Watch: Chiefs’ luck continues with Raiders’ end-of-game meltdown
Multiple things can be true at the same time, and that is certainly the case with the 2024 Kansas City Chiefs.Ā
On one hand, the Chiefs are an extremely good football team. They’re back-to-back Super Bowl champions, and after Friday’s 19-17 win against the Las Vegas Raiders, they are 11-1 and the first team in the NFL to clinch a playoff spot this season.
On the other hand, they are also an insanely lucky team that continues to have almost every possible break and bounce go their way.
That also happened on Friday.Ā
The Raiders drove all the way to the Kansas City 32-yard line with 15 seconds to play, only needing a field goal to win the game. But on a 3rd-and-3, the Raiders had an issue with the snap as quarterback Aidan O’Connell was not ready for it, resulting in a fumble (and an illegal shift penalty on the Raiders) that was recovered by the Chiefs to end the game.Ā
Have a look.
What a WILD ending on Black Friday pic.twitter.com/JtYRVva6Zy
ā NFL (@NFL) November 29, 2024
It is starting to get outrageous how often the Chiefs wiggle their way out of games like this.
With Friday’s win, they have now won 14 consecutive one-score games, including nine this season.Ā
Over the past two weeks, they have struggled against two of the worst teams in football (Carolina and Las Vegas) and managed to come away last-second wins by their thinnest of margins.Ā
There is something to be said for being able to find ways to win games, and having Patrick Mahomes on your side of the field certainly helps. But there is also an enormous element of luck with that sort of run that is not exactly sustainable.
At some point, one of those coin-flip, one-score games is going to go against them.Ā
It might happen in a week (like the playoffs) when they do not want that to happen.Ā
For now, it keeps working, and the Chiefs keep winning.Ā
