1 reason each remaining NFL playoff team will and won’t win a Super Bowl

Why the Kansas City Chiefs will win their second Super Bowl with this core

There is a good reason why it is easy to argue in favor of the Kansas City Chiefs being the favorite to win the Super Bowl. They have become the gold standard of the AFC in the last five years, having gotten to the conference title bout in each season. Although their last Super Bowl championship came at the end of the 2019 campaign, much of that core is still on the KC roster.

While you could argue similar sentiments with Philadelphia Eagles players still around from the 2017 championship, Andy Reid is still the Chiefs head coach and Doug Pederson coaches the Jacksonville Jaguars now. Simply put, the Chiefs have won the Super Bowl more recently than any team still alive for it and have won the AFC twice in the last three seasons. They are built for this.

Not to say there are no excuses for coming up short, but Kansas City has a great opportunity here.

Why the Kansas City Chiefs will still be chasing Super Bowl Championship No. 3

I think the thing that makes it so hard for the Chiefs this time around is their path to winning another Super Bowl is far more difficult than in recent years. Cincinnati has owned them over the last two seasons. The AFC Championship Game is at Arrowhead, but the Bengals do not fear the Chiefs; they won the Lamar Hunt Trophy in the stadium he helped build. Plus, the NFC is no joke.

Although the bottom of the NFC is utterly putrid, whoever wins in Philadelphia between the Eagles and 49ers poses a real threat to stop the Chiefs if the Bengals cannot. If Kansas City does win the Super Bowl, the Chiefs will have earned it. However, the two teams they would have to play to do so are way better than the team they beat in the divisionals in the Jacksonville Jaguars.

The Bengals, Eagles and 49ers are too good of teams for the Chiefs to overcome a slow start to.

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