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Patrick Mahomes made his thoughts clear on the loss to Jacksonville.
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes ran out of time as his team fell 31-28 to the Jacksonville Jaguars on Monday night.
“Obviously, it sucks,” Mahomes told reporters afterward. “I mean, let a game slip away. Credit to them, they played hard, and they played hard the entire game. A lot of good football players.”
Mahomes had only 16 seconds to work with after the Jaguars grabbed the lead on a late touchdown run by Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence. The Chiefs once had a 14-0 lead in the first half and reclaimed the lead at 28-24 with 1:45 left in the game.
“They closed out at the end there, so it still sucks when you have a lead like that, and you’re not able to hold it the rest of the game,” Mahomes said.
Kansas City had everything going in the first half after Lawrence fumbled at the goal line, and Mahomes made the Jaguars pay with a five-play, 97-yard drive. Mahomes put his team up 14–0 with a 9-yard touchdown run, and the Chiefs looked poised for a blowout in Duval County.
Instead, the Jaguars battled back, and the Chiefs didn’t have enough answers in the end. Mahomes finished with 29-41 passing for 318 yards and a touchdown, versus an interception that resulted in a pick-six. He also rushed for 60 yards and a touchdown on six carries.
Patrick Mahomes Details Pick-Six
That pick-six flipped the game as the Jaguars grabbed the lead, 21-14, for the first time with 2:19 left in the third quarter. Jaguars linebacker Devin Lloyd took it the distance, 99 yards.
“Honestly, they just got me with the coverage that they played,” Mahomes said about the pick. “They played zero kind of inside that 10-yard area in previous games, and they haven’t shown the poppers with the linebackers popping out, and they were protected.”
“I saw the look, and I checked to the play with the in routes having three ins, you know, if they were trying to pass off the guys, and JuJu (Smith-Schuster) was going to pop wide open, and he did,” Mahomes added. “Credit to them. They schemed themselves. They looked over what they can do better and popped out underneath where I was throwing the ball. It was a great call by them defensively.”
“Obviously, great play by (number) zero getting the pick, and I’ve got to tackle him or slow him down after he gets the interception,” Mahomes concluded.
Chiefs’ Defense Couldn’t Slow Down Trevor Lawrence
Lawrence gave the Chiefs all kinds of trouble as he went 18-25 for 221 yards and a touchdown, versus an interception. In addition, Lawrence rushed for 54 yards and two touchdowns on 10 carries.
Lawrence answered the goal-line fumble and Mahomes touchdown with a 13-play, 70-yard drive, which ended in Lawrence’s first touchdown pass. In the third quarter, Lawrence led another scoring drive, capped by his 10-yard touchdown run to tie the game, 14-14.
The Chiefs then gave up another three scoring drives led by Lawrence down the stretch in the second half. That included Lawrence’s game-winning drive when Mahomes had only left 1:45 on the clock.