00:00in there i did get a very stark reminder statistically that the chiefs the maybe the
00:06biggest benefit of them just being bad not even playing a single postseason game being off
00:11essentially since late december monitoring snaps for players since like january 1st essentially
00:17they've all been taking it easy since the beginning of the calendar year they put out the stats of the
00:22most games started in the nfl since 2021 so a four-year run of nfl games we're talking about a
00:29lot the maximum number any player if they played every single game that any team in the nfl could
00:35play is 105 so like i want to point out like that's a lot of games right 105 you'd have
00:39had to go to the
00:40super bowl every single year all this other stuff and have had to change the math of those 105 maximum
00:45games creed humphrey played 98 of them he only played in seven games that were not played in the
00:51nfl last year joe tooney has played in 96 he picked up a couple because of the uh chicago player
00:58for
00:58this year josh allen 95 okay so you're like okay joe tooney was a member of it but he's not
01:02on the
01:02team now so he doesn't need the rest josh allen played a lot travis kelsey 94 patch mahomes 93 chris
01:07johnson trey smith tied at 92 notice a theme there gold that is a lot of players for the chiefs
01:14who have
01:15played borderline the maximum number of games allowed over the last four to five years i do think
01:21that getting a break is probably an undersold part of what the chiefs might have desperately
01:26needed from a their stars are still old travis kelsey chris jones these types of players could
01:33be even george karloftis who's been dealing with injuries he's on this list because he was a rookie
01:39for at least a portion of that it wasn't even on the roster in 2021 but or i think it
01:43was 2022 he's
01:44right with trip mcduffie so like wasn't even on the roster during that time like those guys those
01:51players the injuries they've sustained gold i think that the rest part might be an undersold part of the
01:56chiefs next season success plan simply just being not hurt yeah i think you know to say it's going to
02:03equate to necessarily more wins would be a bit far-fetched but it definitely doesn't hurt we know
02:07the amount of games they've been playing over the years as you highlighted since 2021 i mean i think for
02:13for a guy like chris jones in particular is who i think it benefits do i think it really is
02:16going
02:17to matter for creed humphrey as much i don't know i think it depends on the position you play like
02:20if you're saying who will benefit the most i think travis kelsey and chris jones would be the answer
02:25to older players that given the positions that they play and how much they're asked to do for this team
02:32over this run i think they benefit more than a creed humphrey or patrick holmes he's been rehabbing
02:37all off season so i don't really know what kind of off season he's had as far as time off
02:40this guy's
02:40been working his ass off to try to get ready to play week one coming back from an acl and
02:44lcl injury
02:45so i don't think he gets the benefit that we're talking about here if anything it would be more
02:49chris jones and travis kelsey that i think get the the extra month or so that maybe helps them
02:55you know i don't want to overblow it though and act like now they're just going to be as fresh
02:58as
02:59they've ever been and they're going to roll back the clock i don't think they're all going to have
03:02career years but i do think that for like carloff just was dealing with an injury the entire year
03:06chris jones have been dealing with injuries the last two years to actually get to heal those things for an
03:10additional month not play not just heal them not play physical football for six additional weeks
03:16you typically have to if you're a member of the kansas city chiefs it is crazy to see a stat
03:22that
03:22says there's only 105 games available at maximum since 2021 and creed humphrey's played in 98
03:30like that's a crazy number petrol was played in 93 so for any of the like random game he would
03:36have
03:36missed in the regular season or this year's postseason run where the maximum games allowed
03:40would have been four additional that means the four additional this year at 105 that means creed
03:46humphrey only missed like three games and it was really just when they lost in the afc championship
03:51game and didn't go to the super bowl that's it that's essentially the only time the chiefs have
03:56gotten off the couple of times they lost in an afc title game the end end of lists no other
04:01story
04:02outside of that creed plays in every regular season game travis but this also speaks to the
04:06health of chris jones travis kelsey their availability has been huge for this team and
04:10i do think rest might matter more for them than any other guy that we had just talked about the
04:15younger players like i don't think shamari connor needs a couple of days off but i do think that
04:19their their best players are still some of their oldest players and i do think that you might get
04:23nine sacks out of chris jones this year instead of six and a half you know i do think that
04:27there
04:27can be a benefit of rest for him as far as effort late in season versus what they've got i
04:32still hate
04:33the early buy though that week five that still sucks week five sets you you know if you get off
04:39to the start that you're hoping you get off to i think you're going to be bummed because if you're
04:42let's say you're sitting there and you're four and one you're feeling pretty good or three and one i
04:46guess would be you're like and the team is rolling you're not going to want to buy that early in
04:50the
04:50season you're going to say keep the momentum going and then in week 13 and 14 when maybe you have
04:54some injuries that catch up to you and you're not in line to get a buy because you're not the
04:58number one seed or something that that's when it's going to really come back to bite you so yeah
05:02ideally i think we've talked about this for years ideally you got to buy in week nine week 11 those
05:07are the ideal range of weeks and the chiefs as much as the schedule benefits them early and being soft
05:12the first nine weeks yeah the bye week if you're looking for the perfect schedule would not have been
05:16week five but it's weird nationally the narrative about that bye week has been more that it like was
05:21benefiting the chiefs you talk to people nationally they think well they're doing
05:24that to make sure mahomes is ready well right now it looks like it looks like he's going to be
05:28ready
05:28right away anyway so the week five bye is not going to to matter from that narrative if they had
05:33a week
05:3310 bye he'd still would have played week five so like it doesn't correct if anything again other
05:38than like if you're just saying well after four games his knee could use a rest i guess but i'll
05:42tell
05:43you right now after week 14 is when his knee's actually going to need a rest and he will have
05:47played
05:47nine straight games no weeks off and everything else in between the only benefit is that they do have
05:53some of those 10 day rest ones those mini buys so after they get through they're like oh we got
05:58to
05:58play on thanksgiving at least they get 10 days before they got to go back to work but i mean
06:03outside of that they play back-to-back monday night football games in the early part of the season what
06:06part of the schedule benefited them i told you there's benefits and there's negatives because like
06:11the benefit is before he's fully healthy and can scramble and be regular patrick mahomes they get the
06:16easier part of their schedule okay cool but the week five bye is still a massive deterrent i will
06:22always choose week eight or after if they give me any kind of choice in it not the earliest bye
06:28week
06:28available for like the second time in three years essentially right yeah two years ago was when
06:32chris jones made the big deal about it because that was when they had the chris they had the
06:35they played the texans and they played the steelers that it was that that window in december was
06:39was crazy and they had the they had to play three games in 10 days or 11 days or whatever
06:44and
06:44they rolled right through it they did they ended up finishing 15 to 1 that year and losing to the
06:49super bowl but after all that it's funny how it all plays it and then this year last year we're
06:52like
06:52oh schedule looks friendly late by six games so who the hell knows sometimes the great thing about
06:57the nfl all right up next let's head out to texas and check in with jake eisenberg he is down
07:01there as
07:02the royals begin a series against the rangers nothing happened yesterday roster wise personnel wise what
07:08should we expect this weekend and what does the next couple weeks look like for the royals who are now
07:1222 and 34
07:13for the royals who are now 22 and 34
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