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Locked On Chiefs - Daily Podcast On The Kansas City Chiefs

REACTION: Why the Chiefs Parted Ways with Jawaan Taylor and Must SECURE Free Agency Targets

Locked On Chiefs - Daily Podcast On The Kansas City Chiefs

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4.6993 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Kansas City Chiefs gear up for a pivotal offseason as cap space tightens and big decisions loom. With Jawaan Taylor’s release and Drew Tranquil’s status uncertain, Brett Veach and Andy Reid must navigate a shifting free agency market and a draft class low on top-tier talent. Could the Chiefs target a high-upside running back like Jeremiah Love, or will surprise moves at edge rusher and wide receiver reshape Patrick Mahomes’ supporting cast? Ryan Tracy, Matt Derrick, and Chris Clark break down key topics, including the impact of NFL tags on Breece Hall and George Pickens, how Kyler Murray’s release could shake up the top of the NFL Draft, and why unpredictable GM maneuvers might offer Kansas City a shot at hidden value. Stay tuned for insights on potential trades, cap-saving tactics, and the Chiefs’ path to a three-peat.

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0:00.0

It's all starting to losing up and the chiefs still have things to do.

0:03.9

Where do they go next?

0:05.5

That is the question for Matt.

0:06.6

Derek, today on Locked on Chiefs.

0:09.5

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

0:18.3

Welcome in Chiefs Kingdom.

0:19.5

Thanks for joining us here on Lockdown Chiefs, your daily podcast

0:21.8

for the Kansas City Chiefs on the lockdown podcast network, the number one sports network in America,

0:26.5

and we appreciate you, couldn't do without you, or today's guest, Matt Derek, who's always here

0:31.2

on Wednesdays. It's not even a guest stature anymore. So check him out at chief digest.com

0:36.0

and Chief Digest on the YouTube platform as well as 41 as the mic the podcast. You can find us here daily every day and you can find Chris at Casey Chief's Corner for all the business and the QBs and the metrics that you're looking for. I'm Ryan Tracy, the founder of Rogue Analytics and Performance Consulting, where I put out the athletic matrix coming hot and heavy and earlier this year because I'm changing the format. so sure you get over that a rogue apc.com. You can pre-buy-the-sale here at the end of the week and we'll have the draft guide ready for you as well and all the rest of my work is at infel third v3.com and RGR Football.com. We have tons to talk about. You can be coming every day or if you would like to, then you'll get that much more. and you can even put it in in the Discord, which is only for our fans by going to LockedonChief.supercast.com. You'll also get ad-free audio. And I know you guys are all into that. So today, the core of it, haven't talked to Matt since Juan Taylor, but that was the first domino, big domino to fall in terms of releases. What has to happen next is we try to

1:28.2

look forward to this prep area before free agency. Other teams are starting to make moves.

1:35.1

What are they doing? Who's been released? Who's getting tagged? What does it do to the free agency

1:38.9

environment that she's have to operate in? That comes next. And then we're going to finish up

1:42.8

of what the QB market ends up doing really to the overall landscape that is the top 10 that the chiefs have to

1:50.2

work through in the draft. And if you haven't been seeing them, we've got a series of smaller

1:55.9

episodes. We call them bonuses right now giving you draft specific content because we can't fit all the draft stuff into all the free agency stuff that we're talking to on a normal process.

2:05.3

So we're giving you these bite size extra shows because I want to make sure that you guys get the draft coverage you deserve nice and early.

2:13.3

So make sure that you're subscribed for all of that.

2:20.1

So first things have to happen first in order to get to this knockdown series, Matt, that we're about to watch happen.

2:26.6

So in Kansas City, first, your take on Juan Taylor, I doubt it was a surprise, but do you think it did enough?

2:32.8

Do you think that that was the right order to do it in? I was a little bit with him and Mike Dana a little bit back and forth, and what do you think comes next? Yeah, you know, honestly, I mean, I feel like Brett Veach kind of gave us some true insight and humanity into how this process works last week when he said they made the move with Mike Dana because he ran into him in the locker room and felt like he, you know, owed him to discuss, you know, to tell him face to face and everything that what they were going to do and what the move was going to be. And hey, it certainly suggested probably just hadn't had a chance to see Juan. And I know Joanne does go back to Florida during the offseason. So it probably wasn't that he wasn't in Kansas City.

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