The pressure Houston, Ford, and Jones provide has been the spark the team needed to start creating turnovers and limiting opponents’ passing attacks. From Week 10 to the end of the regular season, the Chiefs racked up 26 sacks (tied for 2nd), 14 takeaways (tied for fifth), and 15 forced fumbles (third). This isn’t the defense that New England faced back in Week 6, when Brady and Co. dropped 43 points on Kansas City in a barn-burning win.
One special teams change can alter the course of a game – as we saw last week in the Saints/Eagles game – and with temperatures “hovering” around 5 degrees, the balls won’t be traveling anything like they normally would.