SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Carlos Dunlap was tired of losing.
He was tired of putting in the work — those soul-crushing days in the heat of training camp, the daily grind of the regular season — only to reach the playoffs and watch it all go to waste with yet another disappointing defeat.
Six times, the veteran defensive end had played in the postseason. Six times, he went home a loser.
“I'd done a lot of football,” Dunlap acknowledged, “without winning a playoff game.”
Not anymore. Six months after signing with the Kansas City Chiefs, Dunlap has not one playoff win but two, and a chance to add a third — the biggest one possible — when they play the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday in the Super Bowl.