playoffs, what's the path to the playoffs?

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I'm Chris Clark from Chief's Corner.

He is Ryan Tracy from R.GAR Football NFL 33 and Rogi PC.

Let's just dive right into it.

Path to the playoffs.

How does this Chief's team get back to the playoffs in 2026 after missing

for the first time in 10 years with Patrick Mahomes as their quarterback well almost 10 years

but for the first time in a very long time that is going to be really what we're going to be

looking at a little bit later we're going to talk about the what ifs what if this happens

what if this happens we're going to talk about countering the afc west in the next segment

but what is the path of the playoffs and that's kind of where we're going to start today

i think it all comes down to this this is an opportunity i think you saw the patriots do this in

their mid-dynasty break, and I think you've seen some other

teams take advantage of what I call a lull year. A lot of things stacked up last year to put

the cheese into this position where they're picking in the top 10 of all things, which is not

something we expect on any roster that has Patrick Mahones on it. And so it took some injuries.

It took some scheduling.

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