Boston Herald · Dec 17, 2015
Chiefs could ride soft schedule into improbable postseason
Credit: The Associated PressKANSAS CITY, Mo. — When the Kansas City Chiefs' schedule was first released, the assumption was that if they could only weather the first six weeks, they would have a good shot at returning to the playoffs.
Then they won just one game.
But after the brutal opening stretch against some of the NFL's best teams, the Chiefs (8-5) have a pillow-soft finishing kick. It begins with a trip to four-win Baltimore, where third-string quarterback Jimmy Clausen could be under center Sunday. Then it continues with three-win Cleveland and finishes with six-win Oakland, both of those games in the friendly confines of Arrowhead Stadium.
