The Tennessee Titans (5-2) are now one day away from their mammoth intra-conference clash with the Kansas City Chiefs (5-2) at Arrowhead Stadium in Week 9.
This is a primetime game between the No. 2 and No. 3 seeds in the AFC who possesses mirroring records after seven games. Despite the same amount of wins and losses, these two teams couldn’t have more differing reputations from each other.
The Chiefs are universally considered Super Bowl contenders every single season, while the Titans, on the other hand, are often labeled as pretenders until proven otherwise.
Yet, regardless of the differing reputations, more often than not, both of these two teams are playing relevant football in January.
Although we still have a ways to go before we can really start thinking about the playoffs this year, Sunday night’s game could have huge tie-breaker implications at some point this season.
The Chiefs (No. 3) are sitting behind the Titans (No. 2) in the conference standings, but Kansas City will jump Tennessee with a win, while also grabbing the head-to-head tie-breaker for playoff seeding.
This game is filled with intriguing individual and collective on-field matchups across the board.
Let’s focus on three specific ones that will play a large part in deciding the outcome of this matchup between two AFC hopefuls.