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The Wild Wild AFC West heats up on Sunday here in week 11 as the Denver Broncos host, the Kansas City Chiefs.

Welcome to crossover Thursday here in the Lockdown Podcast Network, now the number one sports podcast network in the world. And that's all thanks to all of you every dayers out there in Broncos country and Chiefs Kingdom. Thanks for making us your first listen. However you choose to do so, I'm Cody Roark host of Lockdown Broncos. And as always, these crossover shows, the Locked on Chief's side of things, you're going to get Ryan Tracy and Chris Clark, both hosts over there at Locked-on Chiefs. As we preview, well, I think we all agree, is maybe the biggest matchup right now in the NFL this week. This should have been primetime game over there, Dallas Cowboys and Las Vegas Raiders, but that's a conversation for another day. We'll go through obviously the biggest storylines for each team, the banged up Broncos, the chiefs coming off of the by week, and we'll also go through some of the key matchups that will define the outcome of Sunday's game. And what each team needs to do in order to come away with a victory. You'll get that all on today's crossover Thursday. Brought to you by friends over there at prize picks.

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Gentlemen, obviously great to see.

It's our first time so far the season of meeting up with one another.

Unfortunately for the Broncos, the chiefs are coming off of the buy week.

What is the biggest storyline here with the Kansas City Chiefs this week coming off of a buy

after having a chance to kind of reset a little bit, sitting at five and four?

The biggest story is seven plus one. And whether he'll be available or not, Josh Simmons has

had a really, really strange season. Maybe the weirdest season that I've

seen ever since covering this team was going on like 15 years at this point was lights out.

Didn't even know if he would start the season, right? Because of a significant injury he had

in college, first round draft pick. You want to take it easy. You want to protect the property,

right? He gets off to such a good start that it's really just never looking back. And then all of a sudden is not available at one point and missed weeks and weeks. He actually came back in the day as they went to the buy week. And so he's been in the building working on film, working on stamina, et cetera, et cetera. The question is after getting out to practice today, is he ready to jump right back into the mix? That's question number one. Chris, how do you think that maybe plays out a little bit here, considering obviously the Broncos pass rush, Nick Benito, Jonathan Cooper. What has the Chief's solution been with his absence there on the offensive line? Well, I think when you look at this, it's been a situation where the Chiefs have just

plugged and played with Jalen Moore.

And he's played well enough that I think you feel good about him being a guy that can

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