Mahomes already covers that.

Stop

Deebo and Aiyuk are locked up long term, they won’t be able to pay him

Hollywood tweeted a week or two ago he would be back by the playoffs

Screw that. I'll take 4-0 every day.

I'd agree if you said 3-1.

They already did. He got an extension a month ago.

Jacksonville will be in sell mode soon with players familiar with Andy’s offense from Pederson.

If it is a ligament type damage like most fear then Rice is likely gone for a year and a half-ish with his likely suspension next season.

The reality is that we’ve had very fortunate injury luck for most of our run the past few years.

Something like this was bound to happen. It still sucks though.

I think we will find that JuJu still has something to offer in that slot role once he and Pat are back to getting full weeks of practice reps together.

Has our luck been all that great though?

In 2019, we won the Super Bowl despite getting beat to shit with injuries all year. Some of those guys came back but we even had to sign Suggs because we lost so many DEs.

We pretty much were always dealing with injuries to Watkins and Clark.

We lost a Super Bowl due to like 5 OL injuries and opt outs.

Mahomes has had multiple lower leg injuries and even got pulled from a playoff game for getting choked out.

Just because the Chiefs overcome it normally doesn’t mean we’ve been all that fortunate. Shit, we just won a Super Bowl despite losing our best OL and a key pass rusher in the AFCCG. Even the backup to that OL got hurt. That would’ve been a reasonable excuse for losing to the 49ers.

Man this really sucks. It was a total accident and Mahomes was in front of him and did not even see him. What really sucks is that all of that effort was for not b/c Chargers ended up with the ball in the end. :banghead:

I want to stay positive like all of you. It is still early in the season and as we all know, Reid, Mahomes and Veach will get it figured out. God, I can't wait to hear Veach's speech at the Super Bowl parade after this seasons victory! :thumb:

We are still 4 - 0, we still have a great team and we will survive - we ARE Chiefs Kingdom :thumb:

Sickening seeing young guys about to become stars get hurt

I’m morexpissed that pat was throwing a big hit he v like have easily hurt himself in the process, guy poked like he was going down already

I know im being biased, but at rices ADP this year, I was finally going to win my family’s fantasy football league with rice. I’m so ****ing sad about this, not only on a fan level, but the fact that I reached on our guy knowing he was WR1 in fantasy just for this to happen. Really wanted my name on that trophy one god damn time.

They will probably tbh why not

Thank god he's not doing QB sneaks though

Relax guys, Skyy Moore's got this. You can tell he's going to step up by the way that perfect pass bounced right off the two bricks attached to his wrists, and by that deer-in-headlights look on his face that he somehow still has even though he's in his 3rd year of....whatever the **** he does. :shrug:

Skyy should do the right thing and donate his ACL to Rice. Skyy's basically a cadaver anyway, and they use cadaver body parts all the time. It's not like Skyy is going to use it for anything productive. Much like a kidney, Skyy really only needs one ACL anyway.

Dunno if it was posted already....medical analysis of the injury

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But in all seriousness...****. Rice was living up to my predictions of him having a monster year because we had deep threats to open up the middle.

I was hoping for a hyperextension, but when Reid said "it's not good" I was pretty sure a trainer did an ACL stability test on the sidelines and pretty much confirmed it was a complete ACL tear.

At least it happened early in the year. And let's face it, he likely wasn't going to play in the first 4 games next year anyway. He should be good to go by game 5 of next season year. Maybe not totally 100%, but good to go.

Reminds me of that scene in the movie “Friday Night Lights.”

Why not simply preemptively suspend him for however many games he's likely to miss (assuming it doesn't somehow screw up his rehab)? Why not go ahead and don the black hat that has become so comfortable for us anyway?

"The KC Chiefs suspend Rashee Rice 20 games for his involvement in a car accident..."

What is the League going to do, suggest 20 games isn't enough?!?

Mahomes looked more comfy when Rice left.

Seems like he relied more on Kelce in the middle of the field and took some shots deep.

I've only seen that tried in college sports and it's usually because the NCAA takes forever to make disciplinary decisions and the teams are trying to get the suspension done when they are playing lesser opponents. Never seen anyone try it when the player is also injured and wouldn't be able to play anyway lol

Even wiht Rice and Brown out I think we're still the favorites in the AFC.

We'll get it done

A sad day in terms of losing Rice for a while, sadly for a long while I suspect. I'm happy we have JJSS, but this might very well have a terrible affect on the remainder of our season. I hope game prep, being ready to go from the coin toss, needs to be a very blunt conversation with this squad.

Every NFL team is gonna be banged up from year to year. That’s expected. We have been fortunate, prior to this year, to avoid the major season ending injuries to star players. Kelce has never missed more than a few games (since he became the starter). Same with Jones. Hill never missed much time and obviously we’ve only lost Pat for a handful of games. The types of injuries we are dealing with now to Brown and especially Rice, in terms of losing skill position players, is relatively new to this group.

On a side note, I bet Mike Florio loves that Rice had a season ending injury

My guess is ACL, just praying its not severe and non-surgical

Sad.

Reids reaction led me to believe he failed the trainers ACL test

Man, I’m so bummed out about this. He was off to a phenomenal start this year. It feels like we are back to where we’re on WR’s last year. I know we still won the superbowl but it felt like maybe the defense wouldn’t have to do so much heavy lifting again this year. SMH

After Tennessee goes 0-4 tonight, you call them up and offer them a 3rd round pick in next years draft and a 6th in the 2026 draft for Dhop. You realease Skyy Moore and you sign Toney off of the Browns' practice squad (he knows the offense and has 1st round talent.)

Your WR room then looks like this:

1. DeAndre Hopkins
2. Xavier Worthy
3. JuJu
4. Watson
5. Hardman
6. Toney

You can win a Super Bowl with that WR room. You also start running more 2-3 tight end sets and use Hunt, Pacheco, Perine to beat down defenses.

The Toney bridge is burned I'd move on there.

But the 1 good thing about this atleast is he did it early. So theoretically, he should be able to be back and ready to go by next year.

Clinically if it’s torn they already know , the way Reid talked about it , they know it’s torn and they hope nothing else major is involved

A high end rental would be nice because of bonus structure we could probably afford their base salary for remainder of the year , the trade cost is an issue .

Still the team nobody wants to play in the playoffs.

They all know this team always digs deep and finds a way.

Sounds like a pretty good plan.

I'd definitely take Toney over Moore. At least Toney has the potential to make plays. And if he can't stay healthy, well, he's receiver #6.

Remember when we used to think maybe Brady was in decline, and maybe this would be the year we could push past the Patriots, and then they'd squeak it out and win the Superbowl AGAIN?

Yeah, that's KC now.

I can't remember how many times I was like "lol brady is cooked he sucks now" and it was fools gold every time

****ing tom brady

Sucks about Rice, but we're lucky that Mahomes did not separate his shoulder or simething to that nature when he made the tackle. Not much of a silver lining, but one nonetheless

Yeah,.....someone needs to tell Pat if he throws a pick just lay down.

Tons of people are celebrating his injury and are giddy that the Chiefs lost their best weapon.

Rice made a great play too, stripping the ball away.

This was maybe the one time I felt somewhat pissed at Pat.

Horrible INT, puts himself in harms way to make the tackle, and in doing so knocks out his best receiver for the rest of the season.

Just bad decision after bad decision.

Didn’t Clay have a huge post regarding Brady’s decline?

Agreed. He was pissed he threw another bad pick and lost his head...almost literally.

Absolutely something to be thankful for.

That's why I was so pissed in the GDC and said **** Pat. Because it was just a series of the worst decisions he's ever made in a single play and now Rashee may not be back for a season and a half.

And he was on pace for a historic season. So for that single play, yeah **** Pat for all those reasons. Like we don't need him to make tackles on interceptions EVER. Even if it's a pick 6 and he's the last guy just let the dude score.

My level headed response to your above post:

**** off and **** you.

I'll translate Guardians post:

Pat needs to use better judgement before and after making a mistake.

So you'd want Pat to try and make tackles on the interceptions he throws?

LOL no, **** you

Dude it was a freak play. FFS he was trying to make a tackle and missed he’s not a LB man

I thought that was obvious but someone is clearly a poster child for mental poverty and didn't get that.

Rashee even made the strip so if Pat isn't there we still have Rashee and maybe someone else gets that ball back. But our defense is going to be elite so just chalk up a series and then come back out for the next to be better.

It was his worst series of choices as a player here EVER. No one can argue with that.

Maybe you missed the part there where I said someone just needs to tell Pat don't try and make tackles on interceptions???????????????

Do we want Pat to have a season ending injury over trying to make a tackle on a pick?

I swear I feel like some of ya'll are just arguing for the sake of it. This seems like a common sense thing.

You came across in the GDT like you wanted Mahomes benched.
It was total over-reaction.

He threw a ****ing pic, it happens.

You said this:

"Pat sucks
**** him"

It's unjustifiable. If you were a dog I'd put you down.

I agree.

As for what happened in the heat of the moment it's just instincts. Mahomes ****ed up and tried to make up for it. Very poor decision, but it's hard to blame him for making it.

Which is exactly why he should not be going in to make a tackle.

It was freaky. But looking at the replay, there was a huge scrum of like 5-6 players on that sideline, and Pat is at the end lowering his shoulder. He's kinda lucky he didn't get hurt, a few guys with momentum heading his way could have ended badly.

Again, just a poor decision with an awful outcome.

I think we can all agree that "**** Skyy Moore", "Toney sucks **** him", "C'mon Pat do better" and "wtf pat?" are totally fine reactions.

... but "Pat sucks, **** him!" to one of the greatest players in NFL history, that has already brought you 4/5 Super Bowls is absolutely insane to say.

I get it, and honestly when it happened, I saw Mahomes run to the sideline, to get in on the tackle, and I was screaming at him to get the **** out of the way! Dude, you already threw a pic don't make things worse! But I had no idea that making things worse would be to take out Rice... I was thinking more along the lines of injuring himself trying to make the tackle.:cuss:

Just an all-around shit play in Chief's history. In fact, I can't think of a worse one. I know shit happens, but special shit happened on that play. :shake:

Yeah.

"He's not a LBer, what do you expect?" isn't really the best rebuttal to "Patrick shouldn't be trying to make tackles on interception returns"...

That's kinda the point.

Can we ban anyone stupid enough to suggest Toney as a viable option? Preferably they would also be sterilized so they can't procreate.

Pat wouldn't be who he is if he made business decisions. You can't ask him to be a competitor only some of the time.

I remember everyone used to love Andrew Luck lighting up DBs when he’d throw a pick in college. It’s fun for a bit, but ****ing stupid.

Throw a pick? Just jog off the field. Nothing good comes from getting involved. Every defensive player wants a shot at blowing up Mahomes there.

If it’s the Super Bowl and you threw a pick but were up 6 or less late? Sure go for the tackle. Any other scenario, jog off the field. No one will think less of you.

Why does he slide when he scrambles for yards? Shouldn’t he lower his shoulder for a few more yards?

Eyes closed, back of his head/neck exposed.

A knee to the back of the helmet probably puts him in concussion protocol and it was nothing but blind luck that it didn't happen.

About the best you can say of what he did there is "Hey, at least he didn't lead with his throwing shoulder..."

I mean c'mon Pat - if you're gonna go out there blindly putting yourself (and evidently your teammates) in harms way, maybe just sit it out.

I've seen kickers make better plays on ballcarriers than that. It was just a reckless and silly play that led directly to injury.

Can the KIND of injury that took place there be directly foreseen? Nah, not really. But is the fact that there was an injury on that play even remotely surprising? Not at all - you throw your body into a pile with little technique and without even seeing what you're hitting, weird shit is gonna happen. It could've easily been Mahomes that got knocked out for awhile there.

How much does Rashee hate Pat rn?

It’s kind of crazy that we could not see Rashee Rice for more than a year if he gets suspended. November 2025 if it’s an 8 game suspension

Jamaal Charles blowing out his knee stepping on a 1st down marker is a greater shit outcome.

Dee Ford lining up offsides is a greater vapor lock and shit execution.

Oh we've had worse.

Should be good and healthy by then I guess. No chance of rushing him back.

It’s all about silver linings.

Is there an actual update on Rice? I don’t want to read through 100 posts of menstruation to find it.

It’s amazing when so many men’s menstrual cycles sync.

Bernard Pollard taking out Brady and unintentionally ushering in the Cassel era. Undisputed champ.

I guess you'd know since you're always on your cycle.

If he's out for the season it makes sense to try and get all the legal stuff out of the way ASAP to get the suspension in when he's injured this year. Then get a quack doctor to assess him to say he's available for selection and if need be, get grey shorts guy to act as his stunt double in training.

Sure you can.

We ask if of players all the time.

Think of ballcarriers in the pile. Kelce talks about it all the time - when they end up in a scrum, they spend the last part of just about every play trying to get to the ground. They COULD fight for another yard, but not at the risk of a fumble or an injury.

They know the smart play is to live to fight another play. And you hear guys say it after fumbles a lot "Yeah - I needed to be smarter there and know when to get down..."

WRs go out of bounds instead of lowering their shoulder for another half yard all the time. Tory Holt would go down in the middle of the field rather than get blown apart on his way to a HoF caliber career.

Yeah, these guys know when to fish and when to cut bait. And they do it game after game after game. And it's not 'business decisions' but rather an acknowledgement that they're needed for the next play, drive, game, etc...

And Pats the best at that. There's a reason his rushing YPG increases in the post-season. He knows when we need him to do that sort of stuff and when it's best to fight another day.

Jesus Christ people, Rice is not going to get suspended for 8 ****ing games.

Frankly I'll be surprised if he's suspended for 4. If the NFL starts suspending players who get in traffic accidents everyone is going to get suspended. I don't think they will want to go down this road. This is all created by "NFL insiders" who are just looking for clicks.

People are really pining to bring Toney back? WTF?