Why the Kansas City Chiefs offense should improve in 2020

The counterargument

There’s a viable counterargument to the idea that the 2020 offense will resemble the 2018 offense more so than the 2019 offense. In 2018, the Chiefs defense was an absolute liability. The offense had to gain a historic number of yards and score a historic number of points because the defense was giving up historic numbers of their own.

The 2019 offense, at least for the last 10 games of the season or so and the playoffs, didn’t have this challenge. The defense struggled to start the season, but by the end, they were as much a reason for the Super Bowl victory as the offense—maybe more so when you consider the vice grip they put on the 49ers offense, a vaunted unit in their own right.

The 2020 offense won’t have this challenge either. I think this is a good argument, but it doesn’t preclude the factors mentioned earlier. The Chiefs had more injuries this past season than any season I can remember. Andy Reid is known for his incredible play calling, and I’d argue he had a bit of a down year. Both these factors will likely improve in 2020.

Again, don’t take this as a slight to the 2019 team. They won the franchise’s first Super Bowl in 50 years, lifting a great weight from the shoulders of Chiefs Kingdom. Take this as optimism that 2020 version of the Kansas City Chiefs are in a fantastic position to repeat with much of the same roster they had in 2019.