Although the Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl in the 2023-24 season, the journey was one of ups and downs.
The franchise finished the regular season ranked third in the AFC, behind the Buffalo Bills and the first-placed Baltimore Ravens.
Even so, betting against this team is not and never has been an option in recent years.
In 2024, with a super-talented and strengthened squad, the chance of a three-peat is real. KC can make NFL history.
The team’s collective effort to overcome the obstacles makes the achievement even more valuable – for them and for the fans.
Chiefs defender explains the moment the team realised it ‘needed to take things more seriously’
The start of Kansas City’s regular season, more precisely until October, was mostly a winning one.
After defeating the Los Angeles Chargers in Week 7, everything began to unravel and get a little out of balance.
Justin Reid, safety for the Chiefs, spoke on Green Light With Chris Long about the specific moment when the team as a whole realised the blackout they’d had and recalculated their route to the playoffs.
“There was two. One after the (Las Vegas) Raiders game, because that was the punch in the mouth that we needed. We came into that game with the wrong mentality that we just talked about. We beat the Raiders the pass eight times we played them, admitted. “It hasn’t never been close and we just thought that we do the same thing and they came in and made a statement on prime time television, and, you know, it’s exactly what we needed.”
He then added the second part of his response.
“The second one for me would be after that Buffalo game in the playoffs, because that was the moment that everyone had already counted us out at that point, ‘No, it was gonna be different, they’ve never played on the road, et cetera, etc’,” Reid claimed.
“At that moment, the way that the offense came together, in that game in particular, was the motivation and confidence that we needed to know that we can make this run.”
The rest is history…
Justin Reid believes that the best teams are the ones that face problems
After pinpointing the moments in the season when the Chiefs realised that if they didn’t look out for themselves they could be eliminated, Reid pointed out that this type of situation they dealt with was necessary for them to come to terms with reality.
“There’s always gonna be adversity. I think that’s the mark of great teams. It’s not if adversity it’s when adversity happens – it’s gonna come at some point, you know, the media might turn you whatever’s gonna happen, but when that adversity comes, how do you respond to that? And how do you bring guys together and don’t allow things to start busting up the seams.”
Trick them once, trick them twice, but there won’t be a third.
