Chris Jones deserves to the paid and other lessons learned in Week 9

Here’s what we learned about the Kansas City Chiefs from their nail-biter of a win over the Minnesota Vikings in Week 9.

The Kansas City Chiefs were not supposed to win this game.

Hyperbolic? Sure, maybe a little, but seriously look at the situation the Chiefs found themselves in going into Sunday’s game against the Minnesota Vikings.

They were playing against the best offense in football over the last month, led by arguably the best running back in the league in Dalvin Cook, Pro Bowl wideouts like Stefon Diggs and Adam Thielen, and a quarterback in Kirk Cousins who seems to have finally turned a corner this past month. That offense is paired well with one of the best defenses in football, led by a defensive minded head coach in Mike Zimmer.

That would already be a difficult matchup already, but the Chiefs had other obstacles to overcome as well. Star QB Patrick Mahomes missed his second week in a row with a knee/ankle injury, along with DE Alex Okafor, CB Kendall Fuller, T Eric Fisher, G Laurent DuVernay-Tardiff, and DE Frank Clark. Add in home field advantage getting heavily contested by a large number of Vikings’ fan in attendance, extremely windy conditions, and loads of pressure and negativity surrounding the team, and the Chiefs were meant to lose this game.

The Chiefs, however, did not get the memo and instead put away the Vikes on a last-second field goal.

Through some excellent play in all facets, some amazing coaching from the sidelines, and key clutch performances by many players late in the game, the Chiefs not only won this game, but built on some great structure they have been setting up for three weeks now. By analyzing this structure and how it affected this game, the kingdom can learn not only how the Chiefs won this game, but how they can handle the rest of their schedule.