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Chiefs won’t win the AFC
Why is this a bold prediction? Well, the Kansas City Chiefs are the first team in NFL history to reach five Super Bowls in a six-season span, and they’ve won three of them. Kansas City also typically plays home games in the postseason thanks to nine consecutive division titles, the second longest division title-winning streak in NFL history. Their current run trails only the Tom Brady-Bill Belichick New England Patriots’ run of 11 in a row from 2009-2019.
That run is buoyed by almost always playing in the friendly confines of Arrowhead Stadium in January, with 12 of Patrick Mahomes’ 14 AFC postseason starts coming at home. Kansas City is 12-2 in its 14 playoff starts with Mahomes under center. This season, the Chiefs will once again win their division, but they won’t go 15-2 again to clinch homefield advantage. Eleven of Kansas City’s 15 regular-season wins from a year ago were by one possession, and they went a perfect 11-0 in one-score games last season, which tied an NFL single-season record with the 2022 Minnesota Vikings.
Fans greet Chiefs players at the airport after landing in Brazil | Chiefs Wire
The players were greeted immediately by crowds of fans at the airport, which already showed a festive atmosphere before Friday night. Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, Chris Jones, and others appeared on camera, waving to fans hoping to glimpse the stars as they made their way through the city.”Yeah, no, I’m super excited. It’ll be a great experience, a great chance to showcase who we are as the Kansas City Chiefs worldwide,” said Mahomes during his most recent press conference, “And I know the fan base in Brazil is extremely excited as well. So, it’ll be a cool experience, and being able to play our first game out there against a great opponent’ll be a lot of fun.”
25 Questions That Could Shape the 2025 NFL Season | The Ringer
15. Can Patrick Mahomes get his deep ball back? This is the second year in a row I’ve asked that question. It was a point of emphasis for Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid during the 2024 offseason, and then the Chiefs finished 32nd in explosive play rate, per TruMedia. So, obviously, Kansas City has made it a focus again. “Coach Reid has challenged me this offseason to push the ball down the field,” Mahomes said at the start of training camp. “Let guys have chances to make plays, and then once we get that back to where we want to be in our standard that we believe we should have, then we can come back to the underneath stuff.”
Mahomes averaged just 6.3 air yards per attempt last season, per TruMedia. Only two quarterbacks posted a lower average. And if you go...
