3+ Weeks of Getting Rested & Healthy
 

Looking at potentially 26 days before we play another game with the bulk of the starters... Pretty effing great, right? Getting Hollywood Brown back has been HUGE. Just in the couple of games, you can see how much his presence opens things up for everyone.

So we know Rashee Rice won't be back in time for the playoffs, good lord, can you imagine a healthy receiving corps of Rice, Brown, Worthy and Hopkins, oh and Kelce at TE? Unstoppable.

But who is next to come back that will help our rotation? I know Chris Jones will be fine. What's the word on Jaylen Watson? Humphries? Uche? Any others have a shot at being back? Or do we even want these guys back?

Jaylen Watson is the big one. Would be great to get him close to 100% if you can. Joshua Williams can be the opposite outside corner and McDuffie works from the slot.

Can't think of much outside of that. Hardman, I guess?

January 18 or 19 will be our next meaningful game. We have plenty of time to wash our lucky shirts and socks.

That huge rest we're getting was so crucial, you just know everyone is beat up and tired... the threepeat hope lives on

Now we wanna see Wentz and all the backups curbstomp Denver

Bye will keep them warm

honestly, does reid give the starters some reps next week? It’ll be what, like, 20+ days before we play a real game again?? we get the extra days off on top of the bye and meaningless game so idk

This team has played soo much football the last few years I think they need the rest.

Just look at Hollywood’s injury on his 1st catch in the preseason. No need to play these guys at all.

I’d be somewhat conflicted in Mahomes’s first year as a starter.

These guys are pros though. They know the drill.

The rest is valuable. The injury risk is too much for a meaningless game.

You do not.

it's a legit concern. There's been times where teams have rested their starters and they were out of synch in the playoffs. But this is a team where a lot of players have played an extra season over the past several years because of the playoff success. They'll be fine to get some needed rest.

I think the rest is invaluable to everyone, mentally and physically, this break is huge. Ain't no way Andy plays any of the premium starters next week against Denver.

But I wanna know who are we gonna see come back over the next few weeks. Watson? Humpheries? Any others? How is our roster gonna shake out heading into the playoffs?

Yeah man they need the rest

Pretty sure this team is capable of staying sharp

Our bye was forever ago, and we've been eating bullets for months... rest these guys

No kidding. They have played a whole season of playoff games. That’s an additional year in their bodies just for being so good.

Exactly. They've played essentially an extra season since 2018 compared to most other teams. Hell, ALL of the teams. You combine that with our bye week happening way back in week 6, and that means the starters get two weeks off.

The Chiefs know how to prepare and win because they've shown they know how to do it every season for seven years now. They need to rest and heal until the divisional round.

Only real question is what do they do at LT? They gonna ride it out with Thuney or give Humphries another shot.

My lucky sock may need to go through a few cycles

If it ain’t broke….our pockets have looked the best the last three weeks. I’d ride Thuney for the rest of this season.

Agreed.

Not to sneer at your question at all, but I'm not sure it even matters... if we played the Super Bowl next week, I'd be confident in the guys we had available today

But to pick just one, its gotta be Humphries... we need that guy to show up against Denver, and be a Roaf-like headache for Bonitto

If DJ wrecks it against Denver, you roll with him

Seconded, the motion carries.

I bet he plays them some - as he should 3+ weeks is too long to not play ..

Ref injuries are a concern for the Chiefs -Rex Ryan

Plus it seems like almost every game this season has gone down to the last possession. It's not like we had some blowout wins where we gave the starters a quarter or two off.

Sit every starter we can, imo.

Hell, put DJ AT RT and see what we got.

I hope the players all stick to the more traditional intercourse positions over the next few weeks.

Would hate to lose someone because he fell out of one those sex swings.

Arguably the most fluent the offensive side of the ball has looked since the Eagles Super Bowl win. Stick with the O Line as it is and the quick release passing game that is wearing down opponents and creating bigger spaces as the game goes on.

They held up against one of the better pass rushing corps in the league today.

I’m going to be so bored………

I think our runn game suffered a bit losing thuney inside , play DJ next week if he looks good start him in the playoffs.

I think that’s right.

If he goes down in the playoffs, just go back to Thuney.

Are they saying DJ might be good to go next week?

A bit unrelated but the offseason will be really interesting in regards to Hollywood, DHop, Juju and Mecole. If we win the SB, do all those guys try to run it back for a 4 peat? A receiving core heading into 2025 of Rice, Worthy, Hollywood, DHop, Juju and Hardman. Thatd be the most talented wide receiver room to ever start a season for the Chiefs. By far.

Curious about Watson and Nelson.

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Does Pete need to be here, yes.

I wouldn't allow the starters to be at meetings they deserve a mental break as well.

Remigio's fumble today was no bueno.

Need Hardman back. And he's good insurance on offense if X or Hollywood go down in the middle of a game.

Kelce's getting a ton of sloppy toppy from tay tay's sweet red lips this week.

Alright nah!

You have ZERO reason to play starters except guys coming back from injury who may need extra snaps to get in football shape. Humphries, Uche, and Hollywood come to mind.

I don't think I'd play Hollywood either. We need to make sure he's 100%.

They arent going to be out of sync....they will still be practicing. The gameday rest is GREAT.

This is why you played Mahomes against the Texans. Now the whole team can rest. Perfect timing for a guy like Chris Jones.

Andy can afford to have some hard practices now.

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The rest vs rust argument is an argument you could make for a team like the Lions. That group has been in one playoff. They don't know the rhythm of a playoff bye week together.

This Chiefs team knows how to navigate it. And anyone new to the team/situation (Perine, Worthy, Hollywood, Humphries) can learn a lot from most of the roster being through it.

They'll be fine resting guys.

Until the last few weeks you can argue that the best the team has looked was week 1 against Baltimore.

The next few weeks, our detractors will only be able to use this nonsense rust argument to try and tear the Chiefs down

But just wait for if it is the Chargers (somewhat likely perhaps), or Denver (much less likely) who come to Arrowhead in the divisional.

There will be people all over the landscape picking those teams as a trendy upset due to being division rivals who've seen KC twice.

That would be foolish though, bc the rest is going to show up big time in terms of speed on the field, AND, only the Texans and Steelers have played this new-look Chiefs team since inserting Thuney at LT and Hollywood at WR. Anything before that is pretty irrelevant, IMHO.

Andy practices hard. He doesn’t let up. There’s a cool story about how in camp Andy will run long sessions of 20+plays at a time in pads in St Joseph to work these guys into game shape.

He’ll give them next week off with unpadded light walk through but I guarantee Andy is gonna have these guys in pads one day before the divisional week to keep them moving and hitting.

Maybe... I mean, I guess you're probably right. There's still some stubborn cockfaces out there who just want to be "right" about this Chiefs team being "bad". "See! See! I told you so!" That whole tired schtick. Just one of many reasons why it will be positively glorious to see Clark, Andy, Patrick, Travis, CJ and many others hoist the Lombardi trophy again come February.

I have washed my jersey ONCE in the last year.

Play them for a half. Have them prep all week to keep them engaged. 26 days is a long f'n time.

NO

How about no? Veteran team led by Reid/Mahomes knows how to turn it on. We'll be fine.

How many players can we elevate from the practice squad without having to cut anybody? How's that work under the current rules?

Google says two. We need a 3rd string QB and what else?

Yup.

This team knows how to avoid rust. This is exactly what the team played for, they earned it.

It'll be the first time this year that this many guys will be healthy.

They'll be ready. This first game won't be close....

Would the team get penalized for absolutely not trying to, kneeling on every offensive play , getting out of the way on D etc.. 200-0 loss or whatever .


Can we forfeit ?

There are some guys like the Red Rocket and Kingsly who need the snaps. Just in case.

Give Crocodile Blondie some carries. Throw those young guards in there. There's tons of defensive depth that could benefit.

Nah, **** a lot of throwing the game. But we do need to lose so Burro can lunch dicks in Bermuda week 1 of the playoffs...

F that. Rest all the starters and only have some available in case of injury. These guys need to reset their bodies/minds for a 3 game playoff run.

I’ll be the first to admit I wanted Mahomes to sit for the Texans the day he was injured because ot looked real bad, especially those damn high ankle sprains.

Then I saw him practicing and I'm like, "holy shit he is good to go!"

Yeah. It looked bad when it happened but then you watch the post game and hear the comments. It was pretty obvious early on it wasn't serious. People just get really anxious when the best QB ever starts limping.

Rest everyone you can. They last thing we need is some freak injury to Mahomes, or some other key player, that takes away our chances for a Super Bowl. Treat it like a last pre-season game.

Continuity is so important on the OL. Thuney has won the spot, it’s working. I am glad I am not the coach, but that is a huge call.

Only guys who should play in Denver, IMO:

QB - Wentz
RB - Steele, Perine (for blocking if nothing else so Wentz is protected)
WR - Watson, JuJu, Nikko
TE - Hendershot, Firkser (PS call-up #1)
LT - Humphries
LG - Caliendo
C - Nourzad
RG - Hanson
RT - Wanya
**mix and match OL at different spots, see how Morris and Kingsley do at guard

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DE - FAU, Herring, Uche
DT - Wharton, Nnadi, Tulipulotu
LB - Cam Jones, Bozeman (PS call-up #2), Chenal (would rather get Christensen in here somehow but seems unlikely)
DB - Taylor, Nazeeh, Chamarri, Roland-Wallace, Hicks

I was hoping to bring up more PS help on D like Steven Nelson, but it's hard when you don't have enough depth at LB to not use a call-up there

I’d like to see the oline rest thuney, creed and Taylor and have a starting oline of humphries, caliendo, nourzad, Hanson and Morris. I’ll be watching to see how humphries and Morris play. I also hope to see sumatatiaia sub for humphries some. Good luck, Carson wentz. We need to evaluate the oline for the playoffs.

You said it better than I did.

Hopkins may play. Supposedly he has several incentives he has a chance to reach that can earn him up to a million dollars in bonuses.

And if there's one thing we know about Hopkins from most of his career choices, he LOVES making that money.

No, beating Denver with the JV team will be more fun.

I'd bring up Oladokun to play QB for 3 qtrs of the game. You don't really want to have QB2 get injured.

That'd be idiotic. Just give him his money and rest him.

I'm guessing that we hand the ball off 70% of the offensive snaps, maybe more. The only goal we have (other than to stay injury free) is to burn that clock as fast as possible. Given that, I seriously doubt there is much of an injury risk to Wentz

You're 100% right and yet we know they won't after seeing what they made Jones do last year.

Man that was ****ing dumb. We are lucky it didn't backfire and cost us the Super Bowl.

On the condition he comes back next year. Our young WRs can learn a lot from him.

Sounds good but Andy is coaching this team so I can see him playing Humphries and calling pass plays to see how he does on an island.

Against a team that is #1 sacks per game? I don't think we're going to see much of that.

Hate the broncos but I'd rather they win Saturday against Cincinnati and rest their guys too, turn this into a real exhibition game.