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The defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs headed into their season opener on Thursday night against the Detroit Lions without two of their best players.
Perennial Pro Bowler Travis Kelce was ruled out hours before the game due to a knee injury he suffered earlier in the week, and star defensive tackle Chris Jones was set to miss the game with his contract holdout ongoing.
Although the Chiefs would be without their best offensive player outside of Patrick Mahomes and the team’s best defensive player, Kansas City still had a great chance to win the game at home against a Lions team trying to prove itself.
Unfortunately for the defending champions, Mahomes struggled to find receivers that could actually catch the ball, leading the Lions to pull off the Week 1 upset on the road.
In the aftermath of the upset, Richard Sherman gave his opinion about what the Chiefs are missing in an appearance on “The Rich Eisen Show,” noting it may be time to pay a certain defensive star.
Sherman narrowed it down to the fact that missing Kelce and Jones was too much to recover from against a promising young team like the Lions.
The Chiefs couldn’t get enough pressure on quarterback Jared Goff, while the offense wasn’t the same without Mahomes being able to lean on arguably the greatest tight end of all time.
Along with the Chiefs missing key players, Lions head coach Dan Campbell was extremely aggressive and willing to go for it on fourth-down situations, which paid off.
From here on out, the real question is how long can the Chiefs go without two of their best players and whether the Lions are the real deal this season.
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