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

There is just something more.

There is. There is something about all this that goes far beyond which team has what talent, how a team is coached one way or the other. There just is. For those of you who read my blog and continue to read it, I'd like to think that you've given at least a bit of credit to this.

Call it the Steelers being charmed, call it the Chiefs being cursed, something like that, but any time our Chiefs go to Pittsburgh that thing whatever it is is just amplified like crazy.

Yes, I agree, I don't think we're as talented as we think we are.  We have young defensive backs who got schooled tonight. We have an offensive line that plays very inconsistently. We have a quarterback who will just not play the game that he truly can. And I'm not denying at all that Pittsburgh's three B's, Roethlisberger, Bell, and Brown are extraordinary players.

But a difference of this much? I truly don't think you can say it is just because of some difference in the two teams. Thing is, it is just too huge and

It just happens all the time.

In 2006, the Chiefs lost in Pittsburgh 45-7, and the whole game it felt like they had 17 players on the field on both sides of the ball. That was a year the Chiefs made the playoffs, and the next greatest point differential in a Chiefs loss that year was 13. In 2014, the insane things that went against the Chiefs were just too numerous to count, though I did try to. Go ahead, read my blog post from that game, you'll see.

Remember, this was a Steelers team that got shellacked last week 34-3. This was a Steelers team that had two of its key defensive leaders out of the game completely.

And so this one started fine. We made some fine plays, then stalled. We stopped the Steelers just fine, then got the ball back and

Spencer Ware fumbled it away. They got a touchdown.

Then Alex Smith threw a tipped pick. They got a touchdown.

Then Dustin Colquitt shanked a punt. They got a touchdown.

Our guy Tyreek Hill returned a punt for a touchdown, but it was called back after a very questionable call by the officials on an illegal block. Late in the 3rd quarter the Chiefs FINALLY sent Hill on a deep route and Smith threw a strike, but their D-back just barely got his hand in to push Hill's hand away just as he was about to grasp it. Really, that should be a PI, but, well,

That's just it.

There's that thing.

When Colquitt finally got a beauty of a punt off and Tyreek Hill et all were right there to down it inside the 5, the ball still squirted into the endzone -- it just skipped right past everyone. Guh? When the Chiefs got into field goal range with 8 seconds left in the 1st half, it started pouring rain -- really pouring. Sure enough, the holder slightly mishandled the soaking-wet ball, and Santos' kick bounced off the upright.

As I wrote after the last Chiefs game in Pittsburgh, you can't make this stuff up.

That's because, as sure as there are sure things...

There's that thing.
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