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Theres a question that many in the NFL, Kansas City and even within the walls of Arrowhead Stadium want to see answered Sunday.Kansas City (3-2) hosts the New Orleans Saints (2-3) this weekend and its unclear which version of the Chiefs will show up for the game.Will it be the team that got smashed in a 29-point loss to Pittsburgh nearly three weeks ago? Or will it be the squad that rebounded after a bye week and last Sunday in Oakland dominated a then 4-1 Raiders team, winning by 16 points and controlling all three phases of the game?Offense and defense have been up and down for the Chiefs. Ahead are 11 games and a wide-open path to first place in the AFC West.What were trying to do is not be that yo-yo team that plays great and then they dont play too good, veteran linebacker Derrick Johnson said. We have a personality and thats fear nothing and attack everything. Thats how we should play every game.Theyll need to play the Saints with no fear and aggression. New Orleans has won their last two games and possesses one of the NFLs most productive offenses, led by veteran quarterback Drew Brees. The Saints are averaging 413.4 yards per game and rank No. 2 in the league behind only Atlanta.New Orleans is the leagues top passing team, with an average of 335.4 yards per game from Brees to a wealth of receivers, led by Brandin Cooks, Willie Snead and rookie Michael Thomas.I think there are times in a season when you gain momentum and generally its a little further out than where we are at right now with wins and losses, Saints coach Sean Payton said. Weve had runs here in a number of seasons; I dont know at what point you say they have some momentum, but I think it would be a little too early right now.The Chiefs defense knows theyll have their hands full with Brees. The Kansas City unit has undergone a few changes since last Sunday. Two starters -- defensive end Allen Bailey (pectoral muscle) and inside linebacker Justin March-Lillard (hand) -- went to injured reserve after the victory over the Raiders.Plus, starting cornerback Phillip Gaines (knee) continues to be bothered by a knee injury that he suffered early in the 2015 season. His status for Sunday is very questionable.Still, there are enough playmakers on the field -- Johnson, Tamba Hali, Dontari Poe, Eric Berry and especially Marcus Peters -- that the defense can put up a good fight against any offense, or at least any that doesnt have Big Ben running the attack.I see them as a really stout group, Brees said. I see them as a really big front that can apply some pressure to the quarterback. I see a secondary that really has a lot of cover guys.Youve got safeties all over the field that can cover, you have corners that can cover and you have linebackers that can cover. It seems like the defense has been pretty opportunistic this year. Theyve been able to take the ball away quite a bit.As good as Brees and the New Orleans offense has been, the defense has struggled and ranks next to last in yards allowed (419.4 per game average.) The Saints have given up 168 points, or 33.3 per game.Against Carolina last Sunday, the Saints had 13 hits on the quarterback and knocked down nine passes but still gave up 38 points. Luckily for the Saints, they scored 41 points for the victory.There were just a lot of plays that they made that were directly related to us playing the wrong technique, Saints safety Kenny Vaccaro said. One time you dont use your help, or play the right leverage and you are giving up an out with a guy right in front of you that is not acceptable.If you keep doing that in the future, it is going to cost you some games. We need to get that fixed now. It is an easy thing to fix, but it needs to be fixed now. PARIS -- For the first time in 25 years, all five mountain ranges of continental France will feature in next years Tour de France, in a stretched-out endurance test of racing that smiles on the climbing strengths of defending champion Chris Froome and his Colombian rival, Nairo Quintana.In their quest to keep the 113-year-old race young, Tour organizers have again unearthed fresh challenges from the geography of France for the three-week slog, with new climbs and, on stage 18, an unprecedented mountain-top finish on the punishing Col dIzoard high in the Alps -- a rocky, hostile and lunar terrain that could be the final big battleground for the winners check of 500,000 euros ($550,000).Thats going to be one of the really decisive stages, said Froome, the race winner for Team Sky in 2013, 2015 and again this year.Before that, on stage 12 in the Pyrenees, the Tour climbs to the Peyragudes ski station where parts of the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies were filmed in 1997.From its July 1 start in Dusseldorf, Germany, to the July 23 finish on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, the 3,516-kilometer (2,185-mile) route will wind over climbs in the Vosges, Jura, Massif Central, Pyrenees and Alps. Not since the Tour of 1992 have organizers made riders take on all five mountain ranges.It looks hard, said Australian rider Richie Porte, who finished fifth for the BMC Racing team this year.The toughest climbs -- graded two, one and unclassified on cyclings rising scale of difficulty -- will be slightly fewer next year: 23 in total compared to 28 this year and 25 in both 2015 and 2014. But they will be scattered across a 14 day-spread, rather than being concentrated in two blocks in the Alps and Pyrenees, and will include six especially teeth-grindingly steep ascents. The Col du Grand Colombier in the Jura has 22-percent gradients. Riders will have to arrive at the Tour in good climbing form, and maintain that strength, to compete for the title.With just three mountain-top finishes, including the Izoard, that are so often decisive on the Tour, title contenders like Froome may have to also race hard on other terrains to shake off their rivals.It could make tthe race a lot more tactical in the mountains, Froome said.ddddddddddddIt opens the door up for people to be more aggressive.Just five days in, the 198 riders will face the relatively short but very sharp shock of climbing to the Planche des Belles Filles ski station in the Vosges, with leg-searing 20-percent gradients, in eastern France.The first big shake-up, Porte said.With little time for riders to catch their breath, the Tour then swings south for more climbs on stages eight and nine in the Jura, before crossing France to the west.The peloton will spend one very long day -- 214 kilometers (133 miles) -- followed by one short one -- 100 kilometers (62 miles) -- in the Pyrenees. The race then heads north again to the Massif Central range, where climbs and possible strong winds up high could catch out unwitting riders on stage 15 to Le Puy-en-Velay, part of it on roads so off the beaten track that they dont appear on some maps.The sort of stage where we can hope for unusual things to happen, said race director Thierry Gouvenou, who helped draw up the route.Two individual time trials -- the first over 13 kilometers (8 miles) on day one in Dusseldorf; the last, over 23 kilometers (14 miles), on the penultimate stage in Marseille -- will bookend the Tour before the finish in Paris but promise to be too short to be decisive in the overall outcome.Its very light on time trials, so, for sure, the race is going to be won or lost depending on what happens in the mountains, said Froome, who named two-time runner-up Quintana first among his list of expected rivals. Im going to have to be as good as I can be in the mountains. Thats going to be my focus.In a remarkable piece of showmanship on the final stage in Paris, the riders will race through the iconic Grand Palais, a giant steel-and-glass structure built for the worlds fair in 1900, on their way to the sprint finish on the Champs-Elysees, with the aim of highlighting one of the sites that could be used for Olympic events if Paris wins its bid to host the 2024 Games. ' ' '