If you recall what the 2023 Chiefs regular season felt like in real time, it was easy to be distressed by all that was going awry.
And even become consumed with all that they were not. So much so that those traits and trends and fan paranoia, no doubt, still lurk.
Perhaps that feeling was tamped down some after their AFC Wild Card weekend romp over Miami but not likely purged out of mind as the Chiefs prepare to travel to Buffalo to take on the Bills on Sunday.
Because it’s still hard to forget the Chiefs lost more games (six) than ever in the Patrick Mahomes era.
And that they dropped more passes than any other team and committed endless crucial penalties.
Instead of the customary riveting highlight reel, an explanatory video of their regular season would have featured Kadarius Toney’s tip-six against the Lions and Marquez Valdes-Scantling’s late drop against Philadelphia.
To add some tone, maybe it would have included the astonishing officiating no-call on Green Bay for interference on MVS.
Perhaps most of all, the telltale tape would be lowlighted by the Buffalo game: the jaw-dropping Mahomes-to-Travis Kelce-lateral-to-Toney negated by the rare offensive offside penalty — and, to borrow from poet Dylan Thomas, the ensuing rage against the dying of the light.
