ORCHARD PARK, NY – Patrick Mahomes I didn’t mind stepping into the background rookie Clyde Edwards-Helaire and the Kansas City Chiefs run attack.
With the Buffalo Bills working hard to limit the heavily armed Mahomes’ deep throws, he was happy to pass the ball and Kansas City beat Buffalo 26:17 on Monday night in a game originally scheduled for last Thursday.
“You know my nature, I want to throw it deep every time. We want to go down and do those long touchdowns, “said Mahomes, the 2018 MVP.” But if the teams want us to play that way, we have to show we can play football.
Mission accomplished.
Led by Edwards-Helaire’s 161 yards rushing, the Chiefs finished at 245 – the most since Mahomes took over as a starter in 2017. Kansas City’s 46 rushing attempts were also the most in eight years under coach Andy Reid, and that was with newly signed Le ‘Veon Bell awaiting his debut after signing with the Chiefs last Thursday.
“I can’t wait,” Bell tweeted during the game.
Edwards-Helaire has already chatted with veteran Bell and is looking forward to working with him.
“Another guy comes in, another piece of the puzzle. For me we can only go up, ”said Edwards-Helaire. “Anything I can do to choose his brain and gain knowledge from it, I’m there for it.”
Mahomes finished 21 of 26 for 225 yards with two touchdowns, both to the close end Travis Kelce. His first touchdown was the 90th of his career in his 37th game, breaking the NFL record for the fewest games on 90 TD passes. Hall of Famer Dan Marino had the previous mark at 40 games.
The Chiefs have their third 5-1 start in four seasons, recovering from a sloppy 40:32 loss to the Las Vegas Raiders on October 11th.
Buffalo (4-2) lost his second straight. The bills fell 42:16 last Tuesday in Tennessee, a game postponed because of a COVID-19 outbreak among the Titans. As a result, the Kansas City-Buffalo game was also pushed back. The Chiefs, originally supposed to play three games in eleven days, had two days more rest than the Bills.
Buffalo’s defense was sold out to keep Mahomes from going deep, but proved vulnerable to escape.
“We felt like we did a good job of preventing them from taking it off the front, but the running game is just another part of their game and they did it well,” said Safety Micah Hyde said.
The bills were reversed with the Chiefs converting nine of 14 third-down chances, two of them on a 75-yard, 12-game drive that ended in the end Harrison Butker30 yard field goal with 1:56 remaining.
During this trip there is Buffalo Justin’s room The ball was stripped by Edwards-Helaire in Kansas City 30. The game was deemed fiddly on the field, but that call was picked up after replays showed Edwards-Helaire’s knee was down.
Two games later, on the third and eleventh, Mahomes got out of anger and scored Byron Pringle for 37 meters. Mahomes then ate more o’clock with a 9-yard scamper on Third-and-7.
“Frustrating just because we feel like defenders we have to find a way to get our offensive back on the field,” said Hyde. “We had to stop and we didn’t.”
Buffalo’s Run Defense had its worst appearance since losing 273 yards in a loss to New England on December 23, 2018.
Josh Allen finished 14 of 27 for 122 yards with touchdown passes Stefon Diggs and Cole Beasley.
In a showdown of the NFL’s top passers-by, the Chiefs let the all-led bills cool their heels on the sidelines. Kansas City had four rides of 10 or more games and dominated possession time by more than 15 minutes.
Darrel Williams scored a 13-yard run to end a nearly eight-minute 82-yard drive that put the Chiefs 1:18 in the third quarter, 20:10.
SOCIAL JUSTICE PROTESTS
As they had all season, the Bills decided to stay in their locker room for the national anthem to be performed. The Chiefs were on their sidelines and had a defensive ending Alex Okafor The only player who knelt.
NO FANS
The bills continued to play in an empty stadium due to state COVID-19 regulations.
INJURIES
Bosses: T. Mitchell Schwartz, who started his 134th game in a row, did not return after the first series with a back injury. He has the longest active streak among offensive linemen and the third longest among offensive players. Okafor was disfellowshipped after injuring his Achilles tendon in the second quarter.
Invoices: CB Cam Lewis didn’t come back after injuring his wrist in the first half. Start left guard Cody Ford was carted off the sidelines after injuring his right knee in the fourth quarter.
INACTIVE
Bosses: WR Sammy Watkins didn’t play after injuring his Achilles tendon last week.
Bills: Buffalo’s defensive battles resulted in a line shakeup with DE Trent Murphy and DT Harrison Phillips inactive. They were replaced by Zimmer and Bryan Cox, who were removed from the training team earlier in the day.
NEXT
Bosses: On Sunday in Denver.
Bills: At the winless jets on Sunday. Buffalo defeated New York at the season opener 27-17.
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