This is the Athletic Football Show.

Welcome to the Athletic Football Show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Really fun show for you guys today.

Yesterday we did the biggest questions facing the NFC teams this offseason. Today, we're going to flip it to the AFC, just as compelling, so much to get into. And I'm very excited to welcome my good friend, Lindsey Jones. Lindsay, how are you? I'm great. I'm really happy to be back. I mean, we took one week off, but I'm ready to go.

It was one of those things where we talked about it the last show that we did. I'm sitting there looking at the calendar and I was like, oh, you know, maybe there won't be anything to talk about that last week of February. We can wait until March. And by last Friday, I'm sitting on my couch. It's like, What the hell else am I doing?

I might as well come back and talk about some football.

There's no shortage of things to discuss. So let's get right into it here. We're going to start with the AFC West, your backyard, the place that you know very well. And we're going to start with the defending AFC champ. So you and I are going to alternate these. After doing it with Nate yesterday, it got a little unwieldy.

This is going to be a little more streamlined than yesterday's show. So why don't you start us off with your biggest question facing the Kansas City Chiefs this offseason? Sure. I mean, as much as I would be happy to go 90 minutes, I think we'll streamline this a little bit here. 90-minute podcast three days a week for the entire NFL off season is in the interest of absolutely no one.

To be fair, you and Nate took some serious detours along the way to get there, which we might do today.

But let's dive in. Let's start right with the Kansas City Chiefs. And my big question for the Kansas City Chiefs is, what did they learn from the Super Bowl?

Did the loss to the bucks reveal some sort of fatal flaw within the way that the Chiefs

are built, within the way that they play? Or was it more of a coach speak? Was it a bad day to have

a really bad day? Because that's really the question now, right? If the 2020 motto for the

chiefs was run it back and trying to keep as much of that group together and do the exact same

thing in 2020 as they did in 2019, I think 2021 has to be looking at what worked, what didn't

work, who needs to stay, who needs to go,

how do they trim the fat, and then, you know, what are the places that they need to upgrade

so that they don't, you know, suffer a 31 to 9 type of loss like they did last year. So, you know,

I don't want to overreact too much to what happened in the Super Bowl because I think there were, you know, some situations that were happening that aren't going to be, that just aren't

going to happen again. I mean, the odds that the Chiefs offensive line will ever be as decimated by

injuries in one game with that many changes to that many positions, that's unlikely to happen, right?

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