Kansas City Chiefs have taken the phrase 'first place schedule' to a whole other level in 2024
The Kansas City Chiefs are on the cusp of three peating, they only have to beat a few really good teams and then win the Super Bowl, but hey, we have seen this before. In 2019, the Chiefs won every game after trailing by 10 points in the fourth quarter. In 2022 they did it […]
The Kansas City Chiefs are on the cusp of three peating, they only have to beat a few really good teams and then win the Super Bowl, but hey, we have seen this before. In 2019, the Chiefs won every game after trailing by 10 points in the fourth quarter. In 2022 they did it with Patrick Mahomes having a bum ankle. In 2023 they did it with no weapons outside of Kelce.
This year, well, this year will be the pressure of having to do what no team has ever done. And, that is enough pressure to make anyone else fold. That is, anyone else that's not the Chiefs.
This season has prepared them for that, though.
Chiefs played first-place schedule in 2024
Let's start with the schedule: The Chiefs finished 15-1 in games where their starters played, and games that really mattered. They had the No. 1 seed locked up by Christmas, as they beat down the Pittsburgh Steelers, a current playoff team.
The two games they did lose, one to the Buffalo Bills on the road was a pretty close game, and a team that usually always beats the Chiefs in the regular season, and the other to the Denver Broncos without the starters. That's pretty good if you ask me. They are the first team to win 15 regular season games since the Carolina Panthers did it in 2015.
But their first-place schedule that they played is really what has them set up for this run in the postseason.
They played nine games in the regular season that were against teams currently in the playoffs. They won seven of those games, losing two, one of them being that Week 18 loss to the Broncos. The last time that was done, a 7-2 record against eventual playoff teams, was in 1998 and 1997 when the New York Jets and the Green Bay Packers did it.
The Baltimore Ravens did it this year as well, so that's four times ever.
We hear the phrase "first place schedule" all of the time, and the Chiefs took the meaning of that phrase to a whole new level, beating teams like the Baltimore Ravens, Los Angeles Chargers (twice), Houston Texans, and pretty much every team on this side of the bracket besides the Bills, who they pretty much own in the postseason at this point.
The schedule they played this year has them set up for success.
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