerts. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeegh.
How on earth is it we simply cannot put teams away. We are still up 16-7 as we near the end of the 3rd quarter, but dang. We really should be up 27-7, but we just aren't finishing these very fine offensive drives. We are absolutely dominating this team yet the Saints are a couple of ridiculous plays from taking the lead.
Annnnnnd the Saints just scored a touchdown driving the rest of the field after that Saunders whoopsy-doo pick earlier. Please.
Nkay everything is back to normal, at least for now. JuJu makes up for his earlier ugly whiff by running a perfect crossing route for a 50-yard gain, then we follow it with a Kelce wildcat handoff to Worthy who streaks for the touchdown. Now 23-13.
We're matriculating again, getting down deep into Saints territory, and - and - and - with about 4 minutes left we stall, a penalty, a sack, errrgh...... So with 3 minutes left we get another Butker FG to make it 26-13.
And I thought all the splendiferous Taylor Swift mojo was spent after that silly precog thing the TV did just before the wildly goofy Saunders interception that was almost the start of our undoing. Wasn't to be as we did nail this one down.
There is, however, just that Chiefs weirdness of having former Chiefs JuJu, Mecole, and Kareem back and producing for us. With our newer key guys Rashee and Isiah Pacheco, and Hollywood for that matter, all out with extended injuries, it is nice to see these guys out there with some fine Chiefs Kingdom mojo in them.
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The photo is simply a screen shot of the ESPN highlight of Worthy's touchdown out of the wildcat with Kelce taking the snap.
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