The late Tom Petty sang about "the waiting being the hardest part," and the Kansas City Chiefs hope that is exactly the case.
The Chiefs had the chance to clinch the AFC West title and the No. 1 seed in the conference way back at the start of Week 15 when they hosted the Los Angeles Chargers in a Thursday night game.
Kansas City had the lead through much of the game, but the Chargers came through in the fourth quarter and Philip Rivers ended up wresting that game away from Patrick Mahomes and his teammates.
That loss hurt, but the Chiefs had a chance to make up for it the following Sunday in Seattle.