The pick’em column debuted this year with a call to fade the Kansas City Chiefs , and has stuck close to the mission statement by picking against them in six of eight games so far.

The strategy felt genius at first as Kansas City stumbled its way to 2-3 straight-up and against the spread records where I picked all five of its games correctly.

It was fun while it lasted.

I’ve remained stubborn on the Chiefs by picking against them the last three weeks, and it’s finally backfired.

They’ve won and covered in all three games, including a 28-7 stifling of Washington as 10.5-point favorites on "Monday Night Football" in Week 8, to get back to their usual spot at the top of NFL betting boards around town.

Kansas City is now the consensus futures favorite. The Chiefs are as short as 4-to-1 to

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