With the Houston Texans‘ 20-10 win over the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday evening, the Chiefs’ playoff hopes are hanging by a thread. Mathematically, they’re right down to round 16 % as they sit at 6-7 and are underneath .500 in December for the primary time in additional than a decade.
Whereas they will nonetheless mathematically make the playoffs, they’re going to must win out and get quite a lot of assist in the type of a number of groups dropping a number of video games the remainder of the best way.
The playoffs would possibly nonetheless be on the desk, however there may be one factor that isn’t.
The AFC West title.
Chiefs’ run of consecutive AFC West championships is formally over
Getting into this season, the Chiefs had gained the AFC West in 9 consecutive seasons. Yearly for nearly a decade, it was just about a on condition that they had been going to win the division, and particularly after Patrick Mahomes arrived and took over the beginning quarterback job.
Sunday’s defeat formally ended that streak.
With seven losses, the Chiefs are 5 video games behind the first-place Denver Broncos with solely 4 video games to play.
