Predictions After the Loss

[kysirsoze]

Just curious what people's predictions of our win total are after week one. Who's panicking? Who thinks WBF? Go on record!

Feel free to add any other predictions below.

[RaidersOftheCellar]

I think this team will be rolling around midseason, especially after getting Kelce, Jones and Omenihu back in the fold. I still think this roster is one of the best and deepest that Mahomes has had yet.

The schedule looks really rough, but that’s been the case for 2-3 years straight. It never turns out to be as difficult as it first appears.

13-4, if they stay relatively healthy.

[RaidersOftheCellar]

Originally Posted by JPH83

Smith and Taylor are going to get better, it's just how the OL works, especially this one. But Smith being better than OBJ is an odd projection to me, I think it's based on people underating OBJ significantly and I say that as someone who didn't like the fit.

Why is that so odd?

[Chris Meck]

Originally Posted by JPH83

Smith and Taylor are going to get better, it's just how the OL works, especially this one. But Smith being better than OBJ is an odd projection to me, I think it's based on people underating OBJ significantly and I say that as someone who didn't like the fit.

Houston had like 8 sacks in the last 7 games last season and I don't think I heard his name once. That's exactly the sort of speed rusher that used to clown Brown.

I think Smith looked demonstrably more agile and athletic

[ShowtimeSBMVP]

11-6 and Patrick will play his first road playoff game this year.

[Hog Rider]

I think if a receiver had caught just one of those dropped passes the Chiefs probably win.

Not too worried. 14-3

[DrunkBassGuitar]

the chiefs are going 19-1 you pussies

[TEX]

Originally Posted by ShowtimeSBMVP

11-6 and Patrick will play his first road playoff game this year.

Agreed.

[TEX]

Originally Posted by RaidersOftheCellar

Why is that so odd?

Exactly. He's way more agile than OBJ, and already looks better in pass protection.

[TLO]

Originally Posted by TwistedChief

I can’t imagine actually feeling worse about this team after that game. You have to feel better about the defense in a Jones-less first 7 games and that’s much more important than what the offense looked like in a freak game without Kelce.

This is what I keep coming back to.

I think I would have felt far worse if the Lions torched our defense and we lost a shootout 41-38 or something.

But the defense showed they can ball, without Chris Jones, and kept us in the game. We have some real talent on defense with guys that can make plays.

Toney catches that first down pass that puts us damn near in FG range and we probably win that sloppy ****fest of a game.

[TLO]

I really think the timing of the Kelce injury ****ed us over as well.

If we knew he was going to be out a week prior, that would give the coaches more time to work out a plan to compensate for that massive loss.

Given the information we have right now, I think 12-5 or 13-4 sounds about right.

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by O.city

Lol typical cp

The chiefs played at best a C+ overall game with the defense playing really well, and still should have won by 2 scores.

Andy Reid’s offenses won’t look like that for extended periods. Sucks to lose the opener but whatever, moving on

14-3

That will require us to go 11-2 in our games against BUF, CIN, MIA, NYJ, PHI, MIN, JAX, LAC x2, DEN x2, and LV x2. Plus, obviously, we’d have to win the games we should against GB, CHI, and NE.

That will be tough.

(For the record, I know we should beat MIN, DEN, LV and split at worst with LAC but I feel like they’re a step up from those other three)

[RunKC]

Looking back I'm thankful we lost this game bc it's really not a big deal. It's an NFC team so the standings aren't hurt that bad.

Our team has gotten really cocky. Yes there's good reason for that but 2021 showed us that when you get too high on yourselves, you get prideful and don't play as well. Jason Kelce said it best.."hungry dogs run faster" and last year this team was pissed off, hungry and was out to prove something.

This year we won the SB, paraded it around at the draft and seemed to think more of ourselves. I think this was a good humbling experience for them.

I've got us at 12-5 with Patrick playing his first road game in the playoffs at some point, maybe the AFCCG.

Adding Kelce, Omenihu and Jones will make this team significantly better as well as getting development from Rice and FAU

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by TwistedChief

Mahomes in mid-season 2021 was a bottom half of the league QB. It was absolutely shocking watching how uncomfortable he was after he had carried the team for such a long time. And then he snapped out of the funk.

I think we saw flashes of that discomfort last year in the early season Chargers and Colts games and then they came out of nowhere and smoked the Bucs defense. And all was well for the rest of the season.

And this game? Same sort of discomfort but a bunch of young receivers, no Kelce, two new OTs… Kinda seems understandable. And we wouldn’t even be bitching if a couple guys had caught easy passes.

I probably completely misread your first post in my early morning scrolling, which seemed far more pessimistic than I would have thought...... that you couldn't think any worse of them than right now.

Oops.

[JPH83]

Originally Posted by Chris Meck

Houston had like 8 sacks in the last 7 games last season and I don't think I heard his name once. That's exactly the sort of speed rusher that used to clown Brown.

I think Smith looked demonstrably more agile and athletic

You saw the clip where he literally had to stick his leg out to stop the rusher. No idea who that was but he is what he is. Absolutely everyone is more agile and athletic than OBJ is, and a lot are still worst OTs.

[JPH83]

Originally Posted by RaidersOftheCellar

Why is that so odd?

Because besides from one year with the Bucs he's never been better than OBJ.