Chiefs Playoff Preview, Part VI

Over the past couple of weeks I've been posting a series of Chiefs playoff preview entries when originally I'd only planned to write one simple one with one simple item that is the one simple factor in a decent Chiefs playoff run:

Not have an insipidly ridiculously crazy-ass thing happen to the Chiefs in a playoff game.

Really, that's it.

Otherwise, all this is therapy. That's really why I'm posting so much. Just to share with you thoughts about all things Chiefs Kingdom that help make it bearable, maybe even somewhat enjoyable.

You should know I've watched, read, or looked at absolutely nothing about anything Chiefs much less their playoff preparation or anything like it since the Raiders game. Sometimes, yes I confess, I have cheated and peeked at Arrowhead Pride or Bleacher Report's Chiefs page, two of the best by the way, but I haven't for some time and don't plan to. I did happen to see that some fans are vocally eager to have yet another shot at the dastardly Colts, and I did see that Mahomes confidently mentioned that this is a "new generation" -- and I only came across those things by accident.

But that's it. Why look at any of it? If they say we should win and offer up all kinds of fine reasons why, but then we then don't -- what a disappointment. If they say we'll struggle because of this or that, and we do and can't pull out the win-- what good is that.

So I'm blissfully ignorant.

Otherwise with all I have seen and do know from our extraordinary season, I've come to a place where right now I'm very content. And I will be very content even if the Chiefs lose Saturday. There are a number of reasons for this.

For one, I've rediscovered and embraced all the other wonderful things in life that make Chiefs things not as important. Oh I like the Chiefs and I like amazing Chiefs playoff wins, don't get me wrong. But as I've shared before my expectations are at about zero. We've been so horrifically burned so many times before there is no way to keep from considering it happening again.

Maybe all the crushing one-&-outs of the past are good for the soul today. It just doesn't hurt as much when it happens again. I mean, really, how many more times can we see graphic after graphic on the television screen showing how painfully NFL-record-breaking the Chiefs are in their various playoff failures before any more just don't mean that much.

So yeah, I'm content now, will be Sunday... and will be overjoyed if they actually win.

Another reason is I can enjoy this week in and of itself. We're in the conversation. We're being talked about. Everybody is marveling about Patrick Mahomes, and he's got an arrowhead on his helmet. We've got a very good team -- and yeah I think our defense is better than people give it credit for -- and we've got a number of intangibles that give us a solid chance to win, considering you-know-what doesn't happen. Just reveling in us being there this week is a very good thing.

There is also what lies beyond this season, and while much of that is the bright future we have with Mahomes at the helm of this offense, I'm just as much encouraged by what we can enthusiastically anticipate from our fine GM Brett Veach. Because we've already got that first-round pick QB we can now comfortably use our first pick to add a nice piece to our defense, or snatch a particularly good player who drops through the draft and Veach reliably covets. So yeah, here's to building that championship defense, building building building on the overall foundation.

Here's yet another reason for comfortably enjoying Chiefs wellness right now.

You may know from previous posts I'm a fan of a few other professional sports teams, one of which is the baseball San Francisco Giants. In the mid-2000s I was resigned to the idea that my baseball team would never win a World Series. They never had since 1958 when they started playing in San Francisco, never, even though many times they had an exceptionally fine ballclub. I figured it was just too daunting to win a division series, then a league series, then a World Series. Fughedabouditt.

Then came 2010.

The team's GM Brian Sabean brought together what was justifiably considered a band of misfits, assembling a team led by a dynamo rookie catcher, deep pitching staff, and genius maneuvering field manager. We first defeated a fine Braves team, then a strong Phillies team, and in the World Series made a heavily favored Rangers team look like Little Leaguers.

Well how about that.

The crazy thing is we actually went on to win two more World Series over the following few years.

Point being, I just don't know what will happen. Yeah, I confess, I'm so convinced the worst will happen. But ya know. It doesn't have to. Again, if it does, we have a phenomenally bright future -- I'm already looking forward to 2020, 2021...

It's all good. No matter what

It's all good.
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