Broncos at Chiefs - Week 10 - Record: 9-0

When the Chiefs failed to score a touchdown down around the Broncos' 5 with a little over five minutes left I knew we were in trouble. It'd've been nice with a mere FG and a 16-14 lead for our defense to clamp down on the Broncos' defense just like they had throughout the 2nd half, employing the patented Spags surprise blitz packages at just right moments. The Broncos could not cope with any of that, yet here at the end of the game they were matriculating just fine to get into game-winning FG range.

So getting it all the way down to one second left to make sure there weren't the two seconds making it easier for Mahomes to go 60 yards for Butker to come back at them for the Chiefs game-winner, the Broncos lined up for the gimme FG until the Chiefs did something that only championship teams do.

They actually played as ferociously as needed to block the kick.

Which they did.

Peeking around briefly at the social media posts related to this event I saw many of the standard blaps, including "The refs are Chiefs fans" over and over. Yeah, whatever.

But this one stood out.

"The Chiefs hate is about to be at record levels."

So much fun.

Thing is, the Chiefs should never have gotten down to having to do that. There is no reason in the world they shouldn't have scored a couple more touchdowns today. Granted the Broncos defense is really pretty good -- not neglecting to give them all the credit they deserve. But all I heard this week was how DeAndre Hopkins was going to make it impossible for an opponent to keep the Chiefs from scoring touchdowns in the red zone.

Um, yeah.

It is really good, however, that since Hopkins got here Kelce has been reanimated. Today he had eight catches and a nifty touchdown. Thing is, we can't get JuJu and Hollywood back soon enough. The Chiefs just can't seem to get it going with Xavier Worthy who had a number of targets but only caught one pass. It wasn't even that D-Hop wasn't good, he was, he had four fine grabs on the day. The other WRs? Iggh.

We also can't keep running the ball going to the well too much with Kareem Hunt. As well as he's done so far he needs a break sometimes. They're stuffing him and when he's getting a breather there is no one else to go to. We ran the ball only 16 times today and only Carson Steele got other carries, two total. Eee-yee. So yeah, Isiah Pacheco can't return soon enough, and hey, where is CEH? 

So yeah, this one might have been one to be okay with getting a loss and taking the pressure off the whole "being undefeated" thing. Not that I don't want the Chiefs to win the next 57 million straight.

But it was nice to see them still sell-out to block that Broncos game-winning kick. Just says we are the championship team we are.

All haters welcome.

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The image is simply a video screenshot of the television broadcast of the blocked field goal.

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