Best Chiefs roster in franchise history

[RunKC]

Which roster do you think was/is the best in franchise history? And honestly why is it not this years roster?

-Chiefs have the best HC
-Arguably (we certainly think he is) the best DC in the league
-top 3 defense that only lost Sneed and should still be top 10
-an offense with 2 elite speed WR’s (Hollywood/Worthy), Rice and Wiley as a complimentary player to go with Mahomes/Kelce/Pacheco
-top 3 kicker in the league

Unless injuries occur (knock on wood) I think this team is KO’ing a lot of teams in the regular season like they did in 2020. Raiders are getting curb stomped. Broncos are getting beaten by double digits easy.

This team is so loaded man. Can 2020 or any other Chiefs team compare?

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

31 other teams are saying the same thing

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by Hog's Gone Fishin

31 other teams are saying the same thing

They're definitely NOT saying this in Buffalo, Cincy, Los Angeles, Denver, Las Vegas or Miami.

[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 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.

[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.

[ThyKingdomCome15]

Originally Posted by Tribal Warfare

Don't start this shit again, because some thought this of last year's WR corps

Yeah how they all were all terrible outside of Rice still shocks me to this day. At a minimum we know we have a ton of speed. That by itself will allow Kelce and Rice to feast. The defenses can't cheat or Mahomes will just lob it 50 yards down the field.

The rest if the league is cooked.

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by smithandrew051

Plus, Rice and Hollywood are proven commodities. We aren’t hoping that Toney figures it out or Moore takes a step forward.

Yep, Mahomes throws for another 5000+ yard passing season. We don’t need Toney or Moore to step up. We needed them last year to step up and they didn’t but we still took home the SB trophy.

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by ThyKingdomCome15

Yeah how they all were all terrible outside of Rice still shocks me to this day. At a minimum we know we have a ton of speed. That by itself will allow Kelce and Rice to feast. The defenses can't cheat or Mahomes will just lob it 50 yards down the field.

The rest if the league is cooked.

Brown-Rice-Worthy-Kelce

Smells a lot like

Bruce-Holt-Hakim-Proehl

More top end ability in the greatest show, but I think Worthy and Kelce are clearly a step up. Kelce's probably more of a comp to Faulk in the passing game at this point anyway.

Now imagine if Warner could run for 500 yards a year.

[Dante84]

I hope we just kick every kickoff through the endzone so we don’t give up any trash td’s that give shit teams a chance.

[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]

We've never really had that combo of Top Offense AND Top Defense, but 2019 was close enough. The #1 offense and a decent enough defense to get us through.

2020 gets forgotten to time because of COVID, but we were absolute world beaters that year. Same team as 2019 with CEH pre-injury, Sneed, and Gay as rookies. The only thing that stopped that team were injuries. I still contend that Britt Reid ****ed us as well, but I'm not really bothered by it at this point.

2022 was the more balanced team, I just wish the defense didn't get slapped around in the Super Bowl, otherwise it would be remembered more fondly. And even so, I still believe the 2019/2020 teams were more dominant.

[Gary Cooper]

Bo Nix isn't worried.

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by Bl00dyBizkitz

2022 was the more balanced team, I just wish the defense didn't get slapped around in the Super Bowl, otherwise it would be remembered more fondly. And even so, I still believe the 2019/2020 teams were more dominant.

It's a real 87/88 49ers dynamic.

The 87 49ers were absolutely dominant. Everyone expected them to walk through the league into the third ring. Got upset in the divisional round.

88 team struggled but put it together at the end.

We're living that dynasty experience!

One of these days we'll have another great season that goes awry and I'll be thinking about this video.