The Kansas City Chiefs finished the 2025 NFL season with a 6-11 record, missing the playoffs for the first time since 2014.
It was a disastrous year for head coach Andy Reid and the typically-dominant Chiefs, who lost superstar quarterback Patrick Mahomes to a season-ending ACL tear in Week 15.
Some NFL critics view this down year as the end of the Chiefs’ dynasty. Others, like Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Terry Bradshaw, believe Kansas City will bounce back in 2026.
During a recent appearance with Little Rock, Arkansas’ “Morning Mayhem” on 103.7 The Buzz, Bradshaw called out the “idiots” who believe the Chiefs are no longer contenders.
"I was reading this morning about Andy Reid and the Kansas City Chiefs and ‘has he lost it.' And I'm like, are you kidding me? He went to five Super Bowls in six years and they're going, ‘Has he lost it?' Lost what? I'll tell you what he lost, he lost a lot of players to injuries,” Bradshaw said, via Awful Announcing. “Critics are just idiots. Idiots, man. They have no idea what they're talking about."
While Bradshaw believes the Chiefs will be firmly back in Super Bowl contention next season, he was pleased to see another team get the spotlight in this year’s title game.
"In the NFL, as a broadcaster, I get tired of the same old, ‘Baltimore, Buffalo, Denver and the Rams and 49ers,' I thought the Seattle story was a really good story," Bradshaw said of the Seahawks beating the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LX. "It was good to see defense come back and dominate … and Sam Darnold just never got any respect, he's Rodney Dangerfield … I was happy for him."
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