Confident Chiefs Riding 3-Game Win Streak

A few weeks ago, many Chiefs fans were lobbying to join the Andrew Luck sweepstakes.
   

Kansas City had lost three straight games, two in historically bad fashion, not to mention the four preseason games before that. The Chiefs had endured a slew of season-ending injuries to some of their best players, and fans were pining for the superstar quarterback from Stanford widely expected to be the first overall pick in the NFL draft.
   
Fast forward to the present and the "Suck for Luck" crusade is a thing of the past. Now, fans are embracing a "Play for Playoffs" movement that certainly sits better with the Chiefs' players.
   
"The great part about what this team has done is we just continue to grind and take it one game at a time," quarterback Matt Cassel said. "You can see us get better from the start of the season till now. Hopefully we'll just continue to make progress. We know it's a one-game season every week."
   
The cynics will point to the teams Kansas City has beaten and argue little has changed.
   
Minnesota and Indianapolis are combined 1-13 this season, and the Colts were routed 62-7 by New Orleans on Sunday night. The Chiefs' 28-0 victory over Oakland was tempered by the fact the Raiders couldn't decide whether to play Kyle Boller or newly acquired Carson Palmer at quarterback.
   
It turned out neither option was very good.
   
Both of them threw three interceptions, and the six total were one shy of the Chiefs' franchise single-game record. Two of them were returned for touchdowns.
   
So it's not as if Kansas City has recovered from getting shellacked by Buffalo and Detroit to start the season, and losing a competitive game at San Diego, by beating anybody noteworthy.
   
But they've still won three straight games, and that's nothing to sneeze at in the NFL.