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Patrick Mahomes had finally thrown an interception http://www.chiefslockerroom.com/authentic-breeland-speaks-jersey , the first all season for the Chiefs' talented young quarterback, and the Jacksonville offense had shuffled back onto the field.to take the ball right back.Their beleaguered defense also picked off Bortles four times and sacked him five, and Chris Jones took one of those interceptions back for a touchdown, proving during a 30-14 romp over Jacksonville on a soggy Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium that the Chiefs are more than just an offensive dynamo."It shows what kind of team we are," said Mahomes, who finished with 313 yards passing and ran for a touchdown. "I'm just excited to come out with a win on a day the defense made plays."Oh, the league's highest-scoring offense still made plays.Kareem Hunt ran for 87 yards and a touchdown, and Travis Kelce hauled in five catches for 100 yards, helping the Chiefs (5-0) move the ball at will against the NFL's top-rated defense.Tyreek Hill, who was frequently matched up with the Jaguars' Jalen Ramsey in an entertaining one-on-one affair, added four catches for 61 yards as the Chiefs rolled up 424 yards total."That play calling was something I've never seen before," said the Jaguars' Tashaun Gipson, who picked off Mahomes before leaving with a groin injury. "Tip your hat to them. Obviously, the offensive personnel they've got 鈥?they came out here and they beat us."The game eventually grew into a testy affair, resulting in a pair of ejections.Jones was booted in the second half after he dropped an elbow on a Jaguars lineman while both were on the ground following a point-after attempt. Then, pass rusher Dee Ford joined him in the locker room when he was whistled for his second unsportsmanlike conduct penalty."You can't let emotions get the best of you," Chiefs coach Andy Reid said.If anybody had reason to get frustrated it was Bortles, who was 33 of 61 for 430 yards with a touchdown and those four interceptions . Most of his yardage came in garbage time, and while he ran for a touchdown, he also was strip-sacked during Jacksonville's miserable first half.Mahomes led the Chiefs 73 yards on their first possession, finishing the drive himself with a short scramble for a touchdown. Then he led the league's high-powered offense 82 yards for a field goal a few minutes later, leaving Jacksonville's vaunted D second-guessing itself.Meanwhile, the Jaguars' offense was having all kinds of problems.Jacksonville (3-2) drove inside the Kansas City 5 early in the second quarter Womens Tanoh Kpassagnon Jersey , but an incomplete fade on third down and another incompletion on fourth turned the ball over. Bortles was stripped on the first play of their next possession, and he threw the pick-6 to Jones on the first play of the next.The calamitous half ended when Bortles, trying to force a pass into the end zone, instead bounced it off his offensive lineman's helmet and right to Steven Nelson for another interception."It felt a lot like some games we've had in the past, just moved the ball, there were some good things done, we had some bad turnovers," Bortles said. "You can't turn the ball over."In Bortles' defense, his offensive line didn't give him a whole lot of time. Along with the five sacks, the Chiefs were credited with 11 hurries, spending most of the game in his face.Bortles' only real highlight came late in the game, when he escaped the collapsing pocket and angled toward the sideline, then lowered his shoulder to finish off a 21-yard touchdown run .The Jaguars recovered the onside kick, only for the Chiefs to force another turnover on downs."They did a good job early in the game getting a lead. They did a good job early on third downs in the game. Offensively, we didn't execute," Jaguars coach Doug Marrone said. "Again, we had a poor showing in the red zone, we had turnovers, and the game got out of hand. Got to play better. We've got to coach better, play better. We got to go back and get this team back on track."RAMSEY VS HILLHill had nothing but praise for Ramsey after the game, though he did beat the Jaguars cornerback for one long gain. As for Ramsey? "I felt like I did pretty well. Really well, to be honest," he said. "I won the majority of the matchups today Eric Fisher Jersey , put it that way."STATS AND STREAKSThe Chiefs' first TD was the first allowed by Jacksonville on a team's opening possession. ... The Jaguars have not started 2-0 on the road since the 2007 season. ... Jaguars RB T.J. Yeldon had 53 yards rushing. ... Chiefs WR Sammy Watkins had six catches for 78 yards.INJURIESJaguars: RB Corey Grant (foot) and LT Josh Wells (groin) left in the first half. Ramsey left on the opening series after taking a knee to the helmet, but returned to play the rest of the game.Chiefs: OLBs Justin Houston (hamstring) and Tanoh Kpassagnon (ankle) and FSs Armani Watts (groin) and Eric Murray (lower leg) left the game in the first half. RG Laurent Duvernay-Tardif left in the final minutes with a fractured fibia in his left leg.UP NEXTJaguars: Visit the Cowboys next Sunday.Chiefs: Head to New England for a Sunday night showdown. Let’s see what our readers want to know this week."Welcome to Dixon’s Arrowhead Pride Mailbag, where I’ll do my best to answer your questions about the Kansas City Chiefs — and anything else that’s on your mind. If you have a question, you can hit my profile page to e-mail me, or ask me on Twitter.While you’re at it, please follow me on Twitter, too.On to your questions:No, Joe... I don’t.We addressed the possibility of a trade for Clark in these pages earlier this week.Clark is a great defensive end for the Seattle Seahawks, who just made a record-setting deal for their quarterback Russell Wilson.The Seahawks have placed the franchise tag on Clark.If he signs it, he’ll make $17 million this season for the Seahawks.That’s a combination of factors that is guaranteed to generate speculation about a trade.But I don’t the Chiefs will do it.If the Chiefs had wanted to pay franchise tag money to an edge rusher, they wouldn’t have traded Dee Ford — or they would have kept Justin Houston.Instead, they have chosen to bring in Alex Okafor and Emmanuel Ogbah — two established veterans who will cost relatively little money — to mix in with Breeland Speaks and Tanoh Kpassagnon, who are listed as linebackers but will probably end up as defensive ends in Steve Spagnuolo’s defense.While neither of the latter two players has made much of a mark thus far, these moves suggest the Chiefs believe they can be effective in the new scheme.That doesn’t mean the Chiefs won’t be trying to find more edge rushers.They will be seeking them in the draft, and in the moves leading up to the beginning of the season.But with the signing of Tyrann Mathieu — not to mention the near-signing of Earl Thomas — the Chiefs have made it pretty clear that right now, they intend to spend their money on the back end of the defense.We could do that, Jesse — but it isn’t really necessary.The Chiefs led the league in sacks last season. But they gave up 421 points, which was 24th in the league.And as you might have heard, they also gave up 6,488 yards, which was 31st in the league.So maybe getting all those sacks isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.Your question relates to the one I just answered from Joe: the Chiefs have made a conscious decision not to devote as many of their resources to the pass rush — at least not to pass rushing from the edge.Why?Because the game continues to evolve. Andy Reid often speaks about how defenses react to offensive changes — and vice versa.The league began to depend more on the passing game, so defenses concentrated on finding edge rushers to disrupt it.Offenses reacted to that by concentrating on getting the ball out so quickly that edge rushers couldn’t get to the quarterback in time.What we saw in 2018 was that the Chiefs pass rush from the edge — that is, from Ford and Houston — racked up a lot of pressure and sacks.But what’s lost in that is what happened when the Chiefs didn’t get a sack: they were getting torched by the running game and the short passing game.Getting all those sacks from the edge looked good on paper http://www.chiefslockerroom.com/authentic-jarvis-jenkins-jersey , but it clearly didn’t help the defense do its main job: preventing the other team gaining yards and scoring.So now the Chiefs are reacting.They have switched to a defensive scheme that should be stouter against the run and the short passing game.By deciding to spend their money on Chris Jones — rather than Dee Ford and Justin Houston — they are committing to bringing their pass rush pressure from the inside rather than the outside.And they’re working on upgrading the secondary to blunt the passing game.So the question isn’t about replacing the production of Houston and Ford.It’s about making the defense more effective at its main job.If this approach works — and the Chiefs offense continues to prosper — the team is going to be very difficult to beat.Thanks for your question, B.R.If it isn’t already obvious by the two answers I just gave, I think the overall emphasis of the offseason has been on the secondary.That would lead to thinking the first player the Chiefs will take off the board is a cornerback or safety.I also think the Chiefs don’t have the capital to trade up far enough to get one of the premier edge rushers — at least not without crippling them for the rest of this draft and/or the next; it looks like those guys are all going to be gone by the middle of the first round.If I’m buying into the arguments I’ve just made — and because I made them, I do — I don’t think trading up past the middle of the first round for an EDGE makes sense.But by standing pat — or moving up a few spots — the Chiefs could land a player like Greedy Williams, Byron Murphy or Nasir Adderly for the secondary, They’ve hosted a visit with Murphy — whose attitude I really like — and also ones with cornerbacks Amani Oruwariye and Joejuan Williams, who could both be available at 29.Of course, we can only guess how Veach rates all these players — and whether he believes the moves the Chiefs have been able to make thus far have filled the holes he thinks he needs to fill.If Veach thinks O-and-O — that is, Okafor and Ogbah — are at best rotational players, then he may decide to make a big move up for an EDGE.But if he thinks otherwise, I see secondary as the first move.And then there’s the dark horse: defensive tackle Jerry Tillery.He might also be available at 29, and he’s also been in for a visit.Again, if I’m buying my own argument — that the Chiefs are committing to inside pass rush — then getting Tillery there could make sense.I don’t know, Shawn.On game days, you’ll find me hunched over a computer, writing about the game as it happens.I attended both of last season’s Arrowhead Pride watch parties and joined friends at local watering holes for several others.But for each one of them, I lugged in my laptop and an extra computer monitor, and after the opening kickoff, spent the whole game doing my thing.I’m not complaining.I really love my job.It’s just hard to imagine doing all of that in the Arrowhead parking lot.But I do like going to the games.Before I joined the Arrowhead Pride staff, Terri and I managed to make it to one or two every season, and when we do we always tailgate.Who knows?Maybe we’ll figure out a way to make that happen this season.And if we do, Shawn... you’re invited.