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Locked On Chiefs - Daily Podcast On The Kansas City Chiefs

UNPREPARED: Chiefs Suffer, Roster FAILINGS Exposed After Gardner Minshew Injury

Locked On Chiefs - Daily Podcast On The Kansas City Chiefs

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🗓️ 21 December 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Kansas City Chiefs face major uncertainty after Gardner Minshew suffers a reported ACL tear, leaving their quarterback room in complete disarray. With Chris Oladokun forced into action and key starters like Rashee Rice unavailable, the Chiefs’ offense looks lost—can they salvage anything in the upcoming showdown against the Denver Broncos? Chris Clark, Ryan Tracy, and Matt Derrick break down the roster chaos, coaching missteps, and missed evaluation opportunities against the Titans. The episode highlights struggles along the offensive line, questionable coaching decisions regarding young talent such as Brashard Smith and Jeffrey Bassa, and persistent defensive lapses. As fan speculation about tanking intensifies, the hosts explore options for shoring up quarterback depth—including potential returns of Bailey Zappe or Shane Buechele—and dissect the long-term impact on Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs’ future. Are the Chiefs prepared for next season, or will injuries and poor planning halt their momentum?

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0:00.0

There's a lot to be desired when you are trying to evaluate the rest of your roster,

0:06.4

and you can't even get that done.

0:08.3

The Chiefs boiled it down.

0:09.4

No joy today on Locked on Chiefs.

0:13.3

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

1:13.0

Welcome in Chiefs, Kingdom. Thanks for making us your first listen. After the Chiefs, Titans game, we very much appreciate it. We are your team every day. We are the Locked-on Chiefs daily show on the Locked-on Podcast Network, the number one sports network available. We appreciate you being here. We know it's a tough. It was a tough ball game. We're going to break it all down for you. He's Chris Clark from Casey Chief Corner. I'm Ryan Tracy from NFL 33 and RGR football. We'll be joined later by Matt, Derek of Chiefs Digest.com. We appreciate you making us your first list. Make sure that you keep doing that. And check out another lockdown show for your next one. You every dayers, we very much appreciate you. Thank you for being here. We're going to run it down for you. The Minchu injury thwarts the entire day, and I think really everything that they had planned. There were some big plays. There were a couple of turning points. And there was just a lot of failure standouts. We'll get to all of that coming up later in the show. But we start right now where Chris, I think the idea was to come in and

1:18.1

continue to compete. They were trying to get something done. And when you lose your backup quarterback,

1:23.2

who has become your starter, who's really the only guy that gets any significant snaps that are actually

1:28.0

of the chief's office. I think that just throws the whole day out the window. It was difficult to watch.

1:33.9

I thought that Gardner was under duress right away. The tackle pair was difficult. All those are

1:39.8

circumstances, but the bottom line is when you lost him, the game was over as far as I could see.

1:46.7

You know, I think O'Lodokin played okay. The problem is that you have a different cadence.

1:53.1

You have a guy that is stepping in that has no experience with any of the players that he's trying to play with in Ola Doken.

1:59.0

He's been on the roster. He's been with the Chiefs,

2:01.5

but he hasn't played any regular season games.

2:04.0

And you talk about the tackle pair.

2:05.9

They're what?

2:06.7

Let's see, Simmons, Taylor,

2:09.7

Moore, and Juan A. Morris.

2:13.6

You're talking about your fifth and sixth offensive tackle this season this season yeah and

2:20.8

three of them have ended up on iR more is the only one that hasn't been on iR so maybe he'll play

2:27.9

in the coming weeks we'll see but this is really rough for this team and the other part of the

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