Nope, sadly what I believe. When Bellichick deviates from his norm, there's usually a good reason. Since my Chiefs are likely to be the beatdown victim, I hope I'm wrong.
It's the patriots. Belichick got advanced warning from a meteorologist he has been bribing since 2001 that in 3 weeks, there will be a foot of snow in Denver and 52 degrees in Foxboro.
If they get by KC they are hoping the Broncos beat the Bengals so they have to go to Denver as the altitude makes the balls lose 2lbs of pressure from what they learned earlier this year also confirmed by some MIT geek