Chiefs keep winning on their final play. Are they good, or are they lucky?

After the Kansas City Chiefs had beaten the Raiders when Las Vegas fumbled away a chance to kick the winning field goal on the day after Thanksgiving, just about everyone wondered when the fortunes of the Super Bowl champions would take a turn for the worst.

Turns out it wasn’t this week, either.

One of the most charmed teams in the NFL — maybe NFL history — won its 15th straight one-possession game on Sunday night when Matthew Wright, already kicking in place of two other injured kickers, banged a 31-yard field goal off the left upright and through to give K.C. another heart-stopping, 19-17 victory over the Los Angeles Chargers.

It was the Chiefs’ sixth win this season decided on the final play of the game.

“I’m certainly glad that we’ve ended up on the winning side of those games,” said Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt, who also was able to celebrate a ninth consecutive AFC West championship, the second-longest streak of division titles in history.

“As we’ve been going through it, I’ve thought a lot about last year, where we had a lot of close games, and they tended to go the other way, particularly in November and December,” Hunt added. “It’s a credit to the level of competition in the National Football League. All these guys are professionals, they’re very talented and you know our guys have hung in there and found ways to get the ‘W’ at the end of the game.”

It all begs the age-old question: Is it better to be good or lucky?

Maybe the Chiefs are a little bit of both.

The Chiefs (12-1) now have a two-game lead over Buffalo after the Bills lost a shootout to the Rams, and it’s hard to argue they have lucked their way into the No. 1 seed in the playoff picture. But whether it was a toe-tap out of bounds against the Ravens, or three different kickers having hit game-winning field goals, the Chiefs have been operating on razor-thin margins.

So perhaps the answer is the Chiefs are simply good enough that it takes a near-perfect performance to beat them.

Meanwhile, a little good fortune never hurts.

“Even though I feel like we could have played better, I mean that’s a good football team,” Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes said of the Chargers, who have now lost seven straight to their biggest nemesis in the division. “As long as we have a chance to go out there and have the football and make a play happen, I feel like we’re going to make it happen.”

The Chiefs play three of their last four of the regular season on the road beginning Sunday in Cleveland.

Reporting by The Associated Press.

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