Chiefs' Super Bowl champion lineman refuses to hit panic button despite team's uphill climb to playoffs

When the last whistle blew successful Denver connected Sunday afternoon, the Broncos were celebrating their ninth triumph of the season.

Meanwhile, the Kansas City Chiefs fell to 5-5. It's a grounds nary 1 thought the reigning AFC champions would person done 11 weeks of the 2025 regular season.

But that's wherever these Chiefs find themselves, arsenic they person 7 games remaining connected the schedule. The words "panic level" are starting to creep up connected greeting speech shows connected tv and radio, and it's just to person the discussion.

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Creed Humphrey of the Kansas City Chiefs drops backmost to artifact during an NFL shot crippled against the Washington Commanders astatine Arrowhead Stadium connected Oct. 27, 2025 successful Kansas City, Missouri. (Perry Knotts/Getty Images)

However, Chiefs seasoned halfway Creed Humphrey says his squad won't beryllium listening to those, oregon adjacent fathoming the thought of panicking. The Chiefs whitethorn not beryllium starring the AFC West oregon adjacent successful playoff presumption heading into Week 12, but Humphrey is assured successful his group.

"I mean, for us, we person each the pieces. It’s conscionable astir executing," helium told Fox News Digital, portion discussing his concern with Dairy Queen. "We request to execute better, and that’s each we cognize close now.

"If we bash that, we’re going to similar the results. So, for us, it’s astir making definite we’re coming successful each day, taking it 1 gathering astatine a time, 1 signifier astatine a time, and conscionable focusing connected the details."

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The Chiefs were rather hard connected themselves pursuing their nonaccomplishment to their part rival connected the road. Patrick Mahomes kept utilizing "I" erstwhile talking astir what went incorrect successful the game, which is thing helium astir ne'er does. But that's the benignant of accountability mixed with the vexation that Chiefs leaders similar Mahomes person successful moments similar these.

While Kansas City has had a large woody of occurrence successful caller seasons, Humphrey knows adversity comes with what it takes to triumph those Super Bowl titles. So, a small self-reflection and disapproval isn't a motion of the vessel sailing distant from that extremity this season.

Humphrey thinks it's the nonstop opposite.

"You got to beryllium your hardest critic. You person to look yourself successful the reflector and spot what’s going on. Everybody’s doing that close now, truthful for us, you’re not gonna enactment the blasted connected different people," helium explained. "It’s, ‘What tin I bash amended successful the moment? What tin I bash amended passim the crippled to assistance this squad win?’ I deliberation everybody’s feeling that close now, and it’s bully that nary one’s pointing fingers oregon anything."

As Humphrey pointed out, "We've mislaid immoderate adjacent games," and it isn't conscionable some. All of the Chiefs' 5 losses this play person been by 7 points oregon fewer. And of those five, 3 person been by a tract goal.

Creed Humphrey of the Kansas City Chiefs plays against the Jacksonville Jaguars during the archetypal fractional of the crippled astatine EverBank Stadium connected Oct. 6, 2025 successful Jacksonville, Florida. (Megan Briggs/Getty Images)

But the borderline of mistake is slim each week successful this league, and Humphrey knows each excessively good that 1 mistake successful those captious moments tin beryllium the quality betwixt a triumph and a loss.

It's understood passim a gathering that understands what it takes to triumph titles. So, Humphrey sees nary panic successful these Chiefs. In fact, helium knows that players indispensable proceed to beryllium themselves.

"I deliberation it’s important not to suffer our personalities," helium said. "If everybody starts being uptight, each that stuff, things aren’t going to spell arsenic well. Like you said, it’s a crippled we’ve each been playing since we were five, six years old. It’s astir executing it and doing it with swagger.

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"Just similar past year, we got a batch of resilient players. A batch of guys who tin bash what's close successful the close moments."

Humphrey's words volition beryllium enactment to the trial this week erstwhile they big an Indianapolis Colts squad that has shocked the NFL with an 8-2 grounds arsenic they travel disconnected their bye week. The unit is surely connected for Kansas City successful specified a choky AFC playoff propulsion successful the aboriginal weeks of the regular season, but it's not similar they haven't been successful this presumption before.

"We’re close there, it’s close, we tin consciousness it," Humphrey said. "… It’s taking it 1 time astatine a time, 1 gathering astatine a time, 1 signifier rep astatine a time, 1 walk-through rep astatine a time. All those things. It’s astir surviving successful the contiguous — not surviving successful the past, not looking into the future. Just looking astatine what’s successful beforehand of you and what your extremity is for this week and that day."

Creed Humphrey of the Kansas City Chiefs looks connected from the sideline during the nationalist anthem anterior to an NFL shot crippled against the Jacksonville Jaguars astatine EverBank Stadium connected Oct. 6, 2025 successful Jacksonville, Florida. (Perry Knotts/Getty Images)

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DEAL WORTH SOME CELEBRATION

As Humphrey looks to tackle the remainder of the regular play and anticipation to marque the playoffs with his Chiefs, he’s loving what Dairy Queen has going connected this week.

The Touchdown Celly Deal, moving present done Nov. 23, gives customers $3 disconnected Dairy Queen’s signature Sauced & Tossed Chicken Strip Baskets — a large favourite of Humphrey’s.

"The saccharine chili Sauced & Tossed Chicken Basket> Great spirit connected them, large crunch. The sides are amazing, too, and you ever got to get a Blizzard, too, erstwhile you’re there. I ever get the cooky dough Blizzard."

While Humphrey ever likes a bully deal, he's hoping to propulsion retired his ain touchdown celebrations successful the coming weeks, arsenic the Chiefs grind for different changeable astatine the Vince Lombardi Trophy. 

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