His crew has been flag-happy for defensive pass interference and illegal contact, from what I remember.

Which has made them a rough draw when playing the Bengals, since Chase is then allowed to committ offensive pass interference as much as he wants, without any physicality coming back at him.

Clay power is fully activated!!!

With Hopkins, a crew that allows a little more contact from the WR may be offset a little for us.

As you noted, in the past all that did was work against us. Our DBs are physical, our WRs worked in space.

But with Kelce being slower and D-Hop being a contested catch guy, there might be a little bit of mitigation for us with those crews.

Not afraid at all. We should win for certain.

I think we'd be well served to run a similar gameplan to last time with the quick hitters and faster developing route concepts.

Anderson and Hunter are nasty. Autry is a nice rotational rusher in his own right.

That defense can give us a little trouble but if we just operate fast, it keeps them from being able to do too much damage. And at that point the Humphries/Thuney question would barely even matter.

The Chiefs are 6-0 with Mahomes, in Clay Martin officiated games.

Chiefs vs. Texans Referee News Gives KC Massive Advantage in Divisional Round
By Joe Summers | 1:03 PM CST

Nov 24, 2024; Charlotte, North Carolina, USA; Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid yells out to his offense during the second quarter against the Carolina Panthers at Bank of America Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jim Dedmon-Imagn Images
Nov 24, 2024; Charlotte, North Carolina, USA; Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid yells out to his offense during the second quarter against the Carolina Panthers at Bank of America Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jim Dedmon-Imagn Images / Jim Dedmon-Imagn Images
The Chiefs are getting set for a Divisional Round matchup with the Texans on Saturday and we now know what referee crew will be in charge of the contest.

Clay Martin, who has been with the NFL since 2015 and a referee since 2018, was assigned as the head referee for the 3:30 PM CT game. Kansas City is a perfect 6-0 in the Patrick Mahomes era with Martin refereeing, giving the Chiefs an extra advantage in a contest they're already big favorites in.

I've always been fond of Martin as far as officials go, but an advantage? Lol.

Going 6-0 is nothing for a Mahomes team. I'd be disappointed if it was any worse than 5-1. Dude needs to shut up.

Right. Kid has an .800 career winning percentage. He's got lopsided winning records with every ref in the game.

If it weren't for refs existing, Mahomes would have never won a game.

Travis Kelce mentions people said "we can't win in the playoffs" on McAfee.

Also said he feels 22 years old...

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The <a href="https://twitter.com/Chiefs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Chiefs</a> never threw in the towel and ended up completing the largest comeback in franchise history...during a PLAYOFF game �� <a href="https://t.co/Lhh7y2YkUm">pic.twitter.com/Lhh7y2YkUm</a></p>&mdash; NFL Films (@NFLFilms) <a href="https://twitter.com/NFLFilms/status/1417137152954191876?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Nobody believes in us

:) :) :)

The best offense of all time right there. It didn't even phase em. They knew how good they were. They are just like we will just score four times in a row then. When Mahomes scored when it was 24-0, he knew. He was amped up. Lots of times when a team scores in that situation its relief but it isn't that type of energy. Truly an amazing experience watching that game and it announced to the world the Chiefs have arrived.

"three touchdowns in lightning fashion!"

one of the best calls of the mahomes era