FIVE ALIVE: Will Patrick Mahomes LEAD the Chiefs to a Playoff MIRACLE in Final Games?

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🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Kansas City Chiefs face a playoff crossroads as five must-win games stand between them and a shot at postseason redemption. Chris Clark and Ryan Tracy dissect the Chiefs’ dwindling margin for error, exploring whether Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, and Chris Jones can overcome fatigue, mounting injuries, and an unpredictable AFC playoff picture. With tiebreakers not working in their favor, every snap is do-or-die—can Kansas City’s institutional experience carry them through, or has time finally caught up with this championship core? Key topics include the Chiefs’ struggles with offensive line penalties, the impact of veteran leadership on defense, and the urgent need for clean football. The hosts examine potential playoff scenarios, the significance of upcoming matchups against contenders like the Broncos and Texans, and what Kansas City must fix to mount another Super Bowl run. Will Mahomes’ aggressiveness and Andy Reid’s adjustments be enough to keep hope alive in Chiefs Kingdom?

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0:00.0	The Chiefs have five games left to salvage the season.
0:04.3	Five more today on Locked on Chiefs.
0:08.0	From the land of the three and the home of the Chiefs, this is the Locked on Chiefs podcast.
0:16.8	And welcome back, Chiefs Kingdom.
0:18.7	Thank you for listening to the Locked on Chiefs podcast, part the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every single day. Thank you
0:25.4	for making us the number one sports podcast network in the U.S. We really do appreciate that.
0:32.2	Lots to talk about today. When we get into what to watch over the last five weeks of this season can't see as five games left
0:39.5	what is possible what can they make what can they do if they make it to the playoffs going to be a
0:45.0	little bit later but we're going to start talking about what is realistic at this point we're going to
0:49.3	talk about all of that and much much more today with my partner partner, Ryan Tracy from RGR Football, NFL 33,
0:56.0	and Rogue Analytics,
0:57.7	and I am Chris Clark from Chief's Corner.
1:00.6	Ryan, there is five games left in this season.
1:03.5	So much could be done,
1:05.1	and yet at the same time,
1:07.1	Kansas City does not control its own destiny
1:09.6	with the five games left.
1:12.9	No, it doesn't. And it doesn't even control itself right now, but it will need help.
1:20.6	If the Chiefs were to do and get their favorite Christmas present under the tree
1:24.9	and run the table for these five games.
1:28.0	They do need someone else to help them out.
1:30.4	There are too many tiebreakers that they are behind on right now.
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