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Originally Posted by Bearcat
Oh, 100% on that vibe. There's always a bit of a double standard around here when it comes to discounting an opponent's schedule versus the Chiefs'.
Ever since Rodgers was ruled out, my thought has been we won't REALLY know if they're back until the playoffs... and that's just the nature of NFL schedules.
BUT, we obviously know what this team is capable of now and in the playoffs. We've talked a lot about cleaning up turnovers and the defense needing to get healthy and have a real DE and be less than "historically bad" (if they ever were this season), and whatever Mahomes' struggles were needed to go away.
And all of that existed at one point or another against the shit teams of the league.... and it's mostly gone away, granted against mostly the shit teams in the league. I would have felt better with a 'signature' win over the Bills or Titans (or for those games to be played now), but they were instead dominated and so here we are...
So, do we KNOW they can beat a Super Bowl caliber team? I would say no, not 100%. Except.... who the hell is a SB caliber team right now?
And unlike the Bengals and pretty much every team, we've been there and have done it, and that experience is huge.
So, I think we're riding on past results more so right now than beating up shit teams like the Steelers, Raiders, etc. Much like the Bills fans screaming point differential! last season, it's nice to see, but isn't indicative of SB results.
Yet, this core of players has proven far more over the course of 3 years than any other team in the league, and it's not really even close.
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Not in this case. You could argue that neither team has a signature win. But there’s a clear difference in strength of schedule. The chiefs have played 4 top 10 teams. Bengals 1. Meanwhile the bengals have played the three worst teams and 4 in the bottom 10 (jags, jets, lions, bears). The chiefs only 1. Somehow the bengals going 2-2 in those games. The timing of the ravens and raiders games were practically layups. So we’re talking about one team that’s consistently played playoff contenders vs a team that’s played half of their schedule against bad teams. I don’t think there’s any argument the chiefs have had a tough schedule. And easy to make the argument the bengals schedule has not been.
That doesn’t mean either team has any advantage. But on paper we are way more proven even keeping prior seasons aside.