Kansas City Chiefs podcast: Breaking down Broncos and Jaguars film
The Kansas City Chiefs were able to pull out a victory against the Denver Broncos. What did we see and what should we look for against Jacksonville?
The Kansas City Chiefs are sitting pretty in the AFC West with a two-game lead over the Denver Broncos and Los Angeles Chargers. While the team is 4-0, 2-0 inside the division, there are still improvements to be made on both sides of the football. Denver was able to slow down this high powered Chiefs offense, and some of that was the consistent pressure on Patrick Mahomes.
Denver was the largest test so far for Kansas City, but the Jacksonville Jaguars will be another great test for this offense. The Jaguars through the first quarter of the season look to be the biggest contender for the AFC for Kansas City. Finding weaknesses in this stacked defense will be hard come Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium.
The return of Sammy Watkins would be huge for Kansas City in Week 5. Jacksonville has the best duo of cornerbacks in the NFL, and having Watkins on the field to help get single coverage matchups across the offense would go a long way. When watching the Jaguars over the past couple of weeks, they run mostly cover 3 and off man coverage. Whether that will change against the Chiefs to match the offensive weapons is yet to be determined.
While Denver made most of their stops on defense with consistent pressure from heavily disguised blitz packages, Jacksonville doesn’t need to blitz to get constant pressure. They continue to be a team that rarely blitzes, and that’s because their front four get more pressure than any other defense in the league. This will allow the Jaguars to have more personnel in coverage to slow down the Chiefs offense.
I’m expecting mostly short route concepts against the Jaguars as we saw early on against Denver.
in the backfield for the Jaguars, the Chiefs defense should be able to contain the Jacksonville offense led by Blake Bortles. If so, while it won’t be a shootout kind of game that we saw through the first three weeks, it will still be up to the offense to put the most points on the board against the toughest defense in the league.