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Or, as Hall of Fame coach Bill Parcells famously said: “You are what your record says you are.” For the Kansas City Chiefs and Detroit Lions, that’s a good thing. Not so much for the New York Jets or Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The two-time defending Super Bowl champion Chiefs improved to 9-0 on Sunday with a hard-fought 16-14 comeback win over the Denver Broncos. They needed a blocked field goal at the end of regulation to remain undefeated. But that’s what championship teams do.
They make the plays when they matter most. This time, a little-known linebacker teammates call John Cena stepped up to save the game. Leo Chenal came flying across the line to knock down Wil Lutz’s 35-yard attempt as time expired to preserve Kansas City’s 15-game winning streak, dating to last season.
“It was a good push by everybody, and I got through,” Chenal said. “We’ve been talking about it for a while — winning one of those — and we did it in a big moment.” Chenal blocked an extra point early in the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl last season that turned out to be the difference in Kansas City’s 25-22 overtime victory over San Francisco.
“He’s extremely strong,” Patrick Mahomes said of Chenal. “He’s like the strength of a D-lineman but he plays the linebacker position. You don’t want to be that guy on the end when he�.
