Are the Chiefs unbeatable?

The Kansas City Chiefs will play the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LIX. After 17 weeks of the regular season and after a couple of weeks of postseason play, this is how the conclusion of the 2024 NFL season will wrap up. 

The Eagles-Chiefs matchup is a rematch of the teams meeting and playing each other in Super Bowl LVII in Glendale, Arizona. If this year’s Super Bowl is anywhere near as thrilling and exciting as Super Bowl LVII, we all will be in for a treat of a ballgame.  

What we do know is that both the Eagles and Chiefs are the best of the best this year. The Eagles were the No. 2 seeded team in the NFC. 

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes (15) at the podium after the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35 in Super Bowl LVII. Photo credit: Dennis J. Freeman/News4usonline

The Chiefs posted the best record in the AFC this season. Now the two-time defending champs aim for a three-peat, something that has never been done. 

But the begging question looms: Can the Eagles or anyone else beat Mahomes and the Chiefs? Mahomes and the Chiefs have made it to seven straight AFC conference championships. 

Kansas City has gone on to capture the Super Bowl three times with Mahomes as their quarterback and Andy Reid as the head coach. 

The Chiefs are greedy. After beating the Eagles in Super Bowl LVII and dispatching the San Francisco 49ers last year in the big game, Mahomes and Reid want to make history. 

They’ll do that if they can beat the Eagles, a franchise Reid guided to a Super Bowl and five NFC title games. This just might be the hardest test for Mahomes, Reid and the Chiefs will have to overcome. 

When the two teams matched up in their first Super Bowl encounter, the Eagles were without the services of running back Saquon Barkley, who galloped for more than 2,000 rushing yards (2,005 yards) during the regular season. 

Philadelphia also didn’t have Jalen Carter, the team’s All-Pro wrecking force on the defensive line. As impressive as the Eagles were against Mahomes and his teammates in Super Bowl LVII things may have turned out differently if Barkley and Carter were on that team. 

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts during a press conference leading up to Super Bowl LVIII. Hurts totaled four touchdowns in the Eagles’ 38-35 defeat to Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs. Photo credit: Dennis J. Freeman/News4usonline

So now, Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts must prove to the world he can be that guy who knocks off Mahomes and the Chiefs. If that attempt fails, what’s next for the Chiefs? A four-peat? A five-peat? 

The Baltimore Ravens, with Lamar Jackson, and Josh Allen, with the Buffalo Bills, are the best bets to dethrone Kansas City from that championship perch. So far, neither team has been able to do that. 

So far, only the retired Tom Brady and the New England Patriots, and Joe Burrow of the Cincinnati Bengals have been the only AFC teams to interrupt Kansas City’s title run. There’s no doubt that Jackson and Allen will have plenty of cracks at Mahomes and the Chiefs. 

Outside of the Bengals, Ravens and Bills, what other team in the AFC is primed and ready to bounce the Chiefs? The Los Angeles Chargers? No. The Pittsburgh Steelers? They need a quarterback and a new direction. The Houston Texans? Maybe. 

It’s slim pickings after that. And so Mahomes and the Chiefs continue to illustrate that they are the best in the NFL until somebody comes along and proves otherwise. 

Lead Photo Caption: KANSAS CITY, MO – JANUARY 26: Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes (15) during a 1-yard touchdown run in the second quarter of the AFC Championship game between the Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs on January 26, 2025 at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, MO. (Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire)


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