“Even though we put up some stats at the end of the game, those stats didn’t really matter because we had already lost the momentum.” This is how Patrick Mahomes summed up the Chiefs’ Super Bowl heartbreak. The game slipped away, and by the time they found their groove, it was too late. And let’s be real—losing the Super Bowl hits harder than a linebacker on a blitz, and the sting doesn’t fade overnight.

And for the Chiefs, that gut-wrenching loss on February 9th ignited a fire, especially in the heart of one hometown hero—Felix Anudike-Uzomah—the local kid turned first-round pick for KC. Sure, the guy already won a Super Bowl earlier, but when you ask him how does it feel to lose one, he’s gonna say it, “It sucks.”

On Thursday, Felix appeared on the Up & Adams Show, where he talked about the Super Bowl loss and how he’s going to improve for the next season. “It sucks. I’m not gonna lie. I feel like it’s worse than I’m not even going to like the playoffs,” he said when asked how it feels to lose a Super Bowl. “Just losing the Super Bowl, especially we spent all this time just to, um, make it to that point and then losing it, it just, it sucks.”

Can you blame him? Absolutely not. The Chiefs stormed through the regular season with a 15-1 record, clinched their ninth consecutive AFC West title, edged the Texans in the divisional round, and outlasted the Bills in a nail-biting AFC Championship. Alas, when it mattered most, they fell short. The O-line couldn’t find rhythm, and the D-line? Let’s just say that they just couldn’t get that one game-changing stop. The result? A disastrous 40-22 loss.

Fast forward, and the Chiefs are surely gearing up to reclaim their crown in the next season. As for Anudike-Uzomah, the 23-year-old DE is preparing to bounce back in 2025. When asked what is the one good thing that he could take away after the Super Bowl loss, the guy stated, “(it’s) just a tunneling experience.”

“I feel like the good thing is like we know what, why basically, the reasons why we basically lost the Super Bowl and we can improve from that. So we can go to off-season, go to meetings, stuff like that, see what we can do better. And even like, even physically wise, what can we do personally to step our game up so we can not be in that position we were in last year.” Well, Felix isn’t just talking the talk.

After his sophomore season where the guy notched 2.5 sacks and 27 tackles, the Chiefs DE is all in on stepping up his game. With the off-season underway, and the Chiefs’ D-line facing some turnover, Felix surely knows that it’s time to shine. To make things even more interesting for the Chiefs, Andy Reid and Co. have some good news for their O-line as well.

Andy Reid has an injury update on their WR1

The Chiefs’ O-line in the last season was anything but smooth. The reason? Injuries to Rashee Rice and Hollywood Brown. While Brown did return during the final leg of the season, but Rice? Nope. After recording a standout rookie season back in 2023, many expected that the WR would explode in his sophomore season. And why not?

I mean, the guy caught 79 catches for 938 yards and racked up 7 TDs. Cherry on the cake? Rice came sixth in Offensive Rookie of the Year voting. And let’s be real—the 24-year-old WR had a solid start in the last season, having recorded nearly 300 yards and racked up a couple of TDs in just 4 games. Enter week 4 showdown against the Chargers and the guy suffered a knee injury and had to miss out on the remainder of the season.

Fast forward, and it looks like Andy Reid and his crew are finally getting some good news on Rice’s recovery. “He’s on track to be ready (for camp). We’ll see,” Reid said. “He’s working his tail off right now, I know.” Physically, Rice is expected to return on the field by the first week of the 2025 season.

In his absence, the rookie WR, Xavier Worthy, stepped up. Now that Rice is expected to return in the next season, and with Hollywood Brown returning with a one-year contract extension, let’s just say Andy Reid might be taking a sigh of relief for the Chiefs O-line issues.