What's wrong with the Chiefs?

[Sciz]

Frank Clark helped them win the Super Bowl, but he's been a net negative in the 1.3 seasons since then. That can't happen when you trade a first and second for a guy and then pay him $20M per year.

 

[Triumph]

1 Terrible defense, TEs shred them.
2 Cant run the ball.
3 All WR3 suck, so thats why they wanted dopehead Gordon.

 

[reflexblue]

Super Bowl hangover, its a common ailment

 

[50-yard-line]

Victims of their success - like I've been saying with the Pats.

There is a price to pay for going deep into the playoffs, even into the SB. You get lower draft picks, your players take the beating not only of an extra month of football, but at a higher intensity, harder hitting, players getting away with more brutal hits, etc.

You climb the mountain, then limp away.

Add in, the Chiefs are a top-heavy team because Hill, Kelce, and Mahomes were all elite in their respective positions. Any breakdown by any of the three leaves them vulnerable.

They're still good, and well-coached (but how much longer for Reid, I wonder? Will he suffer a few off years?)

Injuries last night to Hill, Kelce, Thuney (fractured hand), and CEH.

Everyone thiinks BB was "making excuses" at the end of last year. he was just telling the truth - a truth that we've seen with the Rams, the Seahawks, the 9'ers, and several other supposed "next dynasties" during the Pats' run. Winning in the NFL is hard. Sustaining wining in the NFL is WAY harder, and even doing that, a couple of bounces, bad calls, injuries here, and couple others there is the difference between winning a couple of SBs or a bunch.

Look at KC and appreciate even more what the team of Brady and BB brought to us since the turn of the century.

 

[RIpats88]

Super Bowl hangover, its a common ailment

Rarely has a team lost the Superbowl and gotten back the next year and won.

I believe Patriots were one of the only few to do it.

 

[PaulThePat]

One word. Blueprint. Game over.

 

[archstanton543]

Not good for the Queefs

Great googly-moogly!

 

[reflexblue]

Rarely has a team lost the Superbowl and gotten back the next year and won.

I believe Patriots were one of the only few to do it.

I almost posted ....unless your the pats coached by BB. Because as i was typing it out i was thinking about the patriots are one of the few teams that didn't suffer from a hangover

 

[archstanton543]

I almost posted ....unless your the pats coached by BB. Because as i was typing it out i was thinking about the patriots are one of the few teams that didn't suffer from a hangover

Except in 2002.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Great googly-moogly!

Thuney broke it early, put on a cast and went back out there. Tough SOB

 

[reflexblue]

Except in 2002.

Of course, except for 'o2, but lets not get picky

 

[borg]

There is nothing wrong with the chiefs.

Chiefs D has given up 163 pts, highest in the NFL

Staying on top is basically impossible. They had an excellent three year run - like most dominant teams - that resulted in one SB.

It is amazing how three years is the typical cycle of dominance in the NFL.
Contracts, cap, ego, injury, defections, retirement, draft order eventually cause erosion back towards the mean, and for a couple of decades the Pats helped expedite certain implosions....Rams and Seahawks top that list

 

[Sicilian]

Not good for the Queefs

CEH: "Hurt my knee pretty bad, hoping for the best from the tests tonight. How about you, Ty?"

Hill: "Hurt my knee too. Brutal, gonna hurt my speed. How you feelin' Joe?"

Thuney: "Broke my hand. Gutted it out, but man, it's hurtin'. Chris?"

Lammons: "I, uh, I got a cut. It's... it's a real gusher..."

 

[Clonamery]

It is amazing how three years is the typical cycle of dominance in the NFL.
Contracts, cap, ego, injury, defections, retirement, draft order eventually cause erosion back towards the mean...

It's called the Goodell Effect.

 

[Hammer of Thor]

One word. Blueprint. Game over.

If it was so easy as a “blueprint,” it would have been done ages ago. What the Bucs did on defense wasn’t too different than what Belichick did to the Chiefs from 18-20, we just didn’t have the all world linebackers the Bucs did to go along with the secondary, and the Chiefs just had more talent then. Now that they’ve lost some talent - in terms of players leaving, declining, or getting injured - suddenly more teams are able to execute that plan. It’s easy to say blueprint, much harder to execute.

Just for one notable example….. the “blueprint” for beating the 2007 Patriots were the Cleveland Browns…. Who gave up 38 points to them. They didn’t have the horses and the Pats were stacked. The Giants did, and they caught them when Brady was slightly hobbling and when our right guard and blocking TE were injured.

 

[bormio]

Hmmm … what happened to winning 5 SB in the next decade?

 

[oceansizer]

I say the opponents - Baltimore and Buffalo with an amazing defense and sensational Chargers so far with Herbert.

 

[203Pat]

I kind of thought they were sleepwalking through the first month of the season the way we did a few times when we were perennial super bowl contenders but it doesn't really seem that way anymore. They seem to be a flawed team but I still think they find a way to make it to the playoffs. Their terrible defense and the fact that if you can find a way to stop Hill and Kelce they don't have any other options looks to be leaving them exposed.

 

[MrBigglesWorth]

Mahomes isn't on a rookie contract anymore. Chiefs were stacked early on because mahomes was making $700k. Now they paid mahomes, hill, Kelce

And there's no money left for the defense.

Ok... So you draft defensive rookies on cheap contracts

 

[Patsfanin Philly]

Super Bowl hangover, its a common ailment

Giving up 30 plus points EVERY game as they have for the first 5 makes it really difficult for any offense, even theirs to win....