From the land of the free and the home of the chiefs, this is the

locked on chiefs podcast. Welcome back to lockdown chiefs. Hope you enjoy your

Thanksgiving holiday and it's right back to the grind for us. These chiefs have a big game coming up and I'm here

with Chris Clark from chiefs ijust.com and I'm Ryan Tracy from rGR football and rogue analytics.

We have a ton for you.

The top story of the day is that this is really the turning point. This is where the chiefs can go out, make a statement that they are the team to beat not only in the AFC West by beating these Oakland Raiders, but also that there's still a force to

contend within the AFC playoffs. Absolutely and I believe that they're going to

come in and they're going to do just that. At this point it does look like they are going to be getting a little bit healthier than we saw them when they stop playing to get the chargers a couple weeks ago.

Yeah, and that's what's got to happen.

As the process goes on, they have to get better.

They have to get those guys back, because honestly, without all of their contributors,

this isn't a team that can be carried by just Patrick Mahomes.

I think what we have to see is that this Oakland Raiders game

is not only do they have to win just to secure the division for the most part. I think there's still

a mathematical chance out there somewhere of 18 million things went correctly for everyone else that raiders could still stay in it but for the most part this seals the division for you and it puts everybody else on notice and I don't think that's enough personally I'm not sure how you feel but I want to see them be dominant that I think they have to send a message to the rest of the

A of C. They absolutely have to send a message they have to be ready to go in this game and they have to be able to come out and fire on all cylinders because they really haven't had a game where they've done that.

They've had a good offense for part of the season and they've had a good or I don't know that I would say good but a better defense on what they have had for part of the season.

Now they need to get to a point where they're just ready to go and both sides of the ball are clicking on all cylinders and I think

that what you're going to see this week is you're going to see a situation where Eric Fisher is a lot better

and ready to go. He was rusty last game and you're going to expect that with as much time as he missed.

You would hope that you're going to see a full fully healthy tiring kill, but it also sounds like they could be giving Alex Oka Fourback.

And Fuller as well. I mean there's a lot of... also sounds like they can be getting an Alex Oka Foreback.

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