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Originally Posted by Hern
Hey Rabbs great to hear from you!!!
At this point who knows. You got KC fans saying how they dominated certain teams before week 8, then you call them out on not dominating certain teams that they should’ve before week 8 and all of the sudden that one didn’t count because of whatever reason.
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Well, they all counted. We were 12-4 for the regular season. That's really the only "regular season stat" that mattered for the playoffs, and that had to do with seeding. It was good enough for #2 in the AFC.
The best way I can sum it up is that something changed after we lost to the Titans in week 10. I was as critical of Andy Reid and our defense as anyone. You can go through my posts on here and find many posts that bear that out. But then, we started playing hard defense. Andy Reid changed. The defense changed. It all started coming together.
After the Chicago game, at Chicago, I posted on this board that it was our most complete game of the season, if the defense kept playing like that and if Andy Reid kept calling games like that, then we have a legitimate shot at winning the Super Bowl, because no one was going to stop this team.
Winning at New England was huge for several reasons, the biggest of which was that it eventually gave us the #2 seed in the playoffs.
So, you can say "#26th ranked run defense" as many times as you want if it helps you sleep at night. Because it's gonna **** your world up on Feb 2nd when that #26 ranked run defense uncorks one on that supposedly unstoppable run game of the Forty-Giners. Jimmy Grapes ain't got the grapes to hang with this team. Sorry, he just doesn't. If the Chiefs play the way they've played since week 11, it's shut down time for y'all.
That's why what happened before doesn't matter. Because it really doesn't. This is a completely different team, in confidence, in attitude, in health, in coaching. Every single aspect of the team is in tune with the other. What were weaknesses early in the season (pass blocking, run D, clock management, staying healthy) are no longer weaknesses. This team has no real weakness.
Good luck.