I will never be a good time to try and make us feel better about that Super Bowl loss, but I know it’s helping many of you by saying the Chiefs got “lucky.”
Now look, saying a team got lucky rather than “was better” is poor form. Almost as bad as “You didn’t beat them, they beat themselves.”
Except, there might be some truth to that. The Athletic’s David Lombardi got some data on teams in the playoffs since 2018 from Tom Bliss who finds all sorts of weird stats. Bliss did a run on the 80 teams in the NFL playoffs from 2018, there’s 80 total.