19-17, but the Chiefs' signal-caller expressed dissatisfaction with their performance in the narrow victory. After the game, quarterback
Patrick Mahomes
spoke on his dissatisfaction with the Chiefs' Black Friday victory and the Chiefs' "high standard" after a close win against an inferior team, among other things.
Patrick Mahomes spoke on his dissatisfaction with the Chiefs
Quarterback Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs acknowledges their challenges despite clinching a postseason ticket and barely outsmarting Las Vegas Raiders 19-17. On the season 11-1 mark, their gap between offenses and defense still showed to be gigantic in most game situations.
"Just too many mistakes at the end of the day," Mahomes said. "I felt like there were times offensively we moved the ball — didn’t execute in the red zone, didn't execute enough on third down— too many mistakes. We've got to clean that up if we want to get to where we want to go.”
Mahomes reflected on missed opportunities to connect with wide receivers
JuJu Smith-Schuster
and Xavier Worthy for potential touchdowns during a reexamination of the Raiders game. "It's just missed opportunities, at the end of the day," Mahomes reiterated. "There's going to be a lot of good — usually it’s better than you think or it's worse than you think, but there's going to be a lot of good on tape. We have to just find ways to execute.”
He added, “I mean, there was one [...] on the cover-zero blitz — I hit Trav [Travis Kelce] and JuJu was wide open probably for a touchdown. There's the one at the end of the game with Xavier. If I can just give him a chance to make a catch there, we can ice it there. He goes down at the two-yard line, we ice it. It's just missed opportunities, and we have to execute on those opportunities if we want to get to where we want to go.”
The 2024 Chiefs have consistently won close games, despite down-to-the-wire games like Fridays, indicating a potential silver lining in their success. "I think, when you look back, it keeps you hungry," Mahomes said. "You're not satisfied with where we're at even though we're winning football games, and so we know we have to get better. I think everybody in that locker room knows that we have to get better. We want to go out there and do that and prove that, so our goal is, over these last few games, is to prove [we’re] the team that we believe we really are going into the playoffs and then play like that throughout the playoffs.”
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