Find out how to watch 49ers vs. Chiefs on Sunday, Sept. 23 The Chiefs look to remain undefeated on Sunday when they host Jimmy Garoppolo and the 49ers. Kickoff from Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City is slated for 1:00 p.m. ET. Kansas City erupted offensively in the season's first two weeks by averaging 40 points per game. Second-year quarterback Patrick Mahomes has tallied 10 touchdown passes on the year, which is the most of any QB through two weeks in NFL history. San Francisco's offense took until Week 2 to heat up. After suffering a defeat to Minnesota in Week 1, the 49ers beat the Lions 30-27 last week. This improved Garoppolo's 49ers record to 6–1. Running back Matt Breida rushed for 138 yards on just 11 carries. Here's how to watch Sunday's game: Time: 1:00 p.m. ET TV: FOX Live Stream: You can stream the game on fuboTV. fuboTV now features NFL Redzone as well as SI TV, available on the Sports Plus package. Sign up now for a free seven-day trial. Next three games: 49ers: at Chargers (9/30); vs. Cardinals (10/7); at Packers (10/15) Chiefs: at Broncos (10/1); vs. Jaguars (10/7); at Patriots (10/14)<doc-sep>Fourth quarter GAME OVER. Chiefs win 38-27 Another update on Garoppolo’s knee injury: Jimmy Garoppolo got evaluated and just hopped on one leg down hallway into locker room. — Matt Maiocco (@MaioccoNBCS) September 23, 2018 Kareem Hunt goes up the middle for a combined 6 yards 49ers timeouts at 3:35, 3:29 and 3:22 Injury updates, Dee Ford and Jimmy Garoppolo: #Chiefs announce LB Dee Ford has been ruled out with a groin injury — Arrowhead Pride (@ArrowheadPride) September 23, 2018 49ers QB Jimmy Garoppolo is carted off with a left knee injury. — Dani Welniak (@KCTVDani) September 23, 2018 Pass interference called on SF secondary for an automatic first down for KC SCORE: KC 38, SF 27 Gould (SF) goes for a field goal and it’s good. KC 38, SF 27 with 5 minutes remaining in the second half. 49ers get into the end zone on 4th-and-goal, but get a penalty for offensive pass interference that’s called on Juszczyk Garoppolo goes left end to KC 7 for 13 yards goes down injured on the play after cutting back in to Steven Nelson. Jimmy Garoppolo, instead of going out of bounds, tried to cut back on Steven Nelson. Nelson leveled him. Jimmy's down. Nelson didn't flinch. — Tom Martin (@TomKCTV5) September 23, 2018 Back-to-back SACKS. Allen Bailey sacks SF QB Jimmy Garoppolo at the KC 12 then Houston sacks him again at the KC 20. SF 4th down: Breida pushed ob at the KC 4 for 13 yards SCORE: KC 38, SF 24 Chiefs go for a field goal and Butker’s kick is good, extending chiefs lead 38-24. Mahomes tries to find Spencer Ware deep right, but it’s incomplete. 49ers’ Solomon Thomas injured on the play. Patrick Mahomes gets clobbered from behind and somehow it's the defensive lineman who's wobbled and I'm out of descriptions. — Sam Mellinger (@mellinger) September 23, 2018 KC calls time out #1 at 14:01 Mahomes finds Kelce for 14 yards and Duvernay-Tardif picks up an offensive holding penalty (offsetting) and SF’s Reed called for Horse Collar tackle (offsetting) 49ers’ Reuben Foster goes down on the first drive. Receives help from trainers on the field then walks off. Third quarter SCORE GOING INTO THE 4th: KC 35, SF 24 KC 35, SF 24 Mahomes connects with Watkins again for 10 yards to end the 3rd quarter. Mahomes finds Kelce for 8 yards at the SF 33. Kelce’s well over 100 receiving yards so far today. Mahomes finds Sammy Watkins for 15 yards. Watkins pushed outside back at the SF 41 5 yard penalty called on SF Witherspoon for holding SF TOUCHDOWN. Alfred Morris goes up the middle for 3 yard TD. 49ers go for the 2-points and it’s good by Kittle. All of a sudden, it’s a close game. KC 35, SF 24. Alfred Morris goes up the middle for 3 yard TD. 49ers go for the 2-points and it’s good by Kittle. All of a sudden, it’s a close game. KC 35, SF 24. (6:56) Garoppolo sacked at SF 20. Chris Jones picks up a 5 yard penalty for defensive offsides nobody even tried to cover Marquise Goodwin on that touchdown. The closest guys around him were his teammates. Orlando Scandrick was standing out of the end zone. Looked like the other receiver back there may have cleared him out of the way. — Brooke Pryor (@bepryor) September 23, 2018 49ERS TOUCHDOWN. A solid overall drive by SF results in Garoppolo finds Goodwin wide open for 11 yards. The field goal is no point. Chiefs still lead 35-16. A solid overall drive by SF results in Garoppolo finds Goodwin wide open for 11 yards. The field goal is no point. Chiefs still lead 35-16. Garoppolo finds Garcon for 11 yards then tries to find him again deep left, but it’s incomplete Colquitt punts 39 yards to SF 13 Mahomes finds Demetrius Harris, but he drops the pass. (12:08) penalty called on Mitchell Schwartz. False start, 5 yards, enforced at KC 48 Second half injury update: Richard Sherman (calf) is questionable to return — Brooke Pryor (@bepryor) September 23, 2018 Second quarter NINE different @chiefs players have now caught TDs through two and a half games. The ALL TIME NFL RECORD for a SEASON is 13 from the 2016 Falcons. Two and a half GAMES. @gmfb @nflonfox — Peter Schrager (@PSchrags) September 23, 2018 END OF FIRST HALF: Chiefs lead 35-10 The 49ers score just before halftime as Robbie Gould's 39-yard field goal is good. KC 35, SF 10 Halftime — Matt McMullen (@KCChiefs_Matt) September 23, 2018 CHIEFS TOUCHDOWN. Mahomes finds Sammy Watkins for a 12 yard TD pass. Chiefs now lead 35-7. Watkins into the end zone pic.twitter.com/L0BgSoazzS — Kansas City Chiefs (@Chiefs) September 23, 2018 Mahomes finds Kelce again for 14 yards. 5 yard penalty on 49ers’ Buckner (offsides) and defensive pass interference penalty called on Exum is declined. Mahomes finds Damien Williams who’s pushed outside back at the SF 28 for 9 yards Mahomes sacked at the SF 37 Mahomes finds Travis Kelce for 16 yards. Kelce’s pushed outside back at the KC 49 after catching with one hand. That might be the best catch of Travis Kelce's career. Snags it one-handed right out of the air on a back-shoulder type of throw. — BJ Kissel (@ChiefsReporter) September 23, 2018 2 minute warning: 49ers offense stalls and gives it back to Mahomes and the offense with 2:00 left. They'll have it at their own 32 — Lynn Worthy (@LWorthySports) September 23, 2018 Garoppolo throws back-to-back incomplete passes. Binion punts 39 yards to KC 32. (3:18) Matt Breida goes down with injury and walks off: Houston with a great play to partially fight off the cut block, get up and make the tackle for a loss. Breida stays down after getting tackled. #Chiefs — Lynn Worthy (@LWorthySports) September 23, 2018 Defensive holding called on Chiefs’ Steven Nelson (6 yards) and Orlando Scandrick (declined) Garoppolo sacked at SF 24, ball pops out but is recovered by SF at the 26. And another one:<doc-sep>The Kansas City Chiefs (2-0) are getting ready to host the San Francisco 49ers (1-1) in their home opener on Sunday, Sept. 23 at Noon CT. With two teams on the come up and potential for a high scoring affair, it’s not a shock that Chiefs-49ers gets a huge share of this FOX broadcast map. Green areas on the map below will get the game on their local FOX affiliate, according to 506sports.com: The Chiefs-49ers game will air across the west coast and throughout a good chunk of the middle of the country on FOX TV affiliates. Also Honolulu, Boston, and Maine will be seeing the Chiefs-49ers game. The coolest of all of these is that Lubbock, TX, home of Texas Tech (the alma mater of Patrick Mahomes), will be seeing the Chiefs-49ers game. You have to love that TV providers are taking into account those college allegiances and giving fans a healthy dose of Mahomes on their TV’s. If you’re tuning into the broadcast on FOX you’ll be hearing Thom Brennaman and Chris Spielman as your analysts. Also our favorite Patrick Mahomes fan, Good Morning Football’s own, Pete Schrager will be providing the sideline reporting. You bet he’ll be going up and talking with Mahomes at some point during the game.<doc-sep>Through the first two weeks of the 2018 season, it would be difficult to argue that anybody other than Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is the NFL MVP. Mahomes has been electric, throwing 10 touchdown passes to lead the Chiefs to two victories, and he does not really look like he can be stopped right now. On Sunday, Mahomes is in another high-profile matchup, his third in a row. After squaring off with Philip Rivers in Week 1 and Ben Roethlisberger in Week 2, Mahomes will go head to head with 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo, who was a popular offseason pick to be in the position Mahomes himself is in right now. Things haven't exactly worked out the same way for Jimmy GQ just yet, but there's plenty of time for him and his own top-notch offensive mastermind to get things in gear. Which of these quarterbacks' teams has the advantage, and why, on Sunday afternoon in Kansas City (1 p.m., Fox)? Read on to find out. When the Chiefs have the ball At this time last year, I used this exact space to write about the surprising Kansas City Chiefs offense, which had taken the league by storm by scoring 69 points and defeating the Patriots and Eagles -- the two teams that would eventually meet in the Super Bowl -- in the first two weeks of the season. The most shocking aspect of Kansas City's early-season offensive explosion was that Alex Smith and company were breaking a ton of big plays. Through two weeks, the Chiefs had recorded eight plays of 20 yards or more. They did so on just 116 offensive snaps, giving them a big-play rate of 6.9 percent that, because of small sample sizes associated with two-game starts, ranked eighth in the NFL at the time but would have led the league overall from 2013 through 2016. Here we are a year later and, well, the Chiefs have made last year's scorching hot start look lukewarm. During the first two games of the 2018 season, the Chiefs have racked up 14 players of 20 yards or more. They've done so on only 109 offensive snaps, giving them a league-high big-play rate of 12.84 percent. The next-closest team is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at 10.83 percent. Rank Team Plays 20+ 20+ % 1 KC 109 14 12.84% 2 TB 120 13 10.83% 3 DEN 136 14 10.29% 4 LAC 129 13 10.08% 5 ATL 125 12 9.60% 6 LAR 127 11 8.66% 7 NYJ 122 10 8.20% 8 OAK 124 10 8.06% 9 CIN 120 9 7.50% 10 SF 121 9 7.44% Much like they were this time a year ago, the Chiefs have been buoyed by absurdly good quarterback play, highlighted by some of the best downfield throwing performances in the league. But unlike Alex Smith, first-year starter Patrick Mahomes is actually known for his arm strength and ability to make plays downfield. It's merely the degree of his success that is surprising, and not the kind. Looking for a hot new podcast that's your home for all things NFL? Look no further. The Pick Six Podcast with Will Brinson has you covered every weekday morning with new episodes around 30 minutes each. Subscribe: via iTunes | via Stitcher | via TuneIn | via Google Play. Mahomes' 10 touchdown passes during the first two weeks of the season are an NFL record, and half of those touchdowns have come on passes that traveled at least 15 yards in the air. He's 12 of 18 for an incredible 332 yards and five scores on such throws, good for a completely ridiculous 149.3 passer rating. Mahomes has been dominant in just about every split imaginable, but a few important ones stick out in terms of highlighting how well Andy Reid's play-calling has put him in position to succeed. On throws to the middle of the field, according to data from Sports Info Solutions, Mahomes is 23 of 30 for 317 yards and seven scores. That means 30 of Mahomes' 55 pass attempts have gone to the middle, now the most fruitful area of the field due to the dual evolution of defenses and NFL rules. Because of the sheer amount of speed and athleticism the Chiefs sport at every skill position, teams have often resorted to playing zone against them, providing Mahomes with wider throwing lanes than if every individual receiver had an assigned cover man. Against zone coverages, he has completed 31 of 41 passes for 279 yards and eight touchdowns. Using all that talent to spread the defense out as wide as possible has also been fruitful, and it should not be surprising that Mahomes has had incredible success working out of the empty formations he used so often at Texas Tech; he's completed 13 of 17 passes for 187 yards and three touchdowns when the Chiefs split five receivers out wide. Of course, the most productive passing down in the NFL is first down, largely because opposing teams often expect a run. Again, Mahomes has been brilliant passing the ball on first down plays, completed 18 of 26 tosses for 294 yards and two touchdowns. (That's nearly half his throws, by the way.) By contrast, he's only attempted eight throws on third down, meaning he's rarely ever been in position where he absolutely has to make a play to extend a drive. Again, this all points toward Reid putting his young quarterback in position to succeed. And succeed he has, by targeting a diverse array of pass-catchers whose skill sets both complement each other's and augment Mahomes' specific strengths. Tyreek Hill is arguably the fastest player in football, and his speed has been used in all the right ways. Hill has taken two jet sweeps for big gains, but his other 14 targets have been so deep that he still ranks seventh in the entire league in average depth of target.<doc-sep>
The Chiefs are back at Arrowhead for the first time this season. Hype for Patrick Mahomes is at an all time high and it’s set to be absolutely electric at Arrowhead stadium. The tailgate will be poppin’, there’s a flyover set for the game, the Nigerian Nightmare is going to be pounding the drum. This is one that you won’t want to miss! Below are important game details about this regular season matchup. If you have questions about the game, reach out to us on Twitter @TheChiefsWire. Game information: Who: Kansas City Chiefs vs. San Francisco 49ers When: Sunday, September 23rd, 12:00 p.m. CT. Where: Arrowhead Stadium – Kansas City, Missouri Streaming: Live stream: fuboTV (try it for free) Television channels: KTVU FOX 2 (San Francisco) WDAF-TV FOX 4 (Kansas City) Broadcasters: Thom Brennaman, Chris Spielman, Pete Schrager Referee: Tony Corrente Radio: 101.1 FM (Kansas City) Sirius XM 227 (Satellite Radio) Opponent wire site: Niners Wire Chiefs’ 2018 record: 2-0 Chiefs’ 2018 schedule Week Opponent Time (CT) | Date Channel 1 at Los Angeles Chargers 3:05 p.m. | Sun, Sept. 9th CBS 2 at Pittsburgh Steelers 12:00 p.m. | Sun, Sept. 16th CBS 3 vs. San Francisco 49ers 12:00 p.m. | Sun, Sept. 23rd FOX 4 at Denver Broncos 7:15 p.m. | Mon, Oct. 1st ESPN 5 vs. Jacksonville Jaguars 12:00 p.m. | Sun, Oct. 7th CBS 6 at New England Patriots 7:20 p.m. | Sun, Oct. 14th NBC 7 vs. Cincinnati Bengals 12:00 p.m. | Sun, Oct. 21st CBS 8 vs. Denver Broncos 12:00 p.m. | Sun, Oct. 28th CBS 9 at Cleveland Browns 12:00 p.m. | Sun, Nov. 4th CBS 10 vs. Arizona Cardinals 12:00 p.m. | Sun, Nov. 11th FOX 11 at Los Angeles Rams (Mexico City) 6:15 p.m. | Mon, Nov. 19th ESPN 12 BYE BYE BYE 13 at Oakland Raiders 3:05 p.m. | Sun, Dec. 2nd CBS 14 vs. Baltimore Ravens 12:00 p.m. | Sun, Dec. 9th CBS 15 vs. Los Angeles Chargers 7:20 p.m. | Thu, Dec. 13th FOX/NFLN 16 at Seattle Seahawks 6:20 p.m. | Sun, Dec. 23rd NBC 17 vs. Oakland Raiders 12:00 p.m. | Sun, Dec. 30th CBS 2018 Chiefs 53-man roster