Arrowhead Pride
Everything you need to know to watch Kansas City play Denver on Sunday afternoon.
In the NFL’s Week 10, the Kansas City Chiefs are hosting the Denver Broncos in an AFC West matchup on GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium. Kickoff is scheduled for noon (Arrowhead Time) on Sunday — the first of only five Kansas City games that will be played during the early afternoon window this season. It will be carried on CBS — locally on KCTV/5.
The two-time defending Super Bowl champions are well toward their goal — an unprecedented Super Bowl three-peat — with the league’s only undefeated record: 8-0. After winning six straight contests to close the 2023 season, the Chiefs have won 14 straight games. That’s a franchise record.
The 5-4 Broncos, however, would love to bring that streak to a screaming halt — just as they did in last year’s Week 8. In that game, the 2-5 Denver squad snapped Kansas City’s six-game winning streak with a 24-9 home victory. Now in its second year under head coach Sean Payton (and defensive coordinator Vance Joseph, who was the team’s head coach in 2017 and 2018), Denver has one of the league’s best defenses.
“Coach Joseph does a heck of a job schematically; he’s familiar with what we do,” the Chiefs’ offensive coordinator Matt Nagy told reporters this week. “But those players play hard and they know the scheme. They don’t do a lot of crazy stuff, but they do what they do really well. I think [if] you look at the numbers, statistically, Baltimore got after them in certain ways — [in] different things that they did — but that defense plays hard and they play fast.”
Then there’s Denver’s rookie quarterback Bo Nix.
“Boy, for a rookie, he has a command,” defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo said of the quarterback on Thursday. “I went back and watched the first game he played in. I thought Sean had him doing things [where] sometimes [I’d] say, ‘Do you have a rookie do it in the first game that he plays?’ But yet, there he is doing it. I just think he’s gotten better every week.”
“So it’ll be a strap-it-up [game],” concluded Nagy. “A fist fight in the backyard.”
