Tyquan Thornton

Which is amazing, yeah, considering we wouldn't, most likely.

I mean, I think the Chiefs have a Tyquan Thornton problem disguised as a Rishi Rice problem.

And it's like...

Tyquan Thornton played such a bigger role in this offense, just being able to stretch the defense out and make these plays and adjustments down the field with a rapport that Moems has.

I think we're well past the point now, as Jacob has outlined throughout my lifetime talking football with Jacob Gibbs, of thinking Xavier Worthy has any chance of having any kind of impact on the vertical plane.

He can do some things underneath.

0 for 3 on deep ball attempts.

All three were last night.

It's rare.

That's like Tyquan Thornton level field stretching.

Nico Collins should not be deployed as you would deploy Deshaun Jackson.

This is not good.

The NFL just told you two months ago how they feel about Andrew Armstrong when he was available on white waivers and nobody claimed him.

Why is he on the field 65% of the time? Some of their wide receiver issues were preventable, and some of these you could spot a long time ago when it came to their wide receiver room, that this team was very reliant on Rasheed Rice and Xavier Worthy staying healthy, and this team was very reliant in Tyquan Thornton figuring it out, which it appeared he was figuring it out, but football happened and injury happened.

So at some point, I'm sure today we'll talk about Patrick Mahomes, and I'm not going to make it seem like Pat was the most accurate quarterback that we had ever seen.

But when you get pressured more than you've ever been pressured in an NFL game, in an NFL regular season game, and your wide receivers were Cyrus Allen, Xavier Worthy, Justin Watson, Andrew Armstrong and Jalen Royals, and you're going up against a well-rested, at-home, gotta-have-it kind of defense, I'm just not surprised that the Chiefs put down a legendarily stinker performance on offense.

And, you know, he has a catch for 18 yards in the first quarter.

Jalen Royals playing without Rasheed Rice and without Tyquan Thornton.

Those guys are out there.

Heck, Justin Watson.

And in the first five games of the year, it didn't take very long at all to determine that teams had to try to stop Kenneth Walker.

And in the meantime, before he got hurt, Tyquan Thornton was doing all right.

Rushie Rice, before he got hurt, obviously was doing all right.

And the offense was humming.

Their top two did not play.

Okay? Rashi Rice and Tyquan Thornton this year clearly separated as the top two.

All right, let's keep that in mind.

Now, Rashi Rice doesn't play oftentimes because he's a knucklehead.

Do you know how many times Tom Brady played without his top two receivers? Four times.

Four times in 20 plus years.

It's also telling that Tyquan Thornton is one of the top two wide receivers.

I mean,

I am fascinated to see what they do at the deadline.

Do they make a deal for a receiver? You know, the Tyquan Thornton injury, the Rasheed Rice injury.

I mean, there's going to be guys out there, Brian Thomas, Josh Downs, Jerry Judy.

You know, there are potential options for them if we're talking about a team making a move.

No catches whatsoever.

And this has been something that we've talked about for how many years now with the Chiefs? Wide receiver-wise, do they have enough there? I think them losing Tyquan Thornton is probably a bigger deal than what we would probably realize on the surface.

But someone that can stretch the field, because I don't think Kansas City has anything like that now.

But the one thing I'm trying to figure out is Cyrus Allen.

But you've got an instance that happened in the NFL a couple of weeks ago.

Tyquan Thornton, he got hip drop tackled against the Raiders.

He came up and his foot was sideways.

And it was completely ripped and dislocated in the way that J-Dub's was.