What happened to the Chiefs? And what happens next?

The Bill Barnwell Show

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4.4 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Bill and ESPN's Nate Taylor take a look under the hood and try to figure out what went wrong for the Chiefs this season. They discuss how the Mahomes ACL injury will affect them going forward, what lessons there are to be learned, where they need to invest going forward, and whether or not they need to add a new voice. 0:00 Welcome 5:21 Mahomes' ACL injury and recovery 10:58 How will Chiefs look different when Mahomes is back? 15:41 How do the Chiefs assess the 2025 season internally? 32:11 Do the Chiefs need to add a new voice? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.9	Hey guys, welcome to the Bill Barnwell show.
0:38.6	I am Bill Barnwell, joining you today in your ear on your fifth podcast feed or on YouTube as we do twice a week during the NFL season.
0:47.9	This is a man who I was telling before the show wanted to have him on under more auspicious circumstances this year,
0:55.9	you could sort of just pencil the chiefs in and say,
0:59.1	hey, some point in January, some point probably in February,
1:03.1	I'm going to need a chiefs expert to talk about the chiefs.
1:06.7	And this band does excellent work covering the chiefs for us at ESPN, but he's not here today
1:13.5	under auspicious circumstances. He is here under about, under circumstances that I don't believe
1:20.8	there is a single chiefs fan on the planet who would have anticipated this was going to happen before the year.
1:30.9	Join me to talk about what the heck happened with the 2025 Kansas City Chiefs is our
1:38.0	chiefs reporter here at ESPN Nate Taylor. Nate, how are you? Bill, as I said before the recording as well, my eyes have seen things that they haven't seen in a long, long time.
1:53.2	You know, I've been covering the Chiefs since the Mahomes era truly began.
2:00.2	And, you know, I remember a time, Bill, where I used to talk to people in the front office.
2:05.1	This was even before we moved from, you know, 16 games to 17 games.
2:08.9	So back in a 16 game, you know, schedule, I remember people in the organization saying, like, oh, well, it doesn't matter, like, who we play, when we play, what, you know, interconference, you know, division we have.
2:23.2	Just, just pissle us down for 12 games.
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