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Folks, it's here finally. What's been a long break and we're ready to get going.

I'm going to talk with Matt Derek coming up here in just a little bit. I'm Ryan Tracy, the

founder of Rogue Analytics and your host over at our GR football. While the Chiefs were able to just take the day off and try to rest up some things happened around the league that I think are really telling about how this second half of the chief season is going to kick off and quite frankly

I don't know that they could have been set up much better for it.

You saw the Seahawks lose, which has been a little bit of the debacle argument back and forth

about Patrick Mahomes versus Russ Wells, and I think that's an interesting part of it.

You saw some games go down that I thought

were more to the wire than we had expected.

Certainly not with those Pittsburgh Steelers

who maintained their record perfection at this

point with a 3610 win over the Bengals that was not really much of a contest

but it goes to show that those two teams, the Steelers and these Chiefs, are going to be out front for quite a bit.

Tampa Bay is coming up as well. They got a pretty solid win over the Panthers that just gave the Chiefs quite a tussle by doubling their score output and that was specific to but it comes back to what happens in the division and what is happening is that the chiefs are clearly the cream of the crop.

We knew that going forward.

But there was a lot of question before the season started about who was going to be able to pursue

them, who was going to give them something to worry about.

And we saw that these Raiders early in the season were able to surprise the Chiefs and

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