Mike Tannier

And that's a good way of looking at it, not just the Super Bowl, but in the championship game.

Oh, the opposing quarterbacks hurt, and it's a snowstorm.

Those are places along the way where the whole system seemed to be working in their favor.

Brown definitely helps.

You're going to get a with-the-program version of Brown, at least in the short term.

They also have Romeo Dobbs now, so that's kind of a refresh of their receiving core around Drake May.

The question becomes, how much was the schedule a factor in

And the answer probably is a lot.

And then you also have to look at, well, the Bills are there and the Ravens are rebuilding and Patrick Mahomes will be back.

The one thing I'll say about the Patriots schedule, the Jets are still the Jets.

The Dolphins are an even worse version of the Dolphins.

They might have four wins right off the bat walking into the season with this new receiving core.

So Brown's going to help.

I think they're going to be a playoff team.

There's a lot of variables you have to look at in the AFC before you figure out how the balance of power really works.

I'd have to go with the Chiefs because you can insert Patrick Mahomes right away and say, well, there's one solution.

You can insert Kenneth Walker and say, oh, they weren't able to run the ball for a couple seasons.

There's the next solution.

And while they lost a lot of guys on defense, they drafted guys on defense.

They have the coaching staff with Spagnuolo intact.