Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid and quarterback Patrick Mahoms. (Darren Yamashita-USA Today Sports)

Andy Reid's dominance at the end of the season, his record against the Western Conference AFC and Kansas City's defense played the best football, which may provide motivation for the Super Bowl.

The picture of the NFL playoffs is brewing, but for the resurgent Kansas City Chiefs, this is a perfect storm.

After the season 3-4, the calendar shifted to November, and suddenly the Chiefs were playing their best football of the season. The defense reached its peak in due course. The offense strode forward. After easily defeating the division rivals and the AFC West-leading Las Vegas Raiders 41-14, KC may be the team to defeat in the AFC.

A game like this is a surprise for most clubs in the league. This should not be a back-to-back AFC defending champion.

Especially, because November is Andy Reid's season.

Dating back to 2000, Reid was in his second season as the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, and history was on his side. His record in November was 55-31-1, including a 22-9 record for the month since arriving at Arrowhead in 2013.

"With Andy Reid, it's not about dictatorship, it's about the machine running," McDevito, the former Chiefs defensive end, told FanSided. "And the machine is running at full speed. Nothing can shake the train. We are moving, we are moving in a better direction."

That machine helped Reid and his team lose one game or less in the November 13th game during his 22 seasons as head coach.

"The thing about Andy Reid is that he is always the same," DeVito said. "Because of this, his team does not have these huge emotional fluctuations... He is obsessed with what he knows. He knows how to win. He knows how to make a plan systematically so that you can win.

"In November, when many other teams started to relax a bit, our pace, mentality and focus were the same as when we started training camp."

With the rally approaching, Reid's year-round success in November is not the only trend that is good for Kansas City.

Patrick Mahomes has a 17-3 record against the AFC West, including a victory on Sunday night. The Chiefs still have two games to play against the very unstable Denver Broncos, a rematch with Justin Herbert's Los Angeles Chargers, and the Raiders at the Arrow on December 12.

"You go back to OTA, when you entered last week's OTA, we were already looking for AFC West," DeVito said. "When you talk about Patrick Mahomes, Andy Reid and these talented football minds, when their attention is mainly on you...when you are the main one and everyone else is secondary Time, you don’t want to be those crosshairs."

Despite struggling, Kansas City is still in a three-game winning streak, ranking first in the AFC Western Conference, and is currently the No. 4 seed in the AFC playoffs.

"If you look at the way Patrick Mahomes conducts business," DeVito explained. "You have this person, he has good reasons to cheer up and relax, but he is the kind of person who plays and acts as if he is a failed free agent. These are your Hall of Fame members. Those who have everything in the world Talented players, consistent professional bowlers and all-professional players, but their job is like trying to build a team. They are your Darrell Revis, your Tom Brady, and your Payton. Mannings, this is what Patrick Mahomes has."

Maybe we shouldn't be surprised that Mahomes played his best football. In two games this month, he threw seven touchdowns in one interception.

What is surprising is Steve Spagnuolo's defense. Due to some key changes, his defense has once again gained a foothold.

The adjustments made by Spanolo, who has coached three Super Bowls and won two championships as a defensive coordinator, have had an impact on the defense that was facing a crisis a month ago.

In middle school, Spanolo let the underperforming cornerback Mike Hughes take the bait, replaced by Rashard Fenton, who scored 87.6 and his 23 tackles and interceptions.

After conducting an unwise experiment on the defensive end with Chris Jones, the 27-year-old player found his footing and motivation at home, generating 3 sacks, 33 pressures and pressure in the focus of professional football. 83.4 pass sprint score.

Then came the young linebacker duo of Nick Bolton and Willie Gay. The former was named the defensive rookie of the month in October, and Gay performed well after missing his first month due to a toe injury.

With Mahomes, Tyreek Hill, Travis Kelce, plus a series of offensive weapons and the defense of all three levels of organizers, the Chiefs will always be confused in the AFC. This will also help other competitors buy time for them to find problems before the second half.

Buffalo seems to be the favorite of the AFC, but after losing to the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Pittsburgh Steelers, how is this possible? Tennessee lost to the Jets in the short term, and lost to Derek Henry and Julio Jones in the long term. Cincinnati collapsed, and Baltimore was very unstable.

Kansas City once again played the best football at the most important moment of the season. The Chiefs strode forward at the best time of the year.

Their time of year.

"Andy Reid always emphasized that you have to worry about the next problem in your schedule," DeVito said. "You can't worry about the playoffs or what happens in two weeks.

"If breakfast is next, then you will eat breakfast better than your competitors. If next is the weight room, we will do this at the championship level. We do this better than anyone else. We will study in the cinema room longer and harder than anyone else. You continue to do this, and this is how you always remain outstanding in this league."

Last Thursday night, the NFL power brokers came to Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, including 38 executives, scouts, and 5 general managers. This is one of the most important quarterback displays we have seen in recent memory. one.

Kenny Pickett of the University of Pittsburgh and Sam Howell of North Carolina faced off in an exciting audition to consolidate them as the top two in the NFL draft class next spring The status of a quarterback.

After completing 23 of the 43 passes for 346 yards, 3 touchdowns and 1 interception, Pete won a thrilling victory in overtime with a score of 30-23. Pickett may just be Howell is the best passer at this level.

TEST Football Academy QB coach Tony Racioppi told FanSided: “His mental toughness, ability to watch the field, quick decision-making and ability to process information quickly are Pickett’s best qualities.” “He is the perfect storm of late bloomers, he Has grown into this quarterback who is more than 6 feet 3 pounds tall and weighs 225 pounds. When he first came to Pete, he faced high expectations, but he struggled, survived the difficulties, and persisted. Come down."

Racioppi has a long-term relationship with Pickett, training him and this winter will help him get ready to step onto the stage and become the spokesperson of the NFL team.

This season is the best season of Pickett's career. He passed the ball for 3,517 yards, had 32 touchdowns, and had 4 interceptions.

However, the most important thing for his future prospects is that his Pitt offense is both a testing ground for the NFL and a successful script for Saturday.

"When I talk to scouts now, their concept in Pete and their route in Pete's depths is actually what you saw on Sunday," Racioppi explained. "From an evaluation point of view, it is one-to-one.

"You see him change the protection measures. You see him under the shotgun and the center. You will see him accepting NFL throws and throwing NFL balls... You see him doing this over and over again in the past two years Do, with so many movies, you will get an NFL kid ready to start right away, he might."

If every scout, executive, and Hawks general manager Howie Rothman, Steelers general manager Kevin Colbert, Raiders general manager Mike Mayyok, and Vikings general manager Rick Both Spearman and Broncos general manager George Parton flocked to Pittsburgh to get close to Pickett, but only one of them will be disappointed in April.

However, Howell is an elite quarterback prospect in his own right. He became recognized as the best passer at this level at the beginning of the season, and has all the tools to give himself the opportunity to develop like anyone else. The quarterback of the NFL franchise.

Howell, who is 6 feet 1 inch tall and weighs 220 pounds, has completed 63.5% of his passes, completed 2,704 yards, 22 touchdowns, and 8 interceptions, although for most of the season, the Tahler team Both offensively performed poorly.

"He is a tough contender," an NFL evaluator told FanSided's Howell. "He has an elite arm. Their offense doesn't show all of Sam's talent, but you will see his athleticism. He has all the qualities that help you succeed in the NFL today."

Next spring, there will be at least seven teams on the market that need quarterbacks, and maybe more, depending on the future of Baker Mayfield in Cleveland, and the situation of Seattle and Green Bay with Russell Wilson and Aaron Rogers.

However, although Howell and Pickett have been dominant, at least one NFL personnel director said that the team that buys quarterbacks this year may be a year late to screen the shelves.

"These two guys are second-level talents," the executive said. "They are a notch below the best in last year's class. Howell needs to become more stable and maybe he will benefit from staying for an extra year."

As for Pickett, Lassiopi saw the shadow of the Bengal quarterback and the former No. 1 pick Jobrow among his star students.

"He has gone through all this, he has seen it all, his physical talent, he can run 40 times is very good, he is a very good athlete, I don't think people understand how strong his arms are," Racioppi said . "He will only get better. He is such a kid. He is very smart. He has played football all his life. He has Mark Whipple as the offensive coordinator for Pete. He has me. He treats us like a sponge. It's all sucked up, and you are now starting to see the results of this work."

"I don't think a game can define you. So, the fact that we can rebound and dominate, which should make everyone notice...We will not be'F'd' now."

– Dallas Cowboys rookie LB Micah Parsons, after defeating the Atlanta Falcons 43-3 on Sunday 

Watching Sunday's game, it is clear that the Cowboys not only have to beat the Falcons, but also to prove their point of view.

In the first game of the Cowboys defensive coordinator Dan Quinn against the Falcons, Parsons took the lead in the first game after being fired in October last year. Dallas' defense strangled the suddenly soaring Matt Ryan. .

Parsons fired Ryan once, forced him to make a turnover, made a total of six tackles, and continued to strengthen his NFL defensive rookie of the year resume. In the first round of the draft for the Cowboys at Penn State University, Parsons had the third-highest pass sprint score for a professional football focus team in the NFL, reaching 92.1, with a total of 58 tackles. Parsons' six sacks are tied for 13th in the NFL.

In addition, Sunday’s victory clearly showed that the Cowboys are one of the most complete teams in the NFL, and perhaps the gap between Dallas, the Green Bay Packers and other NFC teams was huge at the beginning of the stretch.

In addition, Dak Prescott (Dak Prescott) has two touchdowns, so far this season, his 127 passes scored more than 115 points, ranking third.

After a sample size of nine games, Dallas ranks first in the NFL in total offense, 15th in total defense, and 10th in scoring defense, and it is very likely that assuming everyone is healthy, the NFC Super Bowl seat may boil down to Cowboys-Packers in January.

The Cowboys are likely to win the NFC Eastern Championship. Although Sunday's matchup with the Chiefs at Arrowhead may be a Super Bowl preview, Dallas' remaining opponents have a total record of 26-30.

Between Dallas and at least one home game in the playoffs, this is not exactly an enhanced blockade.

Dallas has firepower, defense is improving every week, and it seems that after embarrassing the Broncos, after a year of real motivation to run in Lombardy, the Super Bowl chase is more open than ever.

This week, we witnessed some Jet-on-Jet crimes.

"This guy should be a defensive master," former Jets coach Rex Ryan said during an appearance on ESPN radio this week, Jets coach Robert Saleh. "I personally think. Everything I hear is that this person is very similar to me, but there is no bad part. Some of the bad parts you need, his team doesn't want to play with any damn heart. This is what disappoints me. "

Ryan crossed the bottom line and questioned the hard work and effort of a team that he has not yet stepped into the locker room, but is his criticism far away from him?

Although Saleh’s Jets have performed impressively this season; defeating the Titans and seemingly ruining the Bengals’ season, their defense is also severely inadequate.

Saleh is a coach with a defensive background, and his defense is making history. However, this is for all wrong reasons.

So far this season, the Jets have scored 45 points three times, and scored 3 points for three consecutive weeks, the second time in the past 50 years.

"If this is personal to him, he knows where to find me," Saleh replied. "I am not surprised by him, he always has something to say."

If Saleh continues to focus on rebuilding the defense of the playmaker that did not make him successful in San Francisco, maybe the Jets will be better served; like Nick Bosa, Richard Sherman and Fred Warner, helping the 49ers become the NFL's most frightening One of the units.

The Jets are far from a finished product, but Saleh is the worst in the league. This cannot avoid criticism, nor can it compete in today's NFL.

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