The Kansas City Chiefs may quickly run out of luck.
In Sunday’s house recreation in opposition to the Denver Broncos, Chiefs linebacker Leo Chenal blocked kicker Wil Lutz’s 35-yard field-goal try earlier than time expired. The important thing play sealed a 16-14 win, serving to Kansas Metropolis enhance to 9-0.
In his Monday column, The Athletic’s Mike Sando reported the Chiefs are 7-0 in video games determined by seven or fewer factors this season. He added the 1972 Miami Dolphins and 2007 New England Patriots — the one groups to complete the common season undefeated within the Tremendous Bowl period — mixed for a 7-0 report in such video games.
“The Chiefs reside a lot nearer to the sting than these groups lived over their full seasons,” wrote Sando. “That the Chiefs have already got as many close-game victories because the 1972 Dolphins and 2007 Patriots had in a mixed 30 regular-season video games suggests this Kansas Metropolis win streak will quickly finish — maybe at Buffalo in Week 11.”
Though the Payments have misplaced their final two playoff video games in opposition to the Chiefs, they’ve had their quantity within the common season. Per Pro Football Reference, Buffalo has gained three straight regular-season video games vs. Okay.C.
Even when the Payments (8-2) lose in Week 11, Kansas Metropolis’s win streak nonetheless would not appear sustainable. A few of its victories have been flukes.
In line with Sando, earlier than the Chiefs’ matchup with the Broncos, kickers had made 262-of-280 field-goal makes an attempt from 35 yards over the previous 10 seasons. Solely three of these makes an attempt have been blocked.
In his postgame news conference, Chiefs head coach Andy Reid — who’s in his twenty sixth season — admitted he is by no means gained a recreation on a blocked discipline objective on the final play.
“We work on the block like loopy, however it usually would not work like that,” Reid mentioned.
The Chiefs move protection nonetheless has some issues, and their offense lacks explosiveness. They rank 14th within the league in passing yards allowed (206.7) and nineteenth in yards per play (5.2).
As of Monday, FanDuel Sportsbook lists the Chiefs as Tremendous Bowl LIX favorites (+420). Whereas they could win a 3rd straight title, it could be stunning in the event that they went unbeaten within the common season.
