KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI – JANUARY 30: Quarterback Patrick Mahomes #15 of the Kansas City Chiefs kisses his finance Brittany Matthews before kickoff of the AFC Championship game against the Cincinnati Bengals at Arrowhead Stadium on January 30, 2022 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)
The AFC Championship game didn’t go the Chiefs’ way last season as Patrick Mahomes and Co. they fell to Joe Burrow and the Bengals at home in Kansas City.
This week, Mahomes opened up about that game, revealing that he regretted the way he played in the second half of the contest.
“The second half of this game – I don’t want to say we relaxed, but I mean when you lead like you did, you want to make sure you win the game, but you don’t want to play like you’re playing not to lose.” said Muhammad. “And I think that’s what we did. As a team, we were playing not to lose, we were playing just to get to the Super Bowl. If you look at it, they didn’t make much of a difference from the first half to the second half. They just didn’t we executed at a high enough level. They were playing the same coverages and we weren’t executing. Then the momentum goes to the other team and when you play a good football team, bad things happen.”
Mahomes has not had a good second half.
“Colossal choke offers in back-to-back postseasons. See you, Aaron Rodgers,” joked one fan.
“KC got so burned trying to win late in the first half of that game that it went into Don’t Lose mode in the second half. A truly devastating turn of events,” another fan added.
“‘Not to lose?’ He threw 2 picks and 0 TDs,” one fan wrote on social media.
Maybe things will be different for the Chiefs in 2022.