NFL Wildcard Playoffs Odds – Chiefs vs Colts

The Kansas City Chiefs started the season 9-0, but that will mean nothing if they can’t win on Saturday in the Wildcard round when they visit the Indianapolis Colts, at Lucas Oil Stadium at 4:35 PM ET.

The Chiefs have dropped five of the last seven games and are not entering the tournament as the hot team, per se.  Their defense has allowed 27.7 points per game in those seven contests; they need to get back to the basics.

“That’s a challenge I think both ways — both offensively and defensively,” coach Andy Reid said. “(The Colts are) efficient with the ball, they don’t have a lot of penalties that are called against them and they don’t turn the ball over much. That’s this time of the year, you’ve got to eliminate mistakes. Mistakes get magnified in the playoffs.”

The Colts have won three straight, including a 23-7 victory over the Chiefs in week 16.

“I think if you check the last six Super Bowl winners, they got hot at the right time,” Indianapolis defensive end Robert Mathis said. “That’s what it’s all about, getting hot at the right time.”

The last time the Chiefs won a playoffs game was back in 1993; in that span they met the Colts in the postseason three times, losing all of them.

The NFL odds for this one have the game as pick’em; meanwhile the game total is at 46 points.  The spread opened with the Colts as 1.5 point favorite.