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05-20-2020 08:22 PM |
Here's something completely different:
11/29/15 - Chiefs vs. Bills at Arrowhead.
The 2015 season gets remembered for the 1-5 start, the Charles injury and the wild winning streak to get into the playoffs and finally get that elusive playoff win. But it doesn't get much thought beyond that. It really should.
2013 and 2014 aren't really a part of anything that's happened here the last few years, IMO. The turnover was just too great and the offense just too stilted and a little archaic. It looked nothing like it would look even 2 seasons later. But 2015? Well that's a different story. It was the arrival of Kelce, Morse, Peters, Conley and LDT. It was the first real step towards the spread/West Coast hybrid that Reid had been developing and the process was accelerated with the loss of Charles.
It also had a 10 game winning streak and a playoff win that convinced these guys there was a roadmap forward. So they go out into FA and get Mitchell Schwartz because A) he wanted to be here and B) they knew they might be onto something so he'd be more than just a shiny hood ornament on a fringe playoff team. That new offense convinced us that a guy like Tyreek Hill could really work here, so we drafted him.
I see that as the true springboard into what the team ultimately evolved towards.
And the most impressive game of that season was the Bills game. Sean Smith was hot garbage in the first half (Watkins was just toying with him) and Alex Smith was taking an absolute beating. It was raining, the field was shit and a loss puts us back under .500. The crowd was miserable and everyone just kinda wanted to go home. Then Smith and Maclin connected for a long TD at the end of the half to only go into the half down 2, Sean Smith un****ed himself and the Chiefs played a real tight second half to come back and win it.
It was an awesome, ugly, gut-check of a football game and it was key in the season that kick-started the present powerhouse team.
It's not #1 on any list I'll ever put together, but if you have time and no limitations, it's a fun one to watch and think about how it helped get us here.
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