Chiefs: Whose Notion is This Anyways?

In my life as a Chiefs Fan – there are numerous examples of almost accounting of occasions where the Kansas City Chiefs were amounting to a “team that almost made it”… but the didn’t get it done. I am particularly reminded of the teams coached by Marty Schottenheimer and with players like Derrick Thomas. I just clearly loved these guys and it was a sad failure that the Chiefs didn’t rise to the occasion.

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I do not wish to dwell on the varied accolades so much to recognize the successes of the current Kansas City, Chiefs. Sometimes “it is a Great Notion!” I am not going to dwell on film histories, nor to Paul Newman’s film accolades. Instead, I wish to address myself to Five Great Ideas.

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1. Patrick Mahomes II the GOAT

2. Travis Kelce the Notorious

3. Nick Bolton’s Expedient World

4. Chris Jones – Can he be excluded?

5. The Caveat: Rashee Rice!

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It’s a difficult mess

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David Bell — ArrowheadOne

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Just Enough to Win

Laddie Morse

Our regular blogger VIVA LA MAHOMES!! responded to a tweet by Mspears96 who had posted this:

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And he wrote:

“is this Mspears96’s first day? KC’s offense has

been outta whack for a couple of years now.”

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VIVA LA MAHOMES!! Raises a good question… is the Chiefs offense “outta whack” as he suggests? Seth Keysor visited the Cole DeRuse show, “How Bout Those Chiefs to answer the question, ”Is the Patrick Mahomes magic gone?” (33:51).

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The offense is averaging 25 points per game, and that is still very good. David Bell says this is especially true in the early season when offenses are notoriously getting off to a slow start.

I used to run track in high school, as I’m sure many of you did, and there was a guy on the team who would always run just fast enough to win. That is… until State finals when he was beat by another guy who ran just fast enough to win.

In an article by Edmond Lau called, “The Trouble with Trying to Win at Everything” he says:

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“Debate taught me to argue every point and strive

to win every argument…. As it turns out, for many

things we care about in life and work, winning isn’t

always the goal. In fact, if you try to win everything,

you’ll almost certainly start losing on the goals that

matter.”

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Lau goes on to say:

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“It took me years to mature enough to realize that

this approach actually limited the openness of our

conversations [with his partners]…. This lesson applies

to both personal and work relationships. ”

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The Kansas City Chiefs have become one of the most hated teams in all of sports. Why? Because they win so much, costing other fan bases the pleasure of seeing their own teams win. Am I suggesting that the Chiefs stops winning so they can be more relatable to all other fan bases? No.

Let’s just be aware of what we’re doing. A sort of emotional “Cost-Benefits” analysis.

What do you think?

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Laddie Morse — ArrowheadOne

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