One reason every team can win Super Bowl 52
By John Buhler
Kansas City Chiefs: efficient and don’t make mistakes
The Kansas City Chiefs are one of a handful of teams that can honestly contend for the Super Bowl in 2016. Kansas City is well-coached under Andy Reid and while the Chiefs aren’t a hard team to play against, they sure are a hard team to beat.
It isn’t sexy, but this is an efficient Midwestern football machine that Reid has humming in Kansas City. Alex Smith has to play better at quarterback, but the Chiefs do a great job of figuring out how to not lose. That’s how teams win Super Bowls, by not finding ways to lose them.
Regardless of how the 2016 NFL season shakes out for the Chiefs, one would have to expect Kansas City to be an AFC Playoff contender again in 2017. While roughly five of the 12 playoff teams usually end up missing the postseason the following year, Reid’s Chiefs will not be one of them.
Don’t mistake the Chiefs for being a Super Bowl contender with a high ceiling. What Reid team has ever had a high ceiling? However, Kansas City will have one of the highest floors in football next year. Many teams would kill to be .500. The 2017 Chiefs will be .500 at worst. Efficiency, and hopefully better clock management skills, will get Kansas City its first title since Len Dawson was playing quarterback.