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The Kansas City Chiefs are back on track in the ESPN.com Power Rankings, jumping up one spot from last week.

The Chiefs now sit at a respectable #12 in the 32-team rankings as they sit atop the AFC West at 7-4.

Yet they are no longer the highest ranked NFL team.

The San Diego Chargers via their road victory of the Indianapolis Colts leapfrogged the Chiefs, moving from #14 all the way up to #11.

Should Chiefs fans be angry about this given that the Chiefs have already beat the Chargers once this year?

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Kansas City Chiefs’ quarterback Matt Cassel is having a great season. For those of us that consider ourselves die hard Chiefs fans this is a common topic of conversation. It started out as a debate on if he should even be the QB or not and has shifted into a discussion on just how good he is. However, that conversation is currently restricted to those that follow the Chiefs. With the national media, Cassel (along with the KC offense in general) is flying under the radar.

Monday morning on ESPN and national sports talk radio the conversation centered on three NFL QBs. The first two were Phillip Rivers and Peyton Manning and how the Chargers dismantled the Colts. The third was Atlanta’s Matt Ryan and how “Matty Ice” is unstoppable at home and is leading the Falcon’s towards home field advantage in the NFC. Now I’m not saying that those QBs don’t deserve the headlines, I’m just pointing out that Matt Cassel wasn’t a hot topic nation wide even after throwing 4 TDs on Sunday.

When Cassel does get an occasional mention in the national media it is usually something like “Matt Cassel is doing a nice job of doing what the Chiefs ask of him.” Or “Matt Cassel does a nice job of protecting the football.” And lately “Matt Cassel is doing a nice job of getting the ball to Dwayne Bowe.” In interviews he doesn’t give the media any great sound bites to work with. He usually just repeats head coach Todd Haley’s “coach speak”. I guess you could say he comes off as a nice guy but he’s not likely to say anything that makes Sports Center.

If someone’s only knowledge of Matt Cassel was what the national media provided they would probably have no idea that his numbers are a lot better then “nice”. I already did a post calling for Chiefs fans to get on the Matt Cassel Bandwagon, now it’s time for any stragglers to get on board (including the national media) and give “Matty Nice” his due.

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A couple of solid wins and some excellent individual performances have the Chiefs charging in the right direction, and we’re back to embracing that very profound-sounding concept: The Kansas City Chiefs control their own destiny.

Of course, every team controls its own destiny at the start of the season. I haven’t double-checked the record books, but I’m pretty sure any team that has gone an entire season without losing a game has made it to the playoffs, and done rather well there, assuming they continued to win. But destiny, like a high-school party at your parents’ house, is one of those things that gets harder to control the longer it goes on. Even Anakin Skywalker could not, ultimately, control his own destiny—though his midi-chlorian* levels were off the chart, he had no choice but to accept his dark fate as Al Davis Darth Vader.

*Forget Wikipedia; I had to look that one up on Wookieepedia, “the Star Wars Wiki.” Seriously.

But controlling our own destiny is the happiness we‘re all raised to pursue. It’s as American as apple pie from the McDonald’s drive-thru at two in the morning. If we want it, and we work for it, we can get it.

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