Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes knows how to fix one thing that has happened too often
The Kansas City Chiefs haven't played the cleanest football this season, or even at the end of last season. I know it has been a week since Kansas City beat the Bengals, but we still have to talk about it. Mistakes, turnovers mainly, are why the Chiefs could never beat the Bengals, and it's also […]
The Kansas City Chiefs haven't played the cleanest football this season, or even at the end of last season. I know it has been a week since Kansas City beat the Bengals, but we still have to talk about it.
Mistakes, turnovers mainly, are why the Chiefs could never beat the Bengals, and it's also why the Chiefs struggled so much this season against bad teams.
Every game the Chiefs lost to the Bengals, Kansas City had the lead, and could have extended it, but made costly mistakes that eventually lost them the game.
Even in the AFC Championship game last week, they almost did it again. The Mahomes fumble could have cost them the game. But, luckily it didn't, for once.
I'm saying all this to say that can't happen on Sunday against the Eagles. And, I think Patrick Mahomes knows that too.
“Yeah, I think it was just an in-game thing more than anything," Mahomes said. "It wasn’t anything that I thought about in the offseason, but I think when you’ve been in some big games now a couple of years in a row, you’ve learned from your mistakes and I felt like the year before I let one mistake compound into two or three or whatever it was.
"Whereas this game, this last one, instead of worrying about ‘Man, I made a huge mistake when we probably could’ve had a good chance of not putting the game away but giving ourselves a big lead’ – let’s not magnify it. Let’s move on to the next play. Continue what you were doing throughout the entire game. We didn’t necessarily have a ton of yards after that, but I didn’t make another mistake and then whenever the time came, I was able to make a play in order to get us into field goal range.”
The Chiefs need to clean up the turnovers because the Eagles' offense is so good, the second-best in the league when looking at points per game, that they will score off turnovers.
The Bengals have a good offense, sure, but the Eagles are different. That is why they are in the Super Bowl. They can't have any fumbles, interceptions, or anything like that. If they do, they can't be in their territory when the Eagles can score easily.
This game may very well come down to who gets the last possession, or who gets the most time on possessions. You can't give any away.
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