Patriots at Chiefs - Week 4 - Record: 2-2

Remember that game 23 years ago? You know it. All Chiefs fans do.

October 7, 1991. The Chiefs had been starting to show that under new management and coaching, they could be molded into a contender. They'd done well the previous two years, even making the playoffs the year before. They started this campaign a bit sluggishly, they were 3-2 when they went into a Monday night affair with another up-and-coming team, the Buffalo Bills.

Remember that?

The Chiefs destroyed them.

Pretty much every single Chiefs fan considers that the launchpad game to a decade of football excellence in Kansas City.

I'm reluctant to call this game a watershed game like that one. But I can't help but get that feeling, just the feeling. Just that sweet feeling of solid success reasonably if modestly portending future success. Hard not to just have that feeling for now.

Everyone anticipated this one to be pretty evenly matched. As I listened to some of the introductory remarks, that the Patriots had a good defense but had been trying to find themselves offensively, I wasn't going to disagree. I didn't know.

But I have known that the Chiefs do have a number of things going for them that led to this dominant performance tonight.

Jamaal Charles' return -- he had three touchdowns tonight. Travis Kelce's emergence -- he is so strong and quick. Knile Davis' steadiness -- he gives the Chiefs so many options. The finely rebuilt offensive line -- they had a terrific game against the Patriots strength.

And that's just the offense. Houston and Hali were monsters again tonight. Our D-backs played admirably without a still-hobbling Eric Berry. And yes, Dustin Colquitt, yeah, again, the punter, was his usual excellent self.

And just so many more Chiefs highlights. I could mention many more people in the Chiefs success mix tonight.

But as great as all this Chiefs stuff was, it's all happening because Andy Reid is the master engineer of this surging locomotive. He is the one factor that got me to believe we should have a pretty good chance in tonight's game. It was easy to see his extraordinary work in the Miami game. He did it again tonight. He just does such a great job of arranging the components of his football team to get the most of them, to get the dubya.

Still a lot more season to go. But damn. This was nice tonight.

Oh, and whaddya think? They wore the red pants at home only once last year, in a win against the Cowboys. They donned them again tonight, and looked terrific.

More of the red pants at Arrowhead? Whaddya think?

It worked great for them again tonight.
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