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You don’t think the 1999 Atlanta Falcons tells us what to expect from the 2025 Chiefs?

Allen’s defenses have given up 19 PPG in the playoffs when they aren’t playing teams Quarterbacked by Mahomes. They’ve given up 33 PPG when they are.

The fact that he had a very reasonable contract factored heavily into that.

That Hairston appears to have called a lie.

Reading the responses, I’m pretty sure it’s being treated as a “what do you hope happens in 2025?” thread rather than a bold prediction thread.

That guy is a hack.

Is your sport wheelchair basketball?

The Chiefs are so clueless, amirite?

Maybe more telling is that they’ve got a bunch of slot WRs, and Shakir’s still entrenched in that spot. If he could effectively play on the boundary, they’d put Coleman or Samuel in the slot and instantly improve at two positions.

That’s actually really cool.

In this case, it’s less about the contracts they have and more about the ones they don’t. They have very little dead money, and the closest thing to a bad contract they have is Jawaan Taylor who is a solid to good RT who will be gone after this coming season. When you’ve got a ton of key players on rookie deals and nobody on terrible deals, you can afford to keep most of your core intact. Even with that, they’ve had to part with guys like Thuney and Sneed recently, though.

Maybe I’m misreading this. Are you saying that adding a top 5 pass rusher would be less impactful than adding Saquan? Cook played his ass off against the Chiefs whereas Saquan wasn’t really a factor. The reason the Eagles won is basically the same reason every time Kansas City loses. Their defensive line overwhelmed us. There’s simply no solution to that problem. The Texans did the same thing in the Divisional round, but their offense wasn’t good enough to take advantage of it. You don’t beat Mahomes in the playoffs by having a better RB. You beat him by planting him in the turf every time he drops back.

That is incredible.

He’s a lower end #1 edge or an excellent #2. I think he’ll live in the 8-12 sack range for most of his career. He’s not an athletic freak, but he wins by being relentless. If he’s your best pass rusher, you probably don’t have a great pass rush.

In 4 seasons, Rousseau has 25 regular season sacks and 3 postseason sacks. In 3 seasons, Karlaftis has 24.5 regular season sacks and 8 postseason sacks. He’s now under control for 6 more seasons at $110,000,000 total. That’s a very reasonable deal.