Flip: Can the Kansas City Chiefs OVERCOME Mistakes and Penalties to Save Their Season?

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4.7 • 956 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Kansas City Chiefs struggle to find their edge as costly penalties and missed opportunities jeopardize their playoff ambitions. Can Andy Reid’s leadership and Patrick Mahomes’ winning mentality ignite a late-season turnaround, or is the team losing its killer instinct just when it matters most? Ryan Tracy and Chris Clark break down the Chiefs’ underwhelming performances, focusing on issues with offensive tackles Jawaan Taylor and Joshua Simmons, Chris Jones’ discipline on defense, and the team’s inability to capitalize on game-changing plays. Key topics include the impact of penalties, the urgency of December football, and whether adjustments in playcalling and player execution can lift Kansas City against the Houston Texans and AFC West rivals. Bold questions loom: will the Chiefs flip the switch, or has complacency finally caught up with them?

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0:00.0	Andy Reid says they can flip a switch, and I believe them.
0:05.0	They have to to get it done today on Locked on Chiefs.
0:09.6	From the land of the free and the home of the Chiefs, this is the Locked on Chiefs podcast.
0:18.4	Welcome back, friends and neighbors.
0:20.1	We welcome you on after a long holiday.
0:22.5	Hope you had a good one.
0:23.9	Thanks for making us your first listen here on Lockdown Chiefs,
0:27.0	your daily podcast with the Kansas City Chiefs here on Lockdown Podcast Network,
0:30.8	where it's your team every single day and now the number one sports podcast network.
0:35.7	We really appreciate you.
0:36.9	And you every dayers in particular for being here without fail over and over and over.
0:41.4	We are going to have a great show for you, but we couldn't get it done without you.
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0:47.9	We're brought to you by Game Time today.
0:49.7	Download the Game Time app, create an account, and use the code Locked on NFL to get 20 bucks off of your first purchase. We're going to go around the horn as to where we are after taking stock after taking turkey. He's Chris Clark from Casey Chief's Corner. You can find him and his work over there. He's been my partner for going on nine years on this show, plus a few before that. Sorry for the editing days. I'm Ryan Tracy. You can find me at Rogue Analytics, right? Yeah, you deserve a medal for that one. You can find me at Rogue Analytics, where we run down the draft and we get you ready for metrics, analytics, athleticism, the whole nine yards. You can find me at NFL33.com, where me and my staff look at the league as a whole trends, analytics, et cetera, and you can find me at RGR football, or we run down the chiefs from a film standpoint, et cetera. We've been doing this for a very long time. Thanks for being here. We have to talk about what is rare error in those nine years? It's a frustrating team right now.
1:46.0	There's a lot of question marks right now.
1:49.2	That is abnormal for what we've been through on this show to this point.
1:51.6	And a lot of these things are just close calls.
1:54.5	There's too many to just justify away.
1:57.3	Where are the chiefs in their mentality right now?
1:58.0	That's first.
2:02.8	Then we get to the fact that close games are always a turning point in every NFL season, why it's so different? And is it really just a few plays? That's our second
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