Unless you've been living under a rock, you're probably aware that the Kansas City Chiefs are 0-2 to start the 2025 season. It's the first time the Chiefs have been 0-2 since Patrick Mahomes became the starting quarterback and the first time overall since 2014.
That 2014 season concluded with a winning record of 9-7 but it remains the only time the Chiefs did not reach the playoffs since Andy Reid arrived in Kansas City in 2013. Needless to say, there's still a lot of football left to be played and are we really going to count a Reid-Mahomes Chiefs team out just because they started the year 0-2? Have we learned nothing?
Chiefs might be 0-2 but the sky is far from falling
Let's be real here - The Chiefs schedule to start the year is downright brutal. If Kansas City dropped back-to-back games against a division rival and the reigning Super Bowl champion later in the year, people would not be panicking or burying the Chiefs the way they are right now. It's because these are the first two games right out of the gate that K.C. dropped that it's an entirely different story.
Not only has the schedule been absolute gauntlet so far (and will only get tougher with games against the Ravens and Lions coming up in the next few weeks) but the Chiefs have been shorthanded on offense. This is the reason for optimism for Chiefs fans and reasons for others not to count out the villains of the NFL just yet.
In their season opener against the Chargers in Brazil, the Chiefs were without Rashee Rice and Jalen Royals and lost Xavier Worthy on the first drive of the season. That left them without three of their wide receivers who are all expected to be an important part of the offense this year. That's going to hit any team hard and it did exactly that to the Chiefs.
The good news is that the Chiefs are hopefully getting Royals and Worthy back, maybe even as early as this weekend. Getting those two guys back on offense will give Mahomes two more targets to throw to and when Rice returns in Week 7, all bets are off.
People are going to enjoy kicking the Chiefs while they're down but until the season is over and K.C. is on the outside looking in of the playoff picture, this team is very much dangerous and a threat to go all the way.