Kansas City - 23
Jacksonville - 17

We'll lose. We played them last year. And technically we were able to make Mahomes make mistakes. He had his lowest QB rating against our defense last year. That's something to be proud of considering he was the MVP and went onto to toss 50 TD's.

With that said. Andy Reid is a better football coach over Doug Marrone. And we've yet to see the first string offense this preseason. September is more than likely going to be a brutal month for this team. Maybe lucky to win one game. It's a new offensive system. New starting QB. Too many guys coming back from injuries. They'll be rusty as [BLEEP] in this opener.

I am giving KC 23 points. But the linebackers will have their hands full with Kelce. And the inexperience there along with the inexperience now at the safety positions are especially concerning. Andy Reid will probably look at last year's game and work something out with Mahomes to school Wash in this one. He's also familiar with Foles as a QB. He's also familiar with some of the aspects of our offensive system simply due to the Dough Pederson tie in with John DeFilippo and him also being a QB coach for a few years in Oakland.

Not trying to be too pessimistic here but I am being realistic. I still think they can finish strong and still be looking at a 9 - 7 record once the offense starts to gel more. I just think a home opener against the Chiefs, then a trip out west to Houston and then another home again early against the tacks, who, let's face it, doesn't matter if we're 2 - 14 or 14 - 2 during any given year, they just seem to always have our number. Then we travel up to Denver. Where I think they might actually net their first win on the year.

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