Are the Chiefs more likely to be better or worse following a Super Bowl loss? | BREAKFAST BALL

Are the Chiefs more likely to be better or worse following a Super Bowl loss? | BREAKFAST BALL

Welcome to breakfast ball. Alongside Craig Carton, I am Mark Scherith. Danny Parkkins is off and we’ve got the head coach, Eric Manini, who is still trying to figure out how to shut down the Broncos zone blocking game. He has not figured it out yet. The Broncos were never our problem, by the way. Haven’t been our problem in a very, very long time. We’re in the playoff. I didn’t know his name was Eric. I thought your name was Manini. Yeah. All these years like Madonna, that kind of thing. Well, good to have coach with us. And a little bit later on in the program, we will finally address the reality that Eric Manini became the coach of the Jets and then eventually the Cleveland Browns because of a decision that I made back in 1993. Without me, there is no coach Manini. And we will finally walk through that later on. I can’t wait to hear this. All right. I can’t wait. I can’t wait to hear it either. All right, we move on. Last season, Travis Kelce had a career low in yards and touchdowns along with a disappointing Super Bowl performance. Kelsey spoke about his play last year. I I love the responsibility taking there by Travis Kelce. So, more likely that the Chiefs are better or worse this year. I mean, I don’t know if they’re going to be better or worse because I don’t know what that offensive line’s going to be, new left tackle and all the things that go with it. Plus, they’re becoming like a lot of teams do, an older team in some spots. Obviously, Kelsey, uh, who’s in his 13th year now. But look, that all goes back to one game for me because if you just take his stats to take his name off of it, there’s not a tight end in the league that wouldn’t sign up for the stats he had other than maybe touchdowns. He had three uh instead of his usual 9 10 11, but dude, he had 97 catches, 800 yards, and yes, only three touchdowns. Those are great numbers by anyone else’s standards, right? But I think we go back to the Super Bowl and in the Super Bowl where they got exposed by a much better team on both sides of the ball, he had at least for my money, Eric, the worst game I’ve ever seen him play. So I think he’s really focusing on the last game he played. Now going into the last year of his contract, probably the last year of his career, I get all of what he said, but I don’t think he let the team down in the 17 weeks of the regular season or getting to the Super Bowl. Well, when you look at his his off season last year, it was filled with everything but football, right? So, he’s got the budding romance, he’s on tour, he’s traveling overseas, all that stuff, which is which is great. Then he’s got the TV show. So, he films the TV show. Good with that, too. Then he’s got the podcast. So, he’s got so many things in a shortened season be which, you know, you’re you’re hoping the guys are going to get away from football and and decompress, but not get away from football and 50 other things. And and I think that’s and and I don’t I I’m not angry at him taking advantage of the opportunities that he’s created for himself. But I do think that put him a little bit behind the eight-ball going into the season. Now, his numbers are fantastic, but it’s sort of like Patrick Mahomes’s numbers. His numbers are good, too. and and a lot of people would sign up for his numbers, but it’s not what you expect from those two guys. Yeah. In terms of whether the team’s going to be better. That’s that’s a big question is is those games that they won close last year, was that a function of them being resilient, them understanding how to win, them really uh being a mature team, or was it the football guys were with them last year and and they’re not? I think it’s more than anything. Yeah. Well, they were 15-2 last year, so it’s going to hard it’s going to be hard for them to be like you can be a better football team and have a worse record. You can like and and that’s like to me if Travis Kelce takes the responsibility he did and say, “Hey man, I’m not happy with the way the season ended.” And you could watch him in the Super Bowl, like he had drops. He had some lack of effort plays that were concerning. And and that’s just part of, you know, what we talk about. And like this is one that a lot of people talked about. Um, and I mean at some point, I don’t know what the right answer is, but at some point, I don’t know, get involved in the play. Go hit somebody. Do do something as your quarterback is flailing around trying to save his own life and his own skin. At some point, you’ve got to do something. But you like that’s one thing. We can pick out one play just about of anybody and say, man, he had a bad game. But he just had he just had a poor showing in this particular game. As you mentioned, the Eagles were great in this game. No question about it. You guys have both lived this sustained success is hard to come by. You know, what they’ve done does not happen that often in uh in the NFL. It happened more in the 70s and ‘ 80s and the ’90s, obviously, with Brady, you know, and and Bellichic and the Patriots and all that stuff. It’s hard to do what they’ve done with all the Super Bowl appearances, all the AFC Championship games, and other teams eventually either figure out what you do really well and come up with ways of stopping it more than they did early on, or they just get better. Like the Denver Broncos are better than they’ve been. The Raiders should be a little bit better than they’ve been. The Charges with Harbaugh are going to be better. There comes a point where Heavy is the head that wears the crown. Somebody knocks you off. It’s going to happen. It’s going to happen. But but the problem that all those teams have is they don’t have Patrick Mahomes. And so they they were what was it 15 and two last year and two last and and he didn’t start one game, right? So he sat Patrick sat one one of those games. So really they could have they could have been even better than that. So you you have that issue and Patrick’s not playing like he played when he was younger. So this team collectively is better. Now, if Patrick gets closer to the form we’re used to him him being at, I think all those teams, as much as they’ve improved, they still don’t have that one. But I’m with Mark. They are not winning 15 games this year. And they won so many games on the last play, the last drive, a block kick, a miss kick, whatever it might be. They could, you could be overall a better team and go 12 and five, you know, not win all those one-score close games, which they did last year. But let’s be honest, we’re all rooting for their demise, aren’t we? Chiefs fans, obviously, I I want to see them suffer. I want to see the Kansas City Chiefs have like a three win year and uh you know, finally kind of even things out in the NFL because unless it’s your team, one of the great things about sports, and this is why we need superstars and why we need super teams, is finding a team to root against, right? Broncos fans hate the Chiefs. Raiders fans hate the Chiefs. Ravens fans, Bills fans. I hate the Chiefs and my team stinks, right? So, I am rooting openly. I don’t deny it one little bit for their demise. I want to see an under 500 team every week where they have to try to explain to people what the heck went wrong. Oh, I I I’m 100% with you on that. And I look at the Chiefs as as one of those teams like we talk about the the Chargers being better. We talk about the Broncos being better. We talk about all those things. One thing about winning on a consistent basis, you’ve been on a lot of teams in New England that won consistently. I have in Denver, in Washington, like there comes a time when your guys have so much confidence from a coaching staff standpoint where you put your guys, the position you put them in, and guys executing at a high level in those critical moments. Like the Chiefs are that team that just knows how to get things done in critical moments. They did it time and time again. AFC Championship game throughout the regular season, uh Denver had them dead to rights in Kansas City, they block a last second field goal to win that football game. They just have that belief that when when it’s, you know, rubber meets the road time, they’re going to make a play that’s going to put them on the top and until somebody knocks them out of that, like they’ll always have that advantage. They’re the team to beat. Yeah. And absolutely. And for years in New England when you on the sideline and I was on the defensive side, you you just know that if if you take care of the things that you’re supposed to take care of, then Tom at some point is going to figure things out and and you’re you’re going to win the game. And and sometimes Tom didn’t necessarily figure things out, but collectively the rest of us were just doing what we were supposed to do. And there was that that understanding that we were going to find a way to win the game where where there self-fulfilling prophecies. Bad teams usually figure out a way to lose games and good teams with confidence and experience figure out ways. I know a lot about the former. Did you hear that? Did you hear that? He just said Tom Brady wasn’t very good. It was the defense that led them. Defense carried them. Carrie said Tom couldn’t figure things out. Tom, we couldn’t make that argument the first Super Bowl when we scored three. You certainly could. Well, we scored three offensive touchdowns in the playoffs. My man. Well, I just want to tell people, as you know, uh, the majority of us got to celebrate the Fourth of July, a holiday over the last couple days. My man means business right here. What? America. America right there. Business right here. That’s right, baby. America. It’s a matching set. This is what it say back there. Americana 1776, baby. Which I don’t know what that means exactly, but those right there are Mr. America sneakers. Well represented, Mark. Yeah. England. I hope you had fun at work on Friday off. I’m gonna show you my underwear real quick if you want to see. No, they told me I can’t do that right now. Yeah. Took it to the next level. [Music] Hey, hey, hey, hey. [Music]

The Kansas City Chiefs lost Super Bowl LIX to the Philadelphia Eagles, and Travis Kelce said that he “failed last year in a lot of different ways”. Craig Carton, Mark Schlereth, and Eric Mangini ask whether or not the Chiefs will be better or worse this season.

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