Chiefs vs. Dolphins preview and prediction

0:00Our I want to see you on their feet I'm The Execavia What's going on, all right? Welcome into the chief self hot as far as he was seeking here with you as we roll along week three now here the chiefs and the dolphins will be breaking that game down and I also got to jump into this whole Mike McDonald Sean Payton thing if you missed it Mike McDonald then interview with Graham Ben singer if you don't know who Graham Ben singer is he's not does not like a new media guy he's also not the most famous guy in the world he does have a great philosophical conversations they're really podcast style but I

1:03think he does it with a network so it's got a nice blend of you know broadcast TV and podcasting mix in together he is under a lot of fire right now because he leaked a conversation between himself and see how set coach Mike McDonald and Mike McDonald was not aware that the the conversation was being recorded while they're sitting in front of a camera and whatnot I'll look fine all of that and of course we'll touch on some chiefs news talk about the injury report here on this episode of the chiefs don't appreciate you all joining me on a Wednesday night before we start the podcast want to let you know tonight's episode is brought to you by Seeky that's where I go to for all of my sports sickening knees as a matter of fact the chiefs their next two road games are away I know a lot of people are making the trip to Miami to catch the chiefs a lot of chiefs fans have been making the trip to Vegas over the years where the chiefs are undefeated when Patrick Holmes is a starting quarterback you guys want to attend any of those games or you want to

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3:06anyway I'll get into that shortly but just kind of the mood because Travis Kelsey was on his podcast today I say today but it came out it came out on they recorded on Tuesday it came out this morning Travis Kelsey we know Travis Kelsey is always going to be open and brutally honest with anything that goes on with the with the chiefs or really his play and Kelsey spoke about the teams two and O start to the season and listen Kelsey's obviously had a very big hand and by the way I did a YouTube video on this yesterday and I talked about how not only does Kelsey look great this year he looks 10 years younger playing very well he's one of the best pass catchers in the NFL top three tight end to start the season but I mentioned the most important thing Travis Kelsey

4:08looks like he's having fun this year and by the way with Travis Kelsey's popularity we know that Matt says feeling 22 there you go exactly I want to say he's that he looks that young but younger than 30 60 turns 37 in two weeks I believe but here's the thing about Kelsey because of his popularity and Matt just alluded to a Taylor Swift lyric there because of you know his marriage should tailor just everything there is a Travis Kelsey camera there is a camera operator that is following Travis Kelsey at all times so whenever Travis Kelsey gets upset at Joanne Taylor like last year and week one on the field or last year on the sidelines and week two against the Eagles when he was upset he was seeing tossing his helmet saying I'm sick of this shit if you can read lips and that was very clear what he said I mean Kelsey was visibly frustrated anyone's the only one we saw Drew Franklin Chris Jones get at it after at the end of a game but here's the here's the most interesting

5:15thing to me is that Travis Kelsey if he does something that's not caught live on camera it'll be shown later in the game Travis Kelsey has not done anything that's allowed networks to replay it and show hey here's Kelsey this is what he did during the commercial break or this is what he did you know while a play was happening while he's on the sidelines I mean no you can't allow networks cannot put something out there if if you don't allow it if you don't do it and Travis Kelsey so far has not been seen upset or angry or any of those things that has not happened and that's good to see this chief team is having fun Travis Kelsey said himself and he used the word fun a couple of times on his podcast make it very clear that he's having fun the team is having fun the team camaraderie

6:17just seems very different and Travis Kelsey alluded to the new additions on the team not just with players but also coaches and to me it just seems like this chief team feels really good right now about where they are and Matt says no real adversity yet though yeah that's true but here's the thing you can only play who's on your schedule unless I disagree with the adversity part Denver okay it's only two weeks I get it but I don't think Denver is this horrible team like they looked in week one I mean I get it in week one there are 16 undefeated teams after week one I should say 16 undefeated teams and 16 win list teams obviously that number shrinks the further we get into the season like look at the Raiders right now there are two and no nobody saw that coming sure there are two and no and they haven't played you know the greatest competition they're going

7:17to be playing the league leader in passing yards this week but nobody nobody thought the Raiders would be 2 and 0 so as far as I'm concerned they've proven something to me no one expected the chiefs to look like this and here's the funny part about all of this there were a lot of people that predicted the chiefs demise said that they were going to be on a downhill slope and you know my homes was not even going to play this year and if he does he faked it or he's going to get re-insured again do those same people are now you know quickly reverting back to the referee excuses I mean how quick are we to forget about our own predictions sometimes this to me looks like what was mom's got sipping on that's pickle juice and yeah Matt does a good job of mentioning a couple of people in fact you know it's good for electrolytes and whatnot

8:17but that's not the the point here the thing to me is that this chief seem looks like they're having fun and Patrick Mahomes in the press conference after a month tonight football when the chiefs to beat the Broncos someone had like a funny ringtone and Mahomes made a comment about it I know that's a very small minuscule thing to bring up but when I heard Patrick make that comment immediately my reaction was man his demeanor looks different compared to a lot of games last year and listen forget about last year with the six wins let's look at the year before when the chiefs only had one true loss in the regular season and that was again spuffalo remember the black Friday game against the Raiders the chiefs won that by a score of 1917 Raiders fumbled and the chiefs fell on top of it to end the game when it looked like the Raiders were just prepping for a field goal Travis Kelsey did not have the greatest game in fact

9:20Kelsey missed the block where unless and maybe the play call could have been better if they would have ran the ball on third and short but Patrick had a wide open player down the field and I believe it was Xavier worthy Kelsey misses that block and Mahomes gets pressured my point bringing that up is Kelsey was visibly upset he's actually leaving on the tunnel and the cameras are following him like I said there's always a camera on Kelsey even in the tunnel and you can actually see one of the chiefs PR people following Kelsey trying to see if he could do an interview not realizing he was upset and just didn't want to talk and I know Kelsey has I don't think Kelsey's done a press conference once since the season started I know there's a rule on doing media but it's not the most strictly enforced as well unless you're making it very evident you're not talking to the media all year because I think there are some oh no I take that back Kelsey did talk to the media after Sunday night football I forgot about that but he did cut it short Kelsey just seems to be more guarded now

10:26you know I don't have like an issue with it but there are times where I want to hear from him yes he does say things on his podcast but that doesn't mean every question is answered right now I don't think there are a lot of questions for Kelsey but listen Kelsey's a leader like Mahomes and Jones I'd like to hear from him on a consistent basis Jones is always when a press conference on Thursdays Mahomes on Wednesdays so as the season goes on yeah sure there will be questions that come up so we'll we'll see how that all goes but Kelsey is having a lot of fun right now and by the way he mentioned the coaches look I mentioned to you guys last year because I mentioned the deep past game is not there and who did I point it to Matt Naggy now I want to be very clear here I did not solely say that that it's only on Matt Naggy I still mentioned the players have got to be better but I told you guys coaching matters and I got all this pushback from some of you guys oh far as in but coaches are not players they're on the sidelines then why do

11:28we have coaches to begin with why do we hire and fire coaches why do we see that in this sport there in any sport for that matter well look I'm very well aware who's on the sidelines and who's on the field but there's a reason why coaches get paid there's a reason why owners will call coaches into their office sometimes during the season and say here's the pink slip so to me coaching matters Matt Naggy leaving Kansas City and listen I gave Matt Naggy a pass for 2024 because of the injuries that year Matt Naggy is about to coach a Giants team that's not going to have their quarterback for the remainder of the season it sounds like the hope is that if they make the playoffs he could be ready but is anyone really betting on that to happen but neither here nor there I mean Matt Naggy is about to have a challenging season people criticize Eric Bianne me for not doing well with Sam Howell let's

12:32see how Matt Naggy does with a former number one overall pick in Jamest Winston let's see how that goes I mean you still have some talent on that on that Giants team Malik neighbors Cam Skatabeau and so on but yeah I think coaching does matter man Eric the enemy back and you're all received already seeing a massive difference and I know a lot of people are some of the pushback I'm already getting from that is well the chiefs now have Kenneth Walker yeah that's true but what was Eric Bianne me last year with the chiefs and who was the top running back that year it was 2022 and Isaiah Pacheco was the top running back on the team he was a rookie that year and the chiefs had the number one offense in total yards and points scored now Bianne me leaves 2023 Pacheco still you're running back Pacheco in 2023 it was the same as 2022 well look I know a lot of people have short-term memory and they they always think of the most

13:34recent stuff forget about Pacheco the last two years where he wasn't very good for the chiefs let's talk about Pacheco the first two years where he had two different offensive coordinators Pacheco's rookie season he had Bianne me where the offense was great number one in points in yards but in 2023 we had a much different chiefs offense where they ranked 15th in point and ninth in yards so and again Pacheco was no bum that season he was still very good that year now it wasn't a top 10 running back what was the exact same in 2022 so oh and by the way he had merely the same wide receivers from 22 to 23 and that's when the drop started happening there's there's an impact a positive impact with Eric Bianne me on the team and let's let me just say as a chiefs fan I don't want Eric Bianne me to ever leave ideally I'd like for Andy Reed to retire whenever that time comes and for Eric Bianne me to be the

14:35guy who takes over now is a fan of football and I told you guys this in the offseason if the chiefs offense reverts back to what it was the five years Bianne me was here where they ranked top six in yards and points each of those five years the enemy should probably be getting head coaching offers now I mean the fact that this chiefs offense is already better than they were the last three years and listen if it's early I get it but the way the chiefs are looking in two games way better than the last three years altogether and let's let's actually put it to the test here I was not anticipating on doing this but let's look this up as we go and can you name me a two week stretch when Matt Nagy was the offensive coordinator of the last three years where the chief scored 30 points

15:36and back to back weeks I'm looking at 2023 they scored 41 again Chicago Justin Fields was there Matt Nagy I believe was the no Matt Nagy was back by then never mind um yeah they did not score 30 points and back to back games in 2023 sure as hell was not the case in 2024 right uh let's see going down the list here they scored 30 against Tampa Bay scored 30 against Carolina and then they scored 32 in the AFC championship game against Buffalo and now let's go 2025 I know the chief scored 30 points a couple of times they scored 37 against Baltimore and then 28 against Jacksonville now they lost to Jacksonville but then the uh next two games they scored 30 against Detroit 31 against the Raiders uh and then 28 against Washington so there was a what one two three four five week stretch where the chiefs look really good and they scored 30

16:40points and back to back games Detroit and Las Vegas uh three in the span of four weeks but overall in the last three years that's the only time you can really point that out mean this chiefs offense they're doing things that we have not seen in the last three years they already have more big runs from a running back this year than last year and that that was accomplished in one game that's how insane of a difference I mean this running game is night and day compared to last year uh he must not interview well or he would have had a job yeah I don't know it's hard to say without being in the room he hears my theory remember Charlie Weiss and Romeo Cornell they were offensive and defensive coordinators for Bill Bellicic check in New England and they won three super bowls in the beginning of Tom Brady's career that was the start of the Patriots dynasty what happened to those guys Charlie Weiss went to Notre Dame did awful goes to KU does even worse

17:47Cornell goes to Cleveland does bad he goes to Kansas City does worse and I think it wasn't a lot of the bill Bellicic assistant coaches like who's the most successful coach from the Bellicic coaching tree uh and I'm his name is escaping my mind right now Brian something from the Texans um what's his name I can't think of it right now uh no not Brian Cushing he was a head coach Bill O'Brien that's who it was Bill O'Brien had some post season success that might have been the most successful Patriots assistant coach in the in the Bellicic era in New England so and look what happened to him I mean could you even name where Bill O'Brien is

18:48today I mean he's in the college ranks as an administrative director so you just look across the board and people were hesitant to want to give Patriots uh coaches jobs for a little bit they eventually I mean they gave Joe judge the special teams coordinator from New England job a head coaching job now my theory is the reason Eric Bienne me did not get a head coaching job is because everyone felt like my homes and Kelsey and Andy Reed got all the credit now I don't want to hear anything about Bienne me not being the play collar we've seen non-play calling offensive coordinators get head coaching jobs in the last five years not being the play collar does not disqualify you from becoming a head coach now Matt naggy almost sound like naggy almost became the titans head coach last year boy that tells you how bad that franchise is right now um I don't know but what I do know is

19:55if the chiefs continue to play like this offensively Bienne me should be the number one candidate and the last three years versus this year should be the only evidence you need as a chiefsman I want him to say though I do thank you pinch shot appreciate it uh I feel like that's a plan for EB to take over when Andy is done that's what a lot of people said when Bienne me was last year in Kansas City but we keep thinking Andy reads about to step away but he just continues going uh chiefs only score 30 or more points three times last year with naggy we've already got two games with 30 or more and I think that's enough proof for that that's needed yeah and that's true I and again like um um that is head coach of Boston college oh is that what he's doing now okay that might be it uh I I must have gotten mixed up with uh oh he was a Houston Texans GM okay I'm I'm completely missed that I don't not realize he was a Houston Texans GM yeah he is a head coach of Boston college

20:56you're right um how is he doing at Boston College I was not aware of that see now I'm really curious and we're going off the rails here um they're two and one this season he's 11 and 17 so far at BC and that's not great that is not great but anyway yeah uh the chiefs are in a much better place with with their offensive coordinator EB over spags you know what's really surprising to me spags is not a head coach he's the longest 10 year defensive coordinator in the NFL um like in terms of teams that he has remained with it was him and Luana rumo but Luana rumo got fired by the mangels a year or two ago so I don't know like what spags choosing to interview but then declines a lot of jobs I don't know so it's um it's interesting to see that uh and yeah I

22:00mean we are kind of wondering um to see uh TJ says we need to comment on YouTube for no we've been reading Facebook and YouTube comments um now I don't read every single comment as much as I appreciate every single person commenting it is hard to get through every single comment uh at uh you know during a podcast so um well said if I do get to your comment great if not I apologize certainly not ignoring anyone uh it is hard to read every single comment so just be aware of that camera is asking do you think he will ever come back to the chiefs Matt naggy I hope not I mean look I like to him as an offensive coordinator the first time but the second time is an OC like as excited as I was for him to take over for Bianne me because he did some good things when Alex Smith was the quarterback here um it just it was a different it was different and I don't know why it's like he was ever an offensive coordinator before

23:00and the other assistants like Embrie the wide receivers coach last I checked around training camp because we were talking about Chad O'Shea back then I looked it up he's not I don't think he's doing anything he might be at the high school level and maybe it's just not being reported publicly but um yeah it's uh it's been interesting do I think Kelsey would coach in retirement I don't think so let let me just say something to I know I've said this many times coaching is not as glorious as it sounds or looks if you guys watched the chiefs kingdom docuseries on ESPN they show Andy Reid arriving to the facility at 3 30 AM and remember that uh report of someone firing a gun at uh at the practice facility around midnight well the report states that Andy Reid was there and was within feet from

24:05where the bullet was fired my point in bringing that up is Andy has been at the facility at midnight we had Jason done on the podcast once before good friend of the podcast and also on chief concern uh I asked him you know about the timing and he mentioned some coaches get there very early and stay very late if you are a coach in the NFL you do not have a lot of free time on your hands the amount of times that these guys spend with their families is very very very little like if you if you're wanting to be an NFL coach and it is to be talking to any young kid out there if you want to be an NFL coach assistant coach head coach whatever dude if you want to be married and have kids you better pick the most supportive wife that's willing to stick by your side through all of that because it is not at all conducive for a family life it's not I'm not saying these guys never see their kids or families but boy they miss out on a lot of things it's it's not easy anyway my point is to mention the the the Kelsey question here

25:09um yeah see Roberts has probably going to the booth there's been a lot of speculation about that lately first of all he has his podcasts right now that is the most is it not the most downloaded sports podcasts right now if it's not him it's got to be two number two I mean um but regardless like Kelsey is already you know he's going after all of these entertainment opportunities I mean he's got to have some kind of opportunity down the line that has nothing to do with coaching and far less stressful I think Mitchell Schwartz once said he likes to privately train guys but we'll never coach because of how bad the timing is and I get it there are actually a lot of I don't think a lot of people realize this there are a lot of former players will shields Mitchell Schwartz Desmond Moses you don't have to be like an all pro I think

26:11Derek Dieter does some of this as well there are guys who are willing to do private coaching but not like full-time coaching for an NFL team some coaches will actually tell their players if a player says hey I want to be an assistant they will warn them it is very time consuming so by the way Jeremiah is asking about the the Marvin Harrison rumors let me just say this because I've been asked about this on social media today I remember when Marvin Harrison was coming to the NFL getting ready for the draft and you know it's never realistic because the chiefs are always picking on the bottom except for last year but I had people asking is there any possibility the chiefs can form some sort of a package deal so they can go up to the top five and get Marvin Harrison junior Marvin Harrison junior was a huge deal coming out of college and of course you know with his name attached to him Marvin Harrison the son of former elite Hall of Fame wide receiver Marvin Harrison

27:16with Indianapolis yeah I mean there's probably some pressure that goes with that from what I've seen his route running is it the best and I do worry about the chiefs trading for a wide receiver mid season I mean yeah they let Hopkins play but he was on a limited snap count in some games uh can he really surprisingly played a lot when the chiefs trade for him a cold hardman yeah that's different though because he already knew the offense Kelvin Benjamin didn't play much when he was in Kansas City I don't know if I'm willing to trade much to get Marvin Harrison right now I think Arizona would ask for a lot because Arizona is a team and we don't know what the rest of the season is going to look like they look like they had a very impressive win in week one against the chargers but we don't know what the rest of the season is going to look like the Cardinals might be rebuilding and if they are they're probably going to be asking for a lot just so they can rebuild from him down the road I don't know uh Drake London comment twice this might be huge what's the

28:24Drake London comment Kyle yeah like I said guys uh we do get a lot of comments on here I try my best to read as many of them as I can um I mean if you're asking about Drake London coming to Kansas City not opposed but again what are you what are you giving uh let me just say this because a lot of you guys will put out a lot of you guys will put out these ideas but in order to get something you have to give up something what are the chiefs willing to give up for a guy like Drake London not what you want them to what they would have to give up and I think the expectation is the chiefs are gonna go very far this year so they're gonna have a late draft pick so that alone is not is not very enticing trade wise he cussed out a fan and said he wants to play with my homes did he really um I think I know what you're talking about I think I saw him go at it with a fan I don't

29:30think he said he he would want to play with my homes no way um that'd be nice though I mean look the chiefs could use some help out wide receiver there's no question about it now I will say this I think week one a week two the wide receivers played better Travis Kelsey is still your number one target and that's okay if you go the entire season without a 1000 yard receiver at the wide receiver position and Travis Kelsey is your main guy that's perfectly fine however the wide receivers still have to be key contributors in some manner like there's way too much talent from Rashi rice Taikwan Thorn Xavier worthy for that to not be the case and I think the wide receivers took a really big step in week two compared to week one so let's see how that goes moving forward yeah TJ is mentioning Tyree kill he might not cost much yeah that's that's a possibility now the chiefs only have last I checked $3.3 million in cap space

30:34uh look I don't like to bring up players personal lives we know how many kids Tyree kill has now he's made a lot of money the last several years so hopefully he's been very smart with his money but man um I'd be shocked if he plays for a cheap price I think he's gonna demand something that's just my prediction but we'll have to see uh real quickly before we go any further I want to let you know those podcasts is also brought to you by the chiefs zone live this will take place at a mirror star casino on October the 17th we are excited to be partnering with a mirror star also partnering with the Doron cherry foundation because all of the tickets purchased for this event will benefit the Doron cherry foundation there will be meet in great opportunities before and after the show depending if you have a VIP ticket or a general admission ticket but nonetheless you can come meet Doron cherry Tim Grunhard Bill Moss chiefs hollow famers or working on getting

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32:36Alan and training camp yeah he was mr. popular in saying Joe um but you gotta remember he's a fifth round pick for a reason um and I think right now the chiefs have some guys that they want to use ahead of him for now sirens Alan will get involved I know everyone wants that to happen now and listen given that the chiefs are playing a Miami Dolphin's team and listen I underestimated the cults so maybe I should be careful here but the chiefs are massive betting favorites against the dolphins there might be an opportunity at the end of the game to get sirens Alan involved we'll see but here's my thing I think the chiefs are going to continue to utilize the run game which will open up the past game amit johnson because listen you can't just keep giving Kenneth Walker 30 touches the game that can get to dangerous territory at the midway point of the season I know what Andy reached set on Monday about how Walker does not want to be alleviated well what else is Andy re going to say publicly it kept walkers never going to say yeah I need some rent and like no one's ever going to say that publicly but logic tells you that you got to make sure you reduce his workload

33:42a little bit so that way he can be ready to have a bigger workload in January when you get to the postseason hopefully that's the case for Kansas City this year so I think you got to get image on some more involved in the next two games and if that's the case that's just going to open up the past game more and I think that'll get the wide receivers much more involved after the by week and sirens Alan I think will be a part of that I don't think he'll be a major factor like some might expect but he'll have some good involvement after the by week that's that's when I would expect it from Cyrus Alan look I know last year was a weird year for the chiefs using rookies and some of the other younger guys you're seeing them utilize rookies more this year than they have in recent years specifically last year last year I mean the playing time for guys like Taikwan Thornton no Williams Jaden Hicks Omar Norman lot granted he was dealing with some injuries Jalen Royals was a really weird one last year it didn't make any sense and now we're seeing

34:45Taikwan Thornton used Taikwan Thornton had one not one but two catches on Thornton long including jet chip wasp and overtime Jalen Royals had just two catches but two big ones one for a first down and the other a touchdown on a fourth down play so you know Khalil Benson playing left tackle and you know he's not considering he's never played left tackle before since high school I think it was he's doing a damn good job at that and the defense you know wasn't perfect this last game but they they come up with some stops when it matters the most here's what I will say about the defense underspags I mean the defense has not always been top tier from 2023 2020 2024 2025 the chiefs have been a very good defensive team top 10 in fact however even before 2023 where they allowed a lot of yards in 22 21 20 and 19 they would still come up with some key

35:48stops when it mattered the most and that's what you saw on Sunday night against the Colts allowed 30 points a lot a lot of yards but they still managed to come up with big stuff they forced a fourth and eight and I don't want to dive into this too much because we discussed it on Monday but the chiefs defense spags and the rest of the unit they made Shane Steichen kind of second guess himself and what he wants to do on fourth and eight you want to kick a field goal and give them a homes the the ball or do you want to go for it risk all the marbles go for it on fourth and eight and not give them homes the ball let's not obviously knowing what we know now that should have been the case well listen fourth and eight's not fourth and 15 it might have been worth it to keep the ball out of my home's hands but we already went over that on on Monday so I don't want to get into that too much right now so case 70 yeah that's a good nickname for him Jeff's got some good nicknames on on some guys I think Jeff was the one that came up with K910 so

36:51Jeff's Jeff's a nickname fortune 70 was the highest grade of rookie lineman perpFF last week yeah that's true and those are the good things right now we're seeing well listen I had my concerns we had Doron Sherry the week of the first game before the first game and he expressed his concerns in questions about how the chiefs are shifting around offensive lineman Jalen Moore Calil Betts it's working I look I keep telling myself we shouldn't ever question Andy Reed and sometimes we do that and we end up having to realize we need to take our own advice so props and Andy Reed it's they're making it work for now so we'll have to see how that goes by the way I've got a rant I've got a bone to pick with some of you not all of you some of you and a major listen I know not every single person listening to a cheese fan and I know some of you non cheese fans are watching so I posted this today so here are the teams that are top five in total offense and top five in

37:57total defense obviously this diagram clearly states there's only one team in the NFL let's top five in total offense and top five in total defense now here's the problem and perhaps I'm wasting my time even talking about this saying even anything about this some of you again not all of you some of you love to argue about facts some of you want to push back against anything factual some clown on Twitter earlier this week was telling me that if my homes Cajid and Higgs was very close to hitting Daniel Jones near the sidelines when he was clearly in bounds I all I will say it was a little too close for comfort you know Jaden Higgs has to be careful there that could have been an automatic first down and that would have not been good but somebody commented and told me if that was the homes that would have been a first down no not quite Rokwan Smith hit Patrick

38:59almost the exact same spot last year a couple years ago actually at Arrowhead and it was not called now I posted a screenshot showing the clear contact end bounds and people still question facts or push against it so I have people telling me why would why do I rank these teams on the top five chief folks chief fans are allegedly the bandwagon fans yet chief fans know how these stats work so I'm going to educate some of you that don't know what total offense and total defense means total offense means the most yardage put together total defense means the fewest yardage you have allowed that's what puts these teams in the top five in total offense total total defense this is not about point scored it's not about which quarterback has the most passing yards it's total offensive yards forced and total defensive yards allowed

40:06if you do not know this and you're going to call chief fans bandwagon fans go get a rule book and learn how some of these NFL stats work the fact that I even have to say this is pretty embarrassing not for me but for those who want to call chief fans bandwagon fans so again I'm I'm just posting facts it's people that want to argue facts I should have to be surprised it's 2026 I could tell you the grass is green and the sky is blue and someone will argue as hard as they can against it because that's our society today a friend says more screens please you know it's funny and training camp Travis Kelsey had a couple tight end screens and I saw all these comments why is it 36 year old running a tight end screen no Andy don't do this and Travis Kelsey did that on Sunday night and it worked to perfection so chief's know what they're doing man

41:06Andy knows what he's doing he just needed the right offensive coordinator and the right players are running in really and it's it's working to perfection if we score early on Miami I hope we step on their throats I agree TJ but I don't think that that'll happen I feel like we need to blow a team out and stump them but I know that's not Andy's method I feel like it would make a defensive coordinator nervous yeah man and here's the thing some people will say that Andy um doesn't yeah this is a good point Brad Andy doesn't want to put too much on film look it's impossible to virtually go through your entire playbook in one game or even two games three games for that matter and he's been coaching a very long time I mean there are plays in that playbook that's probably from the 2000s and the 90s all right uh how often do they use those plates who knows but it's impossible to reveal everything at the end of the day

42:10sorry says I'm posting a factor raiders suck hey they're doing no man uh look I hope the Raiders win Sunday against the Saints I want that week for Vegas game to be three no raiders versus three no chiefs when it was the last time we've been able to say that about a chiefs game for for the fourth game of the season it's been a while it's it's been a while don't try to rationalize yeah that's my own mistake TJ that's what I realized uh so uh Venn diagram for the w keep it simple for the little brains yeah but even the little brains don't know they still will argue it uh do you think the chiefs are calling on fields availability with all these cubies dropping like flies yeah you're obviously James referring to guys like Jackson Dart color Murray is coming back but we'll see who's the other quarterback uh Caleb there was another one that had uh that I thought had about injury

43:15I can't remember right now but uh I think the answer is no because the chiefs traded a draft pick to get Justin Fields so unless the chiefs are getting something really nice in return I don't think they want Garrett Nussmeyer to be quarterback two right now I think look the chiefs did not have a practice squad quarterback this year I don't know if you guys knew this by the way Chris O'Lodokin is now playing in the CFL the Canadian League he just got signed I think by the British Columbia Lions so there's no Chris O'Lodokin to come back as a practice squad cubie your scout team quarterback this year is Garrett Nussmeyer this is Garrett Nussmeyer's rookie campaign campaign he is learning Andy Reed's entire playbook behind Patrick Mahomes and running scout team that's Garrett Nussmeyer's duty this season because the expectation is Justin Fields might not return next year and Garrett Nussmeyer then becomes quarterback two Garrett Nussmeyer could

44:16have been a first round draft pick had enough in for the injury that he's sustained last year because he was a top five pastor in college football the year before and is so on that can do some good things I think for now the chiefs want Justin Fields as that insurance policy just in case because the hope is that if not that you want Mahomes to miss games but if Mahomes does have to miss games the hope is Fields has enough experience to where Andy Reed can get him to play to his potential that's that's my expectation most likely to be traded Fields Fulton or more see I know what you're pointing at here have some hope you're looking at the salary cap trading those guys will open up a lot of cap room but Jill and more I mean do you want to trade him right now Christian Fulton Christian Fulton would be a good player to trade especially with Montserr Delaan expected to return this week but who's trading for Fulton with $10 million attached to his name not to mention

45:26the most recent game and okay maybe there were some close calls there but the bottom line is he got penalized twice after the interception he got early in the game so realistically I don't think you're going to be trading any of those guys fields maybe if you can get a really good deal but I'm not I'm not baking on that so let's see you know how here's how about the quarterback injuries have gotten Mike Floreo is suggesting Colin Kaepernick to be brought in for a workout now listen whatever your opinion is on whether or not Kaepernick should have gotten an opportunity or not back in 2016 that's one thing he hasn't played in nine years and he's 38 years old there's nothing wrong with a 38 year old playing football but when you haven't played in nine years that's why the Philip Rivers thing yeah I know he's familiar with stikin but five years out of action I don't know about that one Jaden Daniels thank you yeah that's another one that was that was a huge

46:27deal so well see how that goes all right before we get into the chiefs and dolphins breakdown I have to address this so Graham Ben Singer I have not watched much of Graham Ben Singer's content it's great I know it used to be on YouTube I think he moved it to a different platform now I remember the first time I listen to Graham Ben Singer was in 2017 he did an interview a sit down interview with Alex he does sit down conversations with guys and these are like deep philosophical conversations it's kind of like it's kind of like Shannon Sharps podcast where he sits down with special guests some podcasts that are hosted by former players they love to do these sit down interviews with players and coaches I know Jason Garrett does that and they're fun to listen to Ryan Clark does the same thing Graham Ben Singer you know has kind of been doing it long before a lot of people got into

47:32podcasting he did one with Alex Smith that came out the same week the chief stunned the Patrice and week one remember that game Karim Hunts debut but that that interview was a philosophical even though it's an old interview that is worth going back and listening to check that out if you have it now Graham Ben Singer the reason I'm bringing this up he did a sit down interview with Mike McDonald now this is not you know a one camera podcast where you know the other guys on zoom and whatnot no they're sitting down they have professional lighting he has a whole crew that helps set up with the cameras the lighting the seats the the angles everything now at some point you know everybody might say everyone I mean Graham Ben Singer and Mike McDonald they're Mike up and they're ready to go and you know while they're recording they're still setting up a little bit and I guess Mike

48:32McDonald was not aware that the cameras were rolling and recording but he shared a story that McDonald and the C.O.X. claimed to be off the record they did not realize again that the record button had already been hit so Mike McDonald's shared a story about Sean Payton so you guys have seen training camp videos across the league including from yours truly Sean Payton I guess he picked up on some footage oh I'm sorry let me backtrack Mike McDonald picked up on fan footage that was on social media and he was trying to use that to study some of the pre-snap line ups basically Sean Payton was going to falsely accused McDonald of spygate essentially and the C.O.X. said look if you do this we're going to sue you this is all according to Mike McDonald the head coach of the C.O.X.

49:36Well Graham Ben Singer put it out there and a lot of social media outlets media outlets podcasting places they clipped out and it went viral real fast Mike McDonald put out he spoke to the media basically saying that he was not aware that the cameras were rolling but admitted he had to be careful with his words some other things as well look let me just say this if you are Mike up I mean if they give you you know this little mic and they clip it right here this is an SD card by the way if they clip it right here you know whatever you say could be going into a recording now here's the reality of this and I remember I bet a guess on KCTV 5 a few times in the past they mic'd me up and I'm just walking around with the microphone on me do you forget the Apple microphone on I was about to leave the studio and

50:36there one of their engineers was like hey we need your microphone before you're like oh shit sorry so you forget your mic'd up sometimes I don't know if you guys have seen the show last chance you or if you've seen hard knocks the people who are there they get eventually comfortable with the cameras and forget the cameras are even there or that they're even mic'd up like you get pretty comfortable in certain settings even with cameras and microphones it might sound silly but it is true Mike McDonald is basically claiming that this was all off the record and that Graham Ben Singer he uploaded something that was before the actual start of their conversation of the actual show now Graham Ben Singer claims that he sent the footage to the Seahawks and they said nothing about it listen let me just say this I have had people tell me things off the record and I'm not a fan of that have I used off the record sources before yes if you've

51:43listened to me before you've heard me say that before have I given them respect to those people to avoid their names yes I mean they have told me hey you can't say this came from me but and they tell me you know and I don't use all of them I know whether you guys like this person or not Kevin Keithman has said before when he was at 810 that people in media will say won't say all that they know because sometimes he can't confirm things so and listen there are some former players I won't go into names they've set things on social media and I've shared it because hey this is their commentary and they have a really strong opinion and I've been contacted by these people on multiple occasions to take down their commentary and listen I don't ever want to get into it with anyone so in respect I've taken things down

52:43some of you guys might say why bother doing that when they've posted it publicly it's a great point if you're going to say things publicly stand on it with two feet and ten toes because here's a thing some of these guys do not want to have a negative relationship with the team that they are that they have a good connection with that they used to play for because they'll do charity events and other opportunities that they might not get elsewhere with other teams but if you're a mic McDonald man you're in front of a camera you're in front of lights you're in front of a microphone you've got to know that anything you say will be shared and listen let's say if it was off the record and someone put it out there that could have been a whole another mess it's only a big deal because you actually heard it from the horse's mouth so look if you're the Seahawks and you're mad about this that's not that's not your that's not

53:48grand bensinger's problem i'm seeing a lot of people say bensinger shady for putting a pre-show conversation out there he bensinger i don't disagree by the way with the criticism but bensinger's claiming he gave all of that footage to the seahawks a few days beforehand and they didn't say anything about it so i don't know those are just my thoughts on them but i had to get that out there if you're going to say something on camera mic'd up be ready for it to be used if you do not want it out there say it off the record plan a simple all right let's get into the game between the chiefs and the dolphins i know a lot of people are going to be going to this one and i'm going to a quick reminder if you're a new seaky customer you want to go to the game in Miami seaky still has some great tickets available all you've got to do is use my promo code farzine if you're a new seaky customer that'll say be 20 bucks off your first order at seaky k all right this game will be on cbs and everyone's two favorite announcers in cancidi

54:51kavan harland and trend green kavan harland of course the former voice of the chiefs also the former voice of the jahawks and trend green the former quarterback of the cancidi chiefs and future hollow famer still does a preseason broadcast here in cancidi feels like he's been doing that forever they will be announcing this game it'll be their first chiefs game of the year referee Alex more it's his second year as a referee his first game last year was the chiefs cults game that went into overtime the chiefs are 11 and a half point betting favorites minus 675 on the money line that is the most the most heavily favored team for week three 46 and a half is the over under the injured report we haven't even mentioned this guy's name yet today josh sevens did not practice it is the first day of practice we'll see Andy re says he's getting better so whatever that means to you take that for what it's worth uh shemari conner did return to practice it is the first time shemari conner is practicing since the season has kicked off so good to see him

55:51back into the fold a little bit and i say a little bit because he was one of four players limited uh legiori cd was also limited so two defensive backs with a knee limited in practice today defensive lineman uh Felix and a dk useama was limited with a quad injury as was christ jones with a calf the christjones thing is not a surprise because he was also limited last week the good news is monster d'layne he was practicing in full with a shoulder deal obviously was active but did not play on sunday uh andy re did say that there's a good chance monster d'layne is going to be good to go in we'll play this sunday and that's going to be good to see because you're going to be going up against a week of offense so this will be kind of a good test to a listen not that you i mean it's only three plays only one pass blocking uh i'm sorry not pass blocking uh one uh pass coverage snap uh where he got an interception so he's got a 100% success right there uh but uh as far as uh long term i mean we don't know much about monster d'layne and what is capable of we haven't

56:54seen that yet in a regular season game so hopefully he plays this game it's a good test against malik willis the quarterback for the Miami dolphins who's only started what uh eight games in his career this will be his ninth career start so this is a good opportunity for monster d'layne to get involved head coach is jeff hafley former ohio state co-defensive coordinator was a head coach of boston college for four years and was a packer's defensive coordinator for a couple of years the last two years in fact and you'll notice a couple of packer connections as we go on here the dolphins were on the road for their first two games and they scored 13 points in each of those two games so this is their home opener here but it might feel like a road game and by the way you'll hear later on there are a lot of rookies on this team they drafted 13 rookies uh i had 13 rookies of course they drafted 13 rookies 13 players uh they also went and acquired a couple of rookies from other teams so they have a bunch of rookies on their team offensive coordinator bobby slowick uh he actually uh was the dolphins past game coordinator senior uh uh past game coordinator

58:03from last year uh a title he wants had in san francisco where mike mcdangel was uh who was fired by the dolphins uh and jeff hafley said we're promoting you to offensive coordinators so uh he was a two year offensive coordinator with houston and now here he is serving as an offensive coordinator once again they ranked 20 they they they are uh 24th or below and total offense rushing passing scoring fourth down and red zone now fourth down they've only allowed one fourth down conversion on one attempt so can't really go on that too much but third down they are 21st in that category allowing a conversion of 36% of the time or they've converted 36% of the time excuse me so their quarterback mleek willis former tying second round pick was there for two years was in green bay for two years so again i mentioned earlier the packer connection and this is one of them here this is gonna be his ninth career start in his eight games uh including two this year he has seven touchdowns and four

59:05interceptions he has one touchdown and one pixel far this year he's been sacked nine times in two games so far he was sacked five times against the raiders in week one and four times against the 49ers this past sunday so he's he was sacked ten times his rookie year when he had three starts and he's about to surpass that this week so i think cancid he's defensive front which got four sacks on bow nicks but not on dangled jones i expect that to change and revert back to how it was similar to week one mleek willis is a guy that's capable of running around in the pocket kind of like a crystal adoken so we'll see if the chiefs can do a good job of containing him and bringing him down doesn't have a lot of firepower around them they have to vaan h-chan who's been around for for some time now in Miami but not having the greatest season former third ground pick from 2023 he's averaging three and a half yards per carry three point three against the raiders three point seven against the 49ers

1:00:07110 yards on the season for him now he also has seven catches for 49 yards but heavily active there their tight and Greg dulyk has four catches for 35 yards the other three tight ends on the team are all rookies including one day quiet from Denver so yeah like i said a lot of rookies and you're about to hear some more of them let's go to the wide receiver room Caleb Douglas who did not practice today due to an ankle injury he's our leading receiver seven catches for 113 yards third ground pick from texas tech wide receiver mleek washington he's got seven catches for 96 yards wide receiver crispel another rookie third ground pick from luaville one name you'll all recognize if you're a m azoo fan kevin colman jr a fifth from pick on the team as well and then they have Ryan mill are he only has one catch on the season but it was a 77 yard reception and that happened last week against the 49ers so that is the offensive skill position players as far as our offensive line goes keep an eye on their right tackle austin jackson has not had a very good season at all former

1:01:10first ground pick from 2020 out of USC he's already allowed nine pressures and one sack and has committed three penalties in two games that's bad that's pretty bad and then their right guard Jonah seven aia oh by said that correctly four pressures allowed after surrendering 45 pressures and eight sacks last year at left guard he's converting to right guard this year so far not off to the hottest start their rookie left guard kaden proctor he's allowed four pressures and committed three penalties good run blocker but a struggle in pass blocking first ground pick out of alabama so that is those are some of the key guys to keep an eye on on this offensive line that that right side of Miami's offensive line i think that's the side that's going to get abused the most so i'm curious to see how often the chiefs are going to put George carloftes on that side armason tamis f a you who's been doing a solid job this season because that right side right there is the big weak

1:02:12link on the offensive line for the dolphins and i think that's where you're going to see keep an eye on that this week you're going to see the chiefs left side of the defensive line that's the the group that's going to attack the most going after malik willis so expect the chiefs have some success on that side against my amy's offensive line the right side now let's go to the dolphins defense which is coordinated by shan dug in former packers linebacker coach who followed half lent to Miami and like i said packer connection let's see there about the middle of the pack or near the bottom 19th and total defense 18th and rushing 18th and passing 28th and points allowed 27th on third down defense 21st on fourth down defense which again they've only allowed one conversion so uh can't get won't go on that too much but they're 29th in the red zone not very good to say the least a couple of the bright spots on their defense Jordan Brooks great linebacker great in coverage and also a phenomenal run stopping linebacker so that's one player the chiefs need to look out for whenever utilizing their run game uh their safety zane anderson solid underrated cover safety

1:03:18but that's about it in terms of the bright spots their rookie quarterback christ jansson first rom pick from sandiego state he has not done very well this season he has allowed 10 catches of 15 targets for 117 yards and a pair of touchdowns already on the season uh rookie defensive backs get picked on a lot and christ jansson is no exception to that he has number three expect patrick mahalms to target any receiver towards number three's direction on my amy office in christ jansson michael taffy uh saved you for them has struggled this year quarterback jason marshall he's allowed six targets uh i'm sorry six catches off six targets and he's allowed 64 yards on two two and two touchdowns that's not good another quarterback uh that you'll recognize from case state juju brence did not allow a target last week which is good one of the very few players that's actually you know done well for the my amy secondary so expect patrick mom to not target his direction often and go after christ jansson in this game their defensive line not the greatest

1:04:23zack siler jordan phillips not their defensive tackles not good against a run former chiefs defensive and josh uche part of this defensive line uh formerly with the chiefs to patriots and also last year with the eagles he's also struggling against the run so Kansas city is probably going to attack the right side of of their offense this time around it'll be my amy's left side but cancety will go to their right side often i know a lot of Kenneth walkers bigger runs have come towards the left side and listen they might go attack the middle this time they haven't done that too often uh if they can have someone downfield pick up a block against jordan brooks Kenneth walker can get a lot of 10 to 15 yard gains up the middle in this game i think so don't be surprised if you see that from Kenneth walker in this game i would expect some of that a lot of his big runs have been on the left side i think this game you'll see so on the right side and some straight up the middle not say they won't do it on the left again in this game they will but i think the bigger ones will come either

1:05:27on the right or through the middle so that is their defense in a nutshell just to give you an idea with their the running backs they faced ash and genty ran 23 times for 102 yards and then christian McCaffrey had a weird game 10 runs for 23 yards and two touchdowns as a team the 49ers had 95 rushing yards they're leading rush or is brock perty their quarterback with 30 so that'll be uh that'll be interesting to see how the chiefs do against the my amy run defense because they have not been good at that 130 yards allowed against the raiders all together so certainly the uh the chiefs can do better and real quickly my amy's special teams coordinator christ saber was the bills special teams coordinator last year former mizu assistant in the late 90s and the early 2000s coaching offense running backs and whatnot eventually made his way to coaching special teams their kicker Riley Patterson he's two of three in every game this year so far he's one of three in field goals from 40 or more yards away so he is not even good from the 40

1:06:31distance or even the 50s he's been inconsistent on that so far this year in the early goings of the season and the inconsistencies continue with their punter Bradley pinion not very good he has the second lowest net punning average and also the fifth lowest overall average punning their kicker turner jill and right he had a 79 yard kicker turn I believe it was last week so he has that to go for malik washington who we mentioned earlier the wide receiver he's involved with the kicker turns and punter turns as well so considering the dolphins give up a lot of points they get a lot of kicker turns and punter turns so expect to see jaylen right to try to be utilized try to give that Miami offense somewhat of a jump start somewhat of a good starting drive in this one so that right there is the Miami dolphins offense in a nutshell what do I think the score is going to be in this one here man I don't know I've kind of gone in different places with this one the chiefs are 11 and a half point betting favorites I think they cover that by the way let me know your score prediction in this

1:07:36game do I think questions will get a sack maybe I want a bit on that but let me know your your prediction your score predictions for this game I'm going to go 31 17 in this one I think the chiefs are going to continue to score in the 30s I think the offensively you'll see about her game I think the dolphins might get a garbage time touchdown or two in the fourth quarter I don't expect too much from Miami in this game if they can find a way to shut down to Von Hn who's who's a speedy running back boy you're putting a lot of pressure on malik willas who has not been good in his career and has not been very good this season so I think if the chiefs can find a way to exploit the right side of Miami's offensive line that's when they can really start shutting down this Miami offense and they might not be able to do too much so I think the chiefs overall will do pretty well in this one my score prediction I'm going 31 17 I think 31 17 is going to be the score to this game and I think Kansas City will improve to 3 and 0 and they will get ready for a

1:08:41Raiders team that will probably be 3 and 0 as well the Raiders are facing a tough Saints team I mean the Saints have been it's been down to the wire in both their games against Detroit and Baltimore so it's not a guarantee the Raiders will win but I think that would be great going into week four so I've got the chiefs winning and improving to 3 and 0 so that is my score prediction for this one TJ says 38 17 Jeremiah 28 3 Jennifer is going 35 10 blue shirts says 34 14 yes seems like a lot of us are in agreement as to what the score differential might be so seems like a lot of us are in agreement the chiefs will cover that 11 and a half point spread all right that'll do it for this episode of the chiefs on podcast thank you all for joining me tonight my name is Farza Musugian a quick reminder make sure if you're a new Seaky customer use my promo code farzine 20 bucks off your first purchase at Seaky you can use this for any NFL college football major league baseball any game out there so make sure you guys new Seaky

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