Yahoo Sports NFL analyst Nate Tice and NFL writer Charles McDonald discuss the Super Bowl rematch between the Chiefs and 49ers and whether the Chiefs offense has enough juice to stay unbeaten in Week 7. Hear the full conversation on “Football 301” - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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The discussion around the Chiefs offense is I understand why we, why we're here.

I really do because I mean, think about every other iteration of this offense that people, well, not every other it iteration, the iteration that people fell in love with the fire factory Tyreek Hill, Pete Travis Kelsey.

It feels like you could score 100 points in every game if you just kept going.

Uh, obviously things have changed.

They're not that super duper explosive offense that they were in the past, but now there's just, uh, we'll get, we'll just get five yards every play and we'll, we'll see how far that can get us.

And II, I think like, obviously you're doing something good when you were first in success rate, right?

That's your goal.

But there are some like little walls you run into like there, I would say like if the football field was 80 yards, this would be the greatest offense on turf, right?

And they get to the red zone and they're 10th and overall red zone scoring rate, but they're 29th in red zone touchdown rate.

So they're just, they're zooming down the field and they're kicking field goals, which is why the scoring or not, why it's why the scoring output is down.

It's why it feels worse because you're just flat out not seeing this team score as many touchdowns as they used to.

There's no reason to be like, concerned about this offense in a way that, uh like, oh, could they make the playoffs?

Like, yeah, like this team can still win the Super Bowl, obviously, like they're still probably the best team in the NFL.

Number one of my power rankings.

It's just not, it's just, it's just not what people have been used to seeing and people are going well, what's wrong with Patrick Maholmes?

Nothing's wrong with Patrick Mahomes.

He's doing what's being asked of him and you should kind of be impressed because you were seeing that he's a quarterback that doesn't really have any holes in this game.

To me, it's just how do you get more touchdowns in the red zone?

Which I kind of think it might be something that even itself out as the season goes along.

You know, I, I don't think you're going to be able to hold Patrick Mahomes to like a bottom five, you know, red zone offense in terms of touchdowns per trip that just doesn't seem likely to me

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