For a team that just found its first winning record of the 2025 season, the Kansas City Chiefs sure are successful at making opposing franchises miserable. And it turns out the Chiefs are learning just how much they ruined one of their competitors long after the fact.
In Week 7, the Chiefs made a historical mockery of the Las Vegas Raiders in a 31-0 that reportedly forced them to consider trading the single best player whose donned the silver and black in the last half-decade (or more).
In Week 6, the Chiefs decimated the Detroit Lions by two scores in a game that still has them complaining weeks later.
In Week 4, the Chiefs met up with the Baltimore Ravens in what should have been a thrilling primetime contest between two of the NFL's best teams. Instead, the Chiefs mopped the floor with Baltimore in Xavier Worthy's first game back from injury and sent John Harbaugh's team back to the drawing board at 1-3.
The Baltimore Sun's Brian Wacker posted a column on Tuesday that illustrated just how seriously Ravens brass took the shellacking in Week 4. Wacker reports that Lamar Jackson and the rest of the Ravens players returned to their locker rooms before Week 5 to find it stripped of its fun. Video games were gone. So were the ping-pong tables. Cornhole, too, as well as a basketball hoop.
Unfortunately, the move doesn't seem to have worked. The Ravens have lost their only two games since bowing down to Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs. After losing to K.C. by 17, they rolled over for the Houston Texans, who have only two wins on the season, by 34 points. Then they scored only 3 meager points in a loss to the L.A. Chargers in Week 6.
Coming out of a bye, Baltimore has a very short window of time in which to right the ship -- if that's even possible at this stage -- with the Chicago Bears coming to town in Week 8. From there, the schedule gets very easy with games against the Dolphins, Browns, and Jets in the season's midsection.
Perhaps John Harbaugh will give his guys their toys back, but four games under .500 before the bye week means there's a major hill to climb first. If not, it will be just another example of how a meeting with Kansas City can ruin everything.