Chiefs have four possible playoff foes. Patrick Mahomes has started studying each of them
The Chiefs will watch this weekend’s wild-card playoff games, knowing that one of the AFC teams will be at Arrowhead Stadium the following week.
Quarterback Patrick Mahomes already is studying for the divisional-round game, even though the Chiefs have four potential opponents: Dolphins, Ravens, Chargers and Jaguars.
Mahomes said Monday during his weekly visit to KCSP (610 AM) that he’ll watch tape of all four teams this week before the wild-card games. Then he’ll tune in to the postseason contests, too.
“I try to get in like a game or two (on tape) on each team each day, just to kind of get a general sense of what they do,” Mahomes said. ”Throw my general notes on a piece of paper or whatever you want to call it and get that and then the weekend I watch it more as a fan and just try to see who wins and see who our next opponent is gonna be.
“We played obviously the Chargers and the Jags, and then Baltimore, we’ve played them a good amount of times, and Miami we played last year, and I know it’s a different staff but a lot of similar stuff. So we have a good idea of all these teams that we’re going to play. So just trying to get a general sense of each team this year and see what happens on the weekend.”
The Chiefs swept the two-game series with the Chargers this season and defeated the Jaguars 27-17 in November. From 2018-21, the Chiefs played the Ravens each year, but they last played the Dolphins in December 2020.
So perhaps Mahomes will be paying a bit more attention to the Dolphins-Bills game. Or maybe watching more tape this week. The oddsmakers say the most likely foe for the Chiefs in the divisional round is the Chargers.
Mahomes was asked about his mental preparation for the postseason, and he noted the Chiefs’ first-place schedule gets the team ready for the playoffs.
“I just try to prepare like I usually do. I just try to keep it where it’s at, man,” Mahomes said. “I mean, these are big games, obviously. We played in a lot of these games and you don’t want to make it too big for what it is. And we understand the magnitude of it. We’ve got to play our best football.
“But I think the schedule that we play every single year, we have to play a lot of the best teams in the league and it prepares us for these moments. So you just go out there, play your best game, give everything you have and hopefully that ends up with a win.”
