The Kansas City Chiefs did what most thought was impossible on Sunday. With a 23-17 win over the Oakland Raiders they completed a 10-game winning streak to finish the regular season and turned a 1-5 dumpster fire into an 11-5 playoff birth.
In typical Chiefs fashion the game wasn’t easy. What looked to be a blowout after KC jumped out to an early 14-0 lead was anything but as the Raiders had the ball with a minute to go and a chance to win the game. Also in typical Chiefs fashion, the team found a way to win and that’s all that really matters in the long run…….winning. It would be easy to chalk up this season as a success now, from 1-5 to the playoffs, KC has to be playing with house money at this point, right?
Wrong.
The 2015 Kansas City Chiefs will not have had a successful season unless they get the playoff win that’s been eluding them for 20 years. That was the mindset at the start of the season and that should be the mindset now. Was this ten game winning streak fun? Of course it was, but a team that goes into the playoffs on a ten game winning streak should be expected to win a playoff game, period. Especially when they are 11-5 and facing a team that is 9-7 and is quarterbacked by Brian Hoyer. Then when you add to that the fact that KC already beat Houston in their own house to start the season and this game is a must win.
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