Patrick Mahomes says he knows there are people rooting for the Chiefs to falter
Seven. Five. Three. Two.
Those numbers should be familiar to Chiefs fans, who have seen the team win seven straight AFC West titles, host five consecutive AFC Championship Games, make three Super Bowl appearances in the previous four seasons and win two Lombardi Trophies.
When the Chiefs lost their season opener last week, there were some NFL fans who didn’t try to hide their glee. Others leveled criticism at Chiefs players, something quarterback Patrick Mahomes was asked about on Monday during his weekly chat on KCSP (610 AM).
“Yeah, I think whenever you’ve had a lot of success, people are waiting for you to kind of go down, and we know that as a team,” Mahomes told KCSP’s Carrington Harrison. “And obviously it’s one loss, but you don’t want them to come down.
“What you do is go out there and get better on the football field, improved on the field and then all that stuff kind of goes away.”
Mahomes was asked what the Chiefs have been saying internally the past few days.
“I think if we are who we are, and play hard and do what we do, then we’ll have a chance to go out and show everybody who the Chiefs are,” Mahomes said. “And I think that’s been the biggest message to everybody. Let’s just get back to what we do and continue to work hard at it.”
The Chiefs didn’t convert on any of their seven third-down plays in the second half of Thursday’s game against Detroit. Some of those were in short-yardage situations.
Mahomes was asked if the Chiefs would consider bringing back the quarterback sneak, which they haven’t run since he was injured in a 2019 game at Denver.
“Yeah, I mean we talk about everything,” Mahomes said. “We try to prepare ourselves to get those short-yardage situations. And we look at everything on the board. And I have a feeling that we’ll get them going in the right direction.
“I mean, if you look across the league this last weekend, there wasn’t a lot of success in short-yardage situations for a lot of teams. So it’s about just kind of finding the ways to get better and keeping every door open.”
You can listen to the entire interview here.
