Will the Chiefs actually regress in 2025?

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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 'Inside Coverage' - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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Give me a Super Bowl caliber team that you're boom or bust on.
Oh, I'm gonna do this again.
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.
I don't learn from my mistakes.
The Kansas City Chiefs are gonna regress, right?
Like, let's think about last year.
We all remember they were winning every close game.
They caught every break any team could possibly catch.
They set an NFL record with consecutive wins in one score games.
Uh, I don't think they, I don't want to sit here and say they were exposed in the Super Bowl.
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.
But all of a sudden now, Rashee Rice, his suspension might be back on the table, and Travis Kelce is getting older.
Chris Jones is getting older, as great as he's been.
Throughout this Chiefs' run, uh, I think 9 straight division titles, how often has there been a good second team in the AFC West?
And the answer is pretty rarely.
I think there's two now.
We can debate whether you like the Broncos or Chargers more to compete with the Chiefs in this division.
Maybe the answer is both.
I like the Chargers.
Others prefer the Broncos, but I think you're going to get, again, these two teams did make the playoffs last year.
I think you're gonna get both of those teams kind of nipping at the Chiefs' heels this year.
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.
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.
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.
Like I just, I have a hard time betting against them.
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.
That's a bust for them.
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.
This is the first time ever for the Chiefs as a wildcard in the playoffs here.
I think that's on the table.
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