Kansas City Chiefs vs. Cincinnati Bengals: 3 halftime takeaways

The Chiefs have been really good in the red zone this season, save for last week’s game and now this week against the Bengals. The lack of speed to threaten east-west with Mecole Hardman and Kadarius Toney both injured has been notable. Kansas City just hasn’t seemingly found a solution to the absence of those two players. They have Justin Watson and Skyy Moore, who both have enough speed to threaten, but haven’t really been as successful there.

There also seemed to be some hesitance to run the ball in the red zone early on for whatever reason. I get not wanting to take the ball out of Patrick Mahomes’ hands, but at some point, you’re going to have to trust the running game to get it done with a short distance to gain. Late in the second quarter, they started running in the red zone more often, but they’ll need to continue that moving forward.