2021 Chiefs Season Preview

I always try to pound out a preview post every season, and sorry but this one will be short. I appreciate your readership and know there is much more at places like Arrowhead Pride and Arrowhead Addict, among others. That's terrific, I like those sites also.

Each year we seem to tease out our thoughts with the greatest agony, but this year, none of that is in store. This team is about the most stacked team ever in Chiefs history. In fact my real preview post was the one I put up here back in March when I spoke about the tremendous value of Brett Veach. It goes without saying now, but the dude is a pro football visionary. I was thinking the other day when I grieved over the loss of John Dorsey -- but Brett Veach? He's twice the talent evaluator, thrice the team assembler, and offers what Dorsey didn't -- the ability to torture the cap until he gets what he wants on the field.

Any preview is just marveling over what Veach has already done. We now have 80 players we all like. But we'll only get to keep 53 of them with a handful going over the practice squad. Remember the days when we'd think to our wholly delusional selves, "Hey, we should be okay... right? I mean... we've got him and him, oh and there's him who we picked up off waivers, he looks okay, right? Okay?"

Ouch.

Not any more.

So this Tuesday we actually get to be blessed to agonize over guys who actually looked really good in camp and in exhibition play and just hope they'll do well in life after they get cut. With this team, if you get cut and you're that decent, it just means the guys we're keeping are pretty decent themselves.

Couple more things.

First of all I have to remember my sentiments back in '98. I thought we'd go 19-0 that year, and we didn't, we really didn't. I'm hearing Tyreek boast about the possibility of 20-0 and it makes me nervous. I've said this a million times before, I hope we go 160-0 over the course of the next eight seasons, but losses to keep the team focused are not bad things. Not wanting them at all, but some excessive braggadocio can come back to hurt you.

I'm also a bit nervous that Patrick Mahomes was voted No. 1 by his peers in the NFL's top 100 players list this year. I liked it when he was as low as No. 4 last year because it meant he had the motivation to prove everyone wrong. Will there be the same when he has to prove he deserves to be No. 1? I really don't think any of this will affect his play though. He's above it, which is one reason he's there. Everyone knows what kind of character he has as well as the player he is.

Still, this is the NFL. Anything can happen. These teams are pretty good, and you never know who will emerge as a surprise and legitimately challenge our Chiefs. We also have to stay healthy, but again, you see the Veach magic working in the off-season to get the depth so if anything happens we'll be okay.

Anyway, there you go, the official Chiefs Game Today preview for this year.

On to opening day!

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The image of Brett Veach is courtesy of the Kansas City Star. The image of Patrick Mahomes is a screen shot of his NFL Network feature.

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