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Have Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs lost their late-game magic?

Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Caroline Fenton and Jason Fitz react to the Kansas City Chiefs’ 31-28 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars and discuss whether Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs’ have lost their late-game magic from previous seasons. Watch the full episode of Yahoo Sports Daily on YouTube or YahooSports.TV.

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The Chiefs won this game last year.

The Chiefs win these types of games in 2024.

The Chiefs were 11-0 in one-score games last year.

This year, the Chiefs are 0 and 3.

Like, what happened last night doesn't happen last season.

So why?

Like, Patrick Mahomes played a pretty good game.

The Jags played kind of sloppy, and the Jags won.

On days where Patrick Mahomes looks like Patrick Mahomes.

Patrick Mahomes doesn't lose, but they lost last night.

Uh, there's a, I believe, is a drug.

Like, it's a pixie dust thing.

Like, you know, one of the things that's really interesting to me when you hear athletes say, well, we just got to learn how to win these types of games.

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You hear that a lot of times from bad teams trying to become good teams.

I've talked to guys trying to figure that out because my whole thing is you've played football your whole life.

You know how to win football games.

And it's just a response situation.

Hey, have we survived this team, this group together?

Have we gone through these weird trials to win games in weird ways for years?

That's been exactly who the Chiefs have been.

But last night, that's exactly who the Jags were.

Caroline, you mentioned all the times that the Jags could have just imploded and they didn't.

They find strength through that.

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But in the meantime, Kansas City lost the exact type of game that Kansas City has won for the last, not just one year, two years, three years.

I mean, we talked about the identity is you cannot beat Patrick Mahomes in a one-score game.

The numbers have shown that.

So as I spent all last year saying, if you can't beat them in ten games, then the only way you beat Kansas City is if you blow them out.

And it's tough to blow out Andy Reid and, uh, and Patrick Mahomes together.

Well, this year, all of that shine is gone.

And suddenly that little belief is gone from both sidelines.

I think what you have right now is finally everybody looks around and says, wait, these aren't the games suddenly that Mahomes and the Chiefs win because that's palpable on the sideline.

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You can feel it.

Last night, great example.

They scored a touchdown with about a minute to go.

This game should have been over.

The Chiefs had the edge in this game.

It should have been over.

And then what happened?

An out-of-bounds kick that takes no time off the clock and gives great field position.

A great completion down the field.

We watched the Chiefs get chiefed last night.

And the more everybody sees that, I think the more not only does it take away some of Kansas City's sort of intrinsic subconscious belief that we win in every situation, it honestly takes that away from the team on the other side.

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Also, this is a wildly empowering moment where I just think what we're seeing is regression to the mean.

A good football team normally in the Kansas City Chiefs has gotten away with winning these games.

They can't get away with it now.

So last night they got chiefed in Carolina, I think that that has a long-lasting impact in the way the Chiefs see themselves this year and also the way the rest of the league sees them in a close matchup.