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Originally Posted by tredadda
Cool. Since this season has not been decided yet you really can only say 4 years. Also glad you brought that up because there are reasons why KC doesn't have more.
Year 1: Dee Ford lines up onsides KC goes to the SB and has a chance to win it.
Year 2: KC wins it all
Year 3: KC loses in the SB to TB. In that game KC played almost all backups on the Oline due to a Fisher injury in the AFCCG. Mahomes had turf toe. The reffing was so bad in favor of the Bucs that non Chiefs fans and sports commentators even noticed and called it out. Heck one ref was so enamored with Brady she named her kid after him.
Year 4: Mahomes and the offense fell apart in the second half of the AFCCG.
Year 5: TBD
Now I posted all of that to not make excuses for anything but to highlight just how hard it is to win even one SB much less multiple over a short span of time. They are hosting their 5th straight AFCCG which is a record. Oh and KC has done all of this without the benefit of drafting Top 10 year after year (outside Mahomes who they had to trade up for).
Cincinnati is about to start to see what it looks like to be the hunted and how hard it is to sustain the level of success KC has enjoyed now that they aren't getting Top 10 picks anymore. They are about to have to start paying and/or losing some talent and will have to make due with less. Lets see then if they have multiple SBs (or any) over a five year span. Burrow is the second best QB in football and well on his way to being a first ballot HoF.
Sure you can say they should have won more, but until Cincinnati wins any it's hard to talk smack using that flawed logic.
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To clarify, I mean KC should have more than the Bengals due to the window having been open longer, not that they should have more than they currently do.
Tampa was totally stacked when they played you guys in the SB . Brady was back with a chip on his shoulder trying to prove it wasn't all Belicheat and the Patriot Way. Do I think the officiating was slanted? Yes. Did it make a difference? No. It wasn't much of a game. I do think Reid should have stuck with the run game more with a patchwork OL, but it's hard when you're down 21-6 at the half.
In the AFCCG, the Chiefs lost momentum chasing points before the half. The Bengals went in with a plan to switch up their coverages at halftime to confuse KC and it worked.
We have two Top 10 picks on the roster, Burrow and Chase. I'm not sure where the narrative that we picked Top 10 year after year comes from. Now, both of those guys are home runs, no doubt. You have a few 2nd round guys from the Marvin years(Mixon, Boyd, Bates). The defense is entirely 2-3 round picks and B-C tier free agents. As with any top team, hard decisions will have to be made. There has been contract talk by both Burrow and Chase about how they're going to keep the team together going forward, which would indicate that they won't go for every cent they can, but you don't know that until the ink dries. The cap is going to skyrocket over the next couple of years with the new broadcasting deals and the Bengals are going to be smart and get those deals done early. With the way contracts for QB's are going, Mahomes deal is an absolute bargain compared to when it was inked.