April 2024 - Kansas City Chiefs Wiretap

Chiefs To Wear Traditional Home Jerseys In Super Bowl

Jan 30, 2024 2:33 PM

The Kansas City Chiefs will wear their red home jerseys in Super Bowl LVIII as the designated home team against the San Francisco 49ers.

When the Chiefs won the Super Bowl last year, they wore their white jerseys as the designated road team. The Chiefs wore their home jerseys in 2021 when they lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Tampa Bay elected to wear their white jerseys despite being the designated home team.

The 49ers will wear white as they did when they previously met the Chiefs in the Super Bowl in 2020. San Francisco has a 2-1 record in Super Bowls wearing their white jersey.

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Andy Reid: Kadarius Toney Injury 'Not Made Up'

Jan 30, 2024 8:05 AM

Andy Reid says the Kansas City Chiefs did not file erroneous injury reports regarding Kadarius Toney as the wide receiver claimed in a profanity-filled Instagram Live post.

"He's been on the injury report, [so] that part is not made up by any means," Reid said.

In his post, Toney said he doesn't have the hip and ankle injuries the Chiefs have recently listed for him on their weekly injury reports.

Toney hasn't played since a Week 15 game against the New England Patriots in which he deflected a pass to a defender for an interception for the second time this season.

The Chiefs said before Sunday's AFC Championship Game that Toney wouldn't play because of injuries and personal reasons. 

Toney's partner gave birth to the couple's first child, a daughter, on Saturday.

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Tags: Kansas City Chiefs, Injury, Misc Rumor

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Chiefs Pass-Rusher Charles Omenihu Has Torn ACL

Jan 30, 2024 8:02 AM

Kansas City Chiefs pass rusher Charles Omenihu tore an ACL in Sunday's AFC Championship Game and won't be available to play in Super Bowl LVIII against the San Francisco 49ers, according to reports.

Omenihu had a career-high seven sacks this season despite missing the first six games due to suspension.

He had a strip sack of Lamar Jackson on Sunday before leaving with the injury.

Omenihu, 26, joined the Chiefs as a free agent after four NFL seasons split between the Houston Texans and 49ers. 

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Tags: Kansas City Chiefs, Injury, Misc Rumor

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Travis Kelce Passes Jerry Rice For Most Playoff Catches

Jan 29, 2024 8:56 AM

Travis Kelce had 11 catches for 116 yards and a touchdown in the Kansas City Chiefs' 17-10 win over the Baltimore Ravens in Sunday's AFC Championship Game.

With the effort, Kelce passed Jerry Rice for the most catches in NFL playoff history.

Kelce also scored his sixth touchdown in AFC Championship Games, surpassing John Stallworth for the most ever.

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Tags: Kansas City Chiefs, Misc Rumor, Stats

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49ers Open As Slight Super Bowl Favorites

Jan 28, 2024 11:23 PM

The San Francisco 49ers have been installed as small Super Bowl favorites over the Kansas City Chiefs, but the point spread dropped quickly Sunday at sportsbooks around the nation.

The 49ers opened as 2.5-point favorites at ESPN BET, but the lined dipped to -1.5 within 20 minutes of being posted and was as low as -1 at some sportsbooks Sunday night.

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Tags: San Francisco 49ers, Kansas City Chiefs, Misc Rumor

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Lamar Jackson, Ravens 'Mad' As Offense Sputters

Jan 28, 2024 10:04 PM

Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson was so infuriated by throwing an interception in the end zone in the fourth quarter that he ripped off his helmet with both hands and slammed it to the ground while walking to the sideline.

For the presumptive NFL Most Valuable Player, another season filled with promise ended with a thud in the postseason.

Jackson and the AFC's top-seeded Ravens struggled to move the ball and committed three turnovers in a 17-10 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Championship Game on Sunday. The loss drops Jackson to 2-4 in the postseason.

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Tags: Baltimore Ravens, Kansas City Chiefs, Misc Rumor

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Chiefs Win AFC Title, Advance To 4th Super Bowl In Five Years

Jan 28, 2024 10:00 PM

The Kansas City Chiefs, who for most of this regular season looked more vulnerable than at any time since Patrick Mahomes became their starting quarterback in 2018, are going back to the Super Bowl.

The Chiefs scored a touchdown on each of their first two possessions and then held on to beat the Baltimore Ravens 17-10, sending Kansas City to the Super Bowl for the fourth time in the past five years.

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Tags: Kansas City Chiefs, Baltimore Ravens, San Francisco 49ers, Game Recap, Team Achievement

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Ravens Attracting Big Bets As AFC Title Game Favorite

Jan 28, 2024 2:27 PM

Patrick Mahomes hasn't been this big of an underdog in a long time.

The line on the AFC Championship Game moved toward the favored Baltimore Ravens in recent days and was sitting as high as -4.5 on Sunday morning, up a point from the consensus opening spread.

Mahomes is poised to be an underdog for only the 12th time in his career.

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Tags: Baltimore Ravens, Kansas City Chiefs, Misc Rumor

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Isiah Pacheco Expected To Play In AFC Title Game

Jan 28, 2024 2:17 AM

Kansas City Chiefs running back Isiah Pacheco will play against the Baltimore Ravens in Sunday's AFC Championship Game despite a questionable tag for an ankle injury, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter.

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Tags: Kansas City Chiefs, Baltimore Ravens, Injury

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NFL Conference Championship Sunday: DVOA Ranks, Odds, TV Schedule

Jan 25, 2024 5:17 PM

Conference Championship Sunday for the 2023 NFL season will take place on January 28th in Baltimore and Santa Clara.

AFC

Kansas City Chiefs (Total DVOA: 5, Offense DVOA: 8, Defense DVOA: 7) at Baltimore Ravens (Total DVOA: 1, Offense DVOA: 4, Defense DVOA: 1)

3:00 PM EST, CBS, Baltimore -4, Total: 44.5

NFC

Detroit Lions (Total DVOA: 7, Offense DVOA: 5, Defense DVOA: 13) at San Francisco 49ers (Total DVOA: 2, Offense DVOA: 1, Defense DVOA: 4)

6:30 PM EST, FOX, San Francisco -7, Total: 51.5

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Tags: Baltimore Ravens, Detroit Lions, Kansas City Chiefs, San Francisco 49ers, IQ, Stats

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Lamar Jackson Expects 'Heavyweight Fight' Against Patrick Mahomes

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Chiefs-Bills Becomes First NFL Divisional Round Game With 50M Viewers

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Travis Kelce Is Six Catches From Tying Jerry Rice's Playoff Mark

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Tyler Bass Takes Blame For Bills' Loss To Chiefs After Missed FG

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Chiefs Beat Bills, Reach AFC Championship For 6th Straight Season

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NFL Final Four: Conference Championship Teams Since 2014

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NFL Divisional Round: DVOA Ranks, Odds, TV Schedule

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Several Fans At Chiefs Game Taken To Hospital Due To Cold

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Manufacturer: Patrick Mahomes' Helmet 'Did Its Job' Despite Breaking

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Travis Kelce Plans On Playing In 2024

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NFL Wildcard Weekend TV Schedule, Odds

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