From the land of the free and the home of the chiefs, this is the

locked on chiefs podcast. And welcome back to another episode of locked on

chiefs. We are going to talk a little bit about the AFC West at this point.

Kansas City is in a situation right now where they can

clinch the division this weekend with the win against the Patriots if

the Raiders lose. I am Chris Clark. He is Ryan Tracy. Ryan, how's it going?

It's good. Not quite as good as this team is because they have a stranglehold on this division.

It is for all intents and purposes a done deal I think they're

down to a win or two to solidify it which I think is news in and of itself

but quite frankly I think that's what we both expected when we, you know,

previewed the season way back in August. A bigger thing for me is they swept the

Raiders again. They have a significant chance to sweeping this entire division for the what fourth season running

Well, and it really is going to depend because a win against the Patriots is going to mean that Kansas City probably has to play out the rest of the season trying to win each game.

A loss against the Patriots basically makes the first or second seed unattainable and then maybe just another win or a

Raiders loss in the next two weeks and maybe they set the starters the last two weeks of the season.

At least some people.

Yeah and that could definitely be.

You know there is going to be that impetus because of the likelihood of them having to play a

wild card round. Like you said, if they don't make it, then that makes perfect

sense to me. But at the end of the day whether they play them out or not I still feel like

There's you know a very good chance that whether it's a sweep or not that this is going to be the first time in history

that this team has won the division four years running. We thought it was

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