murksiderock
Superstar
No. Who is legitimately surprised they are here? From the moment they won last year's Lombardi, thru OTAs and preseason to the beginning of the season, to the beginning of the playoffs, they've been a Top 3 betting favorite to get back to the Super Bowl...
That never really changed even as they struggled because you knew they'd win their division. They were in the mix for the 1-seed until losing b2b to GB and Buffalo----->in December. Two losses to teams who literally had to run the table to just get in The Tournament. Kansas City was never at risk of missing the playoffs...
On top of all this. This franchise has arguably the greatest roster builder in football (Veach); arguably the greatest head coach AND offensive playcaller of all time (Reid); arguably the greatest quarterback of all time (Mahomes); arguably the greatest tight end of all time (Kelce); arguably the best defensive coach in the NFL today (Spagnuolo); and the playoffs just showed us, despite prior misconceptions and beliefs in other teams (Ravens, Browns, Cowboys), the Chiefs may have had the very best defense in the NFL this season...
This is a WHOLE LOTTA "bests in the NFL today" or "greatest of all time" on one roster. Its not possible to overachieve if this is the makeup of your franchise...
They didn't overachieve, what it is, is that we as a football culture, largely wrote them off, because they had some skids this year. What these mf's really did was some shyt akin to watching Bron and his teams in the mid-to-late 2010s, patiently developing inexperienced players in the regular season, taking some lumps but never panicking, because they had all the faith in the team cohesion and organizational infrastructure---->and these mf's flipped the gotdamn switch in the playoffs...
Mahomes by many metrics had his worst season but his worst year is most QBs best year, why wouldn't he be able to flip a switch? Kelce looked washed 90% of the year then the playoffs come and mans looks like he's at his peak again. All these mf receivers who couldn't separate or catch in the regular season are separating and catching their asses off now
It's on all of us who doubted them to take the L. You can't overachieve and these are the people you got in your building...
That never really changed even as they struggled because you knew they'd win their division. They were in the mix for the 1-seed until losing b2b to GB and Buffalo----->in December. Two losses to teams who literally had to run the table to just get in The Tournament. Kansas City was never at risk of missing the playoffs...
On top of all this. This franchise has arguably the greatest roster builder in football (Veach); arguably the greatest head coach AND offensive playcaller of all time (Reid); arguably the greatest quarterback of all time (Mahomes); arguably the greatest tight end of all time (Kelce); arguably the best defensive coach in the NFL today (Spagnuolo); and the playoffs just showed us, despite prior misconceptions and beliefs in other teams (Ravens, Browns, Cowboys), the Chiefs may have had the very best defense in the NFL this season...
This is a WHOLE LOTTA "bests in the NFL today" or "greatest of all time" on one roster. Its not possible to overachieve if this is the makeup of your franchise...
They didn't overachieve, what it is, is that we as a football culture, largely wrote them off, because they had some skids this year. What these mf's really did was some shyt akin to watching Bron and his teams in the mid-to-late 2010s, patiently developing inexperienced players in the regular season, taking some lumps but never panicking, because they had all the faith in the team cohesion and organizational infrastructure---->and these mf's flipped the gotdamn switch in the playoffs...
Mahomes by many metrics had his worst season but his worst year is most QBs best year, why wouldn't he be able to flip a switch? Kelce looked washed 90% of the year then the playoffs come and mans looks like he's at his peak again. All these mf receivers who couldn't separate or catch in the regular season are separating and catching their asses off now
It's on all of us who doubted them to take the L. You can't overachieve and these are the people you got in your building...