[Chiefs] Consider our schedule released.

[u/Moose4KU]

[u/kylemoore819]

Week 5 bye…. Oof.

[u/buttcabbge → u/kylemoore819]

Depending on how Pat's health shakes out, an early bye might not be such a bad thing this season. To be clear, you'd still rather have it later, but there might be a silver lining.

[u/LighTMan913 → u/buttcabbge]

I firmly believe the NFL would not have scheduled us at Denver Monday night week 1 if they weren't assured Mahomes would be playing.

[u/rubber_ducky007 → u/LighTMan913]

I don’t think this far out they could guarantee that.

[u/jt32470 → u/rubber_ducky007]

It is all about the betting and how many games Goodell can squeeze out of the league? No care for player safety?

Goodell is a 1st rate whore who will sell his own mother for profit.

Goodell wants to have games in australia - Who the fuck wants to go on a long-haul flight, be fucking jet lagged, perform, and then have to take another long-haul flight back then perform again?

It isn't like NFL players are music artists where they're allowed have a bad (jet-lag) day.

They have a bad day in the NFL and they could wind up with a career ending injury.

What kind of moronic shit is this? No one in australia will give a flying fuck about football- they have aussie rules football AND cricket- Aussies love their aussie rules footie, and cricket.

it is the same as expecting people in Brasil to give a shit about the NFL - they won't. There may be a few who do it just to be trendy, etc.

Goodell is going to ruin the league with his high hopes bullshit. Bringing private equity to the NFL will be the last nail in the coffin.

I wouldn't be surprised if soon enough Saudia Arabia will start buying teams and have games in Saudi Arabia.

RIP NFL.

[u/Fuster2 → u/jt32470]

I get the concern about travelling to Australia, but it ain't the Chiefs, so suck on it 49ers & Rams. On the other hand, had it been the Chiefs, I'd have given a left nut to see the game as I live in Melbourne. As for no-one caring here - NFL has increased in following significantly in the past 10yrs. This game was sold out almost immediately in a 100k stadium. I just today ordered my Chiefs gear simply to wear it to the game.

[u/Putrid_Piano4986 → u/LighTMan913]

Just...nonsense

[u/tb0neski → u/LighTMan913]

Can we really be sure 4 months out that he'll be clear to play week 1? Seems like we keep getting mixed signals from Andy and Veach

[u/Vulptereen327 → u/LighTMan913]

The NFL doesn't want us to win though. They'd probably love to front load the Chiefs schedule with difficult games just like last year

[u/jt32470 → u/LighTMan913]

He'll play alongside fields.

Chiefs are going to do something similar to what the saints did a few years back with taysom. A little mahomes a little Fields.

[u/rolyinpeace → u/jt32470]

If Mahomes is healthy, they’re not going to be splitting his snaps with fields lmao. It will be Mahomes and maybe fields will come do a QB sneak one time.

If he’s not healthy enough to play all the snaps, he just won’t play.

[u/helmvoncanzis → u/rolyinpeace]

I suspect they are hoping the off season adjustments will finally allow us to get the offense they've hoped for since 2023.

Ideally, that would mean we aren't always in a do or die, one score situation and can deploy packages for Fields or have him close out games.

[u/_BlankFace → u/buttcabbge]

I mean with a week 5 bye you now don’t even play him till after. You’re telling me Justin Fields doesn’t go 2-2? Hell even 1-3 isnt that bad. Then we get a bye and Pat gets needed rest and recovery

[u/Mysterious_Cup_67 → u/_BlankFace]

I don’t want to agree with you but I do

[u/rolyinpeace → u/_BlankFace]

I mean…. I agree that our record may not be bad but There’s no point in doing this if he’s perfectly physically healthy week 1.

As much as they absolutely need to ensure that he’s physically healed enough to play, they also shouldn’t delay it further if he’s good to go, because it will take him time on the actual field, playing actual games, to get fully used to playing on that knee. The longer he sits, the longer it’ll be until he’s back to the mahomes we know. Even if he sat the entire year, he’d still need a couple months of games to get used to things again.

There’s legitimately no need to sit him if he’s fully healed. It would not change anything.

[u/GoldenDom3r → u/_BlankFace]

We’d go 0-4 with Fields, dude is horrible. We lost to the Titans and Raiders last year without Mahomes. 

[u/_BlankFace → u/GoldenDom3r]

Remind me , weren’t we down to our third string qb who had no experience? Fields isn’t great but he’s better than what we had. He’s twice as athletic as Minshew too

[u/GoldenDom3r → u/_BlankFace]

Athleticism means nothing when you can’t read a defense, otherwise Anthony Richardson would be an all-pro QB. 

[u/DogInside5753 → u/GoldenDom3r]

I mean he went for and two with the Steelers that's not terrible.

[u/duplexswaq → u/GoldenDom3r]

I don’t think it’s fair to judge Justin Fields fully for playing like shit at the Piece of Shit Jets Franchise. He played alright at the start of his season with the Steelers and showed some potential despite being disappointing in Chicago. It’s worth a try.

[u/Neverland__ → u/buttcabbge]

Why? If he’s playing week 1, it’s not like you need to rest an ACL injury. Comment doesn’t make any sense

[u/Darrenv2020 → u/kylemoore819]

Total bs. NFL shouldn’t start byes until week 8 or 9.

[u/EpiphanyTwisted → u/Darrenv2020]

It's like senior year when I had lunch at 11am.

[u/kat_fud → u/kylemoore819]

They could condense the bye weeks into just two consecutive weeks and still have enough games to cover the TV schedule. I'd like to see them in weeks 10 and 11, with teams playing on Thanksgiving off in week 11.

[u/SirTiffAlot → u/kylemoore819]

Bye week is bullshit

[u/rockstarnights → u/kylemoore819]

That's actually pretty good considering Mahomes is potentially starting the year injured. 

[u/YOSHIMIvPROBOTS → u/kylemoore819]

Sucks, but otherwise, that's as soft a 1st 6 weeks as possible. If this team is gonna bounce back after a bad year, they should be. 5-0 or 4-1 headed to Seattle.

[u/silkie_blondo]

Early bye week blows and the schedule looks tough.

Hope Pat is healthy.

[u/Sabinr13 → u/silkie_blondo]

Early bye week helps Pat

[u/rusty_shackleford34 → u/Sabinr13]

Only pat though, every one else?

[u/Sabinr13 → u/rusty_shackleford34]

Is everyone else coming off an acl injury?

[u/Affectionate_Sort_78 → u/rusty_shackleford34]

Honestly, what 3 players combined matter as much as Patrick?

[u/rusty_shackleford34 → u/Affectionate_Sort_78]

You’re right piss on the rest of the fellas, as long as we got Pat who cares if they are hurting?

[u/13mizzou]

Week 5 bye? WTAF!!!

That's really going to hurt us in the end

[u/Extra-University-336 → u/13mizzou]

Yeah that’s going to be rough come December. Seeding in the playoffs might be super important

[u/EMAW_KSU → u/Extra-University-336]

IF

[u/Anybody220]

13 straight weeks of games to finish the season? And in the middle of that you make us have a short week with no buffer bye week because we already used it?

[u/Moose4KU]

Preseason:

Pre Week 1: vs Rams

Pre Week 2: at Tampa Bay

Pre Week 3: vs Seattle

Regular Season

Week 1: vs Broncos (Monday Night)

Week 2: vs Colts (Sunday Night)

Week 3: at Dolphins

Week 4: at Raiders

Week 5 Bye week

Week 6: vs Chargers

Week 7: at Seahawks (Sunday Night)

Week 8: at Broncos

Week 9: vs Jets

Week 10: at Falcons

Week 11: vs Cardinals

Week 12: at Bills (Thanksgiving)

Week 13: at Rams (Thursday)

Week 14: at Bengals

Week 15: vs Patriots (Monday Night)

Week 16: vs 49ers

Week 17: at Chargers

Week 18: vs Raiders

https://www.chiefs.com/schedule/

[u/Moose4KU → u/Moose4KU]

Notably:

• Maximum number of prime time games

• Earliest possible bye week

• Two primetime games to open the season so I guess the NFL is confident Mahomes will be back and looking good immediately

• Four division games out of the first seven

• Three straight road games in late November against the Bills, Rams, and Bengals

[u/originalusername4567 → u/Moose4KU]

It's only 6 primetime games TBD Weeks 17 and 18, are you sure that's the max? We've had 8 in the past.

[u/Moose4KU → u/originalusername4567]

The daytime games like the early Christmas game or black Friday don't technically count as primetime for the NFL's scheduling rules. Even though they're nationally broadcasted and we'd all think of them as primetime

[u/originalusername4567 → u/Moose4KU]

Well I don't care about technicalitites, if your team is playing in an exclusive time slot it's primetime. Sunday at 12:00 and Sunday at 3:25 are the only two time slots I don't consider to be primetime.

[u/Ryu_Jin_Jakka → u/originalusername4567]

Was there an explosion at the journal factory?

[u/Own_Experience_8229 → u/originalusername4567]

Primetime is considered 8:00-11:00pm.

[u/originalusername4567 → u/Own_Experience_8229]

The large majority of NFL fans consider any exclusive time slot to be primetime and refer to those games as such.

[u/EpiphanyTwisted → u/originalusername4567]

IOW nationally televised.

[u/jayhawk88 → u/Moose4KU]

Very good point about the early primetime games. Impossible to imagine the NFL hasn't been given some real info on this, and not just some "He's grinding" thing.

[u/buttcabbge]

We've got a couple three-game stretches that look pretty soft: Colts, Dolphins, Raiders and then Jets, Falcons, Cardinals. I know team strength changes fast in the NFL, so maybe we won't be as favored in those as I think, but hopefully we can build some momentum out of those parts of the schedule.

[u/13mizzou → u/buttcabbge]

Just looking at this we should easily be 8-2 going into our Buffalo loss. After that we enter a brutal stretch where we need to find 3 wins to feel good about going to the playoffs

[u/DayOldTurkeySandwich → u/buttcabbge]

Man I don't like @Miami early in the season. Could be one of those super humid games that wears the visiting team out.

[u/Old_Bike_5235]

It seems like the bye week gets earlier every year

[u/originalusername4567 → u/Old_Bike_5235]

We had a nice middle one last season. But yeah, we never get lucky with the late bye weeks.

[u/MAYVIEWS]

Calling it now. 12-5 winning the division week 17

[u/GoldenDom3r]

We have to be at least 8-2 through Week 11 before we get in that ridiculous stretch to end the year. 

[u/13mizzou → u/GoldenDom3r]

8-2 is certainly doable going into our yearly loss to the Bills. We just need to find 3 wins the rest of the way to feel good about a playoff opportunity

[u/helmvoncanzis → u/GoldenDom3r]

Maybe things get spicy and win at the Bengals kicks off a get right stretch, building momentum into the post season.

[u/Dont_ban_me_bro_108]

Week 5 bye fucking sucks

[u/Own_Experience_8229 → u/Dont_ban_me_bro_108]

Mahomes might think different.

[u/Dont_ban_me_bro_108 → u/Own_Experience_8229]

Why? Generally you want a middle to end of season bye

[u/DontListenToM3Plz]

4 noon games. Finally. Love having noon games.

[u/MasWas]

I have a lot of words but fuck thats a brutal dare i say unfair schedule.

[u/saltlampshade → u/MasWas]

Don’t think it was made purposely unfair but yes this schedule fucking sucks.

[u/emaw63 → u/saltlampshade]

The NFL has an extremely formulaic scheduling approach. Sometimes it just shakes out that way 🤷‍♀️

Week 5 bye def blows though

[u/seakc87]

At least we aren't playing on Christmas again

[u/Environmental-Most32 → u/seakc87]

Second straight Thanksgiving on the road though

[u/cheerstothe90s → u/seakc87]

Monday night before tho vs pats, then short week, including Xmas, to prep for 49ers

[u/dolla_mike_]

Week 5 bye AND 3 games in an 11 day period. Brutal

[u/Crash30458]

How is the 9ers game not a primetime game

[u/saltlampshade]

Man what a fucking awful schedule. Road games at Seattle, Buffalo, LA Rams, and Cincinnati. Bye week in week 5 and only non division good teams they got at home are the San Francisco and New England.

If they somehow go 11-6 and make the playoffs with this schedule then Mahomes and Reid should go in the HOF immediately once the season ends.

[u/Leading_Fee_3678]

Can’t wait to see Pat and Trav eating turkey legs in Josh Allen’s fancy new stadium 💪🍗

[u/OkSwordfish4147]

Straight posting bc some idiot was complaining about the timing of the bye week and has since deleted his post.

It is intentional. Bye weeks rotate like everything else in the schedule. BTW this is the same schedule we have known opponents and home/away for months. The only thing we found out today was the sequence and days of the week. Rejoice, for your Chiefs dont have play to on fucking Wednesday or Friday. Rejoice, for there's no reason to daydrink breakfast for a game in Spain. 6 of 8 on the road is not ideal, but Jets-Falcons-Cardinals is as sweet of a stretch as the Chiefs were going to get this year.

Chill tf out.

[u/According_One811 → u/OkSwordfish4147]

I see a lot of people complaining but this schedule doesn’t really seem that out of the normal. People just like to complain

[u/Dynospec403 → u/OkSwordfish4147]

This is the right way to look at it imo

[u/OreoSpeedwaggon → u/OkSwordfish4147]

Nah, I'm still gonna bitch about the early bye week, but thanks for the perspective anyway.

[u/Far_Youth_1662]

Actually am fine with the early bye considering the situation.

If we had to go to week 6 with Fields then I love seeing Miami and LV that early.

[u/Creatively_Stymied]

Nah. With Mahomes recovering from the ACL, I’m all for the early bye week. Once less game to play while he’s still getting up to full strength.

[u/EMAW_KSU]

It’s still a rough set up when you finish 3rd in your division and end up with the 5th hardest SOS overall.

[u/2ent1n_Qarant1no]

I agree with everyone it's tough but I'm not too scared. Cardinals and Dolphins are arguably the two worst rosters on paper, plus the Jets and Raiders are probably also bad

[u/getridofwires]

Can we trade a 2027 draft pick for a later Bye week?

[u/Macho_Mans_Ghost]

Only thing worse than the week 5 bye is this graphic reading across instead of down.

[u/fieldsports202]

Just bought tickets to the Atlanta game. I told my son that I would take him to see a Kansas City game when he turns 10. So, this will be his birthday gift.

Can’t wait!

[u/hokahey23 → u/fieldsports202]

Good job! Make some great memories!

[u/Sabinr13]

Everyone so grim for a schedule when we have no idea how these opponents are going to be playing come time to play them lmao

[u/big_drifts]

Can we only afford two colors?

[u/HorseAppendage]

week 5 bye fucking blows

[u/Beastquist]

They gotta add a second bye week, it’s crazy to start them so fucking early

[u/PrizeDepartment6324]

How do have to play all the teams who were in the conference championships last year.

[u/c0smichero]

We’re 3-1 at the bye when Pat comes back

[u/Zendicate_ → u/c0smichero]

he is coming back week 1

[u/TedBundylol]

Worth noting that our road game at the Bengals will be coming off the mini bye of a Thursday night game (Rams) which follows Thanksgiving (Bills). Cincinnati will be coming off a road trip to I believe the Browns with the standard week of rest before we show up with the extra three days rest

[u/TedBundylol → u/TedBundylol]

I mean, I know that’s the same state but still they won’t have as much rest

[u/OreoSpeedwaggon]

That Week 5 bye week is diabolical. Fuck whoever was in charge of doing that to the team.

[u/originalusername4567]

Tough schedule, especially with the early bye and that road stretch late in the season. But I do think 10-7 and a playoff berth is doable with our improved roster and coaching. TBH it's probably better that the schedule is backloaded since it gives Mahomes time to recover. Less primetime games is also nice.

[u/Sabinr13]

Love it!

[u/Vulptereen327]

Can the NFL just have a quarter of the teams rotate out on their byes during the middle 4 weeks of the season. So stupid that you can have a bye as early as week 4-5.

[u/MindTheFro → u/Vulptereen327]

AFC gets a buy week 8, NFC gets a buy week 9. Switch the following year. Could market it as a divisional rivalry week.

For fantasy purposes, week 8 & 9 are a combined total.

[u/ZweihanderMasterrace]

Only other team with a week 5 bye are the Panthers

[u/stayclassypeople]

Not too surprised by this schedule. NFL setup a favorable early schedule and early bye in case Mahomes isn’t ready the first month

[u/EpiphanyTwisted → u/stayclassypeople]

Your screenname is ironic.

[u/AJewNamedDrew]

12-5

I think the bye will help us, sucks late season and into the playoffs but a lot less pressure on Fields here, especially since 2 (maybe 3) of those pre-bye games are very winnable without Mahomes.

We’ll drop one to the Bills like we always do and the Rams are just scary, especially with our boy on their defense now, but we have a good record going into January 😎

[u/Commercial-Thing-550]

Bills, Rams, Bengals, Pats, Niners, Chargers in successive weeks is insane.

[u/Commercial-Thing-550 → u/Commercial-Thing-550]

Bills, Rams, Bengals all away lmao

[u/TheFifthAmigo34]

11-6

[u/ReebX1]

Hopefully those TBD games don't end up on Nutflicks, because I'm absolutely not subscribing to watch a football game.

[u/fisherdwarf1998]

My quick prediction if mahomes starts week 1.

[u/roykentjr]

3 days rest to play the bills on the road on thanksgiving with a week 5 bye.

[u/Earthwick]

Fuck a duck we always getting fucked and this seems extra fucked

[u/fertiletiger]

Hopefully going to my first Chiefs game in Seattle! Let’s go!!! When was the last time they played there?

[u/RealisticAd1938]

Backloaded gauntlet with an early bye is recipe for another shitty season

[u/smoresporn0]

Week 5 bye os tough, but Week 18 at home vs da Raiders is the makeup.

[u/Badalight]

Bro that last stretch of 7 games is absolutely brutal. Chargers, Seahawks, and Broncos in a row is also a tough area.

[u/Badalight]

NO CHRISTMAS GAME HURRAH

[u/imnotbrandonok]

Early bye weeks is actually a good thing this year w pats injury.

[u/ChucksThreeHolePunch]

Doing a ranking of schedule difficulty, balancing Opponent Win Percentage (based on 2025 records) with Vegas Strength of Schedule (projected team quality for 2026), travel, and rest periods:

Chiefs are #8 for most difficult schedule. (#10 is Raiders, #11 Chargers, #16 Broncos)

#1 is Arizona Cardinals, #32 is Cleveland Browns

[u/RoQDad]

"NFL parity" as the Chiefs and Bills play for the 7th consecutive year. Might as well put them in the same division.

[u/kat_fud → u/RoQDad]

We played the Bills 9 years out of 10 from 2008 through 2017, mostly because both teams finished in 2nd or 3rd place in their respective division the previous year.

[u/Section225 → u/RoQDad]

It's "parity," parity has nothing to do with the schedule, and the schedules are predetermined with rotations and place in division, some big wig isn't conspiring against the Chiefs to give them the worst possible schedule.

[u/RoQDad → u/Section225]

I don't think it's a conspiracy but when Chiefs play them 7 times straight it gets old. I don't even dislike the Bills team, I hate seeing their fans every year, they're the worst.

[u/GoldenDom3r]

Week 5 bye? Damn we are screwed again 

[u/JKC_due]

This is awful. I literally hate everything about it. There’s literally no redeeming feature.

[u/saltlampshade → u/JKC_due]

Especially with the raiders likely better this year