Fans across America sighed on Sunday night, as the Chiefs punched their ticket to their third straight Super Bowl, and their fifth in the past six years. The most dominant team in America has done it again.
Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, Chris Jones and the rest of the Kansas City Chiefs have built the steadiest ship in the world. It appears that the Chiefs are inevitable. Like Thanos, they are unstoppable.
How has the NFL allowed this to happen? They keep letting Kansas City get away with things that no other team would be able to get away with. The Chiefs had already won back-to-back division titles when they traded up to draft Patrick Mahomes. A good team became a great team by inserting an elite quarterback.
In each ensuing draft, the Chiefs found stars late in the first round. Great players such as Kareem Hunt and Xavier Worthy slid far enough in the draft, and Kansas City scooped them up. The Bills traded Kansas City the pick to draft Xavier Worthy, instead selecting Keon Coleman for themselves. After Sunday, that looks like a mistake. Worthy, the fastest receiver in the league, paired with Mahomes, feels like a no-brainer for the Chiefs looking back.
On defense, meanwhile, coordinator Steve Spagnuolo continues to be passed over year after year for head coach jobs. Spagnuolo might be the best big-game defensive coordinator in the league, yet for some reason, nobody else will hire him. Most good teams are constantly losing coordinators, but not Kansas City. Their coaching staff remains remarkably consistent.
Which brings us back to the present. The Chiefs will be playing the Eagles in a rematch from two years ago. Kansas City has already conquered the 49ers twice in the Super Bowl and now will have the chance to beat the Eagles a second time. It feels like they are unstoppable.
As they won fifteen regular season games and two playoff games, it has felt like this year, everything has gone the Chiefs' way. Every close call from the refs, every big play and key moment. The ball always seems to bounce towards a Chiefs victory. During their 16-14 win over Denver, it literally did, as a game-winning field goal for Denver bounced the wrong way off the goalposts.
With the best quarterback and coach, it feels like the Chiefs should be heavy favorites to win a third straight Super Bowl title. It is hard to see a path to victory for the Eagles.
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