KC Chiefs: Five things we learned from win over Jacksonville

CHIEFS WON’T TAKE CRAP FROM OTHER TEAMS

For all the regular season success the Chiefs have had over the past 23 years, they’ve won a grand total of one playoff game.

That isn’t going to win you any respect across the country and can even earn you a label as “soft.” Jacksonville’s All-Pro corner Jalen Ramsey trashed talked all week leading up to the game, and linebacker Telvin Smith was so confident about a victory all he could do was laugh when asked about the matchup, per Mark Long of the Associated Press:

But during the game, the Chiefs showed they weren’t going to let anyone come into Arrowhead and push them around —  not even the league’s top-ranked defense.

Outside of actually dominating the Jags with their play, the Chiefs chirped back-and-forth all game, ultimately leading to the ejections of Jones and linebacker Dee Ford.

Jones was tossed for punching a Jaguars player in the leg following a PAT and Ford committed two personal foul penalties — the second for standing over Bortles and taunting him — leading to an automatic ejection.

In addition, running back Kareem Hunt received a 15-yard unsportsmanlike penalty for head-butting Smith following a play. Luckily, receiver Tyreek Hill was not called for a penalty after providing extreme embarrassment to Ramsey on this play:

The Chiefs, of course, can’t make a habit of losing key players to ejections, but it was nice to see they weren’t going to be intimated by a team who likes to talk behind a microphone in the days leading up to the game.

Sunday we learned the Chiefs have some fight in them, and it could prove large come playoff time.