Mars Johnson|Marlin Chronicle
The Kansas City Chiefs have won the last two Super Bowls and are the first team to win back-to-back since the 2004-05 New England Patriots. With the playoffs fast approaching, the Chiefs are setting themselves up for another successful season as they sit with a 12-1 record with four games left to be played. No team has ever won three Super Bowls in a row.
They control their destiny in terms of earning the first-round bye which would ensure that the AFC playoffs would run through Kansas City.
The only issue is the Chiefs have had a hard time taking care of easier opponents and have only won two games by more than one possession. Not only that, but eight of their twelve wins have come down to the final play.
The Chiefs have been on the right side of a couple of penalties, a blocked field goal, and with their recent win over the Chargers, a lucky doink. For more context, the Chiefs defeated the Chargers on Sunday night after making a game-winning field goal in the final second that hit the upright and fell through.
With all of these situations going their way, it seems like something is off with the Chiefs and that this team might not be going to finish the job and win the Super Bowl for the third straight season.
They have faced their two most likely threats in the postseason already in the Baltimore Ravens and the Buffalo Bills. The Chiefs knocked off the Ravens by a score of 27-20 in week one as the Ravens had a late touchdown overturned in the dying moments, but they lost to the Bills in Buffalo by a score of 30-21.
If they do make it out of the AFC and get to the Super Bowl again, I believe that the winner of the NFC will take home the trophy. This is with the assumption that either the Lions or the Eagles will win the NFC and go to the Super Bowl.
Now of course the Chiefs do still have one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, Patrick Mahomes, paired with one of the greatest coaches of all time, Andy Reid, so anything is possible. They have proven in previous years that their defense is elite, headlined by defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo, and that they can control games on the offensive side.
Overall, I am not saying the Chiefs will not win again this year. But I am saying that they do seem quite vulnerable this season and that they are more beatable this year than in the past. My early Super Bowl predictions as of now would be the Lions taking on the Bills with the Lions winning their first very Super Bowl title. But, that is because I am a pessimistic Eagles fan. Go Birds!
By: Coy Camiscioli
