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Chapter 1: What holiday events are happening at Advent Health Sports Park?
Celebrate the holidays at Advent Health Sports Park December 20th. Start your day with brunch and bowling with Santa at 10 a.m. Then hit the ice for skating with the Grinch at 2 p.m. Festive fun, photos, and family memories all in one magical day. Don't miss it at Advent Health Sports Park. He has a name that echoes throughout Chiefs history. He also has a name that does not.
He's Matt Derrick of Chiefs Digest on the program.
Let's talk some Chiefs football. Matt Derrick joins us here in the program. Matt, how are you, buddy? I am doing well. So, Ren, how about yourself? Doing great. Did you know that Curtis said he had to resist the urge on Sunday sound off all night from calling you Matt?
Chapter 2: Who is Matt Derrick and what is his connection to Chiefs football?
Like you said, he just wanted so bad when you guys were on there together last night to drop that on you.
I had to resist the urge after Curtis started talking about Todd Riesing, of calling him Sod Riesing.
Okay, okay, yeah. I did hear that part. I was watching you guys last night. If people missed it, 10.30 on Sunday's Sunday Sound Off, KSHB TV 41, hosted by Mick Schaefer and the whole staff down there. Great stuff. Let's start with this. What is your expectation today? for Rashi Rice this year? Like, what do they need him to be and what do you think he is going to be?
I mean, what they need him to be is they need him to be a true number one receiver and what their expectations were two years ago before he got hurt. And that's a guy that can go out and get you 80 to 100 catches and, you know, preferably get you 1,200, 1,400 yards in that ballpark. And I think there's a wide range of outcomes in which he could be. I mean, obviously, he could get hurt again.
Things could not go well. If he plays a full season, though, I mean, I think at least 800 yards is kind of a floor for him. I mean, you look at what he's done, and, you know, his last full season of games, you go back to, like, last 17 games, and, yeah, you have to go three years to get those 17 games.
He's been a guy that's averaging like over 70 yards a game, and that's a player who's going to get you 1,100, 1,200 yards. So he can be that guy, and he can be that guy for an extended period of time. He just has to do it in one year.
And I still don't know what kind of guy he is, but based on what we saw last year, at least before the injury, and I think there's some room to improve, obviously, but they've taken every step. certainly with this coaching staff, of trying to give him the resources to be a better receiver.
I mean, they did add a receiver in the fifth round, but for the most part, they're counting on the guys they already have. They're counting on Chad O'Shea to get a lot more out of the receivers they already had, right? Plan A is not that Cyrus Allen's going to come in here and be the number one wide receiver.
Plan A is that the guys that have been, let's be frank, largely disappointing are no longer going to disappoint.
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Chapter 3: What are the expectations for Rashi Rice's performance this year?
It wasn't 13. Dwayne Bowe had five. Yeah, then it must have been 14. It must have been 14 because it definitely ā I don't think it was 15. I just want to see here. I'm ranking it by touchdowns. Oh, my God. Oh, that's frightening. 18 touchdown catches total. One from Anthony Sherman, one from Niall Davis, two from Joe McKnight.
In fact, Todd Lebo did this, I think, maybe as a stump-the-chumps question. Four from Anthony Fasano, five from Travis Kelsey, and five from Jamal Charles.
Ew.
I mean, the yardage leaders that year.
How that team was even close to the playoffs is kind of amazing.
Travis Kelsey, 862. Dwayne Bowe, 754. Jamal Charles, 291. Albert Wilson, 260. I mean, Donny Avery, 176. Whatever you'd call the Anthony Thomas, 156. Jason Avant, 152. Like, are we in that? Moment in time, I mean, is Rashi Rice any more than what Dwayne Bowe was at that point?
I mean, I don't think it is because, I mean, that was still the era which the Chiefs had never had a 30-touchdown passer in a season. It was a different world, different quarterback. I mean, those 18 touchdowns, looking back at it, at that point, it was tied for the second most touchdown passes that Alex Smith ever had in a year. I mean, 23 was his high going into that season. And he hits 18.
That was tied his second highest. I mean, that was a really good year for Alex Smith. That's how bad it was.
Yeah. What do you expect from Xavier Worthy then? I mean, it sounds to me like you're thinking that if Rasheed Rice is healthy and not suspended, which doesn't look like he's going to be suspended, so now it's just about health, you're figuring about 1,200 yards on Rasheed Rice, right? Like at 70 a game. That's what they're hoping for. That's 1,190 at 70 per game. So 1,200 yards from him.
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Chapter 4: What role is Cyrus Allen expected to play in the offense?
I mean, execution for sure. I mean, there were times that we were watching this offense and we were saying, hey, wait a minute, you know what? Mahomes and MVS are just a hair off and everything. Well, I don't think it was ever that Mahomes was a hair off or Marquez was a hair off. I think it was Marquez wasn't very good anymore. And he wasn't a receiver that even at 28, I think, was still a star.
I think if you'd take an MVS and put him on just your average team in the NFL, I don't think he's putting up 687 yards. I think he's putting them more like 250. I mean, I think there's a reason when the MBS left here, I mean, he hasn't done anything since then. I mean, I don't think Hollywood's going to do anything.
I don't think he's going to go somewhere and all of a sudden just revitalize himself. I think we're going to look at this and see that the receivers, once they, I mean, Sky Moore, I mean, if Sky Moore catches another catch in the NFL, I might be stunned. I mean, he's not going to go out and just all of a sudden become a 400-yard receiver somewhere.
He's obviously going to be a nice return guy for somebody. But, I mean, we talk about quarterbacks of the talent of Mahomes have to elevate the players around them.
And it's easy to look at this team, I think, over this offense over the last three or four years and say, okay, well, Mahomes hasn't elevated these receivers because these receivers have been mediocre at best and maybe bad more realistically. But I fear that the problem has been that, no, Mahomes did elevate these guys. These guys just weren't any good.
And had they been elsewhere, they probably would have been putting up half the numbers they were putting up with this guy.
Guess who has the most in that stretch? 12.
50-yard touchdowns?
Yeah. Tua. If that doesn't speak to the talent around them, Tua has 12. Yeah. Because he's got wide outs who can get deep. Tyree Kill. Tyree Kill and Jalen Waddell and some other guys. There's no reason he should be 12-2 in those stats the last four years. No. But that's part of it is the talent.
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Chapter 5: How is the Chiefs' wide receiver group expected to perform this season?
Like, I am not here lobbying that running the ball is more important than throwing the ball. Throwing the ball is more important. But you can run the ball to help you pass the ball more effectively.
Yeah, and, you know, that to me, what's the purpose of a lot of the things that they're doing? You know, when they were running the RPOs and that was a key part of the offense and everything, I mean, you think about the fact that it was largely because at that point, they just didn't have much of a run game then either. But I think it was probably a little bit better in the run game.
Last year, I think it was just the talent that they had at running back. And it's not necessarily a huge knock on either guy. I think it's more about the fact that Kareem Hunt is 85 years old and Isaiah Pacheco just has never recovered from the ankle injury. You know, they had some guys back then, you know, like they had years where Gerald Williams was their leading rusher.
I mean, you had to scheme that run game. And the RPOs were a big part of that. But, again, the RPO part of it is the read's a big part of it. And if you just abandon the read part of it and you're running RPOs and everybody in the league knows that 90% of the time it's going to be a pass and that you're not really ā doing a read-off of it, you know, your quarterback's not looking at his keys.
He just knows that he's going to throw the football 90% of the time. Nobody's falling for that. So, and, you know, and I think Mahomes absolutely got to a point.
And this is something, and I'm trying to remember, I think it was last year that Brad Veach said, and it could have been this year, but I feel like it was last year, that, you know, he said that and talked about things getting in Mahomes' head and just he's seeing things that aren't there.
And I think that has been a huge part of what's been wrong with the offense has been just that, you know, so much of it has been on him and so much of it has been on him to say, hey, here's the game plan, Patrick, make it work, rather than giving him the game plan that's going to work, that he doesn't have to make it work, that there's a big punch of it that's just going to work because you've got a better scheme than the other team, you've got better execution than the other team, and you don't just have to take advantage of your quarterback's
greatness to pull it off. I mean, that's the way that the Patriots always avoided going 6-11. I mean, they had a game plan. It wasn't depending on Tom Brady just to pull things out of a hat every week, because certainly he didn't. I mean, I think about just how much Mahomes had to run last year, and he's had to run in his career to kind of execute things, but last year was particularly bad.
I mean, they probably don't go 6-11 if Mahomes doesn't rush for, what, 462 yards? I mean, he was the key to a couple of those wins just with his feet, and that can't happen with your quarterback when you've got a guy like Mahomes. You can't have an offense that's built entirely on him just making it work. You've got to hand him things that are going to work on their own.
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Chapter 6: What impact does coaching have on the Chiefs' offense this year?
Yeah, and Cincy. But Cincy's one of the teams I kind of expect to get better. But the other five.
I think if Joe Burrow's healthy, Cincy's tough.
Yeah. Period. I don't ever want to go play that guy there.
You know, if Matt Stafford goes down, the Rams game gets a lot easier. Yeah. I mean, we can say that about all those quarterbacks. Josh Allen ain't playing for the Bills. Nope. I like that game a lot more. I mean, so the Bengals, if they have... Joe Burrow is obviously the one who gets hurt the most. Yes. But assuming Joe Burrow plays, that's a tough game.
Yeah. And they've put a lot of money and a lot of time and money in draft picks in the defense. If they're better defensively, they've got a new defensive coordinator. That could be... This needs to be a 7-1 home schedule or no worse than 6-2. They go 5-3 at home. They're going to be on the outside looking in, I think, in the postseason.
9133-810-810. You're in the program. You're in the program here on Sports Radio 810 WHB. You started going even further down. We were talking about Patrick Mahomes and the 50-yard touchdown passes.
Yep.
To get him into the top 20, you had to get down to what, 20 yards?
Actually, I think he was 13th at 30 or 25. I was going 40, let's do 30, let's do 25 and 20. So all the way down, he's no higher than, I think, 14th. And I did it all the way down to 20th, to 20 touchdown passes, or touchdown passes of 20 yards or more. Last four years, he's tied for 22nd with Justin Fields with 18 yards. The leader, Jared Goff, 44. 44. Patrick Mahomes, 18.
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