Arrowhead Pride
The Kansas City Chiefs were widely expected to field a better team this season than they did in 2024, when they turned in the best record in franchise history — and then became the first team to ever return to the Super Bowl after winning the previous two.
But now the team is 6-6 after losing three of their last four games — all of them by a single score.
These matchups will be against the (7-5) Houston Texans, (8-4) Los Angeles Chargers, (1-11) Tennessee Titans, (10-2) Denver Broncos and (2-10) Las Vegas Raiders.
Here’s the good news: all three contests against postseason contenders will be played on GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium, where the team is 5-1 in 2025 — and hasn’t lost a game since recording a 20-17 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles in Week 2.
But there’s bad news, too: two of those teams have already defeated Kansas City in 2025 — and the other now owns a four-game winning streak that includes victories over three AFC playoff contenders.
Can they do it?
“[We’re] one or two plays away,” head coach Andy Reid told reporters on Monday. “That’s what this game is. Look at our season: we’re one or two plays off. We’ve got to take care of that — whether it’s a penalty at a crucial time, [a] possible turnover somewhere or having a chance to create a turnover. We’re right in [a] position where if we can figure out those two [or] three plays, [we can] flip this around.”
If the Chiefs can do that, it will take only a few of a dozen or so games going the right way for Kansas City to make the postseason.
At the end of Thursday’s loss to the Dallas Cowboys, left tackle Josh Simmons, right guard Trey Simmons and right tackle Jawaan Taylor were on the sidelines. We’ve learned from bitter experience what can happen if the Chiefs enter the playoffs without their starters on the offensive line. Making the postseason might mean very little if Kansas City can’t get its big guys back on the field.
“The guys are working to get themselves healthy right now,” said Reid on Monday, “[and] everybody is in the process. Josh is getting a second evaluation on his wrist; we’ll just see what goes from there. Then [the] other guys — Trey and JT — all those guys are improving as we go forward here. We’ll see how they do here the next couple of days.”
In the meantime, the contract that general manager Brett Veach gave reserve tackle Jaylon Moore is looking better and better.
On Thanksgiving, the Chiefs’ pass rush couldn’t bring the Cowboys’ quarterback Dak Prescott to the ground even once — and didn’t even record a single quarterback pressure. [In the team’s other three November games, the defense collected...
