Takeaways From Broncos-Chiefs, Plus the Biggest Winners and Losers From Week 1!
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What did the Chiefs do to dominate the Broncos on Monday Night Football?
What's up, everybody? Welcome to the Ringer NFL show. Tom Pelissero here. Late, late on Monday night. Just got done watching the Chiefs take it to the Broncos. Wrapping up week one. We'll get into that game. What does it mean for the AFC West? We got winners and losers from week one. A lot of news around the NFL. Some quarterback situations. Miles Garrett to IR. We'll hit all of it right now.
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All right, Sheil Kapati is here. Billy Gill is here. It is, as I said, late here as we wrap up week one of the season watching a Chiefs team that I think it's fair to say looked a lot different than the Chiefs that we have seen in the past. I go all the way back. to March when the Chiefs do something that I don't think anybody could have possibly predicted, which was pay top dollar for a running back. They signed Kenneth Walker to three years. It was like 43 million in chains up to 45 with incentives. And my first reaction when we broke that deal was what's Andy going to do with them? Because Andy Reid, throughout his nearly three decades as an NFL head coach, that's like the running thing, which is just Andy doesn't want to run the football.
Andy doesn't really need running backs. Yeah, if he's got a Brian Westbrook, he'll get it to him in the flats. If he's got a LeSean McCoy, okay, he's going to run it a little bit more. But some telling stats here. Okay, so the Chiefs win this game 31-10. And Kenneth Walker runs absolutely wild. It's the most rushing yards Kenneth Walker has ever had in his career. It's the most rushing yards by a running back for the Chiefs in the Patrick Mahomes era. It is already over a quarter of the way to the rushing total that Kareem Hunt led the team with all of last season. And in my brain... Again, week one is weird, right? There's just, there's so many things schematically that are different. There's coaches that are different.
It's a huge action reaction game, which is why. And Sheila, I know you've got your winners and losers and we'll talk through all of it. And I'm as fired up to talk about it all as everybody else. But I'm always trying to remind myself, like these games might mean nothing. This might just be like the aberration of the season. And we look back and it's like, hey, remember when the Patriots beat the Bengals in week one in 2024 and then basically didn't win a game the rest of the season? Remember when the Raiders beat the Patriots last year and the Patriots went to the Super Bowl and the Raiders were the worst team in football? Like, you always have some of those outliers. Like, to me, what my brain is doing is like what, you know that Shaq weight loss drug commercial that runs constantly?
I saw it again during the game tonight. And it's basically, Shaq comes on the screen. And he's like, hey, I lost another week taking this pill. And that's it. And then the rest of the commercial is like 50 seconds of him walking around silently, like high-fiving people while the narrator talks about all the side effects of the drug. Like, that's me. Like, I watch that. I'm like, holy cow. Like, the Chiefs are a running team now. They got an undrafted left tackle blocking the heck out of people. Kenneth Walker cannot be stopped. But then the other part of me is going... Can they keep doing this? Kenneth Walker up until last year had never stayed healthy over the course of the season. I don't know what his final touch total was tonight, but it was a lot.
Like, is that sustainable? Can you play that way? And by the way, it would have been even higher if they hadn't pulled him out at the end and then let Evan Johnson move the pile as well.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What did the Chiefs do to dominate the Broncos on Monday Night Football?
0:06–12:10
2
How did the new Chiefs running game with Kenneth Walker change the offense?
12:10–23:36
3
Which teams were the biggest winners in Week 1 and why?
23:36–31:52
4
Which teams were the biggest losers in Week 1 and what went wrong for them?
31:52–43:38
5
What are the implications of the Broncos’ new play‑calling situation under Davis Webb?
43:38–54:02
6
How might the AFC West landscape shift after the Chiefs‑Broncos game?
54:02–1:04:53
7
What should we expect from the Bills, Chargers and other teams in Week 2?
1:04:53–1:15:28
8
What is the latest on Myles Garrett’s knee injury and how will it affect the Rams?
1:15:28–1:21:32
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