Another Super Bowl?

 

Chiefs Play-off Chances

What a season. The Tribe sit at 14-1 with only the home game against the Chargers before the play-offs. Likely we will end up 14-2 as the Chargers will want to put one over on the reigning Champs and the Chiefs will rest almost everyone.

Last September, even accounting for the Covid-19 crisis, most fans would have settled for that and bitten your hand off to get it.

However, in the record books it will only say Super Bowl Champions 2020-21 and the virus will not get a mention.

So, how’s it looking? Most days I wake up and thank my lucky stars we won the last Super Bowl. I distinctly remember that during that improbable run I was continually consoling myself with the thought that even if we lost, and we came mighty close in most of the play-off games and the Super Bowl, there was always next season when we will be better. Now next season is now.

Then the Virus put paid to that comforting theory. We did win the big one, but can we do it again?

It’s beginning to look like the odds are against it. Fact is: the Chief’s record flatters to deceive. Sure, they keep winning, but not very convincingly, culminating in the embarrassing win at home versus the Falcons. Me and two of my buddies could have given Atlanta a game and the Chiefs struggled, needing a missed field goal to win.

Injuries are piling up. Big Red has decided to give the starters a week off (in addition to the one they get as the number one seed), St Patrick has begun to look almost human (throwing interceptions, missing open receivers, fumbling the ball), the O-line looks a shadow of its former self, the defense is just about adequate and not really rounding into Super Bowl shape at this late stage.

The verdict is definitely out. It may be that Reid will use the time and the rest provided wisely and when the play-offs roll into KC, courtesy of our number one ranking and the home field advantage really kicks in we will see a rejuvenated Arrowhead with a few thousand screaming fans rock the team to another AFL championship game and another appearance in the big one.

Maybe.

We are thin at RB. Edwards-Helllaire had a bad ankle and may not play at all going forward. Le’veon Bell has an injury, the back ups are probably not good enough to generate any rushing attack to speak of. Mahomes dropping back 50+ times and being chased all the time is not a recipe for success.

An outsider looking in would give the Bills a good chance to beat KC. So too, maybe the Titans who will still be smarting from last season’s debacle.

The irony is that nobody in the NFC has a chance against us. I would love to see the Packers in Super Bowl LV. Revenge for Super Bowl 1 would be very sweet indeed.

There is a lot of football to be played before then, that’s for sure. Wish us luck, we may well need it!