Jaylen Watson - Returning from IR

[Dante84]

Source: Chiefs fear that CB Jaylen Watson has a broken ankle.

— Zach Gelb (@ZachGelb) October 21, 2024

#Chiefs CB Jaylen Watson, one of their emerging young players on defense, suffered a fractured ankle in Sunday’s win over the #49ers, sources say.

He’ll have more imaging done today to determine if a return this season is possible. But tough reality for an up-and-coming corner. pic.twitter.com/86J6M58zqm

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) October 21, 2024

Breaking: The #Chiefs are designating CB Jaylen Watson to return from IR, and he will practice today, sources tell @NFLonFOX. This is a huge boost for Kansas City, who has been without Watson since late October due to a broken fibula.

He and Trent McDuffie are one of the best CB… pic.twitter.com/ePRd10X5YG

— Jordan Schultz (@Schultz_Report) January 3, 2025

[RINGLEADER]

Sorry to be a thread buzzkill but Chiefs beat whoever they end up playing.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Why not?

Sean Payton was in his end of season presser this afternoon...

"There's a lot of confidence in this team if we could get past that game, the next game we felt real good about."👀. . - Sean Payton.

— James Palmer (@JamesPalmerTV) January 15, 2025

Really, Sean? You ****ing lost by 4 scores to the 2 seed and you're gonna stand up there talking about how you were going to beat the Chiefs if you had NOT gotten your asses absolutely stoved in by Buffalo?

**** off, clown.

Just another dumb**** who doesn’t understand the difference between regular season and playoff football.

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by RINGLEADER

Sorry to be a thread buzzkill but Chiefs beat whoever they end up playing.

No problem, we all know this .

[TEX]

Originally Posted by TheGuardian

Man I don't get some of these takes.

WE literally present the worst match up for the RAvens. We have stopped running games all season, including Henry. And we have corners that can play man to man all day regardless of who they have.

The only thing that gets tough is Lamar if he breaks contain. Which he did to us a lot in week 1. But it didn't really hurt us eg net them a lot of scores.

Buffalo is a tougher matchup for us. Not the RAvens.

I agree for the most part...But the Ravens TE's are a problem. They figured that out in the 2nd half of week 1, and that was without Mark Andrews.

[Wisconsin_Chief]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

Just another dumb**** who doesn’t understand the difference between regular season and playoff football.

One of the most overrated, arrogant, douche bag coaches in NFL history. He has an almost identical track record as Mike McCarthy, yet gets talked about like some kind of genius. He wouldn’t even have a Super Bowl if it wasn’t for his thug DC paying his thug players to injure Favre, who should have been the one in the Super Bowl that year.

Reid really needs to take the gloves off when it comes to Denver and just fist them the next time we play to put Sean back in his place.

[TwistedChief]

Originally Posted by TEX

I agree for the most part...But the Ravens TE's are a problem. They figured that out in the 2nd half of week 1, and that was without Mark Andrews.

He played in that game though?

I think you can make good arguments for why either team is a tougher matchup. I go back and forth on it but I think I'd rather face Buffalo. They just seem like more of a straightforward, one-dimensional team if they're going to beat us. Whereas the Ravens seem to be hitting their stride and figuring out how to make their offense and defense work at a high level at just the right time.

It'll be a tough game regardless and I'm sure whichever team wins on Sunday will seem plenty capable and have a lot of momentum.

[Dunerdr]

Originally Posted by TwistedChief

He played in that game though?

I think you can make good arguments for why either team is a tougher matchup. I go back and forth on it but I think I'd rather face Buffalo. They just seem like more of a straightforward, one-dimensional team if they're going to beat us. Whereas the Ravens seem to be hitting their stride and figuring out how to make their offense and defense work at a high level at just the right time.

It'll be a tough game regardless and I'm sure whichever team wins on Sunday will seem plenty capable and have a lot of momentum.

Andrew’s was recovering from a pretty serious car wreck. He’s been a different player the second half of the season. I’m not stressing about it. If Bateman, flowers, Andrew’s and likely are healthy yeah it’s a tough game. I don’t think I take that group over Kelce, Hopkins, Hollywood and Worthy though. Especially given who’s throwing each group the ball.


It’s not often you get a titans team in the afccg there’s going to be a good team there no matter what. I’d rather face the bills D but the ravens qb. Pick your poison.


Also I don’t think the bills are one dimensional James Cook is a worse match up for us than Henry imo.

[UChieffyBugger]

Originally Posted by TEX

I agree for the most part...But the Ravens TE's are a problem. They figured that out in the 2nd half of week 1, and that was without Mark Andrews.

They scored ten points in the second half. Which was the same as what they got in the first half. Chiefs put up 27 and it should have been more as Juju and I think Rice dropped TD's.

What's interesting is the Ravens team from week one are pretty much the exact same squad. Meanwhile our team now has Hopkins, Hunt, Humphries, Omenihu, Hendershot and Hollywood. Plus Worthy and Hicks have improved. Noah Gray, Wharton and Joshua Williams have gotten better and guys like Perine have carved out a role too. So if we do progress to the next round and play the Ravens they'd be facing a much better squad imo. And tbh the same is true vs the Bills as we were missing six or seven guys against them last time.

[UChieffyBugger]

Originally Posted by TwistedChief

He played in that game though?

I think you can make good arguments for why either team is a tougher matchup. I go back and forth on it but I think I'd rather face Buffalo. They just seem like more of a straightforward, one-dimensional team if they're going to beat us. Whereas the Ravens seem to be hitting their stride and figuring out how to make their offense and defense work at a high level at just the right time.

It'll be a tough game regardless and I'm sure whichever team wins on Sunday will seem plenty capable and have a lot of momentum.

Their defense hasn't faced great offenses for a long while which has helped their numbers. Sunday will be an interesting test because Russ threw big bombs on them and imo that secondary remains a problem.

[UChieffyBugger]

Jeremy Fowler just confirmed that Jaylen Watson is being activated off the IR.

[TwistedChief]

Originally Posted by Dunerdr

Also I don’t think the bills are one dimensional James Cook is a worse match up for us than Henry imo.

If the Bills beat us it'll be because Josh Allen had a fabulous game. I think Cook is excellent but we've absolutely shown the ability to stop guys like him, and he's not going to be the game wrecking freak.

Henry is just a monster. And having to deal with the threat of him and Lamar playing off each other is just exhausting to even think about.

[UChieffyBugger]

Originally Posted by TwistedChief

If the Bills beat us it'll be because Josh Allen had a fabulous game. I think Cook is excellent but we've absolutely shown the ability to stop guys like him, and he's not going to be the game wrecking freak.

Henry is just a monster. And having to deal with the threat of him and Lamar playing off each other is just exhausting to even think about.

Our defense having not even played a real game yet faced Henry and Lamar. Bolton and Watson were coming back from injury, Nazeeh was getting his first NFL snaps and Omenihu wasn't there. At that point you'd expect it to be rough because our defense wasn't in tackling/game shape yet. But they stood up to it very well. Now everything the Ravens do is on tape. They got 185 rush yards in the game and Henry got a TD and it didn't matter.

[xztop123]

Originally Posted by UChieffyBugger

They scored ten points in the second half. Which was the same as what they got in the first half. Chiefs put up 27 and it should have been more as Juju and I think Rice dropped TD's.

What's interesting is the Ravens team from week one are pretty much the exact same squad. Meanwhile our team now has Hopkins, Hunt, Humphries, Omenihu, Hendershot and Hollywood. Plus Worthy and Hicks have improved. Noah Gray, Wharton and Joshua Williams have gotten better and guys like Perine have carved out a role too. So if we do progress to the next round and play the Ravens they'd be facing a much better squad imo. And tbh the same is true vs the Bills as we were missing six or seven guys against them last time.

Thank you for including hendershot. It’s likely we will easily win because of hendershot

[UChieffyBugger]

Originally Posted by xztop123

Thank you for including hendershot. It’s likely we will easily win because of hendershot

He's a TE who can block well and make catches in 13 personnel which Andy likes to run. He's an important piece in that scheme.

[TwistedChief]

Originally Posted by UChieffyBugger

Our defense having not even played a real game yet faced Henry and Lamar. Bolton and Watson were coming back from injury, Nazeeh was getting his first NFL snaps and Omenihu wasn't there. At that point you'd expect it to be rough because our defense wasn't in tackling/game shape yet. But they stood up to it very well. Now everything the Ravens do is on tape. They got 185 rush yards in the game and Henry got a TD and it didn't matter.

Counterpoint: the Ravens were running a new offense with Derrick Henry and needed more time to gel and find their footing than the Chiefs defense.