I voted 13-3 on the poll. But it wouldn't surprise me at all if they ended up going 11-5, for a couple reasons.
One, everyone's going into the season circling their game with the Chiefs. Every DC and defensive unit is going to be studying every piece of film looking for weaknesses, and which teams slowed Mahomes down, and just doing their best to be ready for Mahomes. We aren't going to sneak up on anybody.
Second, we have no idea if our defense is going to be better than last year. But with a new DC, whole new system, and a nearly completely new roster of players, it's likely that our defense is going to show their ass a few times early in the season.
With that in mind, and remembering how tough the Ravens played the Chiefs last year, I think we could easily drop that game, even though we'll be at home and the Ravens have lost four key starters on D.
I think we split with the Chargers, and maybe even with the Broncos.
That's three losses.
I think we could lose to either the Colts or the Texans; again these games are relatively early in the season and I just don't believe our defense is going to be running perfectly until the last quarter of the season, hopefully.
And then there's the game at the Patriots in December. There could be snow on the ground. And 10 degrees. Maybe windy. Maybe snowing.
And even if we exact revenge and beat the Pats, two weeks later we have to go to Chicago, in late December. It could be the worst game the Chiefs have ever played in the last 10 or 15 years, weather-wise. At the very least, it's going to be cold and windy. Like 20+ MPH windy. Maybe worse. Throw in snow or sleet or both and our air raid offense is going to likely be grounded. However, our D might be just turning the corner by that game. And I just don't believe Trubisky is that great a QB. Not right now anyway. He might prove me wrong in two years.
So that's five losses. I hope I'm wrong, really wrong.
Because I just looked at the Browns schedule as well, and I think they might go 11-5 as well. And apparently so do both Ryan Clark and Louis Riddick.
Regardless, I believe we'll be in for a dogfight in the last quarter of the season.
I can hardly wait.
Last edited by Megatron96; 04-17-2019 at 08:04 PM..
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