The Chiefs are not supposed to beat New England
By Chris Taylor
Opening night in Foxboro for the NFL, hanging a banner, reigning champs, Tom Brady and Bill Belichick are all good reasons not to expect a win for Kansas City this week.
The Kansas City Chiefs have a tough schedule. We all should know this by now. If anyone has forgotten, this Thursday shall remind him/her nicely. The Chiefs travel to Foxboro to kick off the year in grand fashion against the New England Patriots.
New England will be celebrating their Super Bowl win with their fans on Thursday night. Among the evening’s festivities will be the unveiling of the Patriots fifth Super Bowl Champions banner. Foxboro went under some minor renovations during this offseason in order to make room for banner number five—such a great problem to be faced with, right?
There are plenty of other reasons to doubt the Chiefs chances of going away with a win. Here are a select few.
Vegas says so
I have seen the line as high as 9 in New England’s favor. The Patriots have won 7 of 10 matchups against the Chiefs, most recently in the 2015 divisional playoff game at Foxboro, beating the Chiefs 27 to 20. Though the money is good if you’re betting on the Chiefs to win, if you know Vegas, good money means they do not think there is a chance they do so.
Opening night on the road
Foxboro is not a destination any NFL player wants to go, especially when the ship sails on opening night. Opening weekend should always be considered a rough game for any away team. Fans come out in drones to see their first glimpse of what to expect during the year.
The one team you don’t want to be is the team visiting the reigning champs, especially in the event that team is led by Tom Brady and coached by Bill Belichick.
Which leads us to…
Tom Brady and Bill Belichick
The theme of “Married with Children” comes to mind when I think of these two gentlemen. You can’t have one without the other. It has now been 18 years the duo has been together. Eighteen years seems like a long time, it only seems like yesterday we were making fun of Brady for his tiny frame and weird haircut. He looked like the guy handing your meal to you at the local burger joint.
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Five championships later, a super model wife, and the tag of being the greatest of all time sure shut our mouths up quick. To say with outright confidence that anyone will beat him on any given Sunday is unwarranted.
Then there’s the man sitting atop the throne of the 8 kingdoms. While they try to overthrow him, he continues to conquer with lesser armies than his foes, with Brady as the Hand of the King.
Bill Belichick is a mastermind, a guru and a football genius. As horrible as it is to listen to him talk about his team throughout the week, to see him put his plan together on the field has been a thing of beauty over the last two decades.
Belichick coaches like a champion boxer fights. The Patriots wear you down and do just enough to beat you. In other words, they do what they have to when they have to. Belichick in his own right will go down as the greatest coach of all time. The argument is futile.
Don’t fret, Chiefs Kingdom
I desperately want the Chiefs to win this game. I am so tired of the Patriots and Tom Brady. I’m definitely tired of Bill Belichick. But the fact is to assume or predict a Chiefs victory would strip me of my amateur status.
There will be the morning talk shows flooded with callers on Monday ready to start the Patrick Mahomes era immediately. Analysts such as myself will be calling out members of the organization for not having our team prepared for such a matchup. New predictions will fly off the handle as many use this game as the final predictor of how the Chiefs will favor.
The columns I’m looking forward to reading are those that state since the Chiefs could not win their first game of the year against New England, that there is no reason to play the rest of the season. The articles that state Mahomes need a chance to right the sinking ship of the 2017 season. Perhaps even those pieces on how Mahomes would have done it better.
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All those could be true by the end of the season, but as for week one, don’t worry. The Chiefs aren’t supposed to win this one. The NFL handed the Patriots a formidable opponent to beat on celebration night.
As for me, I plan on screaming at my television while scaring the children and ticking off the wife. Just like every other game day in football season. I’m hoping for all the reasons above, the Chiefs go to New England and slaughter them.