Ravens? Remember them? How did that go for Denver? And I think you are off on victories against teams above .500. But u may be using a different criteria. Im counting teams as their records stand now, and I see that Denver has only beaten 1 team currently over .500. What am I missing? :shrug:

I’m not dismissing that Denver has lost all but 1 game against the winning teams they’ve played. They were terrible at Baltimore.

And yes, KC was without a couple of guys at SF, but they won.

Don’t misinterpret my comments as me suggesting that Denver is equal to KC. They almost won that game, but didn’t. Even if they had won, still not on par with KC. My comments have been focused on the SOS not being vastly different after 11 weeks.

Well, let's take a more practical look at the differences between the Chiefs and Broncos schedules. First of all, the Broncos schedule is a bit more difficult in the fact that you all play the Chiefs twice while the Chiefs play the Broncos twice. That makes your schedule more difficult, but it's not exactly honest to factor that into calculations about the difficulty of schedule.

So, let's dispense with that nonsense and let's also dispense with the nonsense of looking at just games played to date. Let's look at the entirety of the 2024 schedule. Let's also eliminate all common opponents because those will all work out as equivalent.

When we eliminate all common opponents and our head-to-head matchups, we're left with just 3 games each in which we face opponents that the other does not. For 2024 those opponents are San Francisco, Buffalo, and Houston for the Chiefs, and Seattle, NYJ, and Indianapolis for the Broncos. The difference in win totals for those teams is:

Chiefs opponents: 20 wins

Broncos opponents: 13 wins

That is an honest comparison.

I guess that’s one way to slice the narrative. The biggest difference really is Bills and the Jets.

They have 6 common opponents so far, KC is 6-0 and Denver is 4-2

There should be a banhammer for any Chiefs fan on this forum that gives praise to the Donkeys. One month first offense, lifetime on the second.

This is one thing I tend to forget, the NFL does try to prevent years long dynasties. What they want is teams rotating in and out of being contenders. You do well, you have to play a tougher schedule and you have less chances to draft good players, which should over time bring you down. Like, they in a way punish success, which makes sense, they want people who follow a team like Denver or Steelers to have a reason to watch every week and remain invested.

The AFCW is the only division with 3 500+ teams. The AFCN has the Steelers and Ravens, the AFCE is just the Bills and the AFCS is just the Texans.

AFCW is officially the toughest division in the AFC. Crazy.

I always like how bounty gate is brought up and it completely covers over the fact that Sean Peyton was stealing using and selling pain pills.

Yes, over the entire season.

Look at the games so far. Hardly the same.

Broncos remind me so much of the 2014 Chiefs.

Middle of the road QB, excellent defense, good OL, not beating good teams.

I care a lot more about bounty gate because it actually potentially imapcts my team. That other crap is his problem so I don't give a shit.

And it's only going to get tougher. DEN is still dragging Wilson's cap hit this season, so they weren't able to be as active in FA or even retain players the way they probably wanted to this season, but that basically goes away in 2025. So they'll be able to reload some talent this coming off-season. All the more reason to seriously consider re-signing DHop, btw, as I really don't want to see him playing for DEN next year. Yuck.

And Harbaugh has already proven to be a better coach than any of his Chargers predecessors. Yeah, the 2nd half of last night's game wasn't pretty, but they did finally execute on their final drive and put CIN away. Staley would've shit the bed there. And right now LAC doesn't have top-tier weapons except at RB. They're only going to get better.

Seconded

I don't mind the Chargers being good. But I would prefer the Cheating Donks to stay bad forever. They deserve nothing but misery for all of their cheating.