Patrick Mahomes is the ruler you can't afford shrinkage beside

We’ve heard for two or three seasons about how opposing teams play against Kansas City like it’s the Super Bowl. You’re describing that phenomenon. Players are juiced and play out of their minds.

Zach Wilson played his best football against us last year. Same this year with Bryce Young.

We've played an extra season worth of playoff games the last 5 years and every team is playing their Super Bowl against us. It happens. It doesn't mean we're bad, it's just hard to win in this league, especially for as long as we have.

Outstanding!!!

What a great scene, one of the best of that season!!!

I thought Young looked outstanding in terms of decisions and ball-placement, even when under intense pressure. Dude may have completely turned it around.

Both looked excellent and contributed.

Pop breaking off a couple nice runs and got us a FG.

Omenihu already giving good offensive linemen trouble and drawing holding calls.

They both made impacts and Pop was on a pitch count.

I am not worried much about the offense tbh. It’s all on secondary mainly

Very excited to see Pacheco rip that long run. Coming back from a broken leg I wasn't sure if he'd look like himself this year or not. That looked like the dude we all know and love.

And everyone has YEARS of film on Mahomes tendencies, as well as plenty of tape on the rest of this team and how it plays in different situations.

We just need to get back to executing better and I think that will be a big difference with DJ out there at LT. This OL has looked like a unit that’s been spread thin to try to compensate for horrible LT play while trying not to throw other resources into helping out through other positions and it’s making everyone else look worse.

Humphries will give us dependable LT play for the first time in a couple years, if not since Fish went down. Thuney won’t have to be as aware of the ends cutting inside and that should help solidify the middle of the OL again.

Hopefully they can get Trey back on track, as well.

Exactly. The #1 thing that improves the Chiefs is better LT play.

My concern with Pacheco yesterday was what it always has been. He can break the long ones sometimes (and he did break one long one), but simply gets stopped immediately in the backfield or behind the line of scrimmage far too often. Hunt's consistent 3/4 yard grinds over the past weeks emphasised that even more on Pacheco's return.

Outside the 34 yarder he had 6 carries for 10 yards, which simply isnt sustainable.

At one point Hunt had 4 carries for 5 yards. Nobody was making gains on the ground for us which suggests a wider issue with play calling and O-Line.

Omenihu quietly had a pretty good game yesterday.

The D-line needs to generate pressure or else our secondary is toast. Frustrating seeing a JAG like O'Connell walk all over our defense.

It was his first game back and he was constantly around the ball. The sacks will come.