Chiefs 30
Texans 20

I was about to absolutely destroy you and then I kept reading... :LOL:

Oh yeah there was that regular season game we won LOL.

Completely exited my mind. I guess regular season blowouts don't mean much to me anymore.

Smashing refresh hard on my Mecole Hardman and Jaylen Watson X searches.

If those guys play we will really take out the trash.

I wish we could get Aikman, and Brady to do the Super Bowl. Kill two birds with one stone that way! Imagine the epic amount of salts as we threepeat
from them both.

I’m not seeing it with the Texans unless the Chiefs completely shit the bed somehow.

The rest advantage. Experience advantage. Home field advantage. Talent advantage. Coaching advantage.

Just about every advantage goes for the Chiefs. Don’t see the pressure of a 3-peat being too much for the Chiefs in this one. If anyone can handle it, it’s this team.

I actually thought Nikko has been a good PR and maybe better than Hardman this year

Exactly.

This shouldn't be within 10 pts. El Travador can empty the can - no more holding back. Offense is finally healthy.

Andy gets in his playbook and calls forth a few colon stretching red zone plays....

Ridiculous take. A penalty, maybe for being late, but nothing more.

Yeah, I think if the Chiefs play well, they win. Simple as that.

I know that may sound obvious, but I could see them playing well against Buffalo or Baltimore and losing a close one -- one key play goes against them, something like that. Or the 13-second game without the 13 seconds.

I predict the Chiefs, who hail from Kansas City, will win this football game.

Our defense will be so stifling we will bumble around on offense not trying to score because Andy is a sweetheart. 27-17. Late garbage TD from Texans.

Beta Power to the rescue

Yep. The Texans hardly looked "good". The Chargers were just awful.

This. It took a broken play and complete meltdown by Herbert to make the game look as lopsided as it ended up being.

I’d almost rather catch a team coming off that type of win.

Enough to inflate their egos a bit, but not enough to actually be concerned with them.

No excuses. Well rested. As healthy as we have ever been with plenty of time to game plan.

Not a lot of sure things in sports but this is about as close as you will get. If this is anything other than a win Andy better have a list ready with names on it because ****ers heads will need to roll.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">�� BREAKING ��<br><br>Clay Martin will be the referee for the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Chiefs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Chiefs</a> divisional round matchup against the Texans.<br><br>Kansas City are 6-0 in the Mahomes Era with Martin officiating.<a href="https://twitter.com/FourGuysInABar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FourGuysInABar</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TalkPrimeTime?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TalkPrimeTime</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/BowTieSports_18?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BowTieSports_18</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ChiefsInsider?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ChiefsInsider</a> <a href="https://t.co/938dmqX9bN">pic.twitter.com/938dmqX9bN</a></p>&mdash; Chiefs Blitz (@ChiefsBlitz) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChiefsBlitz/status/1878857836568215994?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 13, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

As is tradition, one of these 4 referees will the ref in the Super Bowl...

Gonna be interesting to see what Bills/Ravens fans think about having Cheffers.

It was 2015 actually. Same year as the Royals WS win.

2014 is the only season the Chiefs missed the playoffs with Andy Reid.

As long as we don’t draw that turd

So... what changes from the Saturday-before-Christmas?

That's the question for me on this one.

I'm seeing a few interesting themes ... one of them being about the Texans "dominating" the Chargers last weekend. Um, tell me you just looked at the box score without telling me you just looked at the box score...

The other one is talk about "how close" the last matchup was. Which, I don't know. Other than working things to Tank Dell, I don't think Houston had many answers on offense. Stroud played pretty well in that game, too.

For KC, I think this is the game we see Hopkins and Brown fully unleashed. No more snap count watching, no more working him in. Just let 'er rip.

On defense, does Jaylen Watson get back on the field?

I'm feeling something like 31-17, with the Chiefs making a statement, and looking locked in and dangerous.

You serious, Clark?

Mahomes is 100%, Hollywood is fully ingrained in the offense, 80% snaps for DeAndre Hopkins, whoever is playing left tackle is far more comfortable than they were going into that game....if Watson plays we stomp a mudhole in these frauds.

Listening to some talking heads it’s hilarious to me how much praise the Texans are getting for having a “good game.” It’s like no one actually watched the game. They were trailing 6-0 with like two minutes to go in the first half and got a very fortunate play to not get shut out. They had every right to be trailing at least 14-0 at that point and Stroud was awful out there. That game was much more about the Chargers bad than Texans good.

Yup.

Speed bump on the third rung of four straight super bowls...

people are massively over correcting for saying the chargers would handle the texans. they have egg on their face from that so they’re now trying to talk up the Texans and act as if they were always underrated as a playoff threat. too bad they’re gonna have to over correct for their over correction on Sunday

Going to guess it's Martin or Torbert's crew. Cheffers worked the SB what, two years ago?

I do think the Texans defense is different when Al-Shaiir plays.

But not enough to make a difference in this game, especially if J-Wat plays.

We did a great job on Anderson and Hunter last month, if we can repeat that we'll win handily.

34-17 Chiefs.

yep, the NFL called in "the cleaner" for that game!

Watch out!

The only thing that can stop our 3peat is Mahomes missing a game due to injury.

That first game was six days after Mahomes injured his ankle.

As someone that was at the Texans game, I noticed that the speed from Worthy and Hollywood immediately made Houston’s assholes pucker. They dropped safeties back and were nervous.

I think you’re going to see us continue to kill them in the middle of the field quickly with Kelce/Hopkins.

There’s just too much firepower for them to cover.

Clay Martin’s crew will be officiating

It will be nice to see more snaps for Hopkins, now that the Trade nonsense is finalized. And hopefully more snaps for Hollywood too. He has now had 2 games, plus 2 extra weeks of practice to get ready for a bigger snap count.

Martin, Torbert, or Smith will get the SB...if I had to guess, it will be Torbert, whom I'm fine with.

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

Holthus on TheFan965:

"Patrick Mahomes will have the longest layoff in NFL history for a QB from his last regular season action to his first playoff game."

"But I will tell you, since the league has gone to 17 games...this team, for it to back up mentally and emotionally...I've seen what happens to this team."

"If that leads to a slow start, I don't think it will last long. The best chance this team had for a threepeat is the fact that they got this bye and these 23 days to get ready."

Holthus said the Chiefs could play Humphries AND Thuney at LT Saturday. :shrug:

Why tho????

Get ready to taste the sweet nectar of Humphries end zone Chiefs fans!

Now is not the time to f*** around.

#HOUvsKC #NFLPlayoffs officiating crew cheat sheet

HOME teams are 4-0 SU & 2-2 ATS in Clay Martin's playoff career, favored by an avg of -4.5 pts.

One playoff game was a 22-17 KC win vs #Browns in 2020 & also #Texans 45-17 win vs #Browns in 2023

The Chiefs are 6-0 SU & 2-4 ATS w Martin, favored by an avg of -7.5 pts in those contests

Most recently, their 19-17 Black Friday win vs. #Raiders in Week 13, which ended w' the illegal shift penalty on Las Vegas as time expired

The makeup of this crew points to an emphasis on OFFENSIVE penalties

The combination of FALSE START/OFFENSIVE HOLDING will be key in this game

That combination accounted for 47.4% of Clay Martin's penalties in 2024 (No.1 in NFL)

OFFENSIVE HOLDING without a doubt the No.1 issue for #KansasCity, they rank 3rd overall but are excellent in the false start category ,ranking 26th

However, the Houston Texans are also an above avg penalized offense in BOTH these categories

Traditionally, the NFL look to reduce these calls in the playoffs, so both teams should be provided some leeway

THIRD DOWN ALERT

Clay Martin led crews calling just 17.3% of penalties on THIRD DOWN, second FEWEST in the #NFL

Additionally, the Martin/Hochuli crews calling some of the fewest defensive penalties on THIRD down, both in the bottom three of crews . Leeway will be provided on the money down if form holds.

The #Chiefs an above avg penalized DEFENSE third down, the Texans a way above avg penalized OFFENSE on 3rd down

#KansasCity OFFENSE ranks 11th as a BENEFICIARY of AUTOMATIC 1ST DOWNS via PENALTY.

#Houston OFFENSE ranks 29th as a BENEFICIARY of AUTOMATIC 1ST DOWNS via PENALTY.

Houston has improved from a penalty perspective down the stretch & they're going to need to put together a season best performance penalty-wise on Saturday . If they are behind the chains via false start or offensive holding too often, it's going to be near impossible to win at Arrowhead

The Chiefs always reduce penalties in the playoffs, & by a significant amount vs regular season games

The officiating angles & the playoff history of Andy Reid/Patrick Mahomes point to a home team victory to open the #DivisionalRound

Chiefs are actually 11-3 with him as ref since 2017

Bills are 8-2 with him since 2018

Ravens are 4-2 with him since 2018

They’ll be fine. Starters had 3 weeks off in 20 and we jumped out to a 13-3 early lead vs Cleveland in the Divisional

My guess is they think Humphries is almost there conditioning wise but might give him breaks here and there or in the 4th.

I think that means Thuney starts.



And they move him only if interior is a huge issue.

I would rather he felt 30 years old. You could pretty much count on TK doing something stupid 1-2 times per game early in his career. Throwing the ref's flag, etc.

Not sure Mitch has ever been the insider who breaks news in any capacity. But in any case, the uncertainty of who starts there at least steals a very small amount of time from the Texans.

I'd be surprised at this point if it's not Thuney.

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I'm sure that Andy Reid is telling the team to concentrate on one game at a time. It's
too early to think about the Super Bowl. Houston just beat a good team by 20 points.

i feel like the whole “resting starters is bad!!” thing came from Peyton chokejobs bc Andy was doing this shit for years in Philly and his issue wasnt one and dones lol

LAC are à “good team”?

According to Methaloto!

Last time we played the Texans in a playoff game at Arrowhead.

Houston brought their game uo to another level this week.


They have serious talent on both sides of the ball. We can't just skate by them. We need playoff KC to show.

Certainly you don't overlook any opponent at this stage and everyone at 1 Arrowhead Drive knows that.

But Houston looked horrible for a large part of that game on Saturday eclipsed only by the Chargers being more horrible.

This is a southern dome team, coming into sub freezing temps with a young QB and coach, running a defense that we play well against. I say we do skate by them.

Will Anderson jr is a monster

The Chiefs and the Lakers are my favorite teams. But NFL games are very unpredictable. A random turnover at the wrong time can result in a loss. Also, CJ is a very good QB.

Quotes like that are why I do my best to not listen him. I like his enthusiasm, but his catch phrases are cringe.

The Chargers, specifically Herbert were not good but they were keeping the Texans from doing anything offensively until...

Texans were backed up against their own endzone, 3rd quarter I believe. It was like 3rd and 19 looking bad for them. High early snap goes right past Stroud, now they are really in trouble but somehow Stroud picks it up, scrambles around and manages to get the pass off, good for a first down!

The offense played well after that. it wasnt just the Chargers are bad. Stroud seemed to wake up and put the team on his back. Had they played like that for the whole game, it would have been an ass whooping.

So... we need to make sure we keep them down for the whole game!

Herbert was so unsettled from the start Saturday. He lost all touch on his throws. I texted friends during the 1Q, saying that eventually one of these piss missals is going to sail right at a Texans DB and sure enough they did.

They aren't gonna get that from Patrick Saturday. It's going to be much more pertinent that their offense plays the game of the year - hell, the game of Stroud's career - in order to win. I just can't see it. If there's one thing I feel tremendously confident in right now, it's that the Chiefs defense isn't allowing Houston to break 20.

What is the weather going to be like Saturday in KC?

Praying for injuries is extremely bad karma. It is an affront to the football gods.

Houston's best chance is to jump on KC early. Especially if the Chiefs show rust from not playing a competitive game for three weeks. Their D-line needs to cause havoc to have a chance. On the offensive side, they should target Mixon and Schultz in the flats. Those guys cause matchup problems for our LBs. Mixon had only one reception in the first meeting. I was surprised they didn't target him more.

Cold and sunny. Probably in the 20s. Good football weather.

Most of the pressure from the Texans against the Chargers came from the interior. I will be shocked if Thuney isn't at guard, but it's smart to keep them guessing. If Humphries struggles, revert to the obvious plan b.