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Why ‘Eight Teams, Maybe 10’ Can Win the Super Bowl | SI
The NFL, sports books love this new trend
Two entities love this (perhaps) one-season, (possibly) new-to-stay trend more than any other. The first is the NFL. The league wants viewers to be locked in over the season’s final month. The madness of 2025 should ensure highest numbers ever. The second entity is those sports books. They can all but count their Chiefs cash, from whatever bet anyone made from the preseason to now. That’s likely to continue over the season’s final month.
Perhaps Kansas City, in Week 14, highlighted the (one or maybe more) seasons without a favorite. The Chiefs, you might have heard, made five of the last six Super Bowls, winning three. But on that week, last Sunday, right after K.C. surged back into what looked like its true contender form, Mahomes and Reid and the dynasty lost a regular-season home game to the suddenly surging Texans. Their postseason probability plummeted to 11 percent.
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Los Angeles Chargers at Kansas City Chiefs (-4.5)
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This is truly desperation time for the Chiefs. They can’t afford another loss. The Chargers beat them in Week 1, but this will be different. Los Angeles comes in on a short week and their offensive line is bad. Look for the Chiefs to win it behind their defense.
Pick: Chiefs 23, Chargers 17
After the Week 14 loss, however, Kelce sounded notably less optimistic about his ability to improve down the stretch.
“It’s been a tough ******* go-around for the past two days,” Kelce said around the 8:45 mark of Wednesday’s episode. “It’s just, you put all this ******* work in hopes that it pays off, and right now it just, for whatever ******* reason… It’s little things. It’s discipline.
“I feel like I’ve always had the answers, in years past, and this year I just can’t find them. And I keep thinking, if I show up to work, and I put in the work, and I fix the issues through my practice habits and through perfecting the game plan and my fundamentals and what I’m being taught, and go out there and try and play my ass off for the guys next to me, it’s all going to come together like it has in years past. And this year it’s just not, man.”
The Chiefs’ struggles come amid uncertainty regarding the NFL future of Kelce, who is playing this season on an expiring contract. The tight end has previously said he won’t consider his plans for 2026 until after the season.
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