The Chiefs are the most vulnerable 12-1 team in NFL history

Kansas City is winning almost every single game by the skin of its teeth. The Chiefs are the first team ever to win 10 of its first 13 games by seven points or fewer.

These aren’t the Kansas City Chiefs you’re used to.

Entering this weekend, the two-time defending champion Chiefs are 12-1, in first place in the AFC, and they are probably still many people’s pick to represent the conference in the Super Bowl.

That’s the normal part.

The not-so-normal part? Kansas City is winning almost every game by the skin of its teeth. The Chiefs’ wins are by such small margins that their point differential of plus-56 is closer to that of the worst team in the NFL (the Carolina Panthers) than the best (the Detroit Lions).

That’s the story of Kansas City this season. The Chiefs are feared — they’ve won three Super Bowls in five years, they have one of the game’s winningest coaches, and Patrick Mahomes, 29, could retire today and still be a first-ballot Hall of Famer.

https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/nfl/kansas-city-chiefs-vulnerable-super-bowl-rcna183695

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