The Kansas City Chiefs are back to .500, improving to 3-3 after defeating the Detroit Lions on Sunday night. And, apparently, the win was enough for Colin Cowherd to declare that Patrick Mahomes, Andy Reid and the Chiefs have regained their throne as the NFL’s top team.
“Everybody’s worst nightmare is now official: The Kansas City Chiefs, once again, are the best team in professional football,” Cowherd said on Monday’s “The Herd.” “First three weeks, Mahomes was wobbly, and they were averaging 20 points per game. In their last three games, they’re averaging 32 points per game along with that defense and those special teams.”
“Sorry, NFL, they did it again.”
Sunday’s 30-17 victory was arguably the Chiefs’ most impressive of the year, decisively taking down a team that was widely considered to be the best in the league entering Week 6.
The Chiefs outgained the Lions (355-297) in the win, slowing down playmakers like running back Jahmyr Gibbs (65 rushing yards, 3.8 yards per carry) and wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown (nine receptions, 45 yards). But what impressed Cowherd the most, though, was the continued improvement of the Chiefs’ receivers.
“Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes, they’re the only two people in this league who can take No. 2 and No. 3 wide receivers, Hollywood Brown and JuJu Smith-Schuster, backup left tackles, OK running backs and [score] into the 30s,” Cowherd stated. “Xavier Worthy, with some other staff, would he be this good? All they do is make it work. Andy Reid is the good chef. He is the Gordon Ramsay. All the pieces within the kitchen has a task.”
Chiefs beat Lions 30-17. Are they essentially the most harmful staff within the AFC?
Colin Cowherd discusses how the Chiefs “make it work” and in the event that they’re essentially the most harmful staff within the AFC.
In the course of the first three weeks, Brown and Smith-Schuster had been seen as underachievers within the Chiefs offense’s poor begin. With Worthy sidelined with a shoulder harm three performs into Week 1, the veteran wideouts mixed for simply 286 yards by way of these three video games.
Nevertheless, since Worthy’s Week 4 return, Brown and Smith-Schuster have been discovering the top zone, combining for 4 touchdowns in Kansas Metropolis’s final three video games.
In flip, the advance has helped Mahomes play at an MVP stage once more. He recorded 4 complete touchdowns on Sunday, giving him 10 complete touchdowns during the last three weeks to only one interception. Mahomes has additionally averaged 281.7 passing yards and 32.3 dashing yards in that span, with Kansas Metropolis scoring at the very least 28 factors in every recreation.
On prime of Mahomes’ MVP-caliber play, Cowherd identified that the Chiefs are doing issues that championship groups do. There are many video games left, but when Ok.C. retains it up, Cowherd’s stance could also be too exhausting to argue.
“That is what Kansas Metropolis does in all places. Once they get into these massive video games, they play otherwise,” Cowherd stated. “No penalties, no turnovers and one punt. Whine all you need concerning the penalties, well-coached groups — [Tom] Brady and [Bill] Belichick did this for years — they do not flip it over, they do not get penalized and so they do not punt a lot.
“The NFL season’s extremely lengthy. You possibly can’t overreact to 0-2 and 3-3.”
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