FINISH: Can the Kansas City Chiefs EXECUTE in a Meaningless Game and Prepare for a Strong 2026?

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🗓️ 1 January 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Kansas City Chiefs face a pivotal crossroads as their season closes, with draft position and the future of the roster hanging in the balance. Can the Chiefs finish strong against a struggling Las Vegas Raiders team, setting the tone for 2026? Questions swirl about playing time for young talents like Jalen Royals, Brashard Smith, and Jared Wiley, while key veterans—including Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce—grapple with injuries and uncertainty.

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0:00.0	This team finish.
0:01.5	That is the biggest question for 2026.
0:04.4	Today on Locked on Chiefs.
0:06.9	From the land of the three and the home of the Chiefs, this is the Locked on Chiefs podcast.
0:15.6	And welcome back, everybody.
0:17.4	This is the Locked on Chiefs podcast, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network,
0:24.7	your team every single day. Thank you for making us the number one sports podcast network in the United States. We too truly appreciate that. Thank you so much.
0:30.0	We're going to be talking about a lot today. It is New Year's Day. We now have a new year
0:34.5	to look forward to. We have questions on how this team is going to finish
0:38.5	this season, but we're going to be talking about keys to a victory a little bit later in the
0:43.3	show. Can they get the young guys on the field is going to be our next segment? But we're going to
0:49.5	start with how do they finish? How does this team finish the 2025 regular season?
0:56.9	They have nothing to play for.
0:59.1	It's all about pride.
1:00.6	It's all about can they beat a Raiders team that they should beat?
1:05.3	And that's going to be the big question mark headed into this.
1:08.1	A win in this game likely puts Kansas City in the position to draft maybe
1:14.3	11th or 12th. A loss definitely gets them to be drafting probably 8th or 9th. This is going to be one of the
1:21.7	biggest things of this game is how does this affect their draft position? Because right now,
1:26.7	this team has nothing to play for.
1:29.0	They cannot make the playoffs.
1:31.2	They have a bunch of different older players
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