We had to overcome three or four gruesomely dropped passes. We had to overcome a sure touchdown not scored when A.J. Jenkins stepped out of bounds. We had to overcome a splendidly batted ball that daintily dropped into the hands of Antonio Gates for a Chargers touchdown. We had to overcome that ugly seven-headed beast known as the officiating crew who called at least three brutally phantom penalties against us but simply refused to keep the Chargers tackles from holding Houston and Hali.
I was sure something was going to happen to keep the Horse Curse marauding against us, but sure enough, we managed to succeed in doing the one thing that snuffed that sucker today. It is the key thing a team can do to stop the Chargers, and we did it wonderfully today. Damn was Reid good at making this happen -- in fact this is one Reid's best coaching skills.
We kept Philip Rivers off the field.
It was beautiful to behold. The Chiefs were able to chew up clock for inordinate amounts of time, scoring five times in the process, the fifth coming on a nail-biting 48-yard field goal from our brand spankin' new kicker Cairo Santos whose entire 5'8'' frame was well-deservedly mugged after his kick won the game.
Our time of possession was double that of the Chargers, and one less time for Rivers to display his supernatural prowess against us is big-time significant.
While there is a tremendous feeling of relief, that our boys can actually dent this curse (our first win in SD since 2007, really) -- we still have issues. Our receivers did make some clutch catches today, I was very pleased to see that, especially late in the game, but come on -- still too many drops! Our D-backs were beast when it counted -- gotta give Phillip Gaines some more playing time! -- but we are still missing Eric Berry. When is he coming back? I liked seeing some of the support players come through -- is that A.J. Jenkins showing that he can be a weapon? -- but we still need more consistency from others to take the load off Charles and Davis.
And as much as we scream our lungs out at Alex Smith to throw the ball, not get sacked, run there, don't run there, do this do that do that do this -- he still hangs in there and provides a very nice, steady attack that today served us very well.
We're holding our own at 3-3, and that may be very good because it'll motivate the team to know they've got to keep working hard to get into real contention position. Hey, look at baseball's Giants and Royals. They knew they had to battle coming out of the wild-card spots and couldn't afford a let-down. Object lesson.
Of course, now all resolutely faithful all-Kansas City sports fans can sit back Tuesday and enjoy the Royals playing in
THE WORLD SERIES CAN YOU EVEN BELIEVE IT
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