Ex-NFL QB calls Chiefs' "lucky" 1-score win as Andy Reid's masterplan
The Kansas City Chiefs have clinched the AFC West for the ninth time in a row. And this season has been nothing short of spectacular. Four of the games that the Chiefs won this year only happened in the final play of the games.
On the surface, it might seem that Kansas City is just really lucky. From Zay Flowers' toes being out of bounds in the season opener against the Baltimore Ravens to a blocked punt return in the Denver Broncos game to yesterday's last-moment field goal in which the ball hit one of the uprights and still made it through.
But Chase Daniel, who last played for the Los Angeles Chargers, rubbished all the claims that it was just "luck" that was helping the Chiefs win so many games this season.
He said that Kansas City had secured the AFC West title for the ninth consecutive time, and, if anything, they were "callous." He added that it would be fair to call them "lucky" if they only won games in the final moments once or twice, but them doing it repeatedly only meant that their head coach, Andy Reid, knew how to win football games.
"It's just, it can only be lucky if it happens once or twice. They have 10 one possession, when seven of those wins have come on the very last play of the game. And so they're finding new ways to win. That's what Andy Reid does," Daniel said.
The Chiefs' locker room is not happy despite the achievement
Even Chiefs players aren't happy with the way they have been winning games this season. After the win, QB Patrick Mahomes said that he was not pleased with the win and that they needed to get better as a team.
"You're not satisfied with where we're at even though we're winning football games, and so we know we have to get better," Mahomes said after the game.
Trent McDuffie, the team's cornerback, said that although they were winning games, they were not winning with the standard that they had set for themselves.
"It's not perfect, and we've had a lot of games this year where we didn't play the way we wanted to play," McDuffie exclaimed.
He added that the way Kansas City just managed to scrape through in some of the games was "disappointing" and "frustrating."
But now that they have managed to make it to the playoffs, will Lady Luck, or as Daniel called it, the Chiefs' ability to win games, stand them in good stead?