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Okay, so I’m getting ahead of myself. Really, there’s not a wild card team you can really predict will even get to the Super Bowl this year, but that was the question posed to several nfl.com analysts.
Boomer Esiason and Marshall Faulk agree with me that if a Wild Card team could do it, the Chiefs have the best shot.
Faulk said it best, “I like the Chiefs based on their matchups. With Larry Johnson going against the Colts’ porous run defense, I think Kansas City likes its chances. Should the Chiefs get past the Colts, they’d play at San Diego, a team that they’re very familiar with in the AFC West.”
Of course there’s one more game after that Marshall, but I like the Chiefs chances if they win two on the road and get their confidence up for away games.
If the Chiefs get past the Colts, and although I like the match-up that is still a huge IF, remember that the Chiefs are one of only two teams to beat the Chargers this year. And the other time they played the Chargers, one play changed the game. Had a rookie not made a rookie mistake after an incredible play to block a punt (the ball barely went past the line of scrimmage and a Chiefs player touched it allowing SD to recover) the Chargers would be 13-3 and winless against the Chiefs this year.
It won’t be easy, but it’s not as unlikely as most would think either…
And my final prediction before the postseason officially begins at 1:30 PST: If the Chiefs lose, it will be because Trent Green was responsible for two or more turnovers. If the Trent Green of old returns because of the extra adrenaline rush of the playoffs, the Chiefs win this one. If the Trent Green of 2006 post-injury shows up, we’re dead if Edwards doesn’t make a quick switch to Damon Huard… the guy who should have been starting the rest of this season (second in QB rating to Peyton Manning). I love Trent Green, don’t get me wrong. But KC has been to the playoffs twice, including this year, in the last nine years. I want the guy with the best chance to win, not the guy you feel badly for because he got injured at the wrong time twice in his career.
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