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Are All Dynasties Destined to Become Villains? The Chiefs Are Finding Out. | The Ringer
Problem no. 1 with the Chiefs’ villainy is that it’s not actually rooted in hate; it’s rooted in annoyance. Sports hatred works best when it’s concentrated around a central idea—the Patriots were cheaters, the Warriors played dirty and bought titles, the Yankees were cold and joyless. If something like this does exist for Kansas City, the central concept is its inevitability.
The Chiefs will have now been to five of the past six Super Bowls. They have won 17 straight one-score games. Just when you think you’ve got them, they find a way to win. This season, the Chiefs had just the 11th-best point differential in the NFL, but they tied for the best record. They stick around. Preseason Super Bowl predictions—mine included—often boiled down to “Nothing matters, Chiefs win.” No mystery, no sense of possibility, no room for anyone else. Definitely annoying!
“There’s no Dennis Rodman figure,” Nate Taylor, who covers the Chiefs for The Athletic, told me. “There’s not even someone who’s like, ‘All right, they’re a good team, but I fucking hate that guy.’ There’s no Draymond Green on this team. It’s just Nick Bolton tackling you.”
Super Bowl 2025: Chiefs-Eagles picks, key stats, predictions | ESPN
Can the Chiefs defend the Eagles’ tush push?
Judging solely by how they defended the Bills’ version of the play in the AFC Championship Game, the Chiefs have reason to believe they can hold up well. Josh Allen and Buffalo tried it six times against Kansas City but converted just twice. One stop came on fourth down at the Kansas City 41-yard line in the fourth quarter, when the Chiefs trailed by a point. They used the favorable field position to score the go-ahead touchdown.
“The [defensive] line has to be dominant,” defensive tackle Chris Jones said on how the Chiefs defended the play. “Your two [nose guards] and your two ends have to be physical on the inside.”
Kansas City hasn’t fared as well in defending Hurts on the tush push. He used it to score two touchdowns against the Chiefs in Super Bowl LVII. Hurts also used it to score the winning touchdown against Kansas City in the fourth quarter of a Week 11 regular-season contest in 2023. — Teicher
5 Thoughts Ahead of NFL Super Bowl LIX | Bleacher Report
The Chiefs Could Become the Greatest Dynasty of All Time
The Super Bowl era has contained some pretty clear-cut dynasties.
The Steelers won four Super Bowls in a six-year span in the 1970s, the 49ers won four titles in a nine-year span in the 1980s, the Cowboys took home three Vince Lombardi Trophies in a four-year span in the 1990s, and the Patriots won six Super Bowls in an 18-year stretch earlier this century.
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