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Chiefs actively pursuing stadium designs in both Missouri and Kansas | KSHB
The Kansas City Chiefs confirmed they’ve hired a management and consulting firm to lead the stadium design process in Kansas.
At the same time, the Chiefs continue to meet with architectural firm Populous about concepts to possibly renovate GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium in Missourime in K.C.
CAA Icon will lead efforts in Kansas. Some of the company’s priorities will be to ask design and architectural firms to indicate their levels of interest in working on a stadium project with the team.
Chiefs leaders have previously said they’d build a domed stadium if they move to Kansas.
Chiefs-Saints Trade Idea For Star RB Makes Sense After Latest Report | SI.com
The New Orleans Saints have one of the worst rosters in football this year, so they’re unsuprisingly sitting near the bottom of the league after five weeks. Heading into Week 6, the Saints have another tough matchup with the New England Patriots, which could very easily turn into a fifth loss in six weeks.
As a result, analysts predict the Saints will aggressively sell at the trade deadline and opt to lean into the rebuild. This might not be exciting for Saints fans, but it would be a huge boost for the future if the team can free up some money and add draft capital in place of expensive veterans.ng RB Cody Schrader.
Kansas City Chiefs rookie running back Brashard Smith is earning praise for a play in Week 5 against the Jacksonville Jaguars that ultimately didn’t count.
Smith had a 63-yard kick return that was called back on a holding penalty, one that was questionable and had no impact on the play, in the third quarter of the Week 5 road loss. Leading up to this point, Smith had shown flashes as a kick returner, but he was still very much a work in progress. Now, Chiefs special teams coach Dave Toub has something tangible to further build upon with Smith.
“Yeah, I mean, I think Brashard Smith keeps getting better and better each week, and it was really good to see,” Toub said. “He hit that return and he was north and south in a hurry. I’m not sure if I’m glad if he didn’t score because it would’ve been even worse. It was a great return nonetheless, and we’re going to build on that and look at the positives.”
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The Dolphins are feeling the heat in South Beach.
Miami dropped to 1-5 on the season thanks to Sunday’s 29-27 loss to the Chargers, the second straight defeat in which the team has seen a lead evaporate in the final two minutes of a game, necessitating quarterback Tua Tagovailoa to field a question about how to avoid a “woe is me” attitude postgame.
Tagovailoa pointed to leaning on leaders, though as he continued, he revealed a potential culture crisis in the locker room.
“I think it starts with the leadership in helping articulate that for the guys, and then what we’re expecting out of the guys,” Taovailoa said, via team transcript. “We’re expecting this. Are we getting that? Are we not getting that? We have guys showing up to player-only meetings late. Guys not showing up to player-only meetings. There is a lot that goes into that. Do we have to make that mandatory? Do we not have to make that mandatory? So it’s a lot of things of that nature that we got to get cleaned up. It starts with the little things like that.”
Asked for clarification that he was really saying teammates were late or missing players-only meetings, Tagovailoa said, “Late. Yeah.”
The Ravens went from bad to worse on Sunday as the Los Angeles Rams sent a once-promising Baltimore season further into the abyss.
The Rams held the Ravens out of the end zone for a 17-3 win that sent Baltimore to 1-5. In the course of the game, the Ravens twice failed to score on a tush push, replaced ineffective quarterback Cooper Rush with Tyler Huntley and got booed by the home fans in Baltimore.
It added up to what looks like another nail in the coffin of a season that started with Super Bowl aspirations. And it’s only Week 6.
Colts’ Richardson suffers orbital fracture in equipment mishap | ESPN
The Colts were going about their usual Sunday morning routines ahead of their 1 p.m. kickoff against the Arizona Cardinals when a seemingly normal day became anything but routine.
Backup quarterback Anthony Richardson Sr., before even leaving the locker room, sustained a bizarre injury while using elastic bands to stretch for the game. The incident left Richardson with an orbital fracture, according to coach Shane Steichen, and required hospitalization. A source told ESPN that Richardson was also expected to need stitches.
The specifics were murky, but the source said the incident happened when an apparatus players use to attach the warmup bands to malfunctioned, resulting in an impact with Richardson’s face. Richardson was inactive for the 31-27 victory over Arizona and could miss more time. No. 3 quarterback Riley Leonard is the primary backup “right now,” Steichen said.
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Chris Jones tells his side of the final play against Jaguars: ‘I thought it was over
“It’s a teaching point for me — a little adversity,” Jones said on Thursday, taking responsibility for the mistake. “I can’t think the play is over, you know what I mean? It’s a learning lesson.
“I thought it was over. I thought we had him down, so I kind of stopped and was about to celebrate — and then realized that he wasn’t down. [It’s] a teaching lesson for me: don’t stop.”
Afterward, Jones said he didn’t feel the need to address the incident with his teammates.
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