The Opponents and the Forthcoming Schedule!
On May 12th, the NFL will announce the game schedule for all 32 Teams. However, it won’t include the international games until the following week.
Here are the opponents of the Chiefs for 2022(Home & Away).
As you can see, this is a demanding Schedule. In the AFC West, the Chiefs face all three opponents twice. Our three opponents have all tried to power up to beat the Chiefs. Remember 2021? The Parity backers came away with a different view of the Chaos, and the Chiefs were part of the reason for that.
Parity?
Despite dealing with an all-new OL and an offense that was stuttering, the Chiefs came up with a six-game winning streak that propelled them to another AFC West Title. Amid that run was the game that the rest of the NFL believed would spell a death knell to be the background music over the Kingdom. It wasn’t. On November 21st, the Chiefs added to the chaos with a victory over the NFL Darling commentators when they “upset” the Raiders on the road!
Over the past three or four years, the NFL Pundits have had fun while on a roll about NFL Parity. I recall an article published by the Guardian in 2020 which reflected just that. It was titled “NFL parity means even bad teams are good at something. Unless they’re the Jets”. I had a good laugh about that one. The author pokes fun at the Jets and Dolphins head coaches simultaneously. You can read it if you wish: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/oct/23/nfl-parity-means-even-bad-teams-are-good-at-something-unless-theyre-the-jets
In 2021, the Chiefs came up short in their quest to return to the Super Bowl, but it was a close call. 2022 promises to be fight but the Chiefs are sill favorites to win the AFC-W.
Yeah, it’s the draft – I’d instead be watching football
The 2022 Draft will suffice for now!
In 2022, after trading Tyreek Hill, the Chiefs have countered much of the aerial threat by adding a duo of Wide Receivers who are dominant players in their own right: Marquez Valdes-Scantling and JuJu Smith-Schuster. As important, the trade of Tyreek Hill yielded 1st, 2nd, and 4th round draft picks along with two picks in the 2023 draft(To be Held at Kansas City)!
All told, the Chiefs have twelve draft picks in the 2022 draft. Today, we are five days away from pick one being on the board. The longer that we have gone beyond the last move made by Brett Veach, the less likely it is that any trade or free-agent signing becomes.
Kansas City Chiefs draft picks in 2022
- Round 1 | Pick 29 (from MIA)
- Round 1 | Pick 30
- Round 2 | Pick 50 (from MIA)
- Round 2 | Pick 62
- Round 3 | Pick 94
- Round 3 | Pick 103
- Round 4 | Pick 125 (from MIA)
- Round 4 | Pick 135
- Round 7 | Pick 233
- Round 7 | Pick 243
- Round 7 | Pick 251
- Round 7 | Pick 259
Let’s Peek at the 2023 Draft
What will prove to be the lynch-pin draft will be 2022’s version. If Brett Veach, the Scouts, and staff are successful in 2022, the Chiefs will be competitive once again in the race to win, not just the AFC West but the Hunt Trophy. We are all familiar with the powerful draft picks held like playing cards close to the vest of Brett Veach. This Thursday, the future is in Veach’s hands.
2023’s Draft Picks are nearly as exciting as those of 2022 – Veach has Eleven Picks coming up. Free Agent Signings negated four other Comp Picks.
- Round 1, Pick ??
- Round 2, Pick ??
- Round 3, Pick ??
- Round 3, Comp Pick?? (Ryan Poles)
- Round 4, Pick ?? (from Dolphins)
- Round 4, Pick ??
- Round 5, Pick ??
- Round 6, Pick (From Dophins)
- Round 6, Pick??
- Round 7, Pick??
- Round 7, Comp Pick?? (Jarran Reed)
As you can see, the Chiefs own a favorable position for the 2023 draft. 2022 and 2023 will be the “Rhyme and Reason of Building a Dynasty,” if in this “new modern era of the NFL,” such a build is possible. From everything I might anticipate with the 2022 draft, Veach, his Staff, the front office financial wizards, and the Coaches must see the dynamic potential of having 23 Draft picks across the next two off-seasons. I think we should all reflect on the possibilities of this pair of drafts. It’s almost as if Brett Veach has accomplished the power to counter the plans of the NFL – He is flouting what is potential greatness in the faces of the NFL gods and the of-touted directives about League Parity.
The Furies of Fate
I cannot help but think that fate brought Brett Veach along with Andy Reid when Reid arrived in 2013. If you have been following my views about Brett Veach, the Maverick GM, in articles I have written over the years since he took over with John Dorsey’s departure, you know that I have entirely supported Veach indeed, his whole staff.
That’s How we roll!
Let’s hope the Furies are positive emanations that embolden Brett Veach to become the Wizard of the plains, and the fate at hand is not the fickle-finger variety.
Who’d have thought that the NFL Draft was a spectator sport?
Go, Brett Veach! Go Chiefs!
David Bell – ArrowheadOne