KC Chiefs open new season with loss to the Chargers

 

I'm back just in time for football and with the return of the NFL also comes the return of kids going back to school, flu season, miserable weather, bad drivers, and on and on. Football almost makes all of that more tolerable...almost. My kids had a lot of fun this summer and at the end of the day that's what's important. However, now that the NFL has returned I get to go back to that good old northeastern tradition of being a homebody. I'll be in this office chair or on the couch watching every game or at least that's my goal. 

I know that the Dallas Cowboys and the Philadelphia Eagles opened the new season on Thursday night, but I want to talk about the Chiefs first. Granted, the game was on a neutral field in Brazil but what the hell happened to the Chiefs? I don't want to take anything away from the Los Angeles Chargers shocking the world, but it was almost a role reversal in a way. Last season, it was the Chargers who couldn't close out a game to save their lives. Every time they would go into the fourth quarter with a lead they would somehow snatch defeat from the hands of victory. Last night they were clutch!

I can hear Chiefs fans already...It's one game! The season just started, there's nothing to worry about...um yes there is. The Chiefs won 15 games last season! Look up the sporting pages from last year regarding the Chiefs. It doesn't say, 15 Wins, One of the best teams ever...no it's more like, how the hell do the Chiefs keep winning? Surely it took skill, a lot of luck, and help from the refs errrr I mean Andy Reid being strategic. As funny as this sounds, they were the worst 15 win team in history. Statistically, no other team had ever had so many unusual wins in the way this team did. The three teams with similar stat lines on offense all had losing records but for KC the ball always seemed to land on the winning side of the game.

This is why ref gate kept being brought up. It's because fans are becoming smarter and with the advent of fantasy football, fans are becoming even more attentive to the little things because now they have money at stake. If a player takes a play or two off for a reason that isn't an injury or a penalty, fans will notice.

I understand that two minutes into the game the Chiefs lost Xavier Worthy. Dude is probably their fastest player so that is going to mess the chemistry up with the offense. However, it wasn't the Chargers who took him out, it was his own teammate Travis Kelce. The two ran into each other on the third snap of the season...soon afterwards, Worthy was seen walking into the tunnel with a towel over his head and he didn't return for the rest of the game. 

I know the game was in Brazil and most of the ads I watched were in either Spanish or Portuguese but was the playbook in another language as well? The Chiefs used to be the most high powered offense in the league but since late last season I'm seeing more field goals and games decided by one possession. Sometimes it's just one game and sometimes it isn't. 

As for the Cowboys vs the Eagles...at least the Cowboys kept the game within four touchdowns this time. The Cowboys even had a 17-14 lead but the more things change the more they stay the same right Jerry. My wife is a Cowboys fan and I don't know why she does it to herself. It must feel like dying at the end of each regular season. I have a soft spot for the Miami Dolphins because my sweet grandmother bought me a Dolphins winter coat when I was a kid because she liked the colors so it sort of stuck. That being said, I have no expectations for the Dolphins, when Tua gets hurt our season is over. Still, when my wife says why do you watch the Cowboys it's because I'll never get tired of Jerry Jones fourth quarter meltdown in the luxury box. I wish they would keep Jerry in a little picture in picture box during the game.