Bengals playoff hopes may very well be in the Kansas City Chief's hands

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(12-30-2024, 06:21 PM)BIGDADDYFROMCINCINNATI Wrote: Per ESPN's ticker--Andy Reid announced he will be deactivating his starters for Sunday game against the Broncos.  Vegas is giving KC +10 points, so it sounds like KC wants no part of the Bengals.

IMO Rest= Rust, and KC's starters will have not played a down of football in over 3 weeks when the 2nd round starts.  I think Reid will play his starters at least in the first half vs Denver.

I mean, that could be it or at least part of it and I understand as Bengals fans we want to make it all about us.... but it could also simply be the fact that they already played 16 games, are banged up, and they already locked down the #1 seed.

Their Week 17 injury report had...
Patrick Mahomes
Chris Jones
Justin Reid
Xavier Worthy
Creed Humphrey
Jawaan Taylor
DJ Humphries
Chamarri Conner
...all on it, and Isaiah Pacheco got a rib injury in the game.

Rest = They'll probably be the closest to 100% healthy that any team could possibly be at the end of the season.

We might have won the SB in '21 if we had 3 weeks for our OL to both not get hurt more and heal up. Hell, I will go as far as saying I like our odds of winning the SB in '15 as well if we had 3 weeks of Dalton being able to heal his thumb.