Exactly.

There's more talent on the D this year as well as the addition through subtraction of the Stepford Husbands...

Meh... we all know how bad they looked for 6 weeks last year and they ended 12-5.

You can conservatively say they really should win 10 games this season, because no matter how brutal a schedule might be, 1) it won't look the same as you get into the season for various reasons, and 2) most of the league is garbage. The Chiefs gave up 250 rushing yards in a game last season and looked like ass in multiple games, but having a franchise QB makes up for so many warts, they were an OT game away from another SB.

So, I basically feel like that's a lot of paragraphs to over-correct podcast homers whose job is to be homers for what amounts to the difference in an "irresponsible" 13+ win season and a what, "more responsible" 11-12 win season? And then besides hyping up a guaranteed SB run, let's back track to "only" another AFCCG?

Those games will often be 50/50 match ups and the Chiefs will win some they aren't supposed to win and lose some they were supposed to win.... it's not a crazy bold statement to say they may in fact not win another SB, especially since you could just as easily analyze the warts of every other team out there and come to the same conclusion.

tl;dr.... less podcast listening for the sake of finding things to worry about, more sitting back and enjoying the ride

Mathieu's play on the field was not as bad down the stretch as we make it out to be. There were not games where he was being exposed with any regularity. He was a king-sized distraction off the field, however.

Sorensen and Niemann were horrendous and have been thankfully upgraded.

But, yes. I think the DL is the most important position on the team other than QB. And we're just not investing in it the way I'd like us to.

Perhaps there's too much focus on the win totals, which I have added to, so mea culpa.

But win totals are a window into how good your team is supposed to be. A 13 , 14 win team is absolutely dominant and should make the Super Bowl. A 10-11 win team is a very good team but on the outside looking in.

Did you even watch the preseason games? Our first-team defense gave up 0 points and barely even any 1st downs...that is pretty damned good scotch tape.

I don’t have the patience to read all that right now, but I’ll say that anyone putting a modest ceiling on this team may ultimately look foolish.

There are question marks, and we don’t know how much the rookie class is ready to contribute, but on paper this might be the deepest and most talented Chiefs team ever.

You better Belize it

All chiefs podcasts and local talk shows are trash

Tl;dr

THE CHIEFS ARE GOING TO WIN THE SUPER BOWL!

My friend will be very happy to learn that...

I see 20-0 :thumb:

The first thing to pop up on my reddit feed was an NFL bold prediction thread, and the OP's bold prediction is the Chiefs don't make the playoffs, heh.

I'm going to be completely honest here: I don't really care how the team does against the Bears and the Commanders. This is a Super Bowl window for us. What matters is how we perform against the Chargers, Bills, and Bengals.

This is a very, very good team, and it should do what it did against those two crappy teams.

Mahomes scored TDs every drive and the defense played pretty darn well. Those are encouraging developments. I'm not trying to argue that the Chiefs or their defense are bad.

ROFL

But the Faders, Donks and Chargers all "loaded up" with players their teams chose not to resign.

Our 1st team offense was perfect and so was our 1st team defense during the preseason. The rest of the AFC West teams looked average at best.

ooooooooo I bet that won't stop you from having a bold judgment of the OP though

boom, baby!

Or is it a boom-baby? In my head I see a 50% chance of the AFCCG and, like, a 15% chance at the Super Bowl.

That's not modest, right? Objectively, that's a great perspective entering the season.

But compared to podcasts and Planeteers who seemingly have this team at 100% and 80%, respectively, I'm Eeyore.