Chiefs Narrowly Advance to 6-5 After Tense Game Yesterday

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00:00There was a team who went to this late 5-5.

00:03Had to have it, or it was going to feel like curtains on the season.

00:08And a lead that was Indy's the entire way,

00:14as the game went on, never felt like enough.

00:19It was 20-9 entering the fourth quarter for the Colts,

00:23and yet the Chiefs move up from 5-5 to 6-5.

00:27They find themselves now, I don't even want to say with breathing room,

00:33but at least capable of taking a deep breath.

00:36I don't think it is full-on panic anymore in Kansas City.

00:40The defending, defending, defending, defending AFC champion

00:43is a group now that has to feel good coming off of this victory in overtime.

00:50How do you feel about their performance yesterday?

00:52Well, again, I mean, they had to have the game, and they got it, right?

00:55And when the game was on the line, the defense stepped up, made plays,

00:58and Pat Mahomes puts up 352 passing yards

01:01and puts his team in a position to steal it.

01:04Now, when you look at the flip side of that with the Colts,

01:07they did have a 20-9 lead in this matchup.

01:11And defensively, we're containing Pat Mahomes in that offense.

01:15They contain, for the most part, Xavier Worthy finishes with 59 yards.

01:20Rasheed Rice does come on in the second half.

01:22That was the big story.

01:24And, again, everything was there for the taking for the Colts to win this game.

01:29They just couldn't close it out.

01:31And that's where you have to credit the AFC champs

01:34and the Kansas City Chiefs for finding a way to pull this game out.

01:39But, again, I still think the weaknesses that we talked about in the pregame

01:43are still there, Kev.

01:45Again, the defense was good.

01:48It wasn't elite, but it made plays when it had to.

01:51And I think the Colts, again, made more mistakes than the Chiefs made great plays

01:57in pulling it out.

01:58So I think that you are right to not feel that this is some ceremonious victory

02:04for Kansas City.

02:06Aha!

02:07They are the best in the league, best in the conference.

02:11Kansas City, we talked about it, had lost two in a row coming into this game.

02:15In the same season, they had not lost three straight with Patrick Mahomes.

02:18They should have won this game and were booked as favorites to do so,

02:22but no cover.

02:23Three and a halves, by the way, were gone.

02:25It closed up to four and a half in some spots.

02:28They didn't spend a second of this game covering that number.

02:33In fact, Kansas City didn't spend any time in this game with the lead.

02:38The field goal goes in, that's game.

02:40They were not leading at any point in this football game,

02:43so I look at it for the Chiefs and I think, look, there's enough pedigree in the room

02:47between Mahomes and Reed and Spagnola and Chris Jones and Travis Kelsey

02:52that they could avoid a three-game losing streak.

02:56But I don't think this is a chest-out type of performance.

03:01I don't view this as, aha, here we go now with Kansas City.

03:07I think there are still flaws within this football team,

03:11and some of that is offensively.

03:14I don't find them to be consistent enough.

03:16I think there are too many areas of the Chiefs' offense that can let them down any given Sunday,

03:23whether that be drops, bad O-line play, they lost Trey Smith in this football game,

03:29an awful run attack, Mahomes turnovers.

03:32And I'm not saying that you see that every game.

03:34What I am saying is I think any of these issues could arise on any given Sunday.

03:39Some popped up here versus the Colts.

03:41I know Mahomes had a gaudy, you know, 352 passing yards.

03:45I don't see the Chiefs as the team to beat.

03:47I don't see the Chiefs as the team to beat.

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