{"id":16057,"date":"2025-07-22T18:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/16057\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:28:08","slug":"will-the-chiefs-actually-regress-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/16057\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the Chiefs actually regress in 2025?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz and senior NFL writer Frank Schwab discuss how the defending AFC champions could take a step back this season. Hear the full conversation on \u201cInside Coverage\u201d – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, YouTube<\/a> or wherever you listen.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Give me a Super Bowl caliber team that you’re boom or bust on.<\/p>\n

Oh, I’m gonna do this again.<\/p>\n

I, and I, it’s so dumb when I do it, and I do it all the time, but, uh, I’m not a very smart man.<\/p>\n

I don’t learn from my mistakes.<\/p>\n

The Kansas City Chiefs are gonna regress, right?<\/p>\n

Like, let’s think about last year.<\/p>\n

We all remember they were winning every close game.<\/p>\n

They caught every break any team could possibly catch.<\/p>\n

They set an NFL record with consecutive wins in one score games.<\/p>\n

Uh, I don’t think they, I don’t want to sit here and say they were exposed in the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n

They played a really good team and just had a bad day, and I, I don’t think that that was indicative of who the Chiefs are.<\/p>\n

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But all of a sudden now, Rashee Rice, his suspension might be back on the table, and Travis Kelce is getting older.<\/p>\n

Chris Jones is getting older, as great as he’s been.<\/p>\n

Throughout this Chiefs’ run, uh, I think 9 straight division titles, how often has there been a good second team in the AFC West?<\/p>\n

And the answer is pretty rarely.<\/p>\n

I think there’s two now.<\/p>\n

We can debate whether you like the Broncos or Chargers more to compete with the Chiefs in this division.<\/p>\n

Maybe the answer is both.<\/p>\n

I like the Chargers.<\/p>\n

Others prefer the Broncos, but I think you’re going to get, again, these two teams did make the playoffs last year.<\/p>\n

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I think you’re gonna get both of those teams kind of nipping at the Chiefs’ heels this year.<\/p>\n

I think we’re gonna look up in December and say, wow, the Chiefs could be a wild card team this year because the Broncos and Chargers are right there with them.<\/p>\n

I, I feel like the Chargers are a 10-win team and the Broncos are a 10-win team, and the Chiefs are a 13-win team.<\/p>\n

I can get the Chiefs down to like 12 and 5, and maybe that will feel like tremendous regression, but I don’t know, man.<\/p>\n

Like I just, I have a hard time betting against them.<\/p>\n

I, I just think that, again, the bust for the Chiefs is you, you, you are a wild card team and maybe, you know, you go on the road, Buffalo week one or Ravens week wild card weekend, and you lose.<\/p>\n

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That’s a bust for them.<\/p>\n

Uh, I think if some of these breaks don’t go their way, all of a sudden we’re looking and saying, oh wow, they they have to go on the road week one.<\/p>\n

This is the first time ever for the Chiefs as a wildcard in the playoffs here.<\/p>\n

I think that’s on the table.<\/p>\n

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