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Chiefs 2020 Predictions: ArrowheadOne Staff

Chiefs 2020 Predictions: ArrowheadOne Staff – It’s our favorite time of the year, even in a year like 2020, to make our Kansas City Chiefs record predictions for the 2020 season. Here’s how the AO writers who have their ear on the Chiefs train track think they’ll do this year.

Michael Travis Rose: 15-and-1

The 2020 Chiefs will post a 15-and-1 record in their 2020 campaign. With the brunt of last year’s starters still on the squad, a hard-earned and well-deserved Super Bowl-swagger, and a competitive blank under center still smarting from his injury and missed games last season, the training wheels are off this year, Chiefs Kingdom. The Red & Gold’s only possible loss will come in Week 15 against the Saints in New Orleans. Big Red will be cautious with his marquee players with playoffs looming on the horizon, while the 41-year-old Drew Brees will seek to cement his legacy with a win over the NFL’s new GOAT under center, Patrick Mahomes, in his swan song season. Maybe.

Price A. Carter: 12-and-4

The Chiefs come home at 12-4 this season, which almost feels like being a pessimist. There are still so many unknowns with Covid-19 that could make this season difficult to navigate. Likewise all 3 teams in the division had strong drafts and did some nice things in free agency. The Chiefs will have another strong season and dominate the AFC.

James McGregor: 13-and-3

I’m not big on predicting how each game will play out for the entire regular season because there are too many variables and unknowns. I mean who would’ve guessed that the Chiefs lose to the Colts last year?! Injuries happen, adversity happens, uncertainty embraces every organization, and sometimes balls just bounce a funny way that we would never expect. So, I’m going to look at it this way: I see 5 games on the schedule that could pose more challenges than others. Those to me are:

Week 3 @ Ravens,
Week 6 @ Bills,
Week 7 @ Broncos,
Week 12 @ Bucs, and
Week 15 @ Saints.

When the schedule was first released, I was thinking maybe the Chiefs would do well to survive 2 of these 5 and lose 3. However, considering the COVID effect, plus the Chiefs “Run It Back” mentality, and with their team stability compared to the rest of the league during these times… I believe they will come out extra hot to start — something Andy Reid teams already do every year anyway — and they will beat the Ravens in Week 3. So, I predict the Chiefs lose 2 of the other 4 difficult match-ups – I don’t know which 2, just going with 50%. Additionally, throw in one really stupid/surprising loss (i.e. Jets, Dolphins or Cardinals — watch out for the Cards — they could be a team that gets slept on this season.

Ransom Hawthorne: 13-and-3

Early, this offseason, I predicted the Chiefs would go 14-2, but I’m going to downgrade that to 13-3, mainly because of the opt out, from Lucas Niang. Eric Fisher seems to be getting more injury prone and Chiefs don’t have anyone else who’s remotely trustworthy, at Left Tackle. His injury, last year, contributed to the Chiefs going 12-4. I think Clyde Edwards-Helaire gives Chiefs a solid option to lean on, if Patrick Mahomes gets hurt or the Offensive Line is too banged up to pass block effectively. I still think the lack of depth, at OT, will probably cost the Chiefs a game, this year.

David Beck – 14-and-2

I wanted to say 16-0, but I’m a realist who knows that in today’s NFL, it’s not easy to win a single game, let alone all of them. I think 14-2 is still optimistic. I can see anything from… 11-5 through 16-0… honestly. I think between the Ravens, Saints, Bucs and Bills, we go 50/50 in these matchups and sweep the division again en route to that coveted, sole number one seed in the AFC.

Alan Haupt: 14-and-2

Serving as my prediction in 2020, we will see a repeat of 2003-2004 Patriots. Need a reminder? The 2003 Patriots squeaked by en-route to a Super Bowl win, then the 2004 Patriots dominated en-route to the last back-to-back Super Bowl wins. In 2019, we the Chiefs won Super Bowl with 3 exciting postseason comebacks, and some say they squeaked by, although the final scores, were not close. Again my strong prediction is that 2020 the Kansas City Chiefs will dominate on there way to another Super Bowl victory.

Paul Pulley: 16-and-0

Undefeated Baby! A little over a year ago I pieced together an article here at ArrowheadOne in which I made a few predictions. One of those was the Kansas City Chiefs going 19-0 in [February of] 2021. My main reasons were the maturation of Patrick Mahomes and the advancement of Spagnuolo’s defense in year 2. In the current environment, I see no good reason to alter this prediction.

John Cooney: 12-and-4

Anyone who has followed pro football over the many years of play knows full well of the all-too-real “Super Bowl Hangover.” Pro planners and performers burn so much time, effort, dedication, pain and emotion into a campaign that is ultimately successful in attaining the Lombardi Trophy that a letdown is almost sure to follow. Many title winning franchises don’t even qualify for the playoffs the following season. The Kansas City Chiefs have won their coveted NFL championship, had their celebrations and back-slapping congratulatory events and now must muster up a renewed dedication and focus to make the most difficult climb up a new and even steeper mountain than the one scaled in 2019. Head Coach Andy Reid and his fine staff have been through the NFL wars far too long to not understand the tough terrain these players are about to traverse. The 2020 season possibly poses an even greater challenge for the Chiefs to repeat given the foggy environment that must be navigated through and around the Covid-19 uncertainty.

John Cooney is a Fantasy Football writer for Pass2Win.com and FootballMasterMind. Please visit those sites to read more about his Chiefs predictions in 2020.

The draft produced top pick Clyde Edwards-Helaire, a multi-skilled, motivated and energetic running back who instantly infuses new blood and excitement. The freshman is set to start the year at the very least sharing the backfield with another motivated back getting his own first shot at significant playing time, Darrel Williams. On the flanks Coach Reid still has Tyreek Hill and Sammy Watkins returning but 2^nd-season flash Mecole Hardman is now expected to be a regular router in the offense… The clincher and cure for a Super Bowl hangover in Kansas City is Patrick Mahomes. This young man is one of a kind on and off the field. He is wise beyond his years but remains surprisingly grounded, dedicated and even humble. Mahomes is a force in the locker room that can will this team past the threat of a letdown. The there’s the boss, Coach Andy Reid. Big Red has practically seen it all in the NFL. He has the complete respect and admiration of his players and inspires those men to be the best they can be at all times. Andy Reid is the difference in 2020 as the Chiefs head back to the big dance.

David Bell: 14-and-2

I debated about this for a long time. The factors that I consider pertinent?

1. It’s is nearly impossible to have a perfect season.
2. With the virus scare, 2020 is a tough year to predict, and that has affected teams not having had a normal offseason, as well as camps,
3. The Chiefs return so many team veterans that they’ll have an immediate leg up on all other teams.
4. They also retained the coaching staff.
5. ArrowheadOne reviewed the position groups and almost universally viewed the additions and changes to the roster as resulting in “Improved” position groups.

All of these factors bode well for success in 2020. I debated 16-0 and 13-3. I picked the middle of the two.

Laddie Morse: 16-and-0

I’m going all-in this year. If there ever was a year to predict a perfect season… is there one more compelling than this one for the 2020 K.C. Chiefs? Look, Mesozoic goat, Tom Brady, has moved his bones to the NFC and besides his being old (no, that’s not an ageist remark, because I consider myself “old”… still, apologies to George Blanda, may he rest in peace), most of the Chiefs players, especially their skill position players, have careers that are in their primetime paradigm, plus they’re getting yet another collective go-round in Andy Reid, and Steve Spagnuolo’s, systems. What does all that spell? Success, with a capital “S”… and a lot of it. Not that I don’t think there could be a brainfart here and there… however, in this case, a brainfart only means: the Chiefs will only win by one score or less. Why? Because it’s been widely publicized that during Patrick Mahomes brief career, he’s never lost by more than one score. So for me, the question then becomes: have the Chiefs done enough this offseason to make up a one-score difference? In my mind, that would be an emphatic, Si Senor or Senorita (whatever the queso may be). I realize there will be many detractors, not the least of which will be the Texans, Ravens, Bucs, and every player still alive from the 1972 Dolphins squad (the only team in NFL history to have a perfect season… thus far). However, by starting the season, and games, faster — something Alan Haupt wrote about in “That’s What Speed Do” — than in the past two years, Mr. Mahomes will be doing far less coming from behind, and far more, lead-dogging it. Last year I laughed when Pete Sweeney of ArrowheadPride predicted a perfect season… but this year, I’ll be doing the laughing (or, getting laughed at I suppose). Now… let’s see if these Chiefs can get past a very talented Texans team (I just said that last sentence for the fun of it… because I’m sure they will).