And there was no free agency to speak of. Easy to keep 7 HOF'ers on your defense when they cant go anywhere else.

Going 18-1 and losing the Super Bowl would be a mother ****ing nightmare of epic proportions.

This is why I put the stuff in parentheses.

Are we talking about the Super Bowl that took place in 1971 (following the 1970 season) or are we talking about the 1971 season, whose Super Bowl took place in 1972?

Absolutely dumb. Winning a Super Bowl is the only goal.

Getting somebody hurt in the quest for a meaningless regular season title would be one of the dumbest things in the history of sports.

Pretty sure Bill played a bunch of his starters that Week 17 game in the year they went 18-1

This is the best team the Chiefs have ever had. They nearly went undefeated last year. This team is much better. I believe.

Pfft. If you're 16-0 you don't rest your starters, you go for it. Would be a complete disrespect to the team to do otherwise. The Colts actually did that years back and it caused bad blood along with failure in the playoffs anyway.

He said 15-0 AND 16-0.

Sure, if you're one game away from an undefeated season, go for it. But the goal is winning a championship, period end of story. If you're sitting at 15-0 with 2 games left and have already wrapped everything up, you don't play 2 full games just to try and get a perfect season.

That’s a nice thought until Mahomes or Tyreek or another key starter God forbid sustains an injury in a game with no playoff implications just to get to an undefeated record.

Eric Fisher goes down in essentially garbage time of the AFC Championship Game and it effectively cost the Chiefs the Super Bowl.

Not again.

If you rest starters and win the Super Bowl, you’ll never regret it. Maybe wonder “what if?”, but no regrets.

If you don’t rest starters and lose a key player which costs you the Super Bowl, you’ll always regret it.

Why?

The Super Bowl is an unpredictable single elimination corporate event that the NFL can steer to their liking by instructing refs to throw bs P.I. and Holding flags. Winning it is obviously great but losing that game would do nothing to invalidate an 18-0 season in my mind.

I'd much rather go 18-0 and lose the Super Bowl than go 12-5 and lose it.

Patrick Mahomes wants to go down as being immortal. Going 20-0 would do that, let the kid dream!

The Super Bowl is basically who got hot at the right time/who got more timely help from the refs.

The best team only occasionally wins the Super Bowl.

ROFL

And yet going undefeated remains a completely unrewarded event. The whole discussion is stupid.