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This team has been nothing more than a false sense of security this season.
Can you remember a team that won their division that had a 2-4 division record? This team greatly benefited from playing a horribly weak schedule, while the other AFCW teams shit their pants early on. The people tired of hearing that will say "Well we don't control who plays who, we just play our schedule, let's just worry about this year."
That's fine.
But the harsh truth is we played only 2 teams that posted a winning record this season and lost to both of them. We did beat SD once, but my bet would be if conditions weren't shitty on a loud/crazy MNF game at the "new" Arrowhead with the pregame fireworks show jacking up all the fans, SD might have won that game. But it is what it is. It doesn't help that we got SHUT OUT at their place. The real SD showed up then.
Look who KC plays next season in non divisional games...
GB
CHI
NE
NYJ
IND
PIT
Right there is probably 6 losses if all of those teams are healthy and barring any major inj to the QB etc. And that's not even counting SDx2 OAK x2 and we still have to play @DEN which we are notorious for going up there and losing. I am very well expecting a losing season next year just on the schedule and who we have to play.
It's good the stars aligned. SD's shitty first qtr of the season performance was the reason they didn't win the division. KC's first qrt performance against some shitty teams was the reason they jumped out in front of the other teams in the AFCW, while everyone else lost. The other teams helped KC win the title. It is what it is....but KC isn't ready to play with the big boys, not by a long shot.
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