What's wrong with the Chiefs?

[amfootball]

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If neither the Chiefs nor the Steelers have multiple new cases the rest of the week, they should not have a medical justification to postpone the game (ie. chance of worsening the outbreak if the game is played on Sunday). Currently, there is no evidence of a similar outbreak with the Steelers. According to the NFL COVID protocols, the game should be played as currently scheduled even if all of those Chiefs players are unable to test out by Sunday, as long as they don’t drop below 46 eligible players.

Then again, the NFL has been known to change rules on the fly.

I highly doubt any more games get rescheduled because of the new protocols that have been put in place. That was the leagues answer to the outbreaks.

 

[amfootball]

Glorious bump. Bengals take down Chiefs and the one seed goes to Titans. So delicious.

 

[Guts]

Glorious bump. Bengals take down Chiefs and the one seed goes to Titans. So delicious.

We've never seen the Mahomes Chiefs without a 1st round bye. Should be interesting

 

[amfootball]

We've never seen the Mahomes Chiefs without a 1st round bye. Should be interesting

Pretty awesome. It will be tough for them to win 3 games to get back to the Bowl. Their defense came crashing back down to earth today too. Got crushed and committed dumb penalties.

 

[Ochmed Jones]

Chiefs defensive backs lost almost every single 50-50 ball thrown in chase’s direction.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Glorious bump. Bengals take down Chiefs and the one seed goes to Titans. So delicious.

Gotta give A-hole Vrabes his due. I thought they were cooked when Henry went down.

 

[Foxypats]

Titans will be very hard to beat in the playoffs, especially since all the games will probably be in Tenn. I don't see them losing the #1 seed.

 

[Joey007]

We've never seen the Mahomes Chiefs without a 1st round bye. Should be interesting

If they play Indy… watch out. They do not want Indy.

 

[TheRainMaker]

What a pathetic choke job.

 

[LT85]

Why aren’t any of the talking heads talking about the fact that the chiefs have lost to every current afc play-off team they’ve met?

Titans, Bills, Bengals, Chargers. Haven’t played Colts and Patriots. Did split with the Chargers.

 

[‘Mondre]

…I was pulling for them in the sb last year

 

[BelichicksHoodie]

Why aren’t any of the talking heads talking about the fact that the chiefs have lost to every current afc play-off team they’ve met?

Titans, Bills, Bengals, Chargers. Haven’t played Colts and Patriots. Did split with the Chargers.

That involves the talking heads actually doing statistical research, which none of them do.

 

[Triumph]

Why aren’t any of the talking heads talking about the fact that the chiefs have lost to every current afc play-off team they’ve met?

Titans, Bills, Bengals, Chargers. Haven’t played Colts and Patriots. Did split with the Chargers.

Because people are crying that the Refs robbed them in Cincy.

They had supposedly righted the ship and had returned to media darlings.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Because people are crying that the Refs robbed them in Cincy.

Jesus QueefsPlanet is blowing up over that.

They had supposedly righted the ship and had returned to media darlings.

They seem to not want the Chargers at all. If I were them I wouldn't want them either.

 

[borg]

…I was pulling for them in the sb last year

Carpetbagger, in the United States, a derogatory term for an individual from the North who relocated to the South during the Reconstruction period (1865–77), following the American Civil War or in 2020 when the individual's initial team did not have enough stars to make him look special. The term was applied to Northern politicians, diva QBs, and financial adventurers whom Southerners accused of coming to the South to use the newly enfranchised freedmen as a means of obtaining office, profit, or shallow victories.

 

[Triumph]

Jesus QueefsPlanet is blowing up over that.


They seem to not want the Chargers at all. If I were them I wouldn't want them either.

They want the Patriots in the 1st round of all wildcards.

 

[Guts]

They want the Patriots in the 1st round of all wildcards.

The irony is that the Patriots match up well vs KC

 

[Triumph]

The irony is that the Patriots match up well vs KC

Unless KC jumps out to a big lead.

Then Mac is forced to throw more.

 

[RobertWeathers]

The irony is that the Patriots match up well vs KC

I dunno. Their offense has been playing much better.

We'd need to put up 30 to beat them in Arrowhead. Not sure we are there yet.

 

[PATSYLICIOUS]

I get that they are probably the ‘most trusted’ team since they have the stud qb, and i dont have a big problem with people picking them. But With them at the 2 seed , i personally have trouble seeing them in the super bowl.

At the 2, if things go relatively as planned, they are probably looking at chargers or colts round one. Both are difficult matchups for them. If they get past that , probably looking at Cincinnati round 2, who of course just beat them. Get past that, and probably looking at ten/buf/us, all again very tough matchups for them. Buf and ten already smashed them, their d is better since then but still cracked against the only good offenses they faced . I just dont see them with all their issues pulling that off to make the sb.