Although there are a number of NFL teams that would probably kill to be 5-5 at this point in the season, the Chiefs certainly are not one of them. And yet, here they are, their playoff hopes and therefore their Super Bowl hopes dwindling with every contest, even though they are playing well.
Things are not over yet; in fact, they have seven additional games to turn things around. But they are certainly not the inevitability they felt like last season or the year before that, which is no doubt a huge change of pace for everyone inside Arrowhead, even if it all ends up being O.K.
