Chiefs star shoots down the idea that luck played a factor in Kansas City's Week 13 win over the Raiders
With the clock ticking down in the final moments of a few different games this season, the Kansas City Chiefs have been staring an apparent loss in the face only to come up with the exact play they needed. In Week 10 against the Denver Broncos, it was LB Leo Chenal's field goal block. In Week 13 […]
With the clock ticking down in the final moments of a few different games this season, the Kansas City Chiefs have been staring an apparent loss in the face only to come up with the exact play they needed.
In Week 10 against the Denver Broncos, it was LB Leo Chenal's field goal block. In Week 13 against the Las Vegas Raiders, it was a bad snap recovered by LB Nick Bolton While you have to get a little lucky to win any sports game, don't mistake these moments for luck.
Against the Broncos, it was a meticulously practiced play that the team had been setting up and working all game long. In Week 13, the Chiefs got some help from their fans and a well-known advantage of playing at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium.
Speaking on Amazon Prime Video's postgame show, the first thing that star DT Chris Jones mentioned was the impact fans had on that final play.
"[On] the last play, I think the crowd played an effect," Jones told Charissa Thompson. "The center snapped the ball without the quarterback being ready, and we were able to recover. We call that the Chris Jones effect."
Jones reiterated this fact to reporters at the podium.
"Listen, I praise the crowd," Jones said at the podium after the game. "There was a lot of crowd noise. The center snapped it. The quarterback wasn't ready, looking at the sideline, and we [were] able to recover it."
A decade ago against the New England Patriots, Chiefs Kingdom set the Guinness World Record making Arrowhead Stadium the loudest outdoor stadium when the crowd reached 142.2 decibels. It might not have been that loud on Friday night in Week 13, but it was loud enough that it caused a miscommunication between rookie center Jackson Powers-Johnson and Raiders QB Aidan O'Connell, who was making his third start of the year. The crowd noise at that moment was the difference between a win and a surefire loss for Kansas City.
It's the perfect time for Chiefs Kingdom to remind everyone in the NFL that GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium has one of the best home-field advantages in the league. They clinched a playoff berth with their Week 13 win and they're still in control of the AFC's No. 1 seed and home-field advantage throughout the playoffs.
"When you look at the playoffs, most games are close down to the wire, type of games, so it's a lot," Jones concluded. "We can build from this as a team overall, and we're just going to keep on winning, man. Keep on winning. You can learn a lot from winning. You know what I mean? It's better to win than to have a pretty loss, OK? So, we'll take an ugly win, build from it, and continue to get better."
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