Explaining the fall of the 5-0 Kansas City Chiefs

Things change quickly in the NFL and that’s no more apparent than with a Chiefs team that started 2017 with five straight wins and has since imploded. Why?

Heading into Week 12, the Kansas City Chiefs have fallen to 6-4 following a five-game stretch where their only victory came over the lowly Denver Broncos. Their latest gaffe being a 12-9 loss, in MetLife Stadium, to the formerly 1-8 New York Giants. It’s tough to characterize Kansas City’s recent skid as “rock bottom” because they currently still own a two-game lead in the AFC West. Though, if I can be frank, you’d be remiss to think their exploits over the past five weeks don’t put a cap on postseason expectations. Things are bad at One Arrowhead Drive to say the very least.

Dropping a game to one of the worst teams in the league isn’t as egregious as it sounds. Parity in the NFL makes it possible for any team, regardless of record, to upset a superior opponent—any given Sunday. The problem with last Sunday’s outing was the brand of football the Chiefs played. The optics suggested the Chiefs were as inept a football team as the Giants. With two weeks to prepare and following perhaps their worst loss of the season, head coach Andy Reid and company mustered just nine offensive points against a Giants defense that is ranked in the bottom five in the league in every meaningful statistical category.