Chiefs Criticism Gets Straighted Out By One National Media Member

The Kansas City Chiefs will be tasked with fighting a narrative they haven't had in the Patrick Mahomes era - to prove they aren't about to fall off a cliff.

With the Super Bowl loss to the Philadelphia Eagles being a big red flag, plus the offensive line issues, the slight regression in play of Patrick Mahomes, coupled with the AFC West improving this offseason, the winds of change are coming.

But while some are jumping off the Chiefs, we aren't, and neither is Kay Adams, who on her show, the Up & Adams Show, has a belief that Kansas City can still pack a punch.

And it's due to an upgrade at one key position.

"The run game with the Chiefs is going to improve, giant leap forward," Adams said. "Believe it or not they won 15 games these Chiefs last year I don't know if you don't remember that at all and they went to a Super Bowl with a run game that was bottom three when it came to yards per carry, by far the worst rankings in the Mahomes era. So despite a lack of run game, they did it, and they weren't generating big plays, they were efficient, but no big plays to help Patrick out, either." 

Kareem Hunt, Isaiah Pacheco, the free agency addition of Elijah Mitchell, and the drafted Brashard Smith give Mahomes, on paper at least, a different variation of a run game, with Smith and Mitchell providing the speed, and Hunt and Pacheco providing the power.

Granted, it all has to come together, but having even the resemblance of a solid run game will help the offense function better than it did last season (101.2 yards per game).

The Chiefs have the passing weapons to put up points, and adding a group of running backs who can keep moving the chains might be the most important upgrade the franchise has made this season.

Adams isn't giving up on Kansas City, and neither are we, and the run game is the reason why.