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Football

Wiz Imp

(8,772 posts)

5. THe Chiefs are doing this the right way (not that they wanted to miss the playoffs)

Reply to Rebl2 (Original post)

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 08:45 PM

Sunday

But if you're a long time dominant team that's gonna miss the playoffs due to a variety of circumstances, it behooves them to finish with as bad a record as possible, to get as high a draft pick as possible. If Mahomes can come back, the core of the team is still very good and they won't likely have as bad of luck next year as they've had this year. So a high draft spot allows them to add higher level talent to an already good team.