Kansas City Chiefs: Easiest stretch on 2020 schedule

The Kansas City Chiefs have a unique schedule in 2020. While no stretch is necessarily easy because no games are easy, the Chiefs do have a small stretch of games that could be considered their “easiest” stretch.

The Kansas City Chiefs‘ home schedule isn’t very intimidating this year, but their road games provide some slip ups for the defending Super Bowl champions. Because of their road games being a little more difficult and the Chiefs never having more than two straight home games at a time (there have been years where they’ve had three consecutive home games), it was a little difficult to find their “easiest” stretch.

A stretch needs to be three or more games and it was tough to find three straight “easy-ish” games for the Chiefs this year. They have their fair share of winnable match-ups, but an easy stretch is another thing.

The Chiefs’ first potential easy stretch could have come in weeks four and five where they’d host the Patriots and Raiders in back to back weeks. Look, I respect Bill Belichick as a head coach, but if New England is serious about rolling with Jarrett Stidham as their quarterback, then I’m allowed to have my doubts about them this year.

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With both of those games coming at home in 2020, the Chiefs should manage to take care of both of those teams with ease. The problem is that their week six game comes against the Bills on the road on Thursday Night Football. If this game weren’t on a Thursday night, I’d probably have picked these three as the easiest stretch, but with the Bills improving and getting to host KC on a short week, it’s hard to consider that an easy game.

The stretch that I went with begins in week seven and goes through week 11 (with a week 10 bye in there as well). The Kansas City Chiefs travel to Denver in week seven, host the Jets in week eight, and host the Panthers in week nine before getting a bye in week 10 and then traveling to Las Vegas for a Sunday night game in week 11.

The reason I picked this stretch of games is because the Chiefs have swept the Broncos in each of the last four seasons and are head and shoulders better than them. Yes, Denver made it a point to add playmakers in the draft, but their entire season rides on if Drew Lock can turn the corner or not and with teams having film on him now and his reputation of not playing well against superior opponents in college, the Broncos aren’t going to be as good as everyone thinks.

The next two weeks take place against teams who aren’t quite ready to contend yet. The Jets still have a year or two before they’ll be playoff worthy and the Panthers lost a lot of key players during their Super Bowl run in 2015. Those should be two easy wins for the Chiefs in 2020.