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Chiefs added to impressive streak with Week 16 win over Texans

The #Chiefs have become masters of winning one-score games, and added to an impressive streak with their Week 16 victory over the #Texans.

The Kansas City Chiefs have become masters of winning close games. In Week 16, they added to an impressive streak of victories in contests decided by one score by defeating the Houston Texans.

According to the experts at Pro Football Network:

“The Chiefs have won 16 consecutive one-score games. For perspective, five teams don’t even have 16 one-score wins in the entire decade.”

Had Houston managed to score a touchdown and successfully executed a two-point conversion on its final drive, the Texans would have tied Kansas City late in the game and sent the Week 16 matchup to overtime.

As the AFC playoff picture continues to take shape, the Chiefs’ victory over Houston moved Kansas City one step closer to clinching the all-important No. 1 seed that would give them a first-round bye and home-field advantage throughout the postseason.

While Kansas City’s fans would certainly prefer that the Chiefs win games by more significant margins, they can rest assured knowing that the defending Super Bowl champions can wrestle victory from the jaws of defeat seemingly against all odds.

Chiefs have impressive win-streak vs. Chargers heading into Week 14

The Kansas City #Chiefs have an impressive winning streak in matchups against the Los Angeles #Chargers heading into Week 14.

The Kansas City Chiefs are among the NFL’s most dominant teams, and with a Week 14 matchup against the Los Angeles Chargers set to kick off tomorrow on Sunday Night Football, the defending Super Bowl champions will have a chance to extend a six-game winning streak against their AFC West rivals that dates back to 2021.

Though Kansas City has faced significant adversity due to injuries, the Chiefs have already defeated the Chargers this season, and hold a conference-leading 11-1 record.

Los Angeles has had moments of brilliance in its 2024 campaign, and a win over Kansas City would put the Chargers within two games of the top spot in the AFC West.

Every primetime game that the Chiefs play in seems to turn into an instant classic, and if the last meeting between these teams—which ended in a 17-10 victory for Kansas City—is any indication, Sunday’s game could be one of the most exciting games of the season.

Visiting Saints spoiled Dallas Cowboys’ 16-game home win streak

Derek Carr and the visiting Saints spoiled the Cowboys’ 16-game home win streak. One of the last quarterbacks to beat them at home was calling the game for FOX:

The Dallas Cowboys were so close to greatness. Dak Prescott had quarterbacked his way into a 16-game win streak at home in the regular season, and one of the last passers to outduel him — Tom Brady, whose Tampa Bay Buccaneers won a too-close 2021 season opener in Dallas — was in the FOX Sports broadcast booth. All the Cowboys needed was two more wins at home to tie their franchise record.

So it’s fitting that the New Orleans Saints cut them off at 16. And they didn’t waste much time doing it. A methodical opening touchdown drive was followed up with another strike, and then more, and more, and more. Before they knew what had happened the Cowboys had fallen into a sunken place and could only look up at themselves sitting on their bench, projected on a 160-foot video screen. It was a miserable cycle.

But not for the Saints. Gone are the days where the Saints are seen as a team that can’t win outside New Orleans. They’ve beaten opponents on the road like the Cowboys in Dallas and the Cleveland Browns in frozen-solid Ohio. And on Sunday they reveled in their victory and celebrated it in the streets and all the way back to New Orleans.

Whether you agreed that the Cowboys were Super Bowl contenders or not, they were a quality opponent, and this was a quality win for the Saints. So take some time and enjoy it before the next challenge appears next Sunday.

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Chiefs hold longest active win streak vs. single team after 19-8 victory over Broncos

The #Chiefs hold the NFL’s longest active win streak against a single team after beating the #Broncos in their 16th consecutive meeting.

The Kansas City Chiefs have had the Denver Broncos’ number for the better part of the last decade, and after Thursday night’s 19-8 victory over their division rivals, now hold the longest active win streak in the NFL against a single opponent.

Their 16 consecutive wins against Denver have constituted one of the most dominant feats imaginable in the modern any-team-can-win league, and with no end to the run in sight, the Chiefs can now focus their efforts on getting the mark over 20 in the coming years.

Kansas City’s next matchup against the Broncos will come in Week 8 when the Chiefs travel to the thin air in Mile High Denver, Colorado for a rematch of this hard-fought primetime tilt.

Expect the next meeting between these bitter rivals to be another defensive slugfest where the team that makes fewer mistakes comes out on top. If history is any indication, Kansas City should have a good chance to extend its historic run of dominance.

Lions gunning for 1st 3-game win streak in years with some kismet in their corner

The last time the Lions won 3 games in a row is eerily similar to the situation Detroit is in entering Week 11

The last two Sundays have been good ones to be a Detroit Lions fan. Wins over the Green Bay Packers in Week 9 and Chicago Bears in Week 10 have breathed some vitality and positive energy back into the team following the ugly 1-6 start to the 2022 season.

Now the Lions aim to win their third game in a row. That’s something they never did under head coach Matt Patricia.

The last time the Lions won three games in a row was in the 2017 season. Interestingly, that streak took place in Weeks 9-11. Even crazier, the three wins included victories over the Packers and Bears.

Back in Jim Caldwell’s final season as the Lions head coach, Detroit beat Green Bay 30-17 in Week 9, knocked off Cleveland 38-24 in Week 10 and stuffed the Bears 27-24 in Week 11. The troika of victories raised the Lions’ record to 6-4.

Could kismet help the Lions match that streak and improve to 4-6 with a Week 11 win over the New York Giants? Stranger things have happened. Those 2017 Lions beat the Giants 24-10 in New York in Week 2.

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SERIES HISTORY: All-time meetings between Alabama and Arkansas

Alabama Crimson Tide-Arkansas Razorbacks All-time series history

The Alabama Crimson Tide will be traveling to Fayetteville this weekend to take on the Arkansas Razorbacks. The Crimson Tide are off to a 4-0 start after picking up their first conference win of the year last week against the Vanderbilt Commodores. In 2021, the Razorbacks came to Tuscaloosa and took Nick Saban’s squad the full four quarters before Alabama survived 42-35.

However, the Razorbacks are even more improved this year. Despite a loss against Texas A&M last week, Arkansas is still ranked No. 20 in the polls with nice wins against both Cincinnati and South Carolina.

The Tide are currently on a 14 game win streak against Arkansas that includes the entirety of Nick Saban’s tenure. Alabama is heavy favorite heading into Week 5 at -17.5, but even if Arkansas can pull off the upset they have a lot of ground to make up to catch up to Alabama in the all-time record (22-8).

Ranking Alabama’s best wins against Tennessee over the last 15 years

Beating Tennessee seems fun for Saban and the Tide. Here are the best games against the Vols during the current 14-game winning streak.

As an Alabama fan, it’s fun to beat Tennessee. And since Nick Saban arrived, wins over UT are not at a premium.

Saban is 14-0 against the Vols since his arrival, having yet to lose to them since he arrived at the Capstone.

When reminiscing on all of the Crimson Tide’s victories over Tennessee since the current streak began in 2007, there are five games that I’d say qualify as my favorites, albeit for different reasons.

Positive trends emerging from Packers’ 5-game win streak

The Packers have won five straight games since starting 0-1.

The Green Bay Packers are 5-1 and in first place in the NFC North entering Week 7 thanks to an impressive five-game win streak.

The disaster of Week 1 must be considered an anomaly. The Packers have rebounded well, creating three wins of at least 10 points and two walk-off wins on game-winning field goals from Mason Crosby.

Here are some positive trends emerging from the Packers’ win streak:

Can Saints snap Ravens’ preseason win streak? There’s a first time for everything.

The Saints have a shot at snapping the Ravens’ NFL-best preseason win streak, and Justin Tucker has shown there’s a first time for everything:

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The Baltimore Ravens are riding a 17-game winning streak in the preseason, which is the longest active streak in the NFL. Baltimore is chasing the NFL-record 19 consecutive preseason wins that Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers stacked up, and the New Orleans Saints have an opportunity to cut them short.

No team has lost to the Saints fewer times than the Ravens, who have won five of their seven regular-season meetings with the black in gold over the years. New Orleans lost its previous exhibition games to Baltimore in 2017 (14-13) and 2015 (30-27), too, which doesn’t exactly inspire confidence.

But there’s a first time for everything.

Just look at what happened the last time the Saints made the trip, which was in 2018. Ravens kicker Justin Tucker had an opportunity to tie the game with an extra point in the game’s final minute. He had 456 successful PAT kicks on 463 tries (98.4%) behind him among his high school, college and NFL careers up to that point. All seven of his previous errant extra-point tries came at Westlake High School, an alma mater he shares with Drew Brees.

But against the Saints, Tucker missed. He shanked it, staring in shock as the Saints paraded off the field in front of a stunned Baltimore crowd. It was his first failed extra-point in the NFL or in front of bigger crowds in college at Texas. After missing that point-after attempt, he has gone on to convert 132 of his next 135 extra-point tries (97.7%). If nothing else, he has to be eager for a win to get his mojo back and recover from that 7% drop in performance. Definitely.

Seriously, though: All this is to illustrate that anything can happen in the NFL. It’s a league where any team can win on any given Sunday. Or Saturday, in the preseason, when teams are more focused on evaluating their rosters than the final score. So be sure to tune in (on Fox 8 in New Orleans at 6 p.m. CT) and see how they perform against another playoff hopeful.

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Chiefs-Ravens matchup features two winningest NFL teams

These two teams have the longest active win streaks and the best records dating back to Week 11 of 2018.

The Kansas City Chiefs and Baltimore Ravens have both accumulated a lot of wins over the past three NFL seasons and now they’re getting set to meet on “Monday Night Football.”

In fact, these two teams are the winningest teams in the NFL since Week 11 of 2018 according to Chiefs Reporter Matt McMullen. That’s back when Lamar Jackson first became the starter for the Ravens. If you include both regular season and postseason wins, Baltimore has a 22-5 record during that span, while Kansas City has a 21-8 record. The Chiefs played the Ravens twice in that span and won both times.

Of course, Patrick Mahomes won the league MVP award in 2018 and Jackson won the league MVP award in 2019. Combine that with the Chiefs’ Super Bowl LIV win and it’s not that big of a shock to find that these two teams have won so many games since 2018. The next closest would be the New England Patriots, who have 20 wins.

Currently, the Ravens and Chiefs also have the two longest active regular-season win streaks in the NFL. Two teams with such win streaks haven’t met in the NFL since 1969 when the Los Angeles Rams hosted the Minnesota Vikings according to ESPN’s Field Yates.

If you go back to the Chiefs’ recent postseason victories they’ve won 11 consecutive games, which marks the longest active streak of consecutive wins in the NFL.

At least one win streak comes to an end on “Monday Night Football” and there’s always a chance that both do if they to finish in a tie game. It might be a bit anticlimactic, but it’d also be a little poetic.

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