Far Fetched Friday Prediction: Kansas City Chiefs finish
bottom of the AFC West in the 2018-19 NFL season
It is bold to claim one of the best teams in the NFL this
past season will not only miss the playoffs but also finish bottom of their
division, unfortunately that is where the Kansas City Chiefs are headed.
So far, this offseason the Chiefs have gotten rid of Alex
Smith and Marcus Peters, two of their best and most influential players.
Quarterback in the NFL is the not only the most important position to fill but
also the hardest, and the Chiefs have completely disregarded common sense regarding
quarterback play.
Not only did the Chiefs get rid of a pro bowl quarterback who
threw for 4,000 yards and a 5-1 touchdown to interception ratio, his
replacement will be a second year quarterback who has only thrown 35 passes in
the NFL with 0 touchdowns and 1 interception.
I get what the Chiefs were thinking, the Packers did it when
they got rid of a Brett Favre that had just led them to the NFC Championship
game and a 13-3 regular season record for an Aaron Rodgers who had only thrown
59 NFL passes with 1 touchdown and 1 interception in his three seasons backing
up Favre. However, the immediate result of that change was the Packers going
from a 13-3 team to a 6-10 team, a 7-win swing. To make things worse, that was an Aaron
Rodgers with three years of experience learning from one of the greatest quarterbacks
of all time in Brett Favre, not a quarterback with one year of experience.
To add to all this the Chiefs got rid of Marcus Peters, a two-time
all-pro playmaking cornerback in his first three years, a player who has by far the most interceptions (21) in the league since he was drafted in 2015, 7 more interceptions than the guy in second place (playoffs included).
