{"id":9295,"date":"2025-01-06T01:08:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T01:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=9295"},"modified":"2025-01-06T01:08:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T01:08:52","slug":"breaking-fans-accuse-chiefs-of-throwing-week-18-game-vs-broncos-beyond-shady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=9295","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Fans Accuse Chiefs of Throwing Week 18 Game vs Broncos: &#8216;Beyond Shady&#8217;"},"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-2191401475-e1736125116474.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-2191401475-e1736125116474.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2191401475-e1736125116474.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2191401475-e1736125116474.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Fans Accuse Chiefs of Throwing Week 18 Game vs Broncos: 'Beyond Shady'\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>During the Kansas City Chiefs\u2019 38-0 loss to the division-rival Denver Broncos in Week 18, fans took to X, formerly Twitter, to accuse the Chiefs of throwing their regular season finale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChiefs didn\u2019t want to face us, plain and simple. They threw the game,\u201d one Bengals fan wrote. \u201cProve me wrong. Yes our record isn\u2019t great, but showing our recent history with KC, we\u2019re a threat, they didn\u2019t want us in the playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the announcers say \u2018we are gonna take you to a more competitive game\u2019 [because] a 15-1 team is throwing the game, that\u2019s bad. And beyond shady,\u201d another person wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChiefs clearly throwing their game today,\u201d another person wrote. \u201cDolphins have most of their starters playing but you\u2019d think they were the ones throwing a game today the way they\u2019ve played against the Jets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother reason to hate the chiefs. They legit scared of Joey [Burrow] coming back to Burrowhead. [Of course] they would throw this game. He\u2019s their only threat,\u201d another person wrote.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Chiefs Ruin Dolphins, Bengals\u2019 Playoff Hopes<\/h2>\n<p>Kansas City\u2019s loss to Denver in Week 18 significantly impacted the playoff hopes for the Miami Dolphins and the Cincinnati Bengals. Because the Chiefs lost to the Broncos, Denver clinched the last Wild Card spot in the AFC, which bumped the Dolphins and Bengals out of playoff contention regardless of the outcomes of their respective Week 18 matchups.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the shared reactions on social media, there is a belief amongst some fans that the Chiefs lost so they didn\u2019t have to face the Bengals during the postseason. However, it was going to be very hard for Kansas City to win against a red-hot Broncos team when a majority of the Chiefs\u2019 starting lineup was sidelined for that game.<\/p>\n<p>Against the Broncos, Chiefs backup quarterback Carson Wentz \u2014 who got the start under center \u2014 completed 10-of-17 pass attempts for 98 yards. The team\u2019s leading receiver was Nikko Remigio, who caught two passes on six targets for 48 yards. Kansas City\u2019s leading rusher was rookie running back Carson Steele, who had eight carries for 25 yards.<\/p>\n<p>As for the Chiefs\u2019 defense, the unit surrendered 479 yards of total offense and did not force any turnovers nor did they record any sacks against Broncos rookie QB Bo Nix.<\/p>\n<p>Nix had a career day by completing 26-of-29 pass attempts for 321 yards and four touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2192538373-e1736115072900.jpg?quality=65&amp;\" alt=\"Fans Accuse Chiefs of Throwing Week 18 Game: 'Beyond Shady'\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs finished the regular season with a 15-2 record and now enter their bye week, which is during the first round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>X Users React to Chiefs\u2019 Loss to Broncos<\/h2>\n<p>X users reacted to Kansas City\u2019s loss to Denver in Week 18.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWait\u2026wait\u2026. people on here acting like its a shock our 2nd and 3rd stringers loose to Denver at full force\u2026 Like\u2026 you know how football works right? If #15 is out, Wentz is till going to be in there with Trav (Travis Kelce), [Xavier] Worthy, JuJu [Smith-Schuster] and the other starters right?\u201d one person wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTHINK ABOUT IT, Patrick Mahomes needed time to heal before the playoffs! And really this game did nothing to impact the season! And they had backups in! So don\u2019t be overreacting,\u201d another person wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLmao, I love that people in here are acting like the chiefs are bad because of this, none of the chiefs starters played, we are number 1 seed anyways,\u201d another person wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Chiefs are being accused of throwing their Week 18 game against the division-rival Denver Broncos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9295","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: Fans Accuse Chiefs of Throwing Week 18 Game vs Broncos: &#039;Beyond Shady&#039; - 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