The Chiefs are on their bye, which means Kansas City fans get a weekend off from worrying about their own scoreboard and a chance to spend their football energy somewhere else. And if you’re looking for the cleanest rooting guide, there are four games that make sense for Chiefs Kingdom - even if a couple of the choices feel a little dirty.
Start with the Los Angeles Chargers over the Denver Broncos on Sunday. Yes, the Chargers are still the Chargers.
But this is one of those rare “enemy of my enemy” situations, because the Broncos are the reigning AFC West champions and have opened 2-2 while looking shaky at times. A Denver loss would push them farther back in the division race and add more pressure to a team that, in the source’s words, “foolishly” thought it was the best in the AFC.
There’s another reason this one matters: the Chiefs play the Chargers in Week 6, and if L.A. finally gets its first win of the season, Kansas City could get some useful tape before that matchup. Anything that helps the Chiefs move to 5-0 has to be on the table.
The second pick is a little more personal: the Jacksonville Jaguars over the Philadelphia Eagles. The reason is simple enough.
The Eagles beat the Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX and denied Kansas City a three-peat, and that’s the kind of thing that lingers. The source also makes clear it still has a sour taste, along with a strong dislike for Nick Sirianni.
So yes, this is a hate watch. Jacksonville may be a conference rival and a team that looks like one of the top AFC contenders, but the Jaguars are still the lesser evil here compared to Philadelphia.
Then there’s Monday night, where the Los Angeles Rams host the Buffalo Bills. Rooting for another L.A. team won’t exactly warm the heart, but this one lines up with Kansas City’s interests.
The Bills remain the Chiefs’ biggest AFC threat in the source’s view, and Josh Allen is described as the only quarterback in the league capable of going toe-to-toe with Patrick Mahomes at his best. Buffalo has been one of the league’s media darlings early on, but after a surprise home loss to the New England Patriots, another defeat would only make life tougher.
For Chiefs fans, that’s the point: a Rams win would make Buffalo’s path rougher and could widen Kansas City’s edge in the race for the No. 1 seed.
Finally, there’s the Tennessee Titans against the Houston Texans. This one comes with the kind of reasoning only football byway weeks can produce.
The source says the writer asked his wife, who doesn’t really follow football, to pick a team from the helmets on the slate. She chose Tennessee because of the “T” on the helmet, which matches the first letter of her name.
Simple. Clean.
Impossible to argue with. And it turns out the choice makes sense on the field, too.
The Titans are 0-4 and clearly the underdog, and a win over the Texans could knock Houston out of the playoff race already while removing a top defense the Chiefs might have to deal with later.
So there it is: Chargers, Jaguars, Rams, Titans. It’s not pretty, but for one bye week, it’s the right kind of ugly.
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