{"id":18521,"date":"2021-08-20T00:40:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T00:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/?p=18521"},"modified":"2021-08-20T19:12:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T19:12:36","slug":"friday-night-preseason-nfl-kansas-city-chiefs-at-arizona-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/nfl\/friday-night-preseason-nfl-kansas-city-chiefs-at-arizona-cardinals\/","title":{"rendered":"FRIDAY NIGHT PRESEASON NFL: KANSAS CITY CHIEFS AT ARIZONA CARDINALS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheFirstMan\">BY ADAM GREENE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have two Friday night NFL preseason games to let run in the background while we mess around on Twitter, Facebook and swipe through Tinder. Up first is the defending AFC Champion Kansas City Chiefs making the short trip west to take on the Arizona Cardinals at State Farm Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BetOnline All Access Full Show - Picks\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Yz0LSQmmvg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With the move to just three preseason games for all but two teams, there\u2019s no real rulebook on how most will play this game two. I\u2019d suspect they\u2019ll use it like their olden days game three, meaning we\u2019ll see more from the starters in most cases. Even if some shouldn\u2019t even think about it \u2014 you know, like the Chiefs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.betonline.ag\/sportsbook\/football\/nfl\">KANSAS CITY CHIEFS AT ARIZONA CARDINALS (+2, O\/U 41)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> State Farm Stadium, Glendale, Ariz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Broadcast:<\/strong> ESPN<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kickoff:<\/strong> Aug. 20, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>KANSAS CITY<\/strong><strong> CHIEFS (1-0)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chiefs roll in after a 19-16 win over the San Francisco 49ers that should make everyone kind of nervous. First off, they only played Patrick Mahomes for a single series and I\u2019d expect the same here. What should concern the rest of the league is how well the rest of Kansas City\u2019s quarterbacks played. As a unit, they went 25 of 37 for 184 yards, one touchdown and a pick. While it\u2019s not a ton of yardage, you also have to think that Chiefs head coach Andy Reid was keeping it vanilla. The interception was thrown by the most experienced QB on the roster, Chad Henne. The two young guys \u2014 Shan Buechele, a rookie out of SMU and Anthony Gordon, a second year player from Washington State who I loved coming out of college, kept their sheets clean. Gordon, I really feel, is a potential pro project and a guy that would benefit greatly from a stint in the upcoming XFL. I see Kurt Warner-esque things in him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ARIZONA<\/strong><strong> CARDINALS (1-0)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like the Chiefs, the Cardinals claimed a 19-16 victory of their own last week, knocking off the Dallas Cowboys. Starting quarterback Kyler Murray never took a snap, instead the team looked to veteran back up Colt McCoy and last year\u2019s No. 2 Chris Streveler. Both guys looked fine, with Streveler securing a back up role (if not in Arizona, probably somewhere) with his arm and legs. He passed for 107 yards and led all rushers with 55. Murray will play some Friday, according to reports, but I can\u2019t see him going more than a couple of series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>THE PICK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Murray and Mahomes will play a little then watch a lot. While the Cardinals did a lot to upgrade their roster, most of those guys won\u2019t play either. Kansas City has the superior depth and that played out last week. Arizona isn\u2019t hurting at quarterback, but they\u2019re easily three years behind Kansas City on filling out the rest of their roster. I\u2019m playing it safe and picking the road team. <strong>Chiefs 20, Cardinals 17<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Last week<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Straight up: 6-10<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Against the spread: 5-11<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Preseason<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Straight up: 7-10<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Against the spread: 6-11<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NFL season begins on Thursday, Sep. 9 and the Week 1 Schedule is already up and <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.betonline.ag\/sportsbook\/football\/nfl\">taking bets at BetOnline.AG<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Follow our BetOnline <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/betonline_ag\">Twitter accoun<\/a>t for the latest sports news and betting odds, and stay tuned on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/betonline_ag\/\">Instagram feed<\/a> for more good information too.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY ADAM GREENE We have two Friday night NFL preseason games to let run in the background while we mess&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":11736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18547,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18521\/revisions\/18547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}