that's only because we have 4 games against San Diego and Denver and play an entire division of 8-8 and above in the AFC North

I don't fear Pitt / Cin / Balt / Cle

They haven't rolled the dice in 32 years.

They've been above .500 both years with them, and they did it this year with the toughest schedule in the NFL, a rash of injuries and crap at OL and WR. There is no reason to believe they will hover around .500.

Good to hear DJ's getting there.

Hopefully, DJ got his new Achilles from a dead guy that didn't use his much.

I've never done shit to my achilles, so I know nothing about its recovery and rehab.

I understand the most reasonable assumption is that he will lose a step, but is there any way he can rehab 100%, I wonder.

Andy Reid hasn't won more than 11 games in a decade, and Smith has one more than 11 games only once in his career.

Both have won playoff games, though.

He's 32: He'd lose a step each year, regardless of an Achilles replacement. It's not like an ACL.

His upper body and strength may be just fine but he won't know how the new Achilles will hold up until he's on the football field. He's not an immobile QB like Dan Marino - he's been a very active ILBer.

If he returns to even 90%, it'll be a "miracle" of modern science.

Suggs and Kobe both recently tore their achilles ... Suggs is the same age as DJ and just had 12 sacks and no real drop-off in play. His 1st season back from the achilles he had 10 sacks.

Kobe is averaging like 25/5/5 like usual ... and he's even older.

So uh, no. It won't be a "wonder" of modern science. It'll be about typical for 2015 and a world class athlete with world class trainers and doctors and world class supplements. Read into that however you'd like.

I can say, however, with total confidence that even a Derrick Johnson at 70% is 5 times the player Josh Muaga will ever be.

Seems kind of irrelevant IMO. We've gone 11-5, and 9-7 the past two years, and next years roster should be much better than either one.

I said before this year that I expected the Chiefs to win 8 or 9 games and be better than they were in 2013. I think this held true. We had some very impressive wins this year.

Now, that being said, the way it played out where we beat Seattle to go to 7-3 and then ended up 9-7 and missing the playoffs was disappointing to say the least.

But I think Dorsey looked at the team before the season, looked at our roster and the available free agents and players we were going to lose ... and then decided 2015 was going to be the year we were ready to REALLY compete.

We lost Jackson, McCluster, Albert, Asamoah, Schwartz, etc... to free agency, cut Flowers.

I truly think this was our rebuild year. Let it ride with what we had and go for it in 2015.

I bet you we are very aggressive in free agency and we have a ton of picks to supplement our roster.

We're going to win somewhere in the neighborhood of 10-12 games next year with a ceiling of 13 if we get some bounces.

Not bad for a team with Alex Smith.

Dude, 95% of all people that tear their Achilles never return to normal. 36% never return to the NFL.

Suggs is a freak of nature, not the norm. Basing DJ's recovery on Suggs' is premature.

The one concerning trend for me is how we wrap these seasons up.

We ended 2013 2-6, and ended 2014 2-4.

I don't know what's causing that or how it can be remedied.