The Chiefs fell to 5-5 with Sunday’s loss to the Broncos and all five of those losses have come by one score, which is a stark change from the 2024 season.

Kansas City was 11-0 in one-score games in the regular season last year and that change explains why their record is unimpressive despite scoring more points and allowing fewer points than they did last year. It also explains why head coach Andy Reid stressed the need to improve “small things” in order to pick up enough wins to get back to the postseason.

“We’re not quite as negative as the outside world is,” Reid said in a Monday videoconference. “We know what we need to clean up and we need to do it, but, the guys, they get it. Some of these guys have been through some pretty good seasons, and this isn’t like this one’s lost. We

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