Chiefs Face Tough Start Without Rashee Rice: Week One Preview

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00:00On Friday, we get the multi-time Super Bowl champions,

00:04but coming off of a Super Bowl loss,

00:05Kansas City Chiefs hosting a division rival.

00:08Well, not hosting, but playing a division rival

00:09in Brazil in the LA Chargers.

00:12Currently a field goal number, Joe,

00:15total at 45 and a half.

00:18I want to start with the big Rasheed Rice news

00:19that we recently heard.

00:21We'll be suspended the first six games

00:24of this NFL season.

00:26What are your thoughts on the Chiefs

00:28going the first six without Rasheed Rice?

00:31It's the way they've been for all of the last year, right?

00:34I mean, so does that offense look like...

00:37Well, things weren't great when he was gone.

00:40No, they weren't.

00:41And it was a, what, 16-14 game?

00:43The last time they played in Arrowhead.

00:45This game's overseas on a neutral field.

00:48But again, if we're talking Pat Mahomes,

00:50we're talking big picture,

00:51how big of a blow is a six-game suspension

00:54to Rasheed Rice?

00:55It's huge in terms of, you know,

00:57just the quarterback-to-wide receiver relationship.

01:00You talk about Marquise Brown

01:01that never got going last year.

01:03Xavier Worthy now is the guy.

01:06And can Xavier Worthy be that pure number one,

01:09that Tyree Kill game-stopper

01:11that we think he could be, right?

01:13He's a little bit low in body size.

01:15Hopefully he could put in some pounds

01:17in the offseason,

01:18at least get up to like 175, 180.

01:21Because if that's the case,

01:22I think he could be a 1,200-yard receiver this year

01:26if they utilize him in the offense.

01:28I really believe that.

01:29I think it's,

01:30go back to the days of Pat Mahomes in Kansas City

01:33where they chucked it 45 or 50 times a game.

01:36I don't believe in the rushing attack.

01:37I still think they need a pure number one,

01:40not buying into Pacheco

01:41and the running backs by committee.

01:43But again, I think they'll be there,

01:46but they'll miss him in the first six games

01:48of the regular season,

01:49especially when you're looking for continuity.

01:51So I think for Kansas City,

01:53it worked out as well as it could

01:55in that you'd rather just say,

01:56look, like you said, it's a good point.

01:58We didn't have him last year.

01:59We're kind of used to not having him.

02:01Let's not do this thing

02:01where we have him for three games,

02:03then we miss him for six,

02:04then we have him again.

02:05Let's not do all that, right?

02:06I think that that is well said.

02:09I do think the first six games

02:10for Kansas City are difficult games.

02:12Oh, yeah.

02:13I think, listen, you know,

02:14this is a team who does play a first-place schedule,

02:17but I have said this.

02:19I actually think they were given

02:21a nightmare of a schedule spot

02:24week two hosting Philadelphia

02:26for the Super Bowl rematch

02:27because you would think

02:29if you play Friday in Brazil,

02:31at minimum,

02:32you will not be at a rest disadvantage.

02:35They are because Philly

02:36is playing on a Thursday night.

02:38Plus, you have that travel coming back.

02:40Remember last year, Philadelphia,

02:42now it was a fluky loss,

02:44but they lost their game

02:45coming home from Brazil

02:46to the Atlanta Falcons

02:47in their own building.

02:49If you're Kansas City

02:50and you do drop this opening game

02:52to the Chargers,

02:54again, it is not a lock

02:55that they just beat

02:57the Philadelphia Eagles.

02:58There's no way you could view it as that.

03:00And all of a sudden,

03:01if you're 0-2,

03:02those are unfamiliar waters

03:04somewhat for Philadelphia

03:06with a stretch of games

03:07that would still include

03:09Baltimore coming to your building,

03:11a Monday night road game

03:12against the Frisky Jacksonville group,

03:14and then hosting again

03:16a team in the Detroit Lions

03:17who's beaten you before recently

03:19in this building.

03:20So,

03:21I think it is a smoother result,

03:24but I don't think

03:25the Chiefs starting

03:26to say the Chiefs

03:27will start 3-3.

03:29I don't think that's disrespectful.

03:31I think that's understanding

03:32the moment.

03:32And they have Washington

03:33on there as well.

03:34Washington

03:35at the end in Buffalo

03:37with Josh Allen.

03:38That's not an easy schedule.

03:40I will say this, though.

03:41I think the Philly game

03:43is more important

03:45than that week one matchup

03:46in L.A.,

03:47in Brazil.

03:48And I'll tell you why.

03:49That is a measuring stick.

03:51They got smacked around

03:53and abused in that matchup.

03:56Offense and defense aligns.

03:57The revenge factor

03:59is huge

04:00in this game.

04:01Everybody's going to buy in

04:02Pat Mahomes,

04:04Travis Kelsey

04:04now engaged

04:05and, you know,

04:06looking for a Super Bowl,

04:08their final,

04:08maybe, you know,

04:09ride in the sunset.

04:12They're going to show out

04:13in this ballgame.

04:15Let's say they bring

04:16their A game

04:16and they get smashed

04:18and lose it

04:19by double digits.

04:21That fear

04:22or that psychological factor

04:23is going to start

04:24to creep in.

04:25We're not the best team anymore.

04:27It's the Philadelphia Eagles.

04:28Do they go off the rails

04:30from that point?

04:31And we know that

04:32they might be the best team

04:33in the AFC,

04:34but when you lose again

04:36in a revenge spot

04:37and let's say lose bad

04:38and I'm talking

04:39double digits,

04:4010, 13 points,

04:4220 points

04:42the way they did

04:43in the Super Bowl

04:44where they're just manhandled

04:45by a bigger,

04:46younger team.

04:47What does that do

04:48to that team moving forward

04:49throughout the AFC West?

04:51That's why I think

04:52that game two

04:53is more important

04:54than game one

04:55for Kansas City.

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