What a nightmare. For a team that'd always been so successful, to bottom out to the third worst team of the new millennium (by my calculations, only the 2008 Lions and 2009 Rams are worse) could have been the catalyst for a really bad era. Instead, it became the inflection point to turn the team around in a big way. That says a lot about the Chiefs organisation.
It's also quite lucky. Imagine this had happened the year before. Then, at the 2012 draft the team would've gotten stuck for years with the Andrew Luck experience (big hype, constant underperformance). Perhaps they'd still be stuck with it today, and there'd likely be no Andy Reid, no AFC Championships (maybe one lucky one like Cincinnati got, who knows), and certainly no Super Bowls.
It just goes to show that it takes both luck and skill to succeed in this game.
Agreed, except for the luck (not Luck) part. I wrote about luck (although Luck did factor in to the Chiefs supposed playoff “luck” or lack thereof) and how it doesn’t actually exist in Chiefs Chronicles last season. It was a pretty fun topic to tackle (see what I did there!)- especially when applied to the NFL!
I’d write about it again, right now, but I need to practice moderation in my replies. I have a tendency to let my replies/comments get way too long and out of hand. The season is close and there are lots of columns to write and my overall writing process is notoriously and frustratingly slow. Time management!
What a nightmare. For a team that'd always been so successful, to bottom out to the third worst team of the new millennium (by my calculations, only the 2008 Lions and 2009 Rams are worse) could have been the catalyst for a really bad era. Instead, it became the inflection point to turn the team around in a big way. That says a lot about the Chiefs organisation.
It's also quite lucky. Imagine this had happened the year before. Then, at the 2012 draft the team would've gotten stuck for years with the Andrew Luck experience (big hype, constant underperformance). Perhaps they'd still be stuck with it today, and there'd likely be no Andy Reid, no AFC Championships (maybe one lucky one like Cincinnati got, who knows), and certainly no Super Bowls.
It just goes to show that it takes both luck and skill to succeed in this game.
Agreed, except for the luck (not Luck) part. I wrote about luck (although Luck did factor in to the Chiefs supposed playoff “luck” or lack thereof) and how it doesn’t actually exist in Chiefs Chronicles last season. It was a pretty fun topic to tackle (see what I did there!)- especially when applied to the NFL!
I’d write about it again, right now, but I need to practice moderation in my replies. I have a tendency to let my replies/comments get way too long and out of hand. The season is close and there are lots of columns to write and my overall writing process is notoriously and frustratingly slow. Time management!
Thanks for reading, Robbie!