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KANSAS CITY Kendall Fuller Jersey , Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs‘ defense had been hearing all season about how bad they were, and how they were the biggest threat to an offensive juggernaut falling short of reaching the Super Bowl.Then they shut down the Oakland Raiders in Week 17.Now, the Raiders are hardly one of the NFL’s premier offenses, and they rolled into Arrowhead Stadium with little impetus to play hard. But by holding Derek Carr and the rest of the Oakland offense in check, it gave the Chiefs some positive momentum heading into the playoffs, not to mention proof that some subtle tweaks to their personnel packages had paid dividends.“We just have to keep it rolling,” said linebacker Justin Houston, their longtime emotional leader. “It’s a great time for us to play like this. We were firing on all cylinders from the front to the back end (against Oakland) and now we just have to build off it.”That’s because Andrew Luck and the rest of the Indianapolis Colts, who come to Kansas City for the divisional round on Saturday, represent a massive upgrade in competition.Luck threw the second-most touchdown passes in the NFL this season, behind the Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes, and enjoyed one of the best offensive line performances in the league.Their offense isn’t a one-trick pony, either. They dominated the Texans on the ground in a 21-7 win in the wild-card game Eric Murray Jersey , when Marlon Mack piled up 148 yards rushing and a touchdown.Together, the Colts have roared into the postseason with seven wins in eight games.“Andrew’s going to get you every once in a while,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said, “and you’ve got to make sure you get him more than he gets you, but he’s got a lot of good players around him. That offensive line, people can argue with you that it’s the best in the National Football League. You look at the receivers, they’ve got good receivers, they’ve got good tight ends, you go all the way around.“You’ve got to bring your best. That’s what the playoffs are all about,” Reid added. “This is the best in the National Football League, which is the best in the world, and you have an opportunity to do that. That’s an exciting thing, but you better bring your best every play.”The question for the Chiefs is simple Terrance Smith Jersey , though: Is their best good enough?Indianapolis was fifth in scoring while the Chiefs were 24th in scoring defense. They were last in the league in rush defensive efficiency, average yards after contact and first-down percentage, and they were second-to-last in yards-per-carry allowed despite many teams trying to play catch-up.As bad as those numbers were, though, the Chiefs were actually respectable against the pass. And they were downright dominant when it came to pressuring the quarterback, generating sacks on 7.4 percent of pass plays — better even than Khalil Mack and the Bears — and pressure on 31.1 percent of them.That means an intriguing matchup between the Colts offensive line, which hasn’t allowed anybody to have more than one sack in a game since Week 4, and the Chiefs’ pass dominant rush.“The goal and strategy remains the same,” Colts offensive coordinator Nick Sirianni said. “Run the football and set up other things by running it, and then be successful in situational football.”The Chiefs made some key personnel changes late in the season, effectively benching veteran safety Ron Parker and cornerback Orlando Scandrick. Daniel Sorensen, Charvarius Ward and Jordan Lucas have been playing more, and their results against woebegone Oakland were encouraging.The Chiefs also could get safety Eric Berry back after he missed Week 17 with a recurrence of his heel injury. Berry only played a couple of games this season Xavier Williams Jersey , but he changed the entire dynamic of the Kansas City defense for the snaps he was on the field.“We’ve just got to lock in,” Chiefs cornerback Kendall Fuller said. “For us, we’re inside this building. That’s the only thing we’re focusing on. I’m not a big social media guy. We just come together week-in and week-out, to win on Saturday. We just keep it in-house and focus on each other.”Notes: Berry and WR Sammy Watkins (foot) participated in the portion of practice open to the media on Tuesday. DT Derrick Nnaddi (concussion) also said that he’d been cleared to rejoin practice. … OLB Dorian O’Daniel did not practice because of a calf and ankle injury. The show debuts on Fox Sports Kansas City on Wednesday night." />Skip to main contentclockmenumore-arrownoyesHorizontal - WhiteArrowhead PrideArrowhead Pride | Kansas City Chiefs Schedule, News, Roster and StatsLog In or Sign UpLog InSign UpSeriesLatest NewsFanpostsFanshotsCommunityAboutStubHubMoreAll 322 blogs on Horizontal - WhiteSeries Stagner ThingsLottery Tickets ’19Summer of SpagsDixon’s MailbagLatest News Fanposts Most recentMost activeFanshots Community Community GuidelinesContactAbout StubHub ✕Chiefs announce behind-the-scenes show called “The Franchise”New,58commentsThe show debuts on Fox Sports Kansas City on Wednesday night.CDTShareTweetShareShareChiefs announce behind-the-scenes show called “The Franchise”The Kansas City Chiefs announced a television program called The Franchise on Tuesday evening, via their official Twitter account. The half-hour show is set to debut on Fox Sports Kansas City Wednesday at 6 p.m. Arrowhead Time. If you’re not in the KC area, it looks like you can view the show on Facebook and YouTube.Former AP contributor Dane Van Why is one of the producers on the show.“You’re four inches away from the Super Bowl,” Chiefs head coach Andy Reid says in the trailer. “How do you take it up another notch? Are you willing to give up a little bit to make yourself a better football team?”The show reminds me of a cross between Hard Knocks and All or Nothing, though rather than HBO or NFL Films and Amazon, the Chiefs have opted to use their in-house production team to tell their own story.“The one thing about this league is you find out really quickly that it’s a long season and is really a battle of attrition,” Chiefs general manager Brett Veach says. “But I think the best part of my job is being in that draft room and when you come back in Jordan Lucas Jersey , know that everyone was doing it for the right reasons, and that’s to make the Chiefs better.”“You start building your culture here,” Reid adds. “What are you going to be as a football team? Are you going to let the little things slide or are you going to step on them and go do that extra bit of work to make yourself great? So every day, be great, as great as you can be at whatever you’re doing, be great.”The Chiefs said in a release the show has been six months in the making, with production beginning shortly after the AFC title game. It will feature highlights from offseason events like the combine and draft, as well as OTAs, minicamps, training camp and the preseason, all building up to Week 1. New episodes will air every other week throughout the season.I doubt we’ll get any groundbreaking information, but the program should provide fans and media some interesting nuggets that they may not have otherwise learned during times in the past.I know I’ll be watching.