Edgar Allan Poes 30, Cheaps 7
The Doormat Division is 2-0 in predictions in the playoffs so far, with the Kansas City Cheaps turning in the kind of Doormat performance they were so fond of last year. The biggest pretenders in the playoffs (bigger than the SeaHags, in our opinion), the Cheaps can't even get 162 yards of offense against, admittedly, a stonewall of a defense. Or maybe that was just the frozen tundra they kept running into. Ouch! To the jacuzzi!
Listen up folks- any team that can turn in a 5 first down game in Week XIV, and get humiliated by their arch enemy the Raiders in the season finale- at home- is more than likely going to go for an encore in the playoffs (just like the Bungles did last year). This is almost a Doormat Axiom.
And they did an encore for the ages. 8 first downs! 1 TD, all done with one run. 1-8 on 3rd down. Quarterback rating of 20.4- a SEASON LOW for any quarterback in any game all year long, people. Wow! And the possession time of 18:06 is also the SEASON LOW. They only got off 40 plays , turned it over FIVE times, and made complete fools of themselves for the whole frozen turf of an afternoon at Arrow-thru-the-head Stadium. By the way, can any NFL quarterback look more unfazed and like he's got all the time in the world more than Joe Flacco? I haven't seen that kind of non-chalance since Joe Montana.
Cheaps fans must be wondering if the whole season was a mirage. Here's the skinny: IT WAS A MIRAGE, folks.
Seeya in the Doormat, next year, KC. You can have the Barcalounger.
