{"id":10770,"date":"2025-01-16T15:33:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T15:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=10770"},"modified":"2025-01-16T15:33:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T15:33:42","slug":"breaking-news-chiefs-get-good-news-before-texans-playoff-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=10770","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Chiefs Get Good News Before Texans Playoff Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2181809317-1.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2181809317-1.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2181809317-1.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2181809317-1.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Chiefs Get Good News Before Texans Playoff Game\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>The Kansas City Chiefs and Houston Texans will play at Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday, January 19, in the Divisional Round of the NFL playoffs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Kansas City Chiefs will take on the Houston Texans at Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday, January 19, in the Divisional Round of the NFL playoffs. Whoever wins this game will go on to play in the AFC Championship game against the winner of Saturday\u2019s Baltimore Ravens and Buffalo Bills matchup.<\/p>\n<p>While there\u2019s plenty of talk about this game and how blockbuster quarterbacks Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs and C.J. Stroud of the Houston Texans will navigate the high-stress playoff situation, there\u2019s another factor that some NFL analysts and experts haven\u2019t really been paying attention to, and that\u2019s the weather.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Kansas City Chiefs\u2019 Arrowhead Stadium Known for Cold Weather<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/atozsports.com\/.image\/t_share\/MjEyMDczNzEwNjkyMDgzNjg4\/usatsi_25072392.jpg\" alt=\"NFL officially gives Kansas City Chiefs the perfect time and date for  divisional playoff game vs. Houston Texans\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While the Chiefs are used to playing in brutally cold weather at Arrowhead Stadium, it\u2019s always a better thing when the team can play football without having to worry about freezing their fingers off. But, Saturday\u2019s weather forecast looks cold. While there isn\u2019t really snow in the forecast, the weather predicts a low of nine degrees and high of 25 degrees the day of the game, according to the Weather Channel and National Weather Service. Winds are expected be be between 10 to 20 miles per hour, which could add to the wind chill factor.<\/p>\n<p>A colder game could surely benefit the Chiefs, because the Texas, of course, are located in balmy Texas. However, Houston\u2019s quarterback is used to the cold weather from playing in frigid conditions at Ohio State. Stroud even says one of the reasons he decided to go to Ohio State was to get accustomed to playing in the cold.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/wdaf_articles_412\/5225c5ab0efc300894126ea8f599283e\" alt=\"Chiefs prepare for frigid Wild Card game weather vs Dolphins - Yahoo Sports\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t really have anything up my sleeve,\u201d Stroud said in a January 14 press conference, when talking about the cold weather forecast for the game. \u201cThat is kind of one of the reasons I went to Ohio State was to play in the cold and get used to that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cI have played in cold weather games before. It is different but it is better playing than when it\u2019s wet and then it snows, which is better than if it rains. I am kind of used to it but at the same time, we don\u2019t play in the cold here but I definitely have been trained by it in college.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it\u2019s all talk, and the Chiefs have a track record of playing well in cold weather.\u00a0When the Chiefs played the Texans at home in December, the Chiefs won 27-19, and the weather was around 30 degrees at kickoff with a wind chill of 25 degrees.\u00a0For the Chiefs against Miami Dolphins game last January, wind chills reached negative 27, and the air temperature dipped to 4 below zero. The Kansas City Chiefs won that game, 26-7.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Texas Head Coach Says Cold Weather \u2018Is Not a Challenge for Us\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Texans coach DeMeco Ryans says that the team will \u201chave to deal with\u201d the cold weather and that \u201cit\u2019s not a challenge for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe weather can be a challenge if you allow it to be a challenge,\u201d Ryans told press. \u201cFor me and for our guys, it\u2019s something we can\u2019t control. You don\u2019t control the weather. Wherever we have to play, we\u2019re ready to go play. We understand we\u2019ll be on the road.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ryans added, \u201cIt\u2019s going to be cold, that\u2019s what we have to deal with. And it\u2019s not a challenge for us, it\u2019s just something the other team has to deal with, as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Chiefs and Houston Texans will play at Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday, January 19, in the Divisional Round of the NFL playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kansas-city-chiefs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING NEWS: Chiefs Get Good News Before Texans Playoff Game - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=10770\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING NEWS: Chiefs Get Good News Before Texans Playoff Game - 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