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Why Brooke picked the Chiefs: The Chiefs have quickly become the scariest team in the NFL once again, winning four of their last five games after beginning the campaign 0-2. Patrick Mahomes is playing insanely well right now. He leads the NFL in with 18 total touchdowns and just got his offense back to full strength — most notably Rashee Rice, who returned and scored two TDs last week after missing the majority of last year with an injury and serving a six-game suspension to open this season. In fact, over their last four games, the Chiefs have scored 126 points — the most by Kansas City in a four-game stretch since Weeks 4-7 of 2022, the year when Mahomes won his second MVP and the Chiefs won their third Super Bowl. The Commanders are headed in the opposite direction. Their defense is among the worst in the NFL, they’ve lost back-to-back games and they’ll be without Jayden Daniels (hamstring) on Monday night. It doesn’t look promising for Marcus Mariota and the banged-up Washington offense against a Kansas City defense ranked third in scoring and fifth overall. Add in the fact that this is a prime-time game at Arrowhead, and it could get ugly.
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Washington Commanders at Kansas City Chiefs (–11.5)
The look-ahead line for this game was Kansas City –5.5, and we’ve now had a full six-point move to the current line of Kansas City –11.5. Some of this is due to the Jayden Daniels hamstring injury that happened last week, but the rest is a correction to the market after two extremely lopsided results in Week 7. The Chiefs on Sunday had the most comprehensive performance of any NFL team this season, smothering the Raiders offense and scoring 31 points on their first five possessions before sitting on the lead.
Meanwhile, the Commanders offense looks more and more like a shell of its 2024 version due to inconsistent quarterback play and injuries. Without Deebo Samuel and Terry McLaurin, the Commanders scored on only two of their eight possessions against Dallas before Daniels went out in the third quarter.
Washington doesn’t have anyone on its offense who can beat man coverage consistently right now. And now that the Chiefs offense is capable of being more explosive again, the Commanders’ issues with giving up big plays become a major weakness.
Verdict: Pass
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Taranto (Chiefs -11.5): Jayden Daniels’ injuries notwithstanding, the Commanders regressing to the mean and Daniels going through a sophomore slump was easy enough to project. They’re capable of putting themselves around the .500 mark, but they’re still not ready to truly contend, despite being hyped as having Super Bowl potential. The Chiefs will...
