Week 10 bye falls in good place for Kansas City Chiefs

By Leigh Oleszczak | May 19, 2020

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO - NOVEMBER 18: Defensive back Rashad Fenton #27 of the Kansas City Chiefs and teammate Tyrann Mathieu #32 of the Kansas City Chiefs celebrates Fenton's interception in the fourth quarter over the Los Angeles Chargers at Estadio Azteca on November 18, 2019 in Mexico City, Mexico. (Photo by Manuel Velasquez/Getty Images) /

The 2020 schedule is out and the Kansas City Chiefs once again have a late season bye, with this year’s taking place in week ten.

The past few years have seen the Kansas City Chiefs not having their bye week until late in the season, but honestly, that’s quite okay. This year’s week 10 bye falls in the perfect spot for the Chiefs.

Bye weeks are a team for teams to have a week off during the course of the regular season. It’s nice because it gives these players – who obviously get pretty beat up – a chance to rest up and get healthy.

For teams like the Chiefs, bye weeks are huge because A) Rest and health are important B) They’re always a playoff team, so they have to be good to go for a lot longer than most other teams C) Andy Reid is phenomenal coming off the bye.

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We saw just how much having a bye in the playoffs helped the KC Chiefs last season (though if the new playoff rules were implemented in 2019, they’d have been playing on Wild Card weekend) and that alone shows how pivotal byes are in the NFL.

So, why does the Chiefs’ week 10 bye fall in the perfect spot? Well, that’s easy.

Starting in week 11, the Kansas City Chiefs begin a brutal stretch of games with four out of the five coming on the road. They’ll open things up in week 11 on the road against the Las Vegas Raiders, which will be the first time KC will play the Raiders in their new city.

The Raiders aren’t going to be very good in 2020, but you can never count out a division rival, especially when they’re playing the game at home and on Sunday Night Football (though don’t be shocked if that stadium is filled with red, assuming fans can attend). The Chiefs will have two weeks to game plan for this match-up, however, so even though it’s against the Raiders, the bye leading into this one is best case scenario for Reid and the Chiefs.

After that comes a road game against the Buccaneers, a home Sunday night game against Denver, a road game in Miami, and a road game against the Saints in the Big Easy. Not an easy slate for the Chiefs, but their week 10 bye lands at the perfect time to prepare them for this tough portion of their schedule.

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What do you think, Chiefs Kingdom? Does the bye week fall at the right time or would it be better at another time?

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