Best Chiefs roster in franchise history

[DRM08]

Hank Stram’s team was pretty loaded with Hall of Fame talent.

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by DRM08

Hank Stram’s team was pretty loaded with Hall of Fame talent.

Skill positions on offense are not even close.

[trndobrd]

Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

Skill positions on offense are not even close.

Interesting thought experiment. Two game series. 1970 SB winning Chiefs (magically restored to youth, or resurrected if necessary) iv 2024 Chiefs squad.

Game one 1970 rules, uniforms and officials. No replay. Each member of 2023 squad must smoke two cigarettes during half time. Injured player can ‘juice up” as needed if injured.

Game two, 2023 rules , uniforms, officiating. No smoking in the locker rooms. No drugs.

[Why Not?]

Originally Posted by trndobrd

Interesting thought experiment. Two game series. 1970 SB winning Chiefs (magically restored to youth, or resurrected if necessary) iv 2024 Chiefs squad.

Game one 1970 rules, uniforms and officials. No replay. Each member of 2023 squad must smoke two cigarettes during half time. Injured player can ‘juice up” as needed if injured.

Game two, 2023 rules , uniforms, officiating. No smoking in the locker rooms. No drugs.

Honestly I think they’d have to call both games at half. Chris Jones would literally kill multiple lineman from the 60’s/70’s.

[smithandrew051]

Originally Posted by Why Not?

Honestly I think they’d have to call both games at half. Chris Jones would literally kill multiple lineman from the 60’s/70’s.

Yeah, EJ Holub started at center and weighed 236 lbs.

We can love those old teams while still acknowledging that modern athletes would kill them.

[Bl00dyBizkitz]

Originally Posted by Why Not?

Honestly I think they’d have to call both games at half. Chris Jones would literally kill multiple lineman from the 60’s/70’s.

Imagine allowing Chris Jones to "juice" and pitting him against 70's NFL players with their prehistoric levels of strength and conditioning. People literally would die.

[Chief Pagan]

Things are absolutely looking good.

Things to worry about.

LT is a question mark.

Injuries are always a concern and Kelce, while still bringing it, certainly looked old at times.

In the NFL, it seems you can always be blindsided by something.

Could use some depth at DT and RB.

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by Chief Pagan

In the NFL, it seems you can always be blindsided by something.

Please do not use that word.

[Bl00dyBizkitz]

Originally Posted by Chief Pagan

Things are absolutely looking good.

Things to worry about.

LT is a question mark.

Injuries are always a concern and Kelce, while still bringing it, certainly looked old at times.

In the NFL, it seems you can always be blindsided by something.

Could use some depth at DT and RB.

It's always fun in the offseason (specifically now-ish) to say how amazing the roster looks on paper and get your hopes and expectations up. But each season is different and literally ANYTHING can happen to completely derail your chances. Hell, something ALREADY happened that was completely dumb and avoidable and could very negatively affect our season.

I'm not trying to be a party pooper, I like to think of myself more on the optimistic spectrum here, but more even keel about things and more realistic about the chaos that is an NFL season.

[gordonelloyd]

Originally Posted by Chief Pagan

Things are absolutely looking good.

Things to worry about.

LT is a question mark.

Injuries are always a concern and Kelce, while still bringing it, certainly looked old at times.

In the NFL, it seems you can always be blindsided by something.

Could use some depth at DT and RB.

Definitely agree. I have reason to be optimistic as we did well in free agency with brown, and in the draft, certainly the first two picks.

I think we have a better team than our last two Super Bowl winners, but will we have a team that had as much luck? I hope so.

And there are definitely some question marks.
If we get Smith back we should be better at left tackle despite him being a year older.

And when we play teams with two elite receivers, we are going to miss Snead.

And the fact that no one has ever 3peated means we are really bucking the odds.

But I think we can do it

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by trndobrd

Interesting thought experiment. Two game series. 1970 SB winning Chiefs (magically restored to youth, or resurrected if necessary) iv 2024 Chiefs squad.

Game one 1970 rules, uniforms and officials. No replay. Each member of 2023 squad must smoke two cigarettes during half time. Injured player can ‘juice up” as needed if injured.

Game two, 2023 rules , uniforms, officiating. No smoking in the locker rooms. No drugs.

Others already beat me to it, but 69 stands no chance given advances in modern training, juice, etc.

I just looked it up and Buck Buchanan was 6’7” 269. He was basically Kelce’s size playing DT lol

The 69 center was 236 and he was 6’4”. That dude was barely bigger than Kam Chancellor and he’d have to go up against Chris Jones for 60 minutes. That would be a legitimate rape.

Plus Lenny himself was only 6’ 190. Idk how tough the dude was but it’d be put to the test that day.

[Why Not?]

Originally Posted by DRM08

Hank Stram’s team was pretty loaded with Hall of Fame talent.

Correct. But Mahomes is so good I believe he covers any delta by himself. Meaning I think spots 1-8 on Chiefs all time rosters have to be whatever ranking of Mahomes 8 years (counting 2024). Plus the modern day Chiefs have arguably two GOATs playing. As good as those Stram teams were, I’m not sure if there is a legit GOAT candidate there.

[IowaHawkeyeChief]

Originally Posted by DRM08

Hank Stram’s team was pretty loaded with Hall of Fame talent.

No doubt, but 30 years from now, this team will be remembered as being loaded with HOF talent as well.

[Bowser]

Originally Posted by notorious

This.

I don't figure in the rookies because we have no idea what they will really end up being.

It's easy to say this NOW after we've seen a couple of seasons of Skyy Moore, but Worthy is going to walk in here light years ahead of where Skyy was coming out of the MAC and into the NFL. It's different this time.

Originally Posted by O.city

Nitpicking but it depends on fau

May need some more depth at de

I feel like we're all going to be pleasantly surprised with FAU this season. Just a hunch.

[notorious]

Originally Posted by Bowser

It's easy to say this NOW after we've seen a couple of seasons of Skyy Moore, but Worthy is going to walk in here light years ahead of where Skyy was coming out of the MAC and into the NFL. It's different this time.



I feel like we're all going to be pleasantly surprised with FAU this season. Just a hunch.

Don't get me wrong, I see a lot of potential and am excited about the rooks. When I see it on and NFL field I will start to get real excitement.