Browns: 5 reasons Browns can clap Chiefs in AFC divisional round

5 reasons the Browns can beat the Chiefs in the AFC Divisional Round.

It’s mid January, and the Browns are still playing. Cleveland did the impossible by shellacking the Steelers in Heinz Field, when all the odds were stacked against them.

It’s the kind of dream no one wants to wake up from.

And the Browns’ reward for knocking off Pittsburgh? The defending champion Kansas City Chiefs.

In full transparency, it wasn’t easy to sit down and write this column. Kansas City is a juggernaut. Patrick Mahomes is something out of a video game. A few flicks of his wrist and you’re down 21. Or, if you get a lead, you sit dazed and confused when time expires after Mahomes made a second-half comeback look all-too easy. As the Titans, Chiefs and 49ers how that goes.

However, I, like you, won’t be getting off the bus now. I’ve been riding it since my first Browns memory, when a school bus of classmates sang “Bernie, Bernie,” to the tune of “Louie ,Louie” on the ride home days before Cleveland played in the 1988 AFC Championship game-better known as “The Fumble.”

The Browns are an 11-5 team that just convincing won a playoff game. They’ve got a shot, and if you’ve watched all the losers this franchise has given us over the last two decades, that’s all you can ask for.

Here’s five reasons the Browns will beat the Chiefs, thus advancing to AFC title game.