The Chiefs really needed this. On the surface, there was nothing at all on the line Sunday. The Chiefs already had their playoff assignment. The Bears are about to fire their coach.
Sunday seemed to be about nothing at all except getting Priest Holmes into the end zone a couple of times for his NFL records and about keeping every-body healthy. That was it.
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Only, this game turned out to be a lot more import-ant than that. The Chiefs, for the first time in a long time, lined up and hit somebody in the mouth.
The Chiefs won 31-3. The score was meaningless. The Chiefs defense gave up a season-low 241 yards. Statistics were meaning-less too. The Chiefs defense had four sacks, more than they had in their last four games combined. And yeah, that was meaningless too.
The Bears are not a very good team. On Sunday, the Bears were plain lousy. They put on their own matinee of “Dumb and Dumber” at the end of the half, letting the clock run out on them in field-goal range. They had a receiver, David Terrell catch a pass with nothing but green grass in front of him; so he made a very sudden and irrational turn to the right and found a Chiefs defender to tackle him.
No, there was nothing to prove against the Bears.
But the Chiefs had something to prove to themselves.
There’s no way to know if any of this will carry into the playoffs. There’s no telling if this defensive stand was just a Bears-induced mirage. “I can’t predict the future,” Dick Vermeil said. “And neither can anybody else.”