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Seahawks rout the Chiefs as Harrison Butker misses 2 more kicks in a dismal all-around showing · Best of: Features

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  Seahawks route The Chiefs as Harrison Butker misses two more kicks in
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  a dismal all around showing. Written by Dave Scretta This article
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  is being read by an automated voice generated by Everlet. Kansas City,
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  Missouri, the AP. The Chiefs had been dominated in the trenches, Kenneth
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  Walker had gone nowhere in this return to Seattle, and Patrick Mahomes
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  had been under duress all game, leaving Kansas City with a mere
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  field goal on the board in the fourth quarter Sunday night. Yet
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  the Chiefs were still in the game. Until kicker Harrison Bucker missed
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  another field goal attempt, this time from forty five yards, a relative
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  chip shot in the NFL these days. That would have made it
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  a one possession game with eight and a half minutes to go
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  It was Bucker's second miss of the night, and the reigning Super
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  Bowl champion Seahawks handled their business from there, handing Kansas City, a
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  humbling twenty three defeat. Chiefs coach Andy Reid took the blame for
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  everything afterward, his usual response to such a lackluster performance. Yet there
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  was plenty to go around, but the difference between Butker's misses and
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  an ineffective offense is that the former has become a long term
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  issue for Kansas City, while the woes for Mahomes and Company were
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  in aberration so far this season, Butker has missed fifteen kicks, ten
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  field goal attempts, five PATs since the start of last season, the
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  most in the NFL. Life of a kicker, Bucker said. It either
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  goes in or it doesn't. Unfortunately, there's been some kicks that haven't
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  gone in the misses, including multiple kicks in back to back games
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  and four of the first six this season, hadn't cost the Chiefs
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  five and one until Sunday night. But when the offense was struggling
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  to get into the end zone, they became one of the deciding
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  factors in the game. Bucker's consistency is especially frustrating, given what Kansas
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  City has invested in him. He's the third highest paid kicker in
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  the league, carrying the sixth highest base salary on The
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  team, money that could have been invested in the wide receiver core,
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  which is struggling without the injured Taekwond Thornton and Rashi Rice, or
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  the injury riddled offensive line. It bears mentioning that the Chiefs could
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  get out of Buck's contract after this season with only a manageable
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  amount of dead money affecting their salary cap. So the pressure is
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  on him to fix his consistency issues, for more reasons than one.
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  He's been one of the most consistent kickers in football. He's off
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  a bit, Reed acknowledged, so got to fix it. What's working? The
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  Chiefs committed only two U penalties in the game. That was just
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  about the only highlight. That needs help? Everything else. The offense
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  managed fifty yards rushing and two hundred and thirteen yards in total,
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  while going three for eleven on third down and possessing the ball
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  nearly eleven minutes less than Seattle. On defense, the Chiefs coughed up
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  one hundred and fifty-three yards rushing and four hundred and ten yards
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  in all, while allowing Sam Darnold and his offense to convert eleven
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  of sixteen third downs and control the game from start to finish.
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  You don't want to perform like his in prime time in a
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  big moment like this, Mahomes said. You got to feel it on
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  that plane ride home and understand that it sucks, but then how
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  can you build off it? That's the biggest thing. Stock up. Noel
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  Williams picked off a pass in the end zone and returned at
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  sixty five yards, giving the
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  Chiefs an opportunity to kick a field goal before halftime, which Butker
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  missed. Williams, a second year pro, has been quietly solid at cornerback
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  for Kansas City all season. Stock down. The Seahawks made a point
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  of picking on defensive back Lagarius Sneed, and for good season He
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  has struggled all season in his return to Kansas City, where he
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  started his career before a forgettably short tenure in Tennessee. Injuries.
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  Wright's remained out with a hamstring injury, and Wright tackle Jalen Moore
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  missed the game while in the concussion protocol. Getting one or both
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  back for Sunday's trip to Denver would help an offense that stagnated
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  badly against the Seahawks. Key number. Two. That's the number of times
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  the Chiefs have scored three points or fewer with Mahomes at quarterback.
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  The first time came in a twenty seven three loss to the
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  Titans on october twenty fourth, twenty twenty one, and the second time
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  came Sunday night in Seattle. Up next. The Chiefs visit the Broncos,
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  whom they routed thirty one ten in their season opener at Arrowhead
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  Stadium. Denver has played well after its slow start, winning its last
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  three games, including a seventeen fourteen victory over the same Seahawks that
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  just waylaid Kansas City. See the AP's full NFL coverage here.