There's no other way to put it: October was not a great month for Kansas City Chiefs fans. Sure, the team notched a couple of pivotal AFC West victories early on with wins over the Raiders and Chargers, but the Raiders victory came with Tyquan Thornton's foot nearly being removed from his body, and the Chargers game was the last time we saw Harrison Butker (somewhat) alive.
After that? The Sunday night massacre in Seattle and the most maddening loss in years to the Broncos in Denver. Mix in some off-the-field drama with Josh Simmons and Rashee Rice, both Mansoor Delane and Peter Woods going on the shelf with injuries, and Butker's struggles coupled with the addition of noted not-great-guy Justin Tucker to the practice squad as a result, and things were looking pretty bleak in the Kingdom. Not a single first-round draft pick from the last several years contributing, a once-beloved kicker now the goat, and back-to-back losses. We even got two mystery benchings of Kingsley Suamataia to boot. The sky was falling.
Nothing seemed to be changing during a time when that was all the fan base craved—change. Veach, draft better! Andy Reid, please do something, anything different with this play-calling. The fever pitch of these cries for change led some fans down dark paths online, calling for Veach's and Reid's jobs and declaring the season "cooked." Between penalties, short-yardage woes, missed kicks, special teams blunder after special teams blunder—you get the drift. You all watched it.
But a Grinch heart moment happened somewhere between Patrick Mahomes' right arm nearly being ripped off and Harrison Butker being booed off the field. Some sort of vintage Chiefs voodoo magic began to brew. Mic'd-up clips circulating earlier this week showed us the shadows of these dark conjurings in the form of Patrick Mahomes' sideline quotes that will make you want to run through a stack of brick walls.
"Call it like you've been calling it."@PatrickMahomes took a tough hit and bounced right back 😤 @InsideTheNFL pic.twitter.com/4CJZYKYZcc
— NFL Films (@NFLFilms) November 10, 2026
The Chiefs' magic might be back
We're so, SO back. Not only did Mahomes maintain possession of his right arm, but it still appears to work beautifully. So much so that we get a gem like "Call that shit like you've been calling it." It's like Walter Camp and William Shakespeare collaborated on the perfect eight words to resurrect a fan base. The Chiefs' run game and passing attack looked both functional and creative in the second half against the Jets, no matter how woeful they may be. The defense absolutely dominated Geno Smith and the Jets' offense in the second half, and the Chiefs are allowing somewhere around 18 points a game this season.
Add to it the fact that Brett Veach actually did something at the trade deadline, bringing in Josh Downs, and we're almost certainly on the verge of pioneering the next great chapter in Chiefs lore. Even if Downs isn't prime Randy Moss, he still provides a much-needed spark on the field and an almost as impactful shot in the arm of positivity within the fan base. We've all had our curmudgeonly traits the last four weeks. Let that shit go! Embrace positivity!
More good news for Chiefs Kingdom
In fact, I'll dose you with some more good news. The Mahomes family is expecting another child! Adding another child to Chiefs Kingdom's first family is exciting for a multitude of reasons. First, we get to hold our collective breath to see if they choose another name for this child that goes along with their theme of increasingly luxurious resort membership tiers. If this is tradable on Kalshi, I'd like to put $5 on Platinum Mahomes. Second, every year the Mahomeses have been expecting or having a child, the Chiefs have at least made it to the Super Bowl. They may be 1-2 in those games, but a Super Bowl appearance is a decent floor.
As a parent, I know it's impossible to choose favorites or least favorites, but I would imagine Bronze has to be the crown jewel of the Mahomes children since not only did he get the "Patrick" namesake, but he is also the only child whose birth coincided with a Chiefs Super Bowl win.
November offers even more reason for optimism
So much positivity that this suddenly hypercritical fan base likely won't know what to do with it. Add to this that Chris Jones, whose head we were all essentially calling for in Weeks 1-8, crashed back onto the scene in a huge way with AFC Defensive Player of the Week honors for his two-sack, game-wrecking outing against the Jets, and it feels like the stars may be aligning. To make matters worse for the rest of the league, the Chiefs were 21-3 in the month of November from 2019-2024, a timeframe that feels much more familiar to this team's level of play than that of the 2025 team, which went 1-3 in November.
All will be right in the football world soon—we will not be the fan base crying online; the rest of the league will. The referees will suddenly give us all of the calls. The Chiefs will prevail. We can ignore this week's version of the Josh Simmons saga and the fact that Butker is still the starting kicker for now and just bask in the glow of a week full of (mostly) good news in Chiefs Kingdom. We were due for this after the way this season started, which is an ironic thing to say considering the team is 6-2 and firmly considered one of the best in the NFL. Maybe we should remind ourselves of those last two facts a little more often and take things week to week.
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