![]() Kansas City will now be the first team to host the AFC Championship game four years running. The lead changed hands three times in the final two minutes before a Chiefs field goal forced overtime. ![]() “There is, but I’m not going to tell you because we’ve got to play Cincinnati coming up here,” Reid said.Kansas City then claimed a thrilling 42-36 win over the Buffalo Bills. If there’s any good news, Reid seemed to have an idea of what went wrong - and presumably how to fix it. Isaiah Pacheco, who scored on a 3-yard run for the only red-zone touchdown of the game, finished with 11 red-zone carries for only 20 yards, further highlighting the Chiefs offense’s inefficiencies. Kansas City had a touchdown nullified by penalty, but Mahomes only went 3 for 13 for 11 yards with an interception in the red zone against LA. I missed a lot of open guys from the tablet, it looked like. “They were in the right spots, kind of where I wanted to go. “They did a great job of passing off crossers down there,” Mahomes said. The Rams managed to anticipate and take away a lot of the Chiefs’ preferred red-zone routes, but some of it also came down to missed opportunities. Kansas City made sure to credit a Los Angeles defense that entered the game ranked second with a 48.1% red-zone percentage for its role in stifling the offense nearer the goal line. If I can take that out, I think we’ll be all right.” “I’ve got to take out the one dumb play I make every game, it seems like. “Especially in the red zone, we’ve got to execute at a higher level I’ve got to execute at a higher level,” Mahomes said. Kansas City’s defense, which only allowed Los Angeles’ stunted attack to muster 198 total yards, made sure it didn’t matter, but the offense knew its red-zone performance wasn’t good enough after the 26-10 win. ![]() ![]() The Chiefs only converted one of six red-zone trips into a touchdown after entering the game ranked third in the NFL with a 72.1% red-zone percentage with an NFL-best 31 red-zone touchdowns on the season. “We’ll go back to the drawing board on that and make sure we take care of that.” “That’s a place we’re normally pretty good, but we were off just a tick tonight,” Kansas City coach Andy Reid said. That pretty much summed up the Chiefs’ red-zone success Sunday against the Rams at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium, all sizzle and no steak. I’ve got to make sure I don't do that, especially in the red zone, because those are the ones that kill you in big games.” It was one of those I tried to pull it down a little bit and I threw it directly into the dude’s stomach. “I was going to throw it to Trav and, at the last second, I didn’t think I could get it in. On the third-down play, Mahomes started to scramble up the middle, stopped short of the line scrimmage, started to throw a pass to Kelce, thought better of that as well, and wound up firing an interception into safety Nick Scott’s midsection. The ensuing second “pass,” a bullet intended for Travis Kelce at the goal line, was knocked away by Los Angeles Rams cornerback Jalen Ramsey. Rather than turn up field on second-and-goal from the 4-yard line, Moore drifted back and threw a lateral across the field to Patrick Mahomes. Skyy Moore came across the Kansas City Chiefs’ formation from left to right, taking a handoff on a jet sweep.
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