The team has seemingly become careless, unfocused, mistake-prone and even appears apathetic.Ģ023 NFL season, Week 16: What We Learned from Christmas tripleheader | NFL.comĬhiefs get off to historically bad start and can’t recover. This is potentially fixable, but right now it’s hard to believe the Chiefs can right the ship on time. They’re broken, but Mahomes is a magician, Andy Reid is a legend and the team certainly has the talent and experience to suddenly go on a January run all the way to Super Bowl LVIII. Look, we still can’t count the Chiefs out. They’ve now lost three straight at vaunted Arrowhead Stadium, so nothing’s guaranteed next week at home against the desperate Cincinnati Bengals or the following week on the road against the Los Angeles Chargers. That might have been aberrational, but it was a third consecutive multi-turnover game for a team that has gone 2-4 since its Week 10 bye and can no longer secure the top seed in the AFC.Īnd it could get worse. In their 20-14 Christmas Day home loss to the inferior division rival Las Vegas Raiders, quarterback Patrick Mahomes once again looked far from his elite self in a dud performance that featured two turnovers resulting in Raiders defensive touchdowns in a seven-second span. Nobody has repeated as Super Bowl champs since the 2004 New England Patriots did so, and now the 2022 champion Kansas City Chiefs look like a team that has no business in the Super Bowl picture.

It’s looking more and more as though the curse of reigning Super Bowl winners will be extended another year. NFL Week 16 Takeaways: Updated Playoff Seeding, Top Storylines for Christmas Day 2023 | Bleacher Report