{"id":197429,"date":"2025-07-11T00:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T00:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/197429\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T00:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T00:22:11","slug":"chiefs-news-2-kansas-city-squads-listed-among-centurys-top-nfl-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/197429\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs News; 2 Kansas City squads listed among century\u2019s top NFL teams"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, Frank Schwab of Yahoo! Sports published his ranking of the top 25 NFL teams of this quarter century<\/a>. Two of the Kansas City Chiefs<\/a>\u2019 teams from this era made his list \u2014 both of them in the top 10.<\/p>\n

6. 2022 Chiefs<\/p>\n

14-3 \u00b7 AFC No. 1 seed \u00b7 Won Super Bowl<\/a> LVII<\/p>\n

The Chiefs went 14-3, got an MVP season from Patrick Mahomes, and Steve Spagnuolo\u2019s defense made strides that would help Kansas City reinvent itself during a dynasty. The three losses came by a combined 10 points, and like most Chiefs teams this era, it was clutch. The Chiefs\u2019 late-game heroics included a last-minute drive to beat the Eagles in the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n

2. 2019 Chiefs<\/p>\n

12-4 \u00b7 AFC No. 2 seed \u00b7 Won Super Bowl LIV<\/p>\n

The Chiefs\u2019 first Super Bowl title team in 50 years was the peak of the dynasty, to date. They lost four games but each of them was by seven points or less. Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and Tyreek Hill were the core of a great offense that had a remarkable comeback to beat the 49ers<\/a> in the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n

My take<\/p>\n

Not every Super Bowl winner made this list. No teams from 2003, 2012, 2018 or 2021 were included, while two teams each from 2013, 2014, 2019 and 2022 were listed. (Yes, the Chiefs had to share their honor with the 2019 Baltimore Ravens<\/a> and 2022 Buffalo Bills<\/a> \u2014 neither of which made it past the Divisional round of the respective season\u2019s playoffs). <\/p>\n

Schwab explained his logic this way:<\/p>\n

Since 2000, there have been 10 NFL teams to outscore their regular-season opponents by 200 or more points. There are many ways to measure a team\u2019s dominance, but point differential is a simple and arguably the most telling one.<\/p>\n

But then Schwab revealed the problem with this reasoning:<\/p>\n

And of those 10 teams <\/a>that outscored their opponents by at least 200 points, exactly zero won a Super Bowl.<\/p>\n

But that was OK with Schwab.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s variance in a competitive NFL with a one-and-done playoff format. The best teams don\u2019t always win a title. Some of the greatest teams of the past 25 years didn\u2019t even make the Super Bowl. The best team of the past quarter century \u2014 perhaps the best team in NFL history \u2014 didn\u2019t get a ring. [Schwab is referring to the 2007 New England Patriots<\/a>, who were undefeated until losing Super Bowl XLII to the New York Giants<\/a>]. It happens, and it has happened plenty over the past 25 seasons.<\/p>\n

While I\u2019ll give him credit for admitting his approach is \u201carguably the most telling one,\u201d I don\u2019t totally buy into Schwab\u2019s logic. Personally, I think the NFL postseason formula \u2014 winning three (or maybe four) consecutive games against the league\u2019s best teams \u2014 is arguably the most telling way to measure a great team.<\/p>\n

Anyway, that\u2019s what people told Kansas City fans when their favorite team hadn\u2019t won a Super Bowl for 49 straight seasons.<\/p>\n

So I understand why Schawb doesn\u2019t include the 2023 Chiefs, who were 9-6 when they lost to the Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> on Christmas Day \u2014 and then won six straight games on the way to becoming the first team to win back-to-back championships since 2004. But to me, that was an exceptional Kansas City team. It exhibited not only skill and talent, but also perseverance and character.<\/p>\n

Still, Schwab includes the 2020 Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a> on his list \u2014 even though they were 7-5 after losing to the Chiefs in Week 12. \u201cThis was a very good team,\u201d writes Schwab, \u201cthat took a while to bloom.\u201d I guess a team can only really bloom when Tom Brady is its quarterback.<\/p>\n

So I suppose we\u2019ve learned that we can\u2019t expect one person\u2019s opinion of the best teams over 25 years to match the views of every other person, can we? Perhaps Schwab would have been better off by not trying to explain himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is my list,\u201d he might have said. \u201cIf you disagree, that\u2019s too bad.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Wednesday, Frank Schwab of Yahoo! Sports published his ranking of the top 25 NFL teams of this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3766,921,6899,346,739,7,29,805,922,9575,88,6,151,396,42383,5811,3444],"class_list":{"0":"post-197429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-among","9":"tag-arrowhead","10":"tag-century","11":"tag-chiefs","12":"tag-city","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-front-page","15":"tag-kansas","16":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs-news","17":"tag-listed","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-pride","21":"tag-s","22":"tag-squads","23":"tag-teams","24":"tag-top"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114831749822082127","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}