{"id":37691,"date":"2025-11-15T14:49:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T14:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=37691"},"modified":"2025-11-15T14:49:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T14:49:55","slug":"breaking-news-everyones-afraid-of-the-kansas-city-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=37691","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS : Everyone&#8217;s Afraid of the Kansas City Chiefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-mm-id=\"_0ikzvappi\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images2.minutemediacdn.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,w_4898,h_2755,x_0,y_61\/c_fill,w_2160,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto\/images%2FImagnImages%2Fmmsport%2Farrowhead_report%2F01ka2d172b6w2g3n12jd.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_0ikzvappi\">Throughout his run at the NFL&#8217;s pinnacle for the Kansas City Chiefs, Patrick Mahomes has earned an ethereal comparison that aptly describes the hopelessness he strikes in opposing teams and fans: the Grim Reaper. It really came to a head last season. In 2024, the Chiefs looked vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_nhun7cm5f\">Their offense had taken a step back, with Rashee Rice going down after four games with a season-ending LCL tear, Travis Kelce regressing severely, and Isiah Pacheco fracturing his leg. And yet, KC still marched its way to a 15-2 record behind an elite defense and seven game-winning drives from Mahomes.<\/p>\n<figure data-mm-id=\"_tcfmidczy\">\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_upclggjb2\">Through the years, no lead has felt safe against the Chiefs&#8217; explosive offense of seasons past. Even last year, when they didn&#8217;t have their most high-powered weapons, Mahomes still made them feel inevitable. They&#8217;ve struck that same fear across the league in 2025, despite sitting at just 5-4 through 10 weeks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" data-mm-id=\"_0dfugabcl\">\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images2.minutemediacdn.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,w_5380,h_3026,x_0,y_77\/c_fill,w_620,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto\/images\/ImagnImages\/mmsport\/arrowhead_report\/01ka2f9kp9w633ep9991.jpg\" alt=\"Kansas City Chiefs, NFL, Denver Broncos, Patrick Mahomes, Bo Nix\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"_cb5cepuw8\" class=\"tagStyle_1mz4afy-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_cb5cepuw8\">Can anyone challenge the Chiefs?<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_qkxd1ybgi\">It&#8217;s not exactly common to see a 5-4 team sit atop the NFL Super Bowl odds. That&#8217;s exactly what&#8217;s happening this year with the Kansas City Chiefs, though. Despite sitting third in the AFC West division and outside of the current playoff picture, it&#8217;s seen as a given that this team will go on a run in the second half of the campaign, make the postseason, and return to the championship game.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_furhivnwm\">It all starts in Week 11 against the current AFC West-leading Denver Broncos. The Chiefs&#8217; upcoming opponent has gotten out to a dominant 8-2 mark behind one of the top defenses in the league. Earlier this year, detractors couldn&#8217;t wait to pick against KC after they started the season just 0-2. However, Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs&#8217; offense have struck fear across the NFL once again, even after a discouraging loss to the Buffalo Bills. NFL.com&#8217;s panel of editors all picked Kansas City, with Tom Blair predicting a 23-20 victory:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Kansas City Chiefs are 1-3 on the road this year, with their only win coming against the Russell Wilson led New York Giants.<\/p>\n<p>The Broncos have won TEN consecutive home games dating back to last season.<\/p>\n<p>Defend home field. Win the game. Win the division. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZqcBcBBeVe\">pic.twitter.com\/ZqcBcBBeVe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Normie (@AllProHufanga) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AllProHufanga\/status\/1988294035061309719?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_nhhk4n4b7\">&#8220;I almost tricked myself into going with the Broncos and their superpowered defense at home. Could Denver&#8217;s pass rush keep Patrick Mahomes from getting back into the Master of the Universe groove that helped him power a three-game win streak for K.C.? Sure, maybe. Can Bo Nix give Andy Reid the fifth ever post-bye week loss of his decades-long head-coaching career? That&#8217;s a tougher question to answer \u2014 unless you need to splash some cold water on any idle thoughts of a Broncos upset, in which case it&#8217;s exactly where you want your brain to lead you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_07nnfnh36\">&#8220;All due respect to Nix and Sean Payton for putting together an exciting season so far, but this figures to be the Biggest Test Yet of Denver&#8217;s legitimacy. And I would feel a lot better about the Broncos&#8217; chances if I knew they were going to have Patrick Surtain II and J.K. Dobbins on the field, as they did for their only victory to date against a team that is currently in the playoff picture, a four-point squeaker over the ever-angsty Eagles back in Week 5. It feels like everything would have to line up perfectly for Denver to pull this off, and Mahomes and Co.&#8217;s fresh-and-rested status kind of takes that scenario off the table from the jump.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_wiyx9s7uj\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs have earned the respect \u2014 and the fear \u2014 they&#8217;ve been shown in the 2025 NFL season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kansas-city-chiefs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING NEWS : Everyone&#039;s Afraid of the Kansas City Chiefs - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=37691\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING NEWS : Everyone&#039;s Afraid of the Kansas City Chiefs - 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