With the Houston Texans ' 20-10 win over the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday night, the Chiefs' playoff hopes are hanging by a thread. Mathematically, they are down to around 16 percent as they sit at 6-7 and are under .500 in December for the first time in more than a decade.
While they can still mathematically make the playoffs, they are going to need to win out and get a lot of help in the form of multiple teams losing multiple games the rest of the way.
The playoffs might still be on the table, but there is one thing that is not.
The AFC West title.
Chiefs' run of consecutive AFC West championships is officially over
Entering this season, the Chiefs had won the AFC West in nine consecutive seasons. Every year for almost a decade, it was pretty much a given that they were going to

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