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The\u00a0Kansas City Chiefs\u00a0have gotten off to a great start of the 2024 NFL season. Kansas City is 2-0\u00a0after surviving a close game against a feisty Cincinnati team. One factor that has kept the Chiefs in both of their wins this season is the return of their deep passing game.<\/p>\n

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Patrick Mahomes\u00a0and the Chiefs have made a concerted effort to increase their deep passing game in 2024. Kansas City signed Marquise Brown in free agency and\u00a0drafted Xavier Worthy to add deep threats on offense.<\/p>\n

According to Next Gen Stats, Patrick Mahomes has already thrown two touchdown passes that traveled over 20 air yards this season. Those include a 35-yard touchdown pass to Xavier Worthy and a 44-yard touchdown to Rashee Rice. Shockingly, that means Mahomes has already\u00a0thrown more touchdown passes on throws with 20+ air yards\u00a0than he has in 2022 and 2023\u00a0combined<\/em>, per ProFootballTalk.<\/p>\n

The Chiefs are not using the same strategy that they did when they had Tyreek Hill on offense. However, Hill is a unique talent who it is impossible to replicate. That said, Xavier Worthy brings a different type of blazing speed that still presents problems for opposing defenses.<\/p>\n

Chiefs tight end\u00a0Travis Kelce\u00a0honest about lack of production early in the season<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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That’s all well and good, but the deep passing changes aren’t good for everyone on the Chiefs.<\/p>\n

Travis Kelce\u00a0has not been as dominant through two weeks\u00a0as he usually is. Kelce only has four receptions for 39 yards after only getting one catch for five yards against the Bengals.<\/p>\n

However, Kelce seems to be taking things in stride.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere’s a lot of things that have to go right for anybody to get the ball,\u201d Kelce said. \u201cOutside of our running back where you’re literally just handing it to him, if you want to catch the football. One, it has to be the right play. Two, it has to be the right coverage. Three, it has to be everybody doing their job up front and on the back end in terms of running the routes for everything to kind of match up and be in sync. For whatever reason these past two games, it hasn’t gone that way for me \u2014 and that’s football, man. I’m not about to sit here and get frustrated about it. I used to get really really pissed off and almost lose my cool a lot of the time from not having that success, knowing I demand that out of myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Kelce just wants to go out there and play for his guys.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just like to play the game to such a high level of accountability that it’s just tough for me to deal with being mediocre or having stats that represent that,\u201d Kelce said. \u201cI stopped caring about stats about four or five years ago and I just went out there and started to just play free and wanted to play for my guys. Sure enough, I think that’s a better mentality.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kelce will try to get back on track\u00a0against the Falcons in Week 3.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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