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The Chiefs' offensive tackle play and wide receiver depth have reached emergency status ahead of the NFL trade deadline. Fescoe and Dusty break down Xavier Worthy’s hamstring strain, why it might force Kansas City to target an upgrade, and Kenneth Walker III's monster 3-touchdown afternoon. Plus, Chris Jones admits "sacks do matter" after he and George Karlaftis wrecked the Jets' passing attack.
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00:00First down and goal to go though for the Chiefs at the 7. Ken Walker the third is stationed to
00:05the right. Short side of the field as the Chiefs will shotgun snap on first down. Pass. Walker open near
00:09flat. Easy touchdown. Touchdown Kansas City. K-9 in the flat for 6.
00:18Holmes will be in the shotgun at the far hash. He's got three receivers to the far side. He looks
00:22that way. Now they go on a screen right to K-9. Walker at the 20. Walker 15 inside the
00:2610. Pushes at the 5. Touchdown Kansas City. Kingsley Suamayatea and Trey Smith for a convoy and a screen pass
00:37of 25 yards and a Chiefs touchdown to regain the lead.
00:4320 seconds to go third quarter. 21 to 12. Kansas City. First down and goal to go at the 2.
00:48Offset eye. Single back. Ken Walker the third. He'll push it on the left side. Gets his shoulder turn and
00:54into the end zone. Touchdown Kansas City. A hat trick for Ken Walker the third.
01:00A great day there for your running back who wears the number Nueve as Ken Walker. Three touchdowns yesterday. 100
01:08yards on the ground.
01:10Mahomes throws for 242. Two touchdowns as well. 18 rushes. 102 yards. A 5.7 average for your guy that
01:18is the running back.
01:20On the flip side from the receiver standpoint. Kelsey had 4 for 72. A quiet good day for Travis Kelsey.
01:26Um. Rasheed Rice 5 for 49. Xavier Worthy 6 for 48. Um. But again we got the news yesterday or
01:34this morning from you.
01:36Uh. Xavier Worthy it looked like at the time went down with like a hamstring injury. Yeah. At least from
01:39us TV watchers.
01:40He grabbed the back side of that leg and barely could get off the field. The updated information is.
01:45Yeah. The Xavier Worthy updated information is going to be. He's. It's a low grade strain.
01:50So that's what they believe it's going to be right now. So that's you know that's nothing to get you
01:54know kind of oh my gosh worked up over.
01:57I know some people don't want Xavier Worthy to play or like oh he got hurt but no you you
02:01want him out there and you want everybody healthy at this time of the year because you want to be
02:04adding to your roster.
02:05Because if you can go out and get another wide receiver then maybe Xavier Worthy excels doing something different and
02:10we don't have to rely on him to be a two.
02:13Now he can be that number three guy and more of a gadget guy if you're able to go out
02:17there and get you know that wide receiver in the next you know 36 hours or however long it's going
02:22to be.
02:22So he may not be there next week. Yeah. Wouldn't be shocked if he doesn't play.
02:26Yeah I mean a hamstring strain man it's it's about how you can do it and you're a wide receiver
02:29that relies on speed.
02:31You know it's you know it's tough you know. Yeah relies on just getting playing time as he still was.
02:37Well he is he's a speed guy. He is. I mean when you're a wide receiver whether you're Xavier Worthy
02:42or whoever and you have a hamstring injury it's going to affect you.
02:46It's going to slow you down a little bit. I don't think it matters about what you rely on. I
02:48agree with you. I'm agreeing with you. I was just laughing because we haven't seen no speed.
02:52Yeah ain't no speed. We've seen speed. We don't see him understand how to utilize his speed on the field.
02:58He should have had two touchdowns. He should have had two touchdowns back-to-back plays. They tried to they
03:03tried to find him.
03:04Yeah. And the other news of today is the trade deadline 3 p.m. hour time central tomorrow.
03:11The Falcons are on the move. They are sending former Pro Bowl safety Jesse Bates to the Jacksonville Jaguars in
03:19exchange for a 2027 second round pick.
03:22That's nice. And a 2028 fifth round pick sources have told ESPN as Jacksonville goes and gets some secondary help.
03:30We've got one more game tonight. It is Buffalo versus Minnesota in Minnesota. I am excited for this one fellas.
03:36I want to see Brian Flores just absolutely try to stop Josh Allen and I want to see if Josh
03:41Allen can stick it to Brian Flores's blitz because so far
03:44haven't seen a whole lot of people stop it. Now Detroit did last week. But again big game tonight because
03:50the Bears won the Packers won the Lions won.
03:54Now Minnesota's on the clock and they started off 6-0 and they lost last week and these teams in
03:58the north they go nowhere fellas.
03:59But speaking of trade deadline speaking of Xavier Worthy's injury may be a blessing in disguise.
04:03I don't ever want anyone to get hurt. Obviously he's going to be fine.
04:07It sounds like it's going to probably be a week-to-week thing. Probably not going to practice going to
04:10get all the help that he can get to get that thing back to normalcy as much as possible.
04:16But again, this is another Xavier Worthy injury. This is another Xavier Worthy topic and you've got to make a
04:22move.
04:23Now I don't know where we're at with the city and with people that want to see this team make
04:27a move.
04:28If it is we need offensive line help because boy oh boy those tackles are going to give me gray
04:32hair faster than I'm already getting it.
04:35Because it is an absolute collapse job it seems every game. The arm injury. Jalen Moore. I'm sorry.
04:40The game they lost last week. Jalen Moore. I'm sorry. I'm just calling what it is. What I saw.
04:44And when I saw that and I saw that arm injury I thought to myself man like maybe they can
04:50be.
04:50I think they need to make multiple moves now whether they do that or not.
04:54And somebody asked yesterday when we were watching the game. I think it's my buddy's girlfriend.
04:57She's like well they'll go get somebody right. I'm like so here's so here's the thing.
05:02We tell ourselves every year. I think the common situation that we have is Dusty Likens goes you know
05:07what I think this Royals team is going to surprise people. They're going to win 95 games.
05:11And then what happens we get to June and everybody comes up to me and says why do you fall
05:16for it
05:16every year. You keep building this team up and it's the same result. They've had four successful
05:21seasons in the history of whatever you want to say. And it's like the same thing can be said about
05:25the Chiefs in the trade deadline is like Gary Wilson Josh Downs Mike Brian Brian Thomas Jr.
05:30whoever may be. But man fellas I can't see a Zudu going out there and replacing more. I don't know
05:38what the Josh Simmons situation is. If it's been four weeks on the I.L. I think it's been three.
05:41I think there's a lot there with the situation. It's going to take both parties getting on the
05:46same page. Plus he's also going to have to play real football for the first time and shoot I don't
05:49know August. A year. A year. No but a game situation he hasn't played you know since last year or
05:55whatever
05:55it was. You know it's a it's a blessing in disguise because you have to make a move now. I
06:01think I think
06:01you have to think your hand is forced. There are teams out there for a line for for receiver or
06:07you
06:07have to move whether it's a wide receiver whether it's an offensive lineman. You have to figure this
06:12out because we cannot be trusted with the Zudu out there the same way we can't trust Harrison
06:16Bucker to make anything other than an extra point. And I think when you look at the wide receiver
06:19situation and where I'm getting out with the Royals comp is that every year we're like well
06:23they'll go get somebody right. And then they'll bring somebody in. I'm like well you would think
06:27now we hype it up because we hear names. We see people reporting these things and at the end of
06:30the day it's like they got John Doe from the Carolina practice. It's like wait what? You get
06:37McCall Hardman. Yeah or you bring somebody and that's what somebody said in this conversation.
06:40They say like well we go get like some like vet that you're like oh yeah I guess that makes
06:43sense. Le'Veon Bell. Terrell Suggs to give it a name. Melvin Ingram I think was another one.
06:50Um and McCall Hardman's been one before. I don't know who they get. I would not be shocked fellas
06:56if all of a sudden you hear Hollywood's Hollywood Brown's name again. Oh with that with the Eagles
06:59going down again yesterday they've lost six in a row. But the Worthy thing does hurt though because
07:03you've got a situation where his name was being talked about in some of these trade deadline moves
07:08like a pick and a player type thing. And so now if you were having conversations where Worthy may have
07:14been part of a conversation well those conversations aren't going to happen anymore because of an injury.
07:19You're not going to trade for an injured player. And so that's where I think some of the injury
07:23situation hurts the Chiefs right now because if he was truly being included in conversations
07:28everybody believes they can give somebody a second opportunity. Right? We've seen that here.
07:33If he was being included in some of these conversations now him being injured really
07:37does throw a wrench into maybe some of the stuff that they wanted to do to try to get this
07:41team
07:41better. And so now I'm going to be interested to see you know where that puts them from a trade
07:46standpoint because they do need to improve out there right now. The Simmons stuff to me is just
07:50you know you hear stuff all the time and you know a lot of the stuff in one ear and
07:54out the other
07:55because I don't know how much of it you know I want to get into and talk about all the
07:58time. But
07:59I mean it sure feels like right now between Simmons and this organization they've got to find a way to
08:04get on the same page because they need Josh Simmons back. Josh Simmons needs to come back and play football
08:09and and you know get his career moving in the right direction and this team needs him right now to
08:15play
08:15one of those tackle positions. And so you've got yourself a situation where the biggest trade at the
08:20trade deadline may be finding a way to get Josh Simmons back onto the field because without the
08:24offensive line continuing to get better it's going to be hard for anything to develop and we all saw the
08:29scare yesterday with Jalen Moore playing right tackle and what could have been a Tommy John surgery.
08:34Thank God it was nothing wrong with it. And I think the other thing that goes to the blessing
08:37disguise is like now you're also forced to play somebody that you should probably play more
08:42and that name to me will always be and I will hang on to this until it happens is Cyrus
08:48Allen.
08:48Again Xavier Worthy played the most offensive snap percentage most offensive snaps more than
08:55only people played more of the usuals. Benson, Kingsley, Humphrey, Trey, Mahomes. They all played
09:0194 to 100 percent of snaps. Xavier Worthy played 74 percent of the snaps. Cyrus Allen played
09:0629 percent. Emmitt Johnson, where was he? 30 percent of the snaps. Like that's you know you got to get
09:12that realization that maybe these guys have a better opportunity to be to be better for you now
09:18because you don't have Xavier Worthy and I'm not saying that it's a Wally Pip situation. Wouldn't
09:22be mad about it. You know Tariko look out your boy Noah Eagle might have taken your job last night.
09:27He
09:27was really good. I'm kidding. Tariko is like the face of NBC. But either way I think that when you
09:32look at
09:33this sort of thing now you because this is where I go back to that loyalty thing with Andy and
09:37Harrison
09:38right and that is Butcher I'm mentioning is the fact that like they want to apparently because we
09:44talked Friday Mac we thought the writing was on the wall. That doesn't tell me the writings on the
09:49wall with Xavier Worthy playing 74 percent of the offensive snaps more than Travis Kelsey more than
09:53Kenneth Walker more than Noah Gray more than Rushy Rice more than all those guys and this has been the
09:59common story all year. Now again what do you have six for 40 or whatever I said earlier four catches
10:03for whatever yardage it was. Yeah. Xavier Worthy yesterday. Yeah. He was six for 48. Okay.
10:10I don't like that number for some reason. I feel like six catches you should have more than 48 yards
10:14yards a catch. Yes. A hundred percent. I mean she writes 9.8 yards per catch. It feels forced
10:20and maybe with this injury or this flare-up that is going to be a day-to-day thing. Maybe
10:26now
10:27you're not only forced to go make a move because we were told that Brett Beach has been on the
10:32phone
10:32for over a month. A month. And the only thing you have to have somebody agree to a trade. I'm
10:38not
10:38dogging him. I'm just saying like he's been on the phone but it's taken you know so long to to
10:43get
10:44these things done and then now you have to maybe play a younger guy that possibly shows you more talent
10:51than I mean what Cyrus Allen two catches for 20 yards one catch for 18 yards another catch for 15
10:57yards. He gets open and he gets open quick. Xavier Worthy has to be this drawn out thing and it
11:03has
11:03to like perfectly go well and I just think that this is something where now it's like all right now
11:09we
11:09have to do something. Yeah. Whether that is get a wide receiver or we just have what we have and
11:14we need
11:14more blocking and we need more we need more bodies on the line because I can't go through the season
11:19with a Zudu out there. Well I don't think we can go through the rest of the season with with
11:22Jalen Moore
11:23out there as well and you know. Even any of them. Benson. Yeah. Creed. You know I'm the whole thing
11:29and so I'm looking at you know wide receivers and what they do. You say eight yards you know a
11:34reception
11:34the average is about 11 to 12 and a half yards per reception is what the average wide receiver gets
11:39per catch. So it's a couple yards off for one game for Xavier Worthy but again he's not supposed to
11:44be
11:44a number one wide receiver. Cyrus Allen fumbled of course you know what happens.
11:48Yuck guys fumble unless you're Kareem Hunt. You know it's it's tough to sometimes get back out
11:53there on the field. He had that mistake yesterday so that probably buried him a little bit you know
11:58on yesterday's depth chart but you know you you want to see Xavier Worthy get more involved.
12:03Obviously we'd love to see that but yesterday they started to play the hot hand and that's why you
12:07didn't have a lot of Emmett Johnson yesterday because the second half started and then all of a sudden
12:11it became the Kenneth Walker show and and I thought he did a great job in the second half yesterday.
12:15Maybe you would have liked to seen Emmett Johnson a little more in the first half but we didn't get
12:19much in the first half by way of time of possession for this team because you know the defense was
12:23bending and allowing them to kind of move down the field and do their thing which I don't have a
12:28problem with that that's how they end up playing most of the time. I mean when you look at the
12:32time
12:32of possession the visitors had it for you know 21 minutes in the first half or something like that
12:37the Chiefs only had it for nine and so when you only have it for nine minutes it really does
12:42limit what
12:42you can do and what guys you can get involved. Then the second half started and Kenneth Walker
12:47started to you know get hot and they started to play the hot hand and that's what you do guys
12:51work and let's go let's just keep feeding them keep feeding them keep feeding them and that's what
12:55they did with Kenneth Walker in the second half yesterday and so because of that it cut down on
12:59the opportunities for some other guys out there because they weren't going to go away from the hot
13:02hand which I respect and I like I mean Kenneth Walker was running and catching and scored three
13:07touchdowns yesterday that was a fun game yesterday for Kenneth Walker. Yeah they tried to get Xavier really going
13:12and they went they went to him twice in a row and he had a touchdown that was wide open
13:15Alex
13:16goal is sitting next to me goes touchdown and I was like no it's not going to be and he's
13:18like but it
13:18should be he should be fast I'm like yeah but he's not fast enough and then they went to him
13:22again in
13:22the flat that next play and he couldn't break a tackle because if someone gets an arm on him he's
13:26fallen down right and it was like they tried to get him in the end zone but he just cannot
13:30do it
13:30because he's not very good right so I'm with you Dusty I think it opens up the door for other
13:35guys I
13:35think Jalen Royals is one of those guys we're starting to see him emerge a little bit more a good
13:38catch and run yeah yeah no he had a
13:40couple good catches a good couple good runs like I think there's something there with Jalen
13:43Royals as far as a possession receiver at least can move the chains I feel like he's more reliable
13:47than Xavier worthy at this point I feel like he could break a tackle I feel like he could do
13:52some
13:52more yak stuff similar to Rasheed Rice I just think there's more there I yeah I think this could
13:57potentially open up the door but as far as adding something I mean I I mean Royals only had two
14:01catches yesterday it wasn't like he was and he played 20 snaps yeah it's not good no I mean that's
14:07good
14:08as far as he played 20 snaps if he played 40 snaps he'd have four catches that's that's I mean
14:11you're
14:11talking about Xavier worthy having six catches for 50 yards not even 50 yards and they yeah not even 50
14:17yards and they gave him opportunities over and over and over and over again he can't break tackles and
14:23he can't get open um so that I think this opens up the door for those other guys like Royals
14:27and Cyrus
14:28Allen who have shown us more in smaller opportunities if you don't have Thornton you don't have worthy
14:33you haven't brought anybody else in um by the way this guy's pro football focus the only player in
14:39NFL in the NFL with five sacks and five force fumbles rookie David Bailey that's awesome that
14:45guy bangs dude yeah he's fantastic I just like that he doesn't wear gloves or tape or elbow pads or
14:51anything he just kind of looks like moise salue just shows up to the yard ready to go um their
14:55defensive line they've got some future uh all pros on that thing yesterday as we shift into the d line
15:01from yesterday how many are happy with the production yesterday and how many of you were
15:08out there going well it was the Jets um you know because they've got a former first round pick at
15:15right tackle Membu Lee Summit kid right went to Mizzou got drafted by the Jets first round talent um I
15:22don't really know much about the Jets offensive line I know they've done a good enough job at least it
15:26seems this year that Geno Smith was you know in every statistic on offense was when they showed the
15:31graphic for the game at better numbers than Patrick Mahomes that's what the the numbers said so I
15:36assume he's had time to throw unless it's been you know garbage time but they're running backs they
15:40seem to be doing all right hard to tackle yesterday for the Chiefs in the first quarter very tough to
15:45see but when you watch that defensive line do it what they have four sacks yesterday five five sacks
15:50five so not only do we get to get some books out for Sean Smith hell yeah you guys can
15:54go get some
15:55you know Big Macs today at your McDonald's if you want to do that sort of thing Tracy Wolfson's going
15:59because she said yesterday she goes I didn't realize everybody everybody gets a free Big Mac
16:04today you know it's like buy one get one free Tracy you go down there with a friend and you
16:08can
16:08each get a Big Mac and you know buy one get one free on the Big Mac sacks don't get
16:12that second
16:13part I get the buy one don't get the I'm kidding um but no it's like I do want to
16:16know like yesterday
16:18for you fellas are you excited for what you saw from the defensive line with Chris Jones getting home
16:25twice George Karloftis looked like a man possessed he's continued to have a good season uh 56 has so
16:30I give him credit where it's due being his biggest critic or do you have that sort of because we
16:35get
16:35this with losing teams right the Jets are two and seven so doubt they're not a good team but again
16:39like you still put up numbers and you still showed up in the second half to really kind of disrupt
16:44the
16:44rest of the day for them you saw the frustration Gino Smith on the sidelines so that's the question
16:49of the day I think yeah are you happy with that production or can it be both I was going
16:54to say
16:54I think this is one of those both things can be a little bit true look the Jets have had
16:57some
16:57struggles along the offensive line we know that they're not one of the great offensive lines out
17:01there however comma we've had struggles on the defensive line and we've needed a game like this
17:07to kind of have that breakout game you know you always say when you see somebody have one of these
17:11breakout games man I hope it unlocks everything going forward does it I don't know we'll see but I
17:16needed to see a game like that they needed to see a game like that like the enthusiasm that Chris
17:21Jones brought after the game yesterday saying that I lied sacks do matter I thought was very
17:27very important to hear because it showed us and it let us know that we weren't the ones that were
17:33complaining and it was weighing on us it was weighing on that team as well that they weren't able to
17:38get
17:38there imagine being Chris Jones and being able to do something for your entire life and now all of a
17:43sudden you're not able to do it and the only reason you can is because well the calendar has moved
17:47forward and you know you've got to this level of you know age in your life where things aren't as
17:52easy as they used to be and then you go out there yesterday when the whole town's booing you you've
17:57had eight straight quarters where you haven't been a factor people are calling you wash the day's
18:02done it's over it's time to move on from Chris Jones everybody's done with the guy and then he goes
18:07out there yesterday and has the two sacks like that and really I don't care if it was against the
18:11middle school lions or whoever else they went out there and they dominated and they needed to see
18:15that domination for their own self because they're putting in all of that hard work I mean
18:20everybody's been at a job where you work your ass off and you may not be getting the results that
18:24you
18:24want and then you finally see those results come through and it's like ah I've got a new door I've
18:30got a new lease on life and so hopefully yesterday for me that's the way that I felt hopefully this
18:35is
18:35now a new lease on life for this defensive line where they can go finally we got home we did
18:40what we
18:40needed to do we got to the quarterback don't care if it was the Jets we needed to see that
18:45success
18:45and they did and I think George Karloff this is playing as the best defensive player on this team
18:50right now he has been so good this year I reckon plays and you know knocking down the passes is
18:56one
18:56thing but he got after the quarterback and he's been getting after the quarterback a lot this year he
19:00just hasn't been able to close and was finally able to do that yesterday so I just thought a really
19:05productive game from a mental side for that defensive line yesterday now use that and say
19:10I've seen that success you know if you can see it you can be a type thing and let's go
19:15man and
19:15continue this and continue moving forward and stay confident because that was a confidence boost
19:21yesterday yeah same here I agree that was the biggest positive for me yesterday of the whole game
19:26it was the one thing that we kind of felt like okay this is something new this is this is
19:30the
19:30line that we've been kind of waiting for right our Mason Thomas had that offside we didn't
19:34really see him again after kind of similar to the Cyrus Allen fumble you're like damn it guys get
19:38him back out there but no George Karloff has been really good I think he's a I think he's a
19:42good to
19:42really good player I don't think he's a great player but that's what this D line needs we just
19:46need good really good players and it feels like I watched the Bears Jeff Simmons takes two guys
19:50other guys win right Chris Jones takes two guys we're starting to see George Karloff just win
19:54Jelotti played good yesterday too Jelotti's been good this whole season I feel like Jelotti's good
19:59against the run he's been better against the pass feels like Jelotti's kind of coming into his own
20:03I've never lost uh you know sort of optimism or confidence that the D line will figure itself out
20:09now I'm just more worried about the offense in general that's that I mean if you did that poll
20:13question it would be offense all day for me as far as worries go they have way more issues
20:17offensive no question way more issues defensively it's not like they were great yesterday but
20:21they they did what they need to do yeah they do what they need to do and they're solid teams
20:25to
20:25field goals you're gonna win a lot of games man like when the Jets went up six nothing I'm thinking
20:29to
20:29myself oh my god the Jets just lost the game yeah this should be 14 yeah the Jets lost by
20:34kicking
20:34field goals early on they lost the game when Aaron Glenn didn't go for that fourth down and like the
20:38seven yard whenever it was within the 10 yard line yeah fourth and short I'm like dude you're kicking
20:43this field goal yeah okay kicking field goals well we know he's done there yeah well I mean that was
20:49the first half though wasn't it right because they didn't score in the second half it was so it was
20:5314-12 I could see maybe he thought it was gonna be kind of a close game but you don't
20:58beat Mahomes
20:59kicking field you know that's what every announcer says everybody has said until the end of time
21:02um coming up on the other side we'll get into what the impact of an announcer can be for a
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