{"id":14627,"date":"2023-12-14T05:50:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T02:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/14627\/patrick-mahomes-message-to-kadarius\/"},"modified":"2023-12-14T05:50:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T02:50:32","slug":"patrick-mahomes-message-to-kadarius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=14627","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Mahomes&#8217; message to Kadarius Toney &#8211; &#8216;Just be you&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Mahomes&#8217; message to Kadarius Toney &#8211; &#8216;Just be you&#8217;\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\">\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Adam Teicher, ESPN editor<span class=\"timestamp \">December 13, 2023, 7:21 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-overlay\">Close<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Covered the Chiefs for 20 seasons for the Kansas City Star<\/li>\n<li>Joined ESPN in 2013<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2013 Patrick Mahomes said he had a simple message for wide receiver Kadarius Toney as the Kansas City Chiefs practiced for the first time since Sunday&#39;s loss to the Buffalo Bills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust be you,\u201d Mahomes told Toney, whose offsides penalty late against the Bills cost the Chiefs a 49-yard touchdown.  &#8220;That&#39;s all you can do in life or in this league. You&#39;re going to make mistakes. Things are going to happen in your life. How do you accept that adversity, overcome it and do it the right way?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You make a mistake, it won&#39;t define you. It will be how you respond to that mistake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#39;s Choice<\/h2>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Coach Andy Reid said earlier in the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/week\/\"   title=\"week\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">week<\/a> that Toney would remain in the lineup.  The mistake against the Bills wasn&#39;t the first costly mistake Toney has made this season.  He deflected an easily catchable ball to a defender who returned it for a touchdown in a one-point loss to the Detroit Lions in Week 1.<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs&#39; receivers, with the exception of rookie Rashee Rice, have struggled for much of the season.  They lead the NFL in dropped passes with 29.<\/p>\n<p>But Mahomes said he hasn&#39;t lost faith in any of them as the Chiefs have lost four of their last six games to fall to 8-5, one game ahead of the Denver Broncos in the AFC West.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the receivers know I believe in them,\u201d he said.  &#8220;That&#39;s kind of how I roll. If you&#39;re in this locker room and I see how hard you work, I&#39;m going to trust you in the big moments and I&#39;m going to give you chances to go out there and to play and for everything, I know their mindset. It looks like it&#39;s a good position and they just want to go there and keep improving. I can see it how hard they work here. And I I feel like if we can just keep moving forward, we&#39;ll come out on the other side as the season goes on.<\/p>\n<p>Mahomes said he had spoken with Bills quarterback Josh Allen since Sunday when a television <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/camera\/\"   title=\"camera\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">camera<\/a> captured their exchange after the game in which Mahomes said of officials penalizing Toney: &#8220;The f***ing craziest call I&#39;ve ever seen. Offensive offsides on that play, <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/man\/\"   title=\"man\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">man<\/a>. Fucking terrible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Mahomes said, &#8220;Everything&#39;s fine,&#8221; but otherwise didn&#39;t want to elaborate on the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Allen confirmed Wednesday that Mahomes had contacted him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, he reached out to me. I was like it&#39;s <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/football\/\"   title=\"football\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">football<\/a>, it&#39;s an emotional game. I know he didn&#39;t mean anything by it. I know the cameras kind of kind of caught the last few seconds of what we were talking about. He&#39;s &#8220;He&#39;s an ultimate competitor.  He wants to <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/win\/\"   title=\"win\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">win<\/a>.  That\u2019s why he is what he is,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Tight end Travis Kelce has also defended the Chiefs&#39; receivers on his weekly podcast &#8220;New Heights&#8221; which he hosts with his brother, Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere&#39;s a lot of media pointing fingers at the talented players on our team, I say that&#39;s screwed,\u201d Kelce said.  \u201cExcuse my language, we usually swear in a light-hearted way, but you had to feel it no matter who is talking about our talented players and our offense.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#39;s a group effort and when we shoot the film, what&#39;s real is we have guys that can play this game and we have guys that we can be successful with and win championships. I I know, I&#39;ve been a part of championship-winning teams.  When you watch the film, the penalties, the turnovers and the critical moments, it&#39;s everyone, it&#39;s not just one guy.  Everyone gets a piece of the pie.  &#8220;<\/p>\n<p><em>ESPN&#39;s Alaina Getzenberg contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Mahomes&#8217; message to Kadarius Toney &#8211; &#8216;Just be you&#8217;\u060c Adam Teicher, ESPN editorDecember 13, 2023, 7:21 p.m. Close Covered the Chiefs for 20 seasons for the Kansas City Star Joined ESPN in 2013 KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2013 Patrick Mahomes said he had a simple message for wide receiver Kadarius Toney as the Kansas City [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7451,893,6628,892,3548],"class_list":["post-14627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-kadarius","tag-mahomes","tag-message","tag-patrick","tag-toney"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14629,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14627\/revisions\/14629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}