As hard as it is to say this, but it remains true in 2021 that the Kansas City Chiefs are not a good football team.
The Kansas City Chiefs entered this season with “Super Bowl or bust” expectations, but they look absolutely nothing like the team we have become accustomed to seeing on the field these past few years.
This past Sunday, things got even worse as they got blown out by the Tennessee Titans on the road and star quarterback Patrick Mahomes could only manage 206 passing yards and an interception.
During this Friday’s edition of Get Up, former NFL safety and ESPN analyst Ryan Clark made it clear that the team being bad is not a fluke.
“The Chiefs stink,” Clark said. “Absolutely! The Chiefs are not a good football team.”
Clark thinks it’s up to Mahomes to fix this team.
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“But it’s a very fixable thing offensively. I don’t know how fixable it is defensively,” Clark explained. “Offensively, you have a guy like Patrick Mahomes, who I think is starting to understand that he has to change some things about himself. You listen to Acho say ‘Go back to the basics, go back to the fundamentals.’ He ain’t never did the fundamentals. Those are all the things we always loved about him.
“We loved the fact that he was on prime time in his first year starting and he threw a football with his left hand in Denver. We loved the fact that he threw no-look passes. We applauded him when he rolled to his right, threw back across his body to Tyreek Hill against the Baltimore Ravens and Tyreek scored and they won the game late. These are all the things we’ve loved about Patrick Mahomes. What he’s going to have to understand is this team isn’t good enough to support him.”
In past years, we would think the Chiefs getting ready to play the New York Giants would be an easy victory, but at this point, that game could go either way.
Mahomes was asked Thursday during his media availability whether he talked to his teammates about the Titans game and if he took the blame for the loss.
“You could just watch the tape and know that I needed to play better in order to have success. There’s plays when guys were open, there’s plays where we had matchups downfield that I didn’t hit, that I would usually give those guys opportunities to make plays,” Mahomes said.
“I said stuff to them saying I got to be better, but at the same time, they have that mindset that they’re going to build me up. You’re not going to play your best game and that’s when you really have to rely on those other guys to step up and make plays for you.”
For the year, Mahomes has 2,093 passing yards and 18 touchdown passes, but also leads the league in interceptions with nine.
