State of the AFCW 2023 edition
 

So far Chiefs are in sole first place. The Dungkeys will be lucky to win 5 games. The Fade…. McDaniels really kicked a FG on 4th and Goal from the 8…. Down 8…. With 2:30 to go. And Chargers look worse than last year. Now looks like Mike Williams may be done for the season. This division is ours for the taking, and BACK TO BACK starts with that!

I do like me some Chiefs football

No weigh… U2???

I too, enjoy Kansas City Chiefs football!

Mike Williams is injured? It must be September already. Where has this year gone?

I need to poop rn.

The NFC has been hot garbage in recent years, but WTF is happening to the AFC so far... Bengals obviously need to get their shit together. Dolphins will be wait-and-see for December and January . I've thought the Jags are stupid overrated, but they look worse than the mediocre team they were last season.

And then like you said, the rest of the AFC is just as bad or worse so far.

It's still early obviously, but as someone who's generally not impressed by most NFL games, this seems even more terrible.

I've heard Kohl's is good for this.

This is good advice.

Where does one receive such accurate information?

Chiefsplanet.com has great information in the art of quality poops

Chiefsplanet.com.....is that web address a reference to my favorite professional football team, the Kansas City Chiefs?

Yep. I and many others crowned Jacksonville too early. They're pretty clearly not a realistic contender yet. Still representing the AFC South but bounced in the Wild Card round.

The Chiefs who are from Kansas City happen to be my favorite football team, so this AFCW 2023 update makes me happy.

same as it ever was

The Colts are #1 with Texans 2nd. LMAO

Who would have thought?

Chiefs owned the division with average or bad defenses.

Chiefs are elite on defense now. It’s over.

Yes, it's a multifaceted site that covers many pertinent subjects including my favorite nfl franchise, the Kansas City Chiefs

feels like we're just waiting for tua and jalen to get hurt so everyone can throw their faith in josh allen to stop us LMAO

McJowls and Crappalo are good enough for 3rd place

Buffalo looks like they may be legit and have gotten over the 13-second game hangover.

Miami looks really good but Tua has always been susceptible to injuries. Posting 70 was undoubtedly impressive, even against Denver but time will show how much of that was Miami and how much was Denver.

Otherwise?

Baltimore was supposed to have a good year but they've shown some definite cracks.

Cincy has not looked good so far, in part b/c of Burrow's injury. We will learn more tonight but they don't look like the same team from the last couple of years.

Pittsburgh looks solid but not like a contender.

Jets chances went out the window with Rodgers.

Jacksonville - beat by Houston?

Chargers - injuries and poor play calls are going to haunt them. I think Minnesota lost that game more than Chargers won.

Really surprised at how this year has turned out so far. It's admittedly a long season but some of these teams have put themselves into holes early.

This begs the question; does KC sweep the AFC West in back to back years?

Barring something fluky, I don't see how we don't

Buffalo, KC, and Miami clearly look like the best 3 teams in the AFC in some order.

All have question marks, but KC easily gets the most benefit of the doubt imo.

Chiefs loss really should have been a win despite missing 2 top 10 players in the league.

Buffalo has blown out a couple bad teams, but we know they love running the score up. I think their run defense is really bad and I don’t trust Josh Allen still.

Miami has looked great, but Tua has real injury concerns that could pop up at any time. We need to see them win in cold weather too.

The Josh Allen love continues to mystify me

I’m pulling for KC here

Half of Baltimore is hurt already. They will fade.

1) Chiefs
2) Miami
3) Bills
4) The rest
5) Broncos

The Dolphins are currently the 2020/2021 Bills teams that are out to prove the doubters wrong by running up the score on teams... why they would keep their injury prone QB in the game at the beginning of the 4th is beyond me (especially when you're racking up rushing yards like that), but it's hilarious they still managed to score a couple more times after that.

I wish their game against the Chiefs wasn't in Germany, just to remove that variable of having teams deal with flying to a different country midseason... but, will be interesting to see where they're at in another month and then again in January.

The Chargers play up to us, and their edgerush is going to be in Mahomes' lap all day.

I'd still bet the Chiefs to sweep, but ending the season in LA is going to be a tough win to notch.

I think the Chiefs are going to be the best team in the AFC by the end of the season unless the Bengals figure themselves out, but at this point, in Week 3, you have to conclude the Dolphins are probably the #1 team in the AFC.

Need a bigger gap between 4 and 5, but otherwise agree

I dunno....

Dolphins beat the now 1-2 Chargers by 2 on a last minute TD.
Chiefs lose by a point to the now 2-1 Lions

Dolphins underwhelmingly take care of a mediocre (at best) Patriots team.
Chiefs underwhelmingly take care of a mediocre Jags team.

Dolphins demolish the Broncos.
Chiefs demolish the Bears.

The Dolphins were far more in sync on offense in week 1, but their defense also looked terrible. Chiefs defense has of course been a major strength.

It's hard to ignore 70 points of course, even if the Chiefs probably put up a couple more TDs yesterday if Mahomes stays in... not that those games tell us anything about anything.

If we're talking an ESPN attention grabbing power ranking of the feels right this very moment... sure, give it to the Phins this week. They clearly wanted that prize.

You're not wrong but you have to consider that I'm an unabashed homer.

I mean yeah if I'm being objective 70 points (and the dolphins were trying to give denver a break by just running and not kicking a field goal when they could have scored more) puts them over the chiefs in week 3. but hey it's week 3

You can say they've had the best start, but I don't think anyone needs to concede that they're the best team right now. Best offense? Probably. KC's defense has been substantially better though.

Miami squeaked by a flailing Chargers team despite winning the TO battle 2-0. Then squeaked by a weak Patriots team in week 2. Demolishing Denver shouldn't earn them the benefit of the doubt over the champs, any more than demolishing the Bears would earn KC the benefit of the doubt if the roles were reversed.

All fair.

Two things are true: that Dolphins defense is really, really talented, but also, I love Andy Reid against a Vic Fangio defense. Few people can navigate Fangio's system defense better. I'd bet on the Chiefs to drop 30 on them.

The problem of course is that Dolphins offense. It is literally without weakness so long as Tua is upright.

The Chiefs defense, and I can't believe I am saying this out loud, looks like a Top 5 unit in the NFL right now and Spags is on a heater. So I'll be fascinated by what they do to slow them down.

Right now, it's shaping up to be the best game of the season.

They'll pressure Tua.

"Chiefs defense carried Mahomes to this Superbowl title"

Say it out loud, because you are going to hear it a lot mid-February, even if it's not 100% accurate.

Yeah, Dolphins drawing us after we have Omenihu back sucks for them.

Mike Williams officially out for the season.

Re: the Dolphins, the only things I see is that the offensive line is not really special. They scheme well and get the ball out quick, but a good DL/pressure group could give them some trouble. The Chiefs seem to have that this year.

Tyreek says he's got something for us when we play at Arrowhead this year. I sure hope he does his own itinerary and flight!

Chargers got lucky as hell yesterday, with two of the Toney bobble ball plays in their favor to end the game. Herbert got a TD instead of an INT and Cousins got an INT instead of a TD on those plays. Chargers should be 0-3 right now.

Not really. Mike Williams is out for the season. They may have won that game but it came with a cost

Personally, I am all for that! Mahomes not having to go hero to win will be epic! When defense balls out, the offense doesn't have as much pressure.

Further, who cares who carries, the team wins is what matters!

Which then leads to the question is it Johnston or Palmer as the 2 because so far Johnston has looked pretty shitty.

They lucked out and got the win but the HC should still be fired. He won't be and he'll cost them a game or two with his stupidity so I'm good.

I would love to see it. Mahomes has had very shaky defenses his entire career, including multiple playoff losses in high school where he scored 50 points. It would be epic if Spags and his guys can do an elite job this season. But we will see. There is a lot of firepower in Miami, Buffalo, Cincy, Philly, & San Francisco.

I had missed that. I figured it was his usual lower leg injury that costs him six games before he comes back for 2 and reinjures it but not before he racks up 100 yards against KC.

He's out for the season.

You had to quote the worst written sentence I've ever posted damnit.

"going to here in a lot" :facepalm: LMAO

KC will quite literally never lose again tbh

If they do it was fixed!

Fixed it in my post if it makes you feel better, haha

I know that's right!!

I can't believe the pressure we're seeing from the DL. Their play against the run has been so fundamentally sound as well.

It's incredible what the DL is doing. I expected the linebackers to ball out, and the secondary looks as amazing as we hoped it would.

But the DL really, really looked problematic to me to start the season. I worried they'd struggle to apply consistent pressure and that you could roll them over in the run game.

And yet, we've applied constant pressure, lodged 7 sacks in the two Jones games, and nobody's run effectively on us.

Veach, Spags, and Cullen all deserve heaping amounts of credit for what they're doing at that position. I seriously cannot believe how good they are at the start of the season.

State of the AFC West? They dead.

If not for the refs, Chiefs would be undefeated all time imho

Yup. Just saw that.

He always had big games against us.

Thanks brah!

And then we get Omenihu back in week 7. :rockon:

Agree.

Also, re: the Dolphins, I still question Tagavailoa's arm strength. I didn't watch all of the game yesterday (yet, but I will, to relish the beatdown), but everything I've seen him do so far this year is a short throw or an intermediate/deeper throw between the hashes.

I think Spagnuolo will have some ideas ready for how to deal with that, and play some games to compact that part of the field. I think we'll see a decent amount of doubling on Hill and Waddle and daring the Dolphins to win consistently with Cracraft and secondary weapons.

Completely agree.

I agree with most of your post but let's go back to your first sentence. Buffalo over the 13 second game hangover because they pasted the lowly Raiders and almost as bad Commanders?