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Originally Posted by Quesadilla Joe
How good would the Chiefs be if they lost:
- Their #2 WR to an ACL before the season started
- Their #1 RB to an ACL by week 4
- Their starting LT and #2 Corner for the season by week 5
- Their starting Center by week 9
- Their number 1 TE for the first 5 and last 2 games
- Both of their starting edge defenders for the last 8 games
- Their best safety for 5 games
- Their best interior rusher for 4 games
- Their starting RG for 4 games
All while their QB was playing through a torn lat in his throwing shoulder and a partially torn hamstring for a chunk of the season? |
Probably double digit wins, per usual.
Over the last several years, KC's had stretches of awful OL play, zero running game, receivers that don't get open, no pass rush, and backup-caliber defense....yet they just continued to win. Why? Because they're elite where it matters...QB and head coach. Mahomes won in Denver in his first career start with nothing but scrub backups around him. He had one of the best games of his career vs a solid Pittsburgh D last year without Kelce, and with a very limited Hill (coming off the Covid list). His top receivers were Darrel Williams, Pringle, Derrick Gore and Hardman. He blew out the Bills in the AFC championship game with a terrible 3rd string OL. And he went into LA and beat the Chargers without his top 3 WRs this year.
I would hope you'd acknowledge that losing Kelce isn't exactly the same as losing Dulcich....right? Or Humphrey vs Cushenberry, or Chris Jones vs whoever your "best interior rusher" is. Etc, etc. And if injuries are piling up every year, it obviously goes beyond "bad luck." Do you expect this to magically change?
And, of course, you fail to mention the inconvenient fact that the team looked bad even before injuries started to pile up.