Arrowheadlines: Kareem Jackson suspended for 4 games — will not play against Chiefs

Jackson was flagged for unnecessary roughness and ejected from the game because of this hit. He is a repeat offender and has now been ejected from a game twice this season, so a bigger punishment was coming. He was fined heavily earlier in the season but now, the NFL is coming in much stronger and suspending him for four games.

NFL’s Vice President of Football Operations

Kareem Jackson

issued the suspension of Jackson had explained his reasoning. In the release, Runyan stated that Jackson delivered a “forceful blow to the head/neck area of a defenseless receiver when you had time and space to avoid such contact”. He continued by saying that Jackson could have made a legal hit on Musgrave but “you chose not to”.

In week one, Jackson hit Raiders receiver Jakobi Meyers in the head/neck area and left him concussed on the field. The following week vs. the Commanders, Jackson hit tight end Logan Thomas in the head/neck area and was ejected from that game and fined heavily. So, there is unfortunately a pattern here and one the NFL is clearly not a fan of.

Jackson will reportedly appeal his four-game suspension so we shall see if the suspension gets lowered here in the coming days.

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Speaking of which, I’m convinced Patrick Mahomes has it in perpetuity. Kansas City just keeps rolling along and I’m becoming convinced Mahomes will never play a road playoff game. He has played 14 postseason games with 11 at Arrowhead Stadium and three in the Super Bowl. That feels unfair, but not as unfair as Mahomes when he is scrambling. It feels almost unjust. I don’t mean he is breaking rules — I just mean it is third-and-15 and he scrambles for first downs. After Sunday, he has a pair of runs for a first down on third-and-15 or more this season — the rest of the NFL has one.

And since he became the Chiefs’ starter in 2018, they have converted on 22% of their third-and-15s while the NFL average is just 9%. If I were playing against him I would want to pull my hair out — and I’m in no position to do that.

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1 – Kansas City Chiefs

The Chiefs are handling their business as they usually do at this time of year. They’re 6-1. They’ve already set themselves up nicely for an eighth straight AFC West title. Just as scary: They’re boasting the best defense of the Patrick Mahomes era, a unit that is creating quite the reputation for shutting down opponents at crucial junctures of games. That was very much the case in Sunday’s win over the Chargers, when Los Angeles couldn’t find anything resembling success in the second half of that contest. If that defense keeps improving — and it should after Sunday’s return of suspended defensive end Charles Omenihu — the Chiefs will be hard to beat in the race for that first-round bye in the AFC. As much as we’ve scrutinized Kansas City’s flaws at wide receiver, this team still has Mahomes, head coach Andy Reid and a belief that it should be playing in the Super Bowl every year.

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2. Kansas City Chiefs (6-1)

Uh-oh. Quietly, we let general manager Brett Veach and the Chiefs build a great defense around Patrick Mahomes. If you want even worse news as an AFC West fan, that defense is just getting started. The average age of their defenders on a snap-weighted basis is 25.4 years old, which makes them the youngest defense in football, too. While Sunday was the reigning MVP’s best game of the season, Kansas City is winning games as much with its defense as it is with its offense this season, a scary thought for teams hoping to dethrone the champs.

The script for the Chiefs in the Mahomes era has been simple and successful: dominate on offense and hope a handful of stars and coordinator Steve Spagnuolo can create enough havoc on defense to force a few sacks and takeaways. They have posted solid raw numbers, but advanced metrics have typically rated them as a middling-or-worse defense, with 2019 as an exception.