The Kansas City Chiefs have played uninspired regular-season football more than a few times during their current dynasty and still managed to compete in five of the last six Super Bowls. So there's a real sense of feeling like we've seen this movie before and everything will snap into place when the playoffs come and Patrick Mahomes turns into an unstoppable force.
Yet things have never looked this uncertain. Following Sunday's last-second loss to the Denver Broncos, Andy Reid's team is 5-5 and in actual jeopardy of missing the postseason altogether. The AFC West seems almost completely out of reach. What the Chiefs do over the next seven weeks will determine their path to representing the conference for yet another time—or if they'll be watching from home as someone else takes a turn.
