Patrick Mahomes reacts after the Chiefs defeated the Colts in overtime on Nov. 23. Imagn Images

Even this might not be enough. Even the Chiefs know this. They own almost none of the tiebreakers that’ll be essential a few weeks from now, when the playoff picture in the AFC really shakes out. The offense is still barely a whisper of what it used to be. Patrick Mahomes, for all the magic, seems to throw a brutal interception every week.

Still, it was hard to tell from the roar of the 73,611 faithful at Arrowhead Stadium when Harrison Butker’s 27-yard field goal sailed through the uprights at 8:03 of overtime Sunday in Kansas City. That faithful flock has grown used to things working out for the Chiefs far more often than not. One more time, in this 23-20 win over the Colts, things had work

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