NFL FORCES Kansas City Chiefs Into Early BYE!

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4.6 • 993 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Kansas City Chiefs face a grueling 2026 NFL schedule as questions loom about Patrick Mahomes’ health and an early bye week complicates their path to a Super Bowl return. Tight holiday logistics, long stretches without home games, and back-to-back divisional matchups add intrigue and challenge, while major showdowns await against the Buffalo Bills, Cincinnati Bengals, New England Patriots, and San Francisco 49ers. Can Mahomes power through or will Justin Fields need to step up? Hosts Ryan Tracy and Chris Clark dissect the highs and lows—highlighting concerns about the Week 5 bye, travel-heavy midseason grind, and shifting playoff landscapes in the AFC West. Is 11 or 12 wins enough for a deep postseason run? Strategic insights, schedule quirks, and bold predictions set the stage for a dramatic campaign in Chiefs Kingdom.

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0:00.0	There are things to love and some things that you shouldn't stand because I can't today.
0:05.8	I'm Locked on Chiefs.
0:07.6	From the land of the free and the home of the Chiefs, this is the Locked on Chiefs podcast.
0:13.5	You are Locked on Chiefs, your daily Kansas City Chiefs podcast.
0:18.5	Part of the Locked on podcast podcast network your team every day welcome in chiefs kingdom
0:26.5	on a live show Thursday night as the chief's schedule for 2026 has been released this is press
0:32.6	clark from kC chief's corner i'm ryan tracy from rogue analytics and performance consulting as well as
0:37.4	nfl 33 and RGR football.
0:40.3	And the Chiefs have a schedule.
0:42.0	We know where they're going, when they're going, like it, hate it, whatever you're looking for.
0:46.9	We got it all for you.
0:47.8	We're going to get you some predictions about what it looks like at the end of the show coming up later.
0:52.6	Before that, what the team should really be pretty frustrated and they're going to
0:56.8	have to plan to overcome.
0:58.0	And we're going to start on the upside, the things that we really like about the way that
1:03.1	this schedule has come out.
1:05.5	For me, Chris, number one thing is the Christmas holiday is not in the Chief's plans this year.
1:11.7	I love that.
1:13.0	I think the team loves that after being in some holiday games recently,
1:17.2	and obviously we'll talk about the Thanksgiving game later.
1:20.4	I think that's a big plus, especially at the end of the season.
1:24.6	Yeah, I'm glad that they're not playing on Christmas.
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