Kansas City Chiefs: Winning without hitting their stride

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: The Kansas City Chiefs didn’t play a perfect game on Sunday, but ultimately did enough to win the game.

Everything may not have gone exactly how I would have drawn it up but when the clock finally hit zero and the scoreboard read 27-21 in favor of the Chiefs you could hear the Chiefs Kingdom let out a collective sigh of relief. In the NFL, a win is a win. Period. This particular win raised KC’s record on the season to 4-2.

You can make a pretty strong argument that KC hasn’t played great football through much of their first six games but the end result is all that matters. Now the Chiefs find themselves in great position as the season progresses.

I don’t mean to imply that KC didn’t do some good things against New Orleans. The defense made enough plays to hold one of the league’s best offenses to their second lowest point total of the season. The offense, while frustrating at times, made a couple of big plays that ultimately gave them enough points to get the job done. There were a number of great individual plays throughout the game. Daniel Sorensen was off to the races with an interception after Eric Berry batted a pass up in the air.

Ron Parker may have saved the game with his punch out forced fumble in the second half. Spencer Ware was spectacular on his long screen pass touchdown run. Tyreek Hill made an amazing touchdown grab on a deep ball from Alex Smith and Chris Conley made an equally impressive sideline grab on a long third down to keep a drive (and therefore the clock) going in the fourth quarter.