The Chiefs will have a week’s rest as the AFC’s No. 1 seed before next weekend’s Divisional Round.
Cincinnati took down Kansas City in January 2022 before falling to the Rams in the championship contest.
No, the Chiefs didn’t get waxed by the Broncos on purpose to keep the Bengals out of the playoffs.
“I’ll play them at the Walmart parking lot,” the nine-time Pro Bowler quipped. “I don’t give a s–t. We can have our own game in the offseason where we really duke it out. Listen, I love competing against the greatest. The Bengals were a fun-ass f–king team to watch toward the end of the season and it’s a shame they didn’t make it in the playoffs because it would have made the playoffs that much more f–king crazy and that much more fun.”
Falling to 4-7 before the bye week, the Bengals stormed back from the dead to finish the year at 9-8.
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“I wanted them in the f–king playoffs,” Travis continued of the Bengals, who kept their playoff hopes alive entering Sunday as the winners of five straight, including Saturday’s 19-17 victory over the divisional rival Steelers to wrap up the regular season.
“I want to slay every dragon one by one like ‘Mortal Kombat.’ I don’t even want this to be like we play the lowest seeds, just give me the best teams, AFC, NFC. Give me all of them ‘Mortal Kombat’-style, I’ll go through every f–king one of them. Just giving them my best f–king effort. I ain’t scared of a single soul.”
The AFC heavyweights squared off again the following January with the Chiefs besting the Bengals. Kansas City then defeated Jason’s Eagles in Super Bowl 2023.
