FOX Sports’ Greg Olsen on Chiefs’ Biggest Obstacle to a Super Bowl Three-Peat | The Rich Eisen Show

we're here on the cusp of June um so it's difficult to to give an answer to the question I'm about to ask but you know the the lane in which we're we're we're currently uh residing Sports Talk Radio and uh everybody has pretty much put their rosters together I mean here and there we might see a change but you pretty much post-draft know who's where so the biggest obstacle to a three repeat for the Chiefs would be what or which team Greg right now man I tell you it it seems like every time we leave them for dead you know we We call we' we had the pleasure of calling a bunch of their games over the last couple years and you know halfway through the season last year and every and the media the narrative was they're done they can't block their offensive line hasn't come together like they thought their offensive weapons Mahomes cannot carry them again with just Travis Kelsey they never should have let Tyreek go two years ago like all of the even though they won the Super Bowl right right away like yes last those narratives were starting to creep back like you can't just rely on Mahomes to be a magician he can't do it all himself and Andy Reed can only create so much and then as the year went on they got a little bit better a little bit better and then they found their groove so I think the only thing stopping them is them right I think as long as their best players are heavily engaged which they show no signs of not continuing to be committed to doing things at a high level committed to being professionals committing to being fear like as long as they got momes and Kelce and Chris Jones and that I mean that young defense is off the charts that we can go on a whole segment on just their ability to weather the defensive turnover win the Super Bowl with all those rookies two years ago and then all those guys in year two with spags arguably were the best defense in the league you know maybe in the top handful like for them to be able to do that so quickly and whether the storm was because of Andy Reid because they had Mahomes and he's like the ultimate eraser so like they have things that everyone else does doesn't have so they can kind of weather the ups and the Downs as long as Mahomes is there as long as Andy Reid is there as long as Kelsey's there and as long as that defense stays young and active and Spagnola is blitzing guys from all over the place come next year in the AFC doesn't matter who the fun team is who the story when it comes down until proven otherwise the AFC goes through Kansas City and it's going to be that way as as long as all those guys are still wearing Chief's uniforms and obviously still playing at a high level you may right Greg because um I mean in terms of narratives you're already hearing the creep in about um uh also uh who who is Mahomes going to throw to this year and in terms of stopping themselves I mean Rasheed rice needed to stop himself from speeding right or whatever's going on with him in his life to be honest with you and now it's Hollywood Brown in that spot can he be that guy uh they if Rashid rice is not going to be available even for parts of the season um what about their new rookie that they drafted in Xavier worthy right I mean we're already in that mode right now um and distractions things of that nature Harrison bucker being clearly one of them these are the things you're already talking about but we're not playing games games start you look at their schedule I mean holy crap right Ravens at home Bengals at home you want to talk about teams that could potentially mess up their three Pete those are two that right off the bat then they're at Atlanta at the Chargers you know Harbaugh's back in the mix here they've got home for New Orleans a buy at San Francisco Vegas loves would love to basically say hey we picked up your confetti here in this building but it's a whole new world right Baker Denver at Buffalo so on and so forth uh and then you got the whole concept of all those short weeks they play on every day of the week except Tuesday this coming year yeah it's going to be something it really is going to be something Greg yeah and remember the the fact that they have had the success that they've had right when you talk about especially in recent years right the Patriots the Chiefs like in in in this era of football when these teams put on this prolonged period of success yes they are doing it in spite of every single rule and every single institution of the NFL they are doing it in spite of everything that's in place right you are not supposed to win for a long period of time because you're supposed to lose all your good players to free agency you're not supposed to keep your coordinators because they're going to get head coaches because the more success you have the more attrition your coaching staff has the better you are you play all the division winners from the previous year in your in your division in your you know out of division games so you play a harder schedule you play more playoff teams right like every you get the lower draft picks I mean across the board everything in the NFL is designed for the really success teams to fall back to the me to the middle and for the really bad teams to climb themselves up and just put everybody in that middle tier so for them to continue to overcome all of those processes put in place and just continue to win in spite of turnover at the offensive weapons every single year you know mostly at wide out in spite of two years ago when they won the Super Bowl against Philly doing it with like seven rookie starters on defense who then oh my God in year two these guys are Flatout stars and their defense is now carrying the team while the offense kind of found their way there in the middle of the season when they were struggling like they are able to weather things that most teams cannot because they have continuity at the most important spots head coach and quarterback when those two spots are stable consistent and and obviously Elite at what they do you have a lot more freedom and flexibility to struggle on offense because the defense can pick you up and struggle on defense and break in some new guys like not every team has the ability to weather those storms that's why you see teams good and then fall off the face of the Earth and then a team that was bad have a real flash in the pan make a run to the playoffs and then the next year they fall out like the NFL is designed for that so the fact that the Chiefs can continue to weather all these obstacles storylines Prime Time games every week different days different schedules dur is only because of the people we've talked about this whole interview and that's the advantage that they have that's inherent that the other teams don't have catch the rich eyes and show every single day on the Roku Channel 12 to3 Eastern for free