I really despise Travis Kelce

[samhain]

(02-04-2023, 04:25 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: Yep. The Bengals have a long history of winning against KC and going forward, they have the ability to continue that. 

KC will always be a tough game because of Mahomes. If a decade from now we can look back at this and it goes down in NFL history similar to some of the great rivalries and each team has multiple rings, i'll be quite happy. 

For the rest of the NFL, Arrowhead is a hard place to win. Playing KC anywhere is difficult for everyone in the NFL. The Bengals just seem to match up with them the best and aren't afraid to play them anywhere.

Yeah, the long term picture will be interesting.  Manning/Brady in the early oughts is a good example.  Peyton was long considered the better quarterback, even when TB12 was winning Super Bowls early.  People thought Brady was being carried by his defense, run game, and coach/organization and that Peyton lacked the defense to get him over the line.  

Almost 2 decades later, nobody in their right mind would make that argument and Brady is more or less the undisputed best player to ever put on a uniform.  

Mahomes is an unreal player.  He has one thing that Burrow does not, that being a title.  that said, he's missed on a lot of opportunities despite winning a ton of games and appearing in every AFC title game since he came into the league.  That's gotta make a Chiefs fan nervous.  You only get so many chances.

Also, Pat's skill set differ's from Joe's quite a bit.  He's got an insane arm and damn near unrivaled escapability.  He avoids and maneuvers until someone gets open, and in time someone will always get open if he can extend the play long enough.  Burrow diagnoses and manipulates coverages.  He processes quick because he has to.  His physical attributes are very good, but not quite elite.  He doesn't need 5 seconds to find an open guy, because he throws them open.  

One of those skill sets will deteriorate in time.  The other will not.  A Chiefs offense dependent on Mahomes has an expiration date that will likely come much sooner than a Burrow-led group.  As Brady showed, reading defenses at an elite level will carry a quarterback well past his physical prime.