How The Chiefs Can Win Super Bowl 50
By Andrew Jones
Seattle vs. Kansas City
So it comes down to Super Bowl 50. I really wanted to go for the theatrics and have a Super Bowl I rematch but I don’t trust Green Bay at all right now. It will be fitting that the Chiefs have to go through the last two winners to become winners themselves. We remember, of course, that the Chiefs were the only team to beat both of them the year before.
That being said, Kansas City will have to play its best game of the season to beat Seattle. Something happens to the Seahawks near the end of the season and in the playoffs. They start playing their best football. Marshawn Lynch should be healthy even though they have been fine without him, and the defense of Seattle looks like they have revitalized the legion of boom.
In order to prep for the game the Chiefs will look to how St. Louis managed to trump Seattle twice this season. They will see that it all starts up front. The Chiefs have arguably the second-best defensive front behind the Rams so they can work a lot of the same schemes. The Rams stopped the run game and forced turnovers. The Seahawks outgained the Rams on offense but it didn’t matter with the final score.
The Chiefs have a better quarterback than St. Louis and they have a better secondary. If the Chiefs can force Seattle to be one-dimensional and contain Russel Wilson, then the defense will have done its job. The offense will then need to control possessions. The have to force the big Seattle safeties to crowd the box and then go over their heads. Richard Sherman is elite but he doesn’t have the speed to go deep down field with fast receivers.
The biggest key of the game for me would be to tighten down special teams. The Arizona Cardinals might have been closer in their week 17 game if they were able to contain Tyler Lockett. A lot of Chiefs fans wanted to draft Lockett mostly because they remember the few years his father played for KC. It may have ultimately been a mistake for the Chiefs not to draft him but they can limit that mistake if they contain him on punt and kick returns.
Like I said, the Chiefs will have to play their best game of the year for them to win, but it can happen. The Chiefs have gotten quite a few lucky bounces this season that they did not get last season. Hopefully that luck didn’t run out with 2015. Justin Houston will force a bad pass by Wilson, picked off by Peters for six. Chiefs 27, Seahawks 25
So there it is. Probably the most ridiculous prediction out there, but this is a good team with a good coach and a smart quarterback. With today’s parity in the NFL, that just might be all they need.