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we'll flip it over to the Chiefs because it doesn't help the Ravens that last year the Chiefs stepped on the proverbial rake against the Lions and they're prone to that we saw them lose at home on Christmas Day against the Raiders the idea that we just show up and didn't the other team get the memo this is supposed to be our celebration they need to go along with this they need to play the role of the Washington generals to our Harlem Globe Trotters that isn't always the case and I remember last year when the Lions came out before the game is it too late to change the pick because there there's just a different vibe coming from the lines than I expected entic and they were big they were bigger than we thought in person and you could tell they were in no way in fear of the moment or anything like that to and the Ravens are going to have some of that too but the Chiefs I think would have learned a valuable lesson from that this is chapter one of a 17 chapter book and postseason as the epilogue but I think the Chiefs knowing that they are yeah staring at the opportunity to make history even though it's not something that Andy Reid wants them to be thinking about actively at some level how can you not be thinking this is our chance and they've never been dominant they've never made it look easy and I just wonder if there's a quiet determination this year that almost like some of the stuff we've heard from Brock pie out loud the 49ers quarterback I want to be dominant the Chiefs maybe aren't going to say that they're just going to go out and do it and it's easier said than done cuz you've got got an opponent that isn't going to comply with everything you're trying to do but we see what they can do when they have to right if they can muster that have to earlier in a game earlier in a season this is a team that could be dominant if they could just put it all together on a regular basis I mean I I agree with you there they play with their food right it's time to bring that phrase back because we've seen the Chiefs play with their food time again they're the kings of letting teams that are lesser than them hang around and be in football games right that's what we laugh about in So Many Sundays where we're like the Chiefs are killing this team and here we are in the third quarter and they've met around and they're only up by four uh I I I I don't I think we'll see a different Chief Chiefs team than we saw last year altogether I I think you bring up a lot of points there that are real good and I think the the first thing is just being in Kansas City last week with Mahomes going to practice a little bit right I I think first off they embrac the talk of the three Pete they're not afraid of it it wasn't like when I had my interview with momes he was like oh oh we're not going to talk about that yet right it wasn't like the New England Patriots type of answer or anything like that it is like hey it's special we want it we know we know this is nobody's done this and they kind of embrace that and I do think that is going to be a motivating factor for them throughout the year it's a way they can separate their Dynasty from any other Dynasty it's a way Mahomes can separate himself from Brady in some ways if he doesn't catch them at seven hey I got three in a row nobody did that so I think there's a lot of that let alone that I think the Chiefs know what they're about to deal with here in that the Ravens are coming to town like you said this next week after that is the Cincinnati Bangals so they're going wait we better be ready the first two games of the year or two teams that could be the difference between home field advantage and the playoffs so I think between that and then the lesson they learned last year in Detroit or with Detroit coming here and being ready I think you're right and then also on top of that something we hit on a little bit they have that almost they have a whole season we talk about in a game format sometimes of the Season really wasn't that good last year the coach and momes have free reign to kind of keep the hot poker on everybody's ass and be like we didn't even play that good last year but we won the Super Bowl right so there is a lot of I think good coaching moments that they've had throughout training camp going back watching last year going look we won the Super Bowl but we didn't even do this good all season on the offensive side of the ball and I think that has led them to more motivation as well which is scary when Mahomes starts saying we're going to attack and we want to attack and we got faster receivers and all of that they're going to try to reinvent themselves here a little bit this year and show you a different side than what we've seen the last two years which is you know a little more short passing game Andy Reid is n-2 in regular season openers with the Kansas City Chiefs and he's only had six of those with Patrick Mahomes and again they lost last year all the more reason to expect that they'll be I mean chub Tony of course you know cadarius was Aug thing right it wasn't like they didn't show up last year right they weren't their best but they blew opportunities and didn't show up capitalized the L capitalized on the opport that were given and the next thing you know they're in a game that they ultimately can't win but when you look at the schedule they've got those two big games right out of the gates then they go to Atlanta we'll see them week three Sunday Night Football they're at the Chargers which will not be an easy game against Jim Harbaugh company and then they're at the Saints on a Monday night they go into their buy they have an early buy so this is almost like a mini postseason to start the regular season let's just take care of business one 2 3 4 five get to 4- one or 5-0 ideally although it's not going to be easy it's not going to be easy three two Could Happen through the first five games and then comes the you know the rest of the Slate it's not crippling but there's some games on there they they have a Super Bowl rematch in San Francisco coming out of their by week they play a Buccaneers team that is woefully underrated I think at this point their division Rivals aren't going to lay down they go to Kansas City they've got the Texans that's another NBC game we're going to see them a lot this year and that's good cuz they're fun to watch but this could be the year that maybe they're not fun to watch this could be the year that they figure out on a consistent basis how to put it together they don't mess around they don't care take they you know they take care of business the thing though is right if they happen to be a dominant Force for the first time under Mahomes and Reed yeah that's a little more dangerous when the when the postseason rolls around because I think the fact that they do learn how to play through close games and win the games they have to win that helps them in the postseason they have a pretty good catalog of experience from past years that I think will come in handy if they get to the postseason and they haven't been tested this year but there is value in being tested in some of these games because they just they know when to press the right button they know when to make it happen when they need to make it happen and they almost get I think they get addicted to that feel I I yeah I I think they're they're addicted to it yet they're like numb to the pressure of it and I think your point is like what you're talking about we talked in the two Super Bowl bowl ago Chiefs Eagles the thing we worried about in the game was what the chiefs were battle tested remember we were saying that too easy Eagles it was so easy we wondered wait if that game got late in the fourth quarter will they be like oh wait what we're in a close football game or we're losing and how are we going to react and of course we know they didn't react to their best here uh the Chiefs we we really the the first year Mahomes came into the league we saw that was a year I think we saw them not play with their food and of course they had some other time uh as well but but yeah fully dominant like seems like they take care of business week in week out dominate football teams that way uh they've never they've never quite been that way you're right it's like they get bored they get a little bored at times during the football season but I think with this three Pete hovering over them and then the fact that it's the Ravens the Bengals and then even sneaky go to Atlanta and deal with that where you don't think Raheem Morris and Kirk Cousins aren't going to want to show everybody like hey look Kirk well he worked Tuesday that week he might I really want to know if he's working Tuesdays in Atlanta having Michael penck Jr hovering over his shoulder would tend to motivate a guy to work on Tuesday we'll find out if he did we or if he does but I I think all those things have led that if you go to Atlanta to interview cousins the week of that game I want you promise me that you will ask him if he's now working on Tuesdays okay all right I will I will I will I I'll I'll ask it I'll say it's for me you'll say it's for me that's the thing that's the perfect way to do it go ahead wants to know go ahead cuz that's that's the great cover then he won't be mad at you but but I do blame it on me I will I trust me no problem there I got you hi it's Mike Florio thanks for watching PFT on YouTube hit subscribe for the latest news and Analysis from pro football talk