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Last weekend, the NFL in partnership with broadcasters announced the key matchups that will take place at the start of the 2024 season.
The full schedule will be released this Wednesday.
Looking for the three-peat, the Kansas City Chiefs have already been bombarded with the news that their first two games will be very tough.
In the opening game of the season, KC rematches the AFC Championship with the Baltimore Ravens.
Week 2 is already packed with Joe Burrow’s Cincinnati Bengals, who return healthy – not to mention the fact that he’s the only AFC quarterback to have beaten Patrick Mahomes in the playoffs.
The NFL is making the Chiefs’ calendar harder on purpose
Rich Eisen, on last Tuesday’s edition of his show, reacted to the games set by the league for Kansas City -in a sarcastic way, so to speak.
“That is a very rough schedule start for the defending Super Bowl champs and you’d have to sit here and say, ‘Well, listen, you have won back to back Super Bowls. It’s not gonna be easy. You’re gonna have the target on your back’.”
“So the NFL with another three peat attempt this time around says ‘We are going to continue the tradition of you raising the banner in front of your home folks, but the visitor will not be a 5-11 team from last year’. It will be the team you had to beat in their building, a rematch of the AFC championship game’ – just like that.”
He also added his thoughts on the reigning champion’s reunion with Burrow.
“The only quarterback in the NFL today to have beaten the Kansas City Chiefs in Arrowhead, in the playoffs, in Patrick Mahomes tenure, in this dynastic run: Joe Burrow, fresh off of his injury mark season and the Bengals visiting Kansas City as clearly the NFL has decided that they are not going to make a three-peat an easy start for the Kansas City Chiefs.”
Although these two games will take place at Arrowhead Stadium and the Chiefs can count on the support of their fans, it will be two weeks that will set the tone for the rest of the season.
The last time a team went for the three-peat
The 2005 New England Patriots had their chance to make NFL history and secure a third title in a row, but they couldn’t do it.
In 2003, they beat the Carolina Panthers, and the following year they defeated the Philadelphia Eagles in an extremely tight game.
2005 was the year of NE: they finished the season with a 10-6 record, but lost in the Divisional Round to the Denver Broncos.
Now the chance is in the hands of Mahomes and his troupe to make history and cement the Chiefs’ dynasty once and for all.
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