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Locked On Chiefs - Daily Podcast On The Kansas City Chiefs

Could Patrick Mahomes START The Season?

Locked On Chiefs - Daily Podcast On The Kansas City Chiefs

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4.6 • 993 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Kansas City Chiefs face uncertainties as Patrick Mahomes’ Week 1 status sparks speculation—will the NFL risk opening the season without their star quarterback? Andy Reid reveals Mahomes is ahead of schedule in his rehab, but Clark Hunt questions if the league will gamble on the Chiefs for prime time against the Seattle Seahawks. How will Mahomes’ recovery shape the team’s schedule and strategy this season? Hosts Ryan Tracy and Chris Clark dissect the Chiefs’ odds for the season opener, examine Mahomes’ injury timeline, and debate the NFL’s evolving approach to high-profile matchups. The episode covers potential referee lockouts, the impact of expanded international games, and how increased workload threatens player safety. Will the Chiefs dominate late-season prime time slots, or will off-field factors disrupt their path? Get insider analysis on Kansas City’s recovery process, scheduling politics, and what’s next for Chiefs Kingdom.

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0:00.0

Patrick Mahomes might play week one, but it's not going to be against Seattle.

0:05.8

From the land of the free and the home of the Chiefs, this is the Locked-on Chiefs podcast.

0:11.8

You are Locked-on Chiefs, your daily Kansas City Chiefs podcast, part of the Locked-on

0:17.9

podcast network, your team every day.

0:23.3

Welcome in Chiefs Kingdom.

0:24.5

Thanks for joining us yet again.

0:26.0

I'm Ryan Tracy, found a rogue analytics where you can get the Matrix right now.

0:29.5

It's up there and the draft guide is coming very shortly.

0:31.6

This is Chris Clark over Casey Chief's Corner.

0:33.5

You know him.

0:34.3

We are going to get after it today.

0:35.9

A lot of little bits of news as the owners

0:37.9

meetings got started. Later, we're going to talk about could there be a referee lockout? And what would

0:43.1

that mean? What would that look like? How frustrated will we get? Yes, there are different answers

0:48.0

to all those questions. And then before that, we're going to get to most likely the chiefs are not

0:53.5

going to play in that opener per the chief's own chairman, not going to get to, most likely, the Chiefs are not going to play in that

0:54.3

opener per the Chief's own chairman, not going to play against the Seahawks in that opening

0:59.6

game, which I think is critical to what we're talking about first. And that is Patrick Mahomes

1:05.3

and Andy Reid from the owner's meetings was able to say that, hey, you know, we have him and he's done the work

1:13.9

and he's very much ahead of schedule. We don't want to do anything to wreck that. So, hey,

1:18.9

let's take it easy on the scheduling thing. I felt he was pretty optimistic about the NFL not

1:23.7

trying to get the chiefs on prime time week week one or right off the bat or whatever,

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