Upcoming Chiefs Season Another Exercise in Rebuilding
By CHRIS RASMUSSEN
It’s not just stadiums under construction.
Every rational fan of a professional sports team knows their season will likely end in failure.
Sometimes, in successful years, it ends in a sudden and painful fashion, with a heartbreaking loss in the playoffs. Those are successful failures. More often, we know before the season begins that the team we root for is doomed. Those years, we watch out of habit rather than expectation, engaging in gallows humor and looking at any young players that will keep us hopeful for the next season.
The Chiefs are saving us all some time this year. They have a young quarterback who hasn’t won a game in the NFL, a young and untested offensive line, a defense whose most talented player is a rookie and a moody star running back. Every rational Chiefs fan – even Chiefs management – knows this season will be occasionally excruciating to watch.
You wouldn’t know it, but this is the best thing to happen to the Chiefs since Carl Peterson arrived.
