Kansas City Chiefs' Offseason Strategy: Beyond Mahomes' Arm

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00:00I think we're getting to a point where you know we were talking about this during the game that

00:04there's going to be an argument and just a general discourse across the NFL in the offseason that

00:09it's not just the Chiefs as like the odds on favor at least to come out of the AFC like this

00:13opens up the opportunity for Lamar and the Ravens, Allen and the Bills, Burrow and the Bengals and

00:19then some of those other teams to make a move up the board to really challenge the Chiefs and

00:23I think when we're talking about Mahomes specifically as long as Andy Reid is there

00:27I full confidence that the Chiefs will do something but I think that they they need to

00:31find a solution at running back because they clearly don't have and and maybe it's just a

00:35factor like I said on the pregame show Pacheco's not fully healthy because if he were to be fully

00:39healthy this they will have a different offense but I almost want to say the Chiefs need to find

00:43ways to win in win in different ways it can't just be Mahomes because when they don't have a

00:48running game their offense doesn't do a whole lot and when they get uh you know Rice back as you

00:54said and Worthy's healthy whatever happens with Kelsey and I assume Juju won't be there and they

00:58bring in this receiver and and Hopkins leaves and etc etc they need to find two ways to win in

01:02different ways and it can't all be on Mahomes because it has to be a strong running game at

01:06least to start and then allowing Mahomes to have the creativity because he has time in the play

01:11action that's what I think will happen for the Chiefs. Yeah I think what was concerning today

01:15is that it truly was obviously from taking the quarterback out of it removing Patrick Mahomes

01:20it was one guy it was worthy that's it I mean Kelsey I guess by the end was okay went four for

01:2739 but after that I mean what was realistically what were you going to expect out of the you know

01:34corpses of DeAndre Hopkins and Juju Smith-Schuster and to some degree Hollywood Brown? I was I was

01:40expecting them to just play a part and this is kind of my take on the Chiefs coming into the

01:45season where I I had said on many shows where I did not expect Kelsey to have a huge year

01:49because he wasn't going to have to have a big year because they have so many weapons it's not

01:52just one player needing to do everything they can have okay a little bit Hopkins here a little bit

01:57of Juju here maybe some mainly worthy but then a little bit of Pacheco a little bit of Hunts and

02:02everyone does just enough to move the offense forward doesn't have to be reliant on one player

02:06that clearly didn't happen tonight and it was it had to be one player and that's what they need to

02:10fix they can't and any offense whether it's the Chiefs whether it's another team as well you know

02:15the Lions been so successful they have multiple options on offense that one player can bring in

02:20one game and then they can fall back to other options when they need to yeah they got to upgrade

02:24that wide receiver room yeah there was a point where the game was still kind of in play I think

02:28it was 24 nothing midway through the third quarter and it was fourth and three fourth and four right

02:33around midfield Kansas City went for it and they called the play for DeAndre Hopkins I mean I

02:37really are you serious you got a 40 year old wide receiver who couldn't beat a snail in a race and

02:43that's the guy you're going to call a play for with basically your life on the line they didn't

02:47get it and for all intents and purposes that really was the ball game so they got to upgrade

02:50that they got to get rice back hopefully he'll be better uh and fully recovered but even if he is

02:55you know they still need some weapons they got and they got to help the you know holes with the

02:59offensive line for sure