The Kansas City Chiefs are on to Foxborough.
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The Kansas City Chiefs have not been underdogs since Week 10 when they visited the Denver Broncos. Even if it’s a knee sprain, his availability for the divisional round may be in question.
Kansas City beat Houston 30-0 on the road for its 11th straight win to advance to the AFC divisional round. In losses this season, the Chiefs allowed almost 100 yards per contest. Maclin will have an MRI on Sunday.
Over their last 10 games, the offense has averaged 28.1 points per game and turned the ball over just seven times in that span. The attack has been fairly balanced not just by spreading the ball around to multiple weapons, but in different styles of play.
This will be Manning’s first start since then. More to this, six of the games were played against the opponents who made the playoffs. Tom Brady completed 12 of 21 passes for 134 yards as he struggled to get his game. The Broncos finished the regular season 12-4 and secured the No. 1 seed in the AFC Playoffs.
The previous time the Steelers played the Broncos in the playoffs, Tim Tebow was the best quarterback on the field.
Many expected Knile Davis to step in if Charles got hurt, as he had served as the Chief’s No. 2 running back for several seasons, but it was the undrafted Charcandrick West who got the nod. On the ground Steven Jackson rushed for 35 yards and one touchdown in 14 attempts while Brandon Bolden added 31 yards in nine attempts.
Teams are bound to draw hard matchups in the playoffs – it is the playoffs, after all – but should the Chiefs want to continue their fairy-tale-like season, which absolutely nobody expected, they should be cheering on Ben Roethlisberger instead of AJ McCarron.
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On the other side of the AFC bracket, it will be the Steelers heading to Denver after an fantastic sequence of events in their Wild Card game with the Bengals. They lost their final two games to drop from first to second in the conference.
