The road just got harder for the Kansas City Chiefs, and now it comes down to can you make the

playoff run tonight live on Locked on Chiefs.

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as you know where we are. We are live post game is we definitely do every game. We appreciate you for being here. I'm Ryan Tracy, the founder of Rogue Analytics and Performance Consulting, where we run down the draft and everything that goes into being on this field, NFL 33, where I look at the rest of the league and Rogue Analytics. I'm sorry, RJR football. That's the other thing. You can check that out for a deeper dive. Matt Derek is here with us from chiefsdigest.com. Chiefs Digest here on the YouTube platform as well as 41 is the Mike podcast. Check them out there. And my partner, Chris Clark, who we've been doing this for, yeah, 13 years overall at this point. Nine on this show. We appreciate you guys very much. You can find him at Casey Chief's Corner. We have a ton to go over because for the first time in nine seasons, the Chiefs will not take the AFC West. That is all but a mathematical certainty at this point. And quite frankly, Matt, I don't know if they're going to be able to pull it off, even if isn't a mathematical certainty because this team, despite I think a lot of opportunities, was not able to take

advantage, not in the run game, not in the play called, not in the O line, and not even the

quarterback. The defense, I thought, actually bounced back a little bit from its performance

against Buffalo. I thought it was a hard-nosed game all the way around. The Broncos put up a good fight. The Chiefs were physical on defense. I didn't feel like they were on offense. What did you see? Yeah, I mean, mathematically, they're technically alive, but they would pretty, I mean, because they lose the tiebreaker right now against the Broncos. I mean, they'd have to have to get some help. And it would take a lot of losses by the Broncos in order for the Chiefs to catch them. And honestly, it's even for the number one, number two seed, number three seat might even be out of the ballpark right now. Right now, you'd be the fighting to be either the four seed and right

now I mean the chiefs of the nine seed so they're in a world of hurt right now and you know

what was the problem today I felt like it was consistency you know on the chief side of things what

they could control I mean they they had stretches for all all three aspects of the game and offense, defense, special teams, where they just had slipups and letdowns.

You know, Mahomes went through a period where he didn't look like he was sharp.

That decision on the interception is just the throw that Mahomes usually does not make.

Decision that he usually does not make.

And he had a couple of those

there was a couple of other throws that were turnover worthy that just he got away

with there were some drops that the receivers had so there wasn't perfection

there were little tiny things and even if the officials were flag happy today they

were flag happy on both sides but a lot of those were still flags and still

penalties. So they weren't disciplined today. But I'll be honest. I mean, when it comes down to it,

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