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Originally Posted by Hammock Parties
The thing is, seedy, people REALLY thought this team was going to the Super Bowl.
I didn't see them losing a game at Arrowhead.
The shine came off.
I think we went from an exception to the Chiefs rule in a lot of people's minds to just another fatally flawed team.
That hurts.
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If fans weren't able to see that this team's defense was a fatal flaw before last night, I'd have serious concerns as to whether they've ever seen professional football before.
The truth is that this place is a bipolar rapid cycler. When the Chiefs win in Seattle next week, and they will, this place will crown them. The Chiefs have a bad defense, but their offense is good enough to overcome anything. This isn't the 2003 Chiefs that lost to teams like the Bengals or lost by four TDs to the Vikings, or the 1995 team that won almost all its coinflips and got bludgeoned by a mediocre Browns team.
They've beaten three of their five likely playoff opponents already, and lost to two of them by a total of four points. They can lose because every team can lose in a one game sample of a sport that isn't ridiculously imbalanced (like college FB). Teams can beat Mahomes and teams can come in to Arrowhead and win. But no team wants to have to. That's as much as you can hope for in pro football.
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