Defenses Have Adjusted. Will Patrick Mahomes Do The Same?
The Lead
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🗓️ 1 November 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Questions are swirling around Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs as they head into a Monday night showdown with the New York Giants. The team many thought would contend for their second Super Bowl win in three years is struggling to get back to winning ways, and it's left a lot of people pointing their fingers at the team's star quarterback. Today, The Athletic's Nate Taylor tells us what teams are doing to slow down the NFL's most high-powered offense and what Mahomes and his teammates need to do to get their season back on track.
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| 0:46.0 | 8 weeks into the NFL season, Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs are not where anyone expected them to be. |
| 1:00.0 | They are trash and we just have to start accepting that this isn't the team that we were used to see. |
| 1:06.0 | But Kansas City has Patrick Mahomes, but that's not working anymore. |
| 1:10.0 | Today, the athletics Nate Taylor on what's going wrong for the Chiefs? |
| 1:14.0 | How much of the blame falls on the homes and how they're planning to turn things around? |
| 1:20.0 | From wandering in the athletic, I'm Tiffany Oshinsky. |
| 1:23.0 | It's Monday, November 1st, and this is The Lead. |
| 1:28.0 | So Nate, things have not been going well for the Chiefs so far this season, but I actually want to start with something more positive. |
| 1:36.0 | You and our colleagues Jason Janks and Russ and Dodd recently wrote a story called The Essence of Patrick Mahomes in 15 Stories. |
| 1:44.0 | Could you tell us a couple of those stories and what they helped you understand about my homes? |
| 1:49.0 | Yeah, well thanks for having me on Tiffany. |
| 1:51.0 | I appreciate it being here in Kansas City that hey, we're going to start very sunny in this lovely discussion. |
| 1:57.0 | The first is Patrick Mahomes, like a lot of superstar quarterbacks and Rogers, Tom Brady. |
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