The Kansas City Chiefs are moving onto the next round of the playoffs, hosting the AFC Championship Game next weekend at Arrowhead. Before we put the AFC Divisional game in the books, let’s take a look at the good, bad, and ugly.
For the first time since the 1993 season, the Kansas City Chiefs are headed to the AFC Championship Game! Man that feels good to write and to say out loud. Many of us haven’t seen this team in the AFC title game since we were pretty young. I was three years old the last time it happened.
The storyline heading into this game was the obvious: the playoff woes of the Chiefs in years past. Could they finally get over that hump? Well, they showed early on that the ghosts of past playoff losses weren’t going to effect them and won pretty handily by a score of 31-13.
Let’s get into the good, the bad, and the ugly from the Divisional Round versus those annoying Colts, who, before this game, had been 4-0 against the Chiefs in postseason play.
We’ll do things a little out of order for this edition and start with the ugly.
UGLY: DROPPED PASSES
This will be a short entry because it’s pretty self-explanatory, but it’s a big one. There was one drive in particular where Tyreek Hill and Sammy Watkins both had dropped balls on back-to-back plays.
With the Chiefs being the prolific offense they are, it’s important that the receivers do their job and haul the ball in. Both of those dropped passes would have led to first downs and you never want to let those slip away.