This is admittedly one of those things you do if you're a sports writer in a town where the baseball team stinks and it's not quite yet football season but it's close enough to start thinking so here's what ended up happening:
I started wondering how much precedent there is for a defense to be as bad as the Chiefs was last year, and then immediately good enough the next year to do what some Chiefs fans think is possible.
OK. The Chiefs — as you may have guessed or known — ranked DFL in Football Outsiders' DVOA metric, which to me is the smartest and most complete measurement widely available.