That the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Jacksonville Jaguars 27-20 in the divisional round of the playoffs was not entirely surprising.
The surprising thing was that the Jaguars were in the playoffs at all. Just one year after Urban Meyer became the worst college-to-pro coach in pro football history, the Jags, now led by Coach of the Year candidate Doug Pederson, won the AFC South after everything Meyer did, and then managed to find the postseason after a 2-6 start in 2022. Then, Pederson’s team got this far by overcoming a 27-0 second-quarter deficit in the wild-card round against the Los Angeles Chargers. Their eventual 31-30 win was the third-largest postseason comeback the NFL has ever seen.
