Chiefs Studios Features: Tom Brady ‘cautiously optimistic’ about Chiefs’ three-peat chances

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Tom Brady cautiously optimistic on Chiefs’ 3-peat chance: ‘It’s a big challenge’ | Fox News



If Tom Brady can’t even do it, he’s skeptical whether anyone can.


“To put three of those together, in back-to-back-to-back seasons, with drafting last, a very hard schedule, all of the turnover in free agency and guys continuing to be motivated, it’s a big challenge …” Brady said on Monday’s “The Herd.” “There’s not a 50% chance of that happening. They’re way less than that. Those players are going to show up every day, they’re going to have to put in the work like they have.”


However, he wouldn’t exactly be surprised.


“That’s not to say the Chiefs couldn’t accomplish that. Believe me, everybody would probably put them as one of the odds-on favorites to do it …” he said.


“They have a tremendous coach in Andy Reid, who doesn’t ever look backward,” Brady said. “He’s not going to say, ‘Hey, because we were great last year, we’re going to be great again this year.’ He’s a veteran, experienced, championship-level coach who holds those guys accountable. They’ve got a great quarterback in Patrick [Mahomes], who, as we know, when he’s on the field, he’s as great a football player as there is in the NFL. Travis Kelce, what he can do at the tight end position is really a great safety blanket. Rashee Rice came on as a rookie. [They’ve got] Chris Jones [back]. They’ve got [Steve] Spagnuolo back there as a defensive coordinator.”


“They’ve got a lot of great pieces, but to win it all again is a momentous task.”



Lamar Jackson on opening against Chiefs: ‘I really didn’t care’ | Pro Football Talk



The last time the Ravens were on the field for a game, they had to watch the Chiefs celebrate winning an AFC title on their field in January.


It’s a long wait from that point until September and the Ravens will end their sabbatical against the same team. They will be in Kansas City as the visitors on the first Thursday night of the 2024 season and they’ll have an opportunity to revisit a loss that quarterback Lamar Jackson said resulted in “definitely a little chip on our shoulder.”


Jackson isn’t equating the opening week of the regular season with a game that decided who advances to the Super Bowl, however. At a press conference last week, Jackson said that the loss to the Chiefs motivated the Ravens all offseason but added that getting an immediate chance to face them wasn’t a big deal to him.


“I really don’t care who we play; it really didn’t matter,” said Jackson. “At the end of the day, our goal is to make it to the Super Bowl. We lost to them in the playoffs. Just us beating them in the regular season doesn’t really do anything; it just helps us keep stacking up wins to hopefully make it to the playoffs if anything to try to get in that same position again and hopefully be successful. It really doesn’t matter who we play [in the] first game; obviously it’s the Chiefs, but I really didn’t care.”



Ranking NFL’s most vulnerable division winners for 2024 | CBS Sports



8. Kansas City Chiefs (AFC West)
2023 record: 11-6
Division title streak: 8 seasons


The last time someone other than the Chiefs claimed the West, Alex Smith was K.C.’s team MVP, Eric Berry was Comeback Player of the Year, and Peyton Manning was the Denver Broncos’ quarterback. There have been many renditions of the Andy Reid-Patrick Mahomes squad since then: the historic big-play powerhouse, the suffocating defensive juggernaut, etc. No matter how you slice it, the Chiefs reign supreme, and that should continue into 2024, with Mahomes boasting additional downfield receiving depth and Steve Spagnuolo’s physical defense largely intact. Denver has a rookie signal-caller with Sean Payton still implementing his designs, the Las Vegas Raiders are still without a bona fide quarterback of their own, and while the Los Angeles Chargers should be more disciplined under Jim Harbaugh, they’re relying on lots of new pieces around Justin Herbert.



Offseason superlatives for all 16 AFC teams | ESPN



The superlative: Least likely to throw the shortest passes in football again in 2024


Patrick Mahomes broke defensive coordinators and reinvented himself in the process. After he showed up as the Chiefs’ starter in 2018 and lit up the league as the most devastating downfield passer of his generation, defensive minds around the NFL learned their only solution was to dare him to take easy completions and check down. After an uneven stretch of play in terms of turnovers in 2021, he adjusted in style.


With Tyreek Hill traded to the Dolphins and the various replacements the Chiefs acquired to take the star wideout’s spot struggling to stay healthy or catch the ball, this has led to an absurd shift in Mahomes’ style of play. After averaging 8.8 air yards per attempt in 2018, he averaged a league-low 6.2 air yards per throw last season. Imagine if Steph Curry emerged as the NBA’s best scorer in the paint or Aaron Judge morphed into the league’s best contact hitter. That’s the sort of shift Mahomes has made to thrive.


While the Chiefs have won back-to-back Super Bowls, they’ve thrived despite lacking an imposing deep threat. That should change this season. They moved on from the inconsistent Marquez Valdes-Scantling and upgraded with former Ravens and Cardinals wideout Marquise Brown, who has had more frequent stretches of valuable play, albeit with a significant injury history. Then they used a first-round pick on wideout Xavier Worthy, who ran a record 4.21-second 40-yard dash at the combine.



Travis Kelce Booed at NBA Playoffs | Us Weekly



Travis Kelce didn’t receive a warm welcome when he hit the NBA playoffs in Dallas alongside Patrick and Brittany Mahomes.


The trio sat courtside as they watched the Dallas Mavericks beat the Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday, May 26, but when Kelce’s face was shown on the Jumbotron, the audience started booing, per social media footage





Travis Kelce got boo’d and the crowd went crazy for Patrick Mahomes. pic.twitter.com/ZSX9rLDg7a— Abby Jones (@_abigaiiiil) May 27, 2024







The 34-year-old Kansas City Chiefs player looked surprised, dropping his jaw as his placed his hands on his chest, but Kelce seemed to take it in stride, chuckling and clapping as the camera panned over to his quarterback. The crowd roared for Patrick, who turned around to rev up the crowd.


Patrick and Brittany are Texas natives, which might explain why the audience was excited to see the couple. They started dating while attending Whitehouse High School, which is just a couple of hours outside Dallas.



Chiefs CEO Clark Hunt To Receive 2024 H. Neil Mallon Award | MySweetCharity.com



Despite the news from Swiftees to Rashees regarding the Kansas City Chiefs players, their owner/Dallas hometowner Clark Hunt is being celebrated by the World Affair Council of Dallas/Fort Worth as the recipient of the 2024 H. Neil Mallon Award.


The annual award is “presented each fall to an individual who has been instrumental in maintaining the international focus and profile of our region.”


As Council Chair Brendan McGuire said, “Clark Hunt follows a long line of distinguished recipients of the Mallon Award, and like all those before him, [he] embodies the spirit of our founder’s vision to propel our country’s positive impact at home and abroad.”



Around the NFL




Commanders kicker Brandon McManus, Jaguars are being sued in civil court | NFL.com



The Washington Commanders said Monday they were made aware of a lawsuit filed in civil court last week against kicker Brandon McManus, and the Jacksonville Jaguars acknowledged they are also being sued.


A Commanders spokesperson said the team is looking into the situation and has spoken with McManus’ agent and the NFL office, adding, “We take allegations of this nature very seriously.”


ESPN reported two women are suing McManus for sexually assaulting them during a charter flight to London last year when he was playing for the Jaguars, who said they are aware of the complaint and the significance of the claims being made.


“As we continue to look into the matter, it bears emphasizing that we insist on an organization built by people who represent our community and game with the highest character and class,” the Jaguars said in a statement.


Citing court documents that have not yet been posted on Duval County’s public records database, ESPN reports the women, identified as Jane Doe I and Jane Doe II, are accusing McManus of rubbing and grinding against them during the flight and the Jaguars of failing to supervise him and create a safe environment for staff serving the team. They are seeking more than $1 million and asking for a jury trial, according to ESPN.



Patrick Queen turned down more money for chance to ‘win right now’ with Steelers | NFL.com



Patrick Queen switched sides in a classic AFC North rivalry this offseason, and it turns out he turned down more money from elsewhere to do so.


The Raven-turned-Steeler hit the open market in March coming off a Pro Bowl bid and a second-team All-Pro nomination — both firsts in his career — and took a three-year, $41 million deal to join Pittsburgh because he believes he can win a championship there.


“From all the 15 teams that I was talking to, it came down to like five at the end,” Queen recently told Steelers_DB regarding his journey in free agency. “It was just like five teams in the mix. Some of them were offering some $17 (million per year). After that it was like, I have a chance to either go win or I have a chance to get paid. For me, the difference was like $4 or $5 million. I’m looking at it like, I’ve never been on a losing team before, and then I also don’t want to be a part of anything being rebuilt because I’m trying to win now. … I’m really just trying to win right now, get that out the way and then get paid later.”



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Entering the early days of their 2024 championship defense, the Kansas City Chiefs are working to sharpen one portion of their already potent offense.


“I think y’all saw today, we tried to throw a few more deep passes,” quarterback Patrick Mahomes told reporters on Wednesday as the team continued Phase 3 of its offseason workouts at the team facility in Kansas City.


“Get back to the deep game,” Mahomes said.


“I think we’ve done a great job of mastering the intermediate and short stuff, but we want to get back to having that part of the offense as well… Coach [Andy Reid] is really pushing us to push it down the field. It’s hard to do against our defense but we’re trying to make it happen.”



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