{"id":18439,"date":"2024-12-18T07:31:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T07:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=18439"},"modified":"2024-12-18T07:31:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T07:31:21","slug":"breaking-news-carson-wentz-will-play-against-the-texans-in-week-16-to-replace-the-injured-patrick-mahomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=18439","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS : Carson Wentz will play against the Texans in Week 16 to replace the injured Patrick Mahomes ."},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"article-header\">\n<h2>Chiefs\u2019 Reid: \u2018Full confidence\u2019 in Wentz if Mahomes can\u2019t play<\/h2>\n<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 The\u00a0Chiefs\u00a0are preparing for\u00a0Patrick Mahomes\u00a0to start Saturday\u2019s game against the\u00a0Houston Texans, but if their star quarterback\u2019s ailing ankle prevents that from happening, they believe they can be successful if backup\u00a0Carson Wentz\u00a0plays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have full confidence in Carson,\u201d coach Andy Reid said. \u201cIf he has to step in and play, then I think everybody, coaches and players, has full confidence that he can go in and do a nice job. \u201cHe\u2019s started in the league and been successful. He\u2019s got a great feel for this offense. Very smart, big arm. I like the way he carries himself. I like everything about him. He should be starting in this league somewhere, so he\u2019s a heck of a player.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mahomes said he\u2019s pleased with the progress his injured right ankle has made since he suffered a high ankle sprain in Sunday\u2019s 21-7 win over the\u00a0Cleveland Browns. He said this injury isn\u2019t as severe as a similar one he received in a 2022 divisional round playoff game against the\u00a0Jacksonville Jaguars.<\/p>\n<p>Then, he returned to the game after a short break and played in both the AFC Championship Game against the\u00a0Cincinnati Bengals\u00a0and the Super Bowl against the\u00a0Philadelphia Eagles.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pull-quote\"><p>\u201cObviously, it\u2019s football and you\u2019re going to take hits, but you want to be able to protect yourself. So that\u2019ll be where I\u2019m at and I don\u2019t want to limit the game plan. That\u2019s another thing for me is I want to be able to move around the pocket so we\u2019re not just sitting in one spot the whole entire game and letting their D-line really get after it. It\u2019s about me finding that balance and seeing where I\u2019m at \u2026 I won\u2019t know until kind of close to the end of this week.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Andy Reid said the QB plan for practice today is to give Mahomes some work and &quot;see how it works out for him.&#39;&#39; Said Carson Wentz would take over if Mahomes isn&#39;t right<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Teicher (@adamteicher) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adamteicher\/status\/1869077805151212005?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat [injury] was pretty significant,\u201d Mahomes said. \u201cBut I want to be in a better spot than I was in that next game going up against the Bengals. So, I\u2019ll try to see if I can get there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to be able to move. I want to be able to get out of the way. [Houston\u2019s] is a good pass rush, a good defense. They fly around. You don\u2019t want to go out there and put yourself in harm\u2019s way. Obviously, it\u2019s football and you\u2019re going to take hits, but you want to be able to protect yourself. So that\u2019ll be where I\u2019m at and I don\u2019t want to limit the game plan. That\u2019s another thing for me is I want to be able to move around the pocket so we\u2019re not just sitting in one spot the whole entire game and letting their D-line really get after it. It\u2019s about me finding that balance and seeing where I\u2019m at \u2026 I won\u2019t know until kind of close to the end of this week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mahomes was listed as a full participant in Tuesday\u2019s practice.<\/p>\n<p>The 13-1 Chiefs have clinched the AFC West championship and a playoff spot but are chasing the AFC\u2019s No. 1 seed, which carries a first-round postseason bye and home-field advantage. They would clinch with two wins in their final three games so they could lose to Texans but still get the top seed by beating the Pittsburgh Steelers and Denver Broncos in the final two games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say it\u2019s dire that I play,\u201d Mahomes said. \u201cIt\u2019s not in the AFC Championship Game where we\u2019re playing to get to the Super Bowl. We have a little bit of room to kind of spare, but at the end of the day, we\u2019re trying to win. We\u2019re trying to win the football game and I\u2019m a competitor. I want to go out there and play, so I\u2019ll push myself to get to the best place possible over these next few days and we\u2019ll be able to make a decision then.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to put our team in a bad position. If I feel like I can play and go out there and win a football game, I\u2019ll play. And if I don\u2019t feel like that\u2019s the best-case scenario, I\u2019ll let guys like Carson play. He\u2019s a guy that\u2019s winning this league as well, so it\u2019s just about pushing it this week, seeing where I\u2019m at and making the best decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wentz is in his first season with the Chiefs. He replaced Mahomes in the fourth quarter of the game against the Browns.<\/p>\n<p>Reid said Mahomes has asked him why Wentz doesn\u2019t have a starting job somewhere in the NFL himself and suggested Wentz would have one of those jobs next season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the conversations you hear with guys that are in that room,\u201d Reid said. \u201cSelfishly, I\u2019d like to keep him here in his position, but I kind of know what\u2019s going on out there with quarterbacks and this guy is I think really good.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/header>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chiefs\u2019 Reid: \u2018Full confidence\u2019 in Wentz if Mahomes can\u2019t play KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 The\u00a0Chiefs\u00a0are preparing for\u00a0Patrick Mahomes\u00a0to start Saturday\u2019s game against the\u00a0Houston Texans, but if their&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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