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As the Kansas City Chiefs solidified themselves as the NFL’s newest dynasty, they’ve left a wake of destruction across a league that has struggled to keep pace. Three Super Bowl victories have helped quarterback Patrick Mahomes and head coach Andy Reid secure their legacies among the all-time greats.
But their reign has come at a cost. Not to them, of course, but to their rivals. Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills, Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens, Jalen Hurts and the Philadelphia Eagles, and Kyle Shanahan and the San Francisco 49ers all have Super Bowl-sized holes on their resumes. And those are just the ones who have come the closest.
Consider the carnage around the NFL since Mahomes and Reid began their reign of terror in 2018. Fifty head coaches (not including interims) have lost their jobs while 24 general managers have either been fired or forced to cede power. In the AFC West alone, the Denver Broncos, Los Angeles Chargers, and Las Vegas Raiders have fired seven head coaches (plus one resignation) and dumped six executives since 2018.
The Chiefs are a modern-day version of Tom Brady and Bill Belichick’s New England Patriots or Michael Jordan and Phil Jackson’s Chicago Bulls, teams that reached extraordinary levels of greatness while changing the way their rivals were remembered.
As rivals chase the Chiefs, they’ve made bold roster decisions that have failed, hired coaches and general managers only to see them flame out, or simply gotten caught overthinking in-game decisions to beat themselves.
