The head-scratching started early on Sunday night for the Kansas City Chiefs.
If you watched Sunday Night Football as a Chiefs fan, the entire night was like ordering repeated cocktails of excitement and exasperation. Unfortunately, the elements of such a drink weren’t even crafted in equal measure; instead, it was one part of the former to two or (what felt like a hundred) parts of the latter.
While Seattle deserves plenty of credit for pulling off a 38-31 win over the Chiefs—the biggest deficit for K.C. all season—including a nicely called game by Pete Carroll and some serious heroics from Russell Wilson and Doug Baldwin (who might be the most underrated wide receiver in the NFL), the Chiefs were intent on making things harder than they should be.