{"id":12840,"date":"2024-11-30T08:37:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T08:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=12840"},"modified":"2024-11-30T08:37:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T08:37:49","slug":"chris-jones-jokes-about-chiefs-constantly-playing-in-close-games-we-want-to-keep-the-ratings-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=12840","title":{"rendered":"Chris Jones jokes about Chiefs constantly playing in close games: \u2018We want to keep the ratings high\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"main\"><main role=\"main\"><\/p>\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<blockquote class=\"entry-custom-excerpt\"><p>&#8220;We kept it close to make sure you guys are watching at home.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/header>\n<p><\/main><main role=\"main\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn1.thecomeback.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2024\/11\/Chiefs-Chris-Jones-Week-13-win-Raiders-scaled-e1732933530115-832x447.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Jones jokes about Chiefs constantly playing in close games: 'We want to keep the ratings high'\" width=\"832\" height=\"447\" \/> Nov 29, 2024; Kansas City, Missouri, USA; Kansas City Chiefs defensive end George Karlaftis (56) celebrates with defensive tackle Chris Jones (95) after a sack during the second half against the Las Vegas Raiders at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Kansas City Chiefs are well aware of how often they have to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.<\/p>\n<p>After doing so on Friday against the Las Vegas Raiders, star defensive lineman Chris Jones could only joke about why they again weren\u2019t able to pull away from a team inferior to them on paper.<\/p>\n<p>For a team that is now 11-1 on the season, the Chiefs have had an incredible amount of close calls that very easily could have gone the other way.\u00a0Whether it be a blocked game-winning kick in Week 10 against the Broncos, a questionable pass interference call setting up a game-winning kick in Week 2 against the Bengals, or a failed fourth down conversation in the red zone in Week 3 against the Atlanta Falcons, the Chiefs have been on the right side of every close game they have played in this season. And there have been a lot of them.<\/p>\n<p>Nine of Kansas City\u2019s 11 wins on the year have been in one-score games. This was the case again on Friday against the Raiders, avoiding a loss when an errant snap from Raiders center Jackson Powers-Johnson resulted in a fumble recovery to thwart a last-second comeback attempt late in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Another NFL game ends in an absolute debacle, and the Chiefs escape again. Here&#39;s the complete sequence as called by Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit on Amazon Prime Video \u2935\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Tq2kmgpYz0\">pic.twitter.com\/Tq2kmgpYz0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/awfulannouncing\/status\/1862640217787634018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Patrick Mahomes has been adamant that the Chiefs need to find ways to better pull away from teams. But at least how they are currently operating, the Chiefs seem largely incapable of doing so.<\/p>\n<p>There is also another theory, which has been quite popular amongst the minority of conspiracy theorists of NFL fans, that the Chiefs perhaps keep games close in order to generate ratings.<\/p>\n<p>Jones leaned into this narrative after the game in what seemed to be a joking manner, claiming that the Chiefs kept this one close to \u201cmake sure you guys are watching at home\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe kept it close to make sure you guys are watching at home,\u201d Jones told the Amazon Prime Video studio team after the game, which was retrieved by Charles Goldman of A to Z Sports. \u201cWe want to keep the ratings high.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Chiefs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Chiefs<\/a> DT Chris Jones on the close games: &quot;We keep it close to make sure you guys are watching at home. We want to keep the ratings high.&quot; \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Charles Goldman (@goldmctNFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/goldmctNFL\/status\/1862641359699529843?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Obviously, playing with fire as much as the Chiefs have done this season would make no sense for them to do intentionally unless you do believe that networks are indeed telling them to do so, which would be quite hard to believe.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, Amazon Prime Video, which was the broadcast host of the Black Friday game, likely isn\u2019t complaining that this matchup was a close one until the end.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, we saw what a largely non-competitive Black Friday game did to negatively affect ratings for Amazon. The 34-13 win for the Dolphins versus the New York Jets last season brought in an average of just 9.61 million viewers, which was well below the average for an Amazon Thursday Night Football broadcast last year.<\/p>\n<p>Chances are when the viewership numbers are revealed, this year\u2019s Black Friday game will indeed end up far outperforming last year\u2019s from a viewership perspective. 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