Best quarterback, blah blah blah.

Best coach, blah blah blah.

Back to back champions, ugh, I can’t even stand to type the words because I might have to read them and then I’d taste the poison of saying Kansas city is the best team in the league.

I mean what is wrong with this version of the NFL? Chiefs’ wide receivers couldn’t catch passes all season. And somehow Mahomes still ends up Super Bowl champ? Kelce didn’t even bother running until the playoffs, he’d just kind of walk out four or five steps and turn around to catch a pass. Is this what we’ve come to? The video game settings are too easy so Mahomes just said we’ll play half speed to make it more interesting.

What should scare the league is that Kansas City won last year based on the strength of their defense, their running game, and the simple belief that they were going to make the winning play at the end of the game. Now this year, they still have all those things plus an upgraded wide receiver group. Hollywood Brown is a huge upgrade, and as long as Rice is cleared to play this group is going to be dangerous.

A three-peat hasn’t happened. And I did everything I could to find a different team to win it all this year. But who is going to stop them in the AFC:

Tier 2 teams:
Miami can’t play in cold weather.
Houston is still a year away I think.
Cleveland is physical, but they don’t have the explosiveness to keep up.

Tier 1 teams:
Buffalo lost some offensive firepower and are due for a regression.
Baltimore can match Kansas City, but every season they have a major injury going into the playoffs.
Cincinnati has done it, but that was before everyone started getting paid. The depth is gone.

Other than Houston, every one of these teams has paid their quarterback. The salary cap is going to make it tough for any of them to match what Kansas City has. We can cross our fingers that someone from the NFC can step it up and beat these Chiefs, but I’m not seeing it this year.

2024 Prediction: 13-4 1st AFC West/Playoffs Super Bowl Champion