All things considered, things couldn’t have gone any better Sunday for the Kansas City Chiefs. On a day when they could’ve ended up being seeded as low as No. 6 in the AFC playoffs — which would have sent them on the road as a wild-card team — they ended up with the No. 2 seed and a first-round bye.
Kansas City earned the No. 2 seed by virtue of its 37-27 victory at San Diego coupled with Oakland’s 24-6 loss at Denver. The Chiefs and Raiders both finished the regular season with 12-4 records, but Kansas City won its first AFC West title since 2010 because the Chiefs swept the season series with Oakland.