Last week, did Kansas City have a let-down game?
When the Chiefs refused to score, or even gain positive yardage on most plays, against the Carolina Panthers just a week after handily beating divisional rival Denver in a game most (read: everyone at FanYard) had picked them to lose, was it a let down game for them? Or was it just the way things were supposed to unfold?
If that loss last week was natural, then how did KC play so much better the week before? How did such a horrible team beat the Broncos just seven days earlier? Was it divine intervention?
I think the win against Denver was, in fact, an unnatural act, incurred by the football gods upon us just to remind us that we will never - can’t ever - get this game straight because we are never sure just what the gods will take offense to.
So what caused the Chiefs to beat Denver? I think I know:
The loss by Denver to the Chiefs was a way for the football gods to exact a measure of justice for the way the Broncos beat the Chargers in Week 2. See, that game was supposed to have been a win for San Diego, and would have been were it not for a bad call by referee Ed Hochuli that allowed the Broncos to score against a by then-deflated Chargers defense and win the game after the game should have been won by the Bolts.
The win was to be San Diego’s as a sort of come-uppance to Broncos coach Mike Shanahan for running up the score against the Raiders in Week One. It was what the football gods had demanded.
Mike Shanahan Missed This Sign
Now don’t start with me about how the Patriots ran up the score last year, yet were still allowed to run the regular season table with nary a loss. That was not the same. Not the same at all. You see, Belichick ran up the score simply because he could; not for any vindictive reasons. Shanahan was running it up just to spite Oakland owner Al Davis, a senile old man who likely does not even remember why Denver’s coach hates him so much.
For that act of vindictiveness, the football gods were about to hand a win the the Chargers…then Hochuli blew his whistle
Whatever. Bad calls happen. But the gods - now completely outraged at humanity’s deficiencies - then flexed their might by allowing the Chiefs (who should not beat anyone except maybe the Lions or the Rams) to stomp the Broncos two weeks later, making fools out of all of us.
Of course, they could have let the Saints beat Denver in Week 4 instead, but that would not be nearly as strong a message as having the lowly Chiefs, also a divisional foe, stomp them down.
After that, they let nature take it’s course, which resulted in the Chiefs getting their aces handed to them in Carolina. In their 34-0 loss to the, the Chiefs were merely confirming to everyone just how bad they truly are.
This week, mercifully, the Chiefs are on a bye: a small respite granted them after they were used as pawns in the power struggle just discussed. The other players in this god-driven soap opera all have tough games this week, just to even the field once again.
Thank Goodness For Football Goddesses
Below are those upcoming games, with their outcomes predicted by FanYard’s Yardstick.
Carolina at Tampa Bay - The Yardstick calls for a six-point Panthers road win.
Jacksonville at Denver - The Yardstick points to a five-point Broncos victory.
New England at San Diego - The Yardstick calls for a very close game, but has the Chargers winning by one point at the moment.
See the Yardstick for every game at FanYard.
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