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The Kansas City Chiefs are back in St. Joseph, Missouri getting into the swing of training camp. Excitement is high, and expectations are even higher…But these are the three most insane possible outcomes for the Chiefs this season.
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Speaking of mythical, as I was dreaming of another Super Bowl win, I got to thinking, “What are the craziest things that could possibly happen this season?”
Below you will find my top three scenarios. Read beware: these are truly insane and highly improbable. In one case, all of Chiefs Kingdom is probably hoping it doesn’t happen. Don’t get too angry with me. These aren’t things I hope will happen. But if things go off the rails, here’s how it could happen.
1. The Chiefs take home the NFL Seasonal Awards Triple Crown
This one would just be purely awesome. What do I mean by Triple Crown? I mean that on the night before the Super Bowl, the NFL announces that Travis Kelce has won his first Offensive Player of the Year Award, Chris Jones has won his first Defensive Player of the Year Award, and the night ends with Patrick Mahomes winning his third MVP Award.
Of course none of them would be there to accept the awards in person because they would be getting their beauty rest for the Super Bowl. I can’t think of anything that would be more nauseating for the rest of the NFL than for the Chiefs to sweep those awards.
Throw in a Super Bowl MVP win after a third straight Super Bowl and Kansas City will finally have achieved super-villain status.
2. The offense and defense achieve perfect harmony, leading to the perfect season
Ah yes, the perfect season. Only achieved in the regular season twice, and only achieved fully once. There are only a few of the 1972 Miami Dolphins left, but this will finally be the year they don’t get to have that celebratory drink any longer.
Last year the Kansas City defense was sneaky good. Like really good. Like somehow stop the Dolphins, Buffalo Bills, Baltimore Ravens, and San Francisco 49ers good. Sure, we lost L’Jarius Sneed, but if there’s any position we have great depth at, it’s cornerback. With Chris Jones back, for (hopefully) a full season and striving for that coveted DPOY Award, I think this defense is just as good, if not better.
But what about the offense? In this crazy scenario, they overcome their woes from last year and Patrick Mahomes throws for over 5,000 yard and 50 touchdowns (or something like that). Him and the team finally have the fun he had in his first season. And it is glorious.
Every game becomes a beatdown or a blowout. Hollywood Brown, Xavier Worthy, Rashee Rice, Travis Kelce, and Isaiah Pacheco light up the scoreboard, while Chris Jones and company limit the opposition to less than ten points a game. It will all be so unfair.
In the end, the Chiefs bring home a third straight Lombardi with the perfect season in tow.
3. Patrick Mahomes gets hurt in week 12, but Carson Wentz leads the team to a third straight Super Bowl—and totally redeems himself!
This was the crazy outcome I said we all hope doesn’t happen. Even if it ends with a Super Bowl win, nobody would want to see QB1 get hurt.
But let’s say he does. Then what? Most people would immediately set aside any Super Bowl hopes, no matter what week of the season it happened in. But what if all hope wasn’t lost? This season the Chiefs got Mahomes a brand new backup and his name is Crason Wentz.
On paper, Wentz is the best backup quarterback the Chiefs have had in years. He was a legit quarterback once upon a time. In fact, in an eerily similar situation to this proposed scenario, he led the Philadelphia Eagles to an 11-2 record in a would-be MVP season before a tragic injury led to his backup winning the big game in 2017.
Wentz has never really recaptured that form, but in this crazy scenario, he does. And it couldn’t come at a better time. And honestly, is it that unbelievable? Andy Reid has taken some pretty average quarterbacks to the playoffs and won a game or two.
Who’s to say that for less than 10 games, he couldn’t get the absolute best out of Carson Wentz and at least give this team a chance down the stretch? Shoot, the defense may be good enough that Wentz can just be a game manager and be successful. It’s not like he doesn’t have the weapons, either.
So there you have it, three crazy (and unlikely) outcomes for the 2024 season. Which one do you think is the most ridiculous? Let us know in the comments, and share your own crazy outcomes that you would want (or not want!) to see.