Chiefs’ schedule and weather go together like cheese on a hamburger
Reid is ready to bust out his Hawaiian shirt for the Chiefs’ late-season road games. Kansas City will travel to both Tampa Bay and Miami late in the season and that is preferable according to Reid because of the weather.
“Well, those later games, the one positive about those later games is that we have Miami and Tampa and they’re late in the season,” Reid told NFL Network host Steve Mariucci. “You remember when we had to play Tampa Bay when we were at Green Bay and we dreaded it if you had to play them early because of the heat. We’ve got both Florida teams late in the year which is positive, I think, if you look at those things. You kind of look at Buffalo and Green Bay and you want to play them early in the season and the Florida teams you want to play late in the season.”
The Chiefs will beat the heat in their Florida away games by playing there during the winter when the weather is milder. Remember when the Chiefs opened the season in Jacksonville last year and could barely sustain a defensive line rotation because of the heat? They’ll avoid that issue entirely this season.
Additionally, the Chiefs will get to play at Buffalo early in the season before it gets brutally cold. So any cold-weather games will likely be played within the confines of Arrowhead Stadium.
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