Good teams make bad teams look bad, and the Jets are another bad team. The New York Jets have a solid defense on paper, but the offense led by Zach Wilson is dreadful. Last week the Kansas City Chiefs embarrassed the Chicago Bears, but they have struggled in games they have been heavily favored in before.
In 2022, the Chiefs lost to the Indianapolis Colts, almost lost to the Las Vegas Raiders, had two nail-biters against the Denver Broncos and let the Houston Texans take them to overtime.
As badly as I wanted to include Taylor Swift attending another Chiefs game, there are just too many key unknown answers on this team currently. The Bears are just such a bad team that it could be a fool's errand to announce the Chiefs have returned to last year's Super Bowl form.
The Jets will allow the Chiefs to show the world just how back the Kansas City offense is and allow an opportunity for the defense to take care of business.
Let’s start with the most obvious thing to watch for.
5. Jawaan Taylor's performance
Cris Collinsworth let the world and the NFL know on opening night that Jawaan Taylor was getting away with false starts and illegal formations. Some of the video footage from that night was undisputedly legit and showed that penalties were committed but not called.
According to Matt Verderame of Sports Illustrated, tapes were sent out to NFL teams of how offensive linemen are lining up too far back from the line of scrimmage. The league office clearly put an emphasis on the issue and has the referees looking out for it, at least when it comes to the Chiefs.
Since that memo went out, three illegal formations have been called on offensive tackles in the NFL and all three have been called on Jawaan Taylor, according to Jason Anderson with Sports Radio 810 WHB. It does not take long to scour Twitter and find other examples of tackles around the league committing these same infractions.
Andy Reid finally had enough of it this week and gave these tidbits to the media.
Andy Reid elaborates on the officiating/lining up of Jawaan Taylor.
— Sports Radio 810 WHB (@SportsRadio810) September 25, 2023
"It's to the point of being ridiculous...let's make sure we're staying consistent." pic.twitter.com/Mo6bsTzolz
It’ll be interesting to watch how the league reacts to these comments. It can go in either one or two directions, you would think. They will either call it on everybody and players will adapt, or it will go back to business as usual over time. This is something big to watch for Sunday night, once again on national television with Collinsworth on the mic.