{"id":21260,"date":"2024-01-22T19:49:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T16:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/21260\/patrick-mahomes-chiefs-relished-challenge\/"},"modified":"2024-01-22T19:49:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T16:49:52","slug":"patrick-mahomes-chiefs-relished-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=21260","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Mahomes, Chiefs relished &#8216;challenge&#8217; of road win over Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Mahomes, Chiefs relished &#8216;challenge&#8217; of road win over Bills\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 \">January 22, 2024, 04:51<\/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>ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. &#8212; Patrick Mahomes has heard about the Kansas City Chiefs&#39; ability to survive their first true road playoff game since becoming the starting quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>He and his teammates used it as fuel during the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/week\/\"   title=\"week\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">week<\/a> and then in the game, a 27-24 divisional round victory over the Buffalo Bills at Highmark Stadium.  The <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/win\/\"   title=\"win\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">win<\/a> sends the Chiefs to another road test next Sunday: the AFC Championship Game against the Ravens in Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe guys took it as a challenge,\u201d said Mahomes, who threw just 23 passes but for 215 yards and two touchdowns.  &#8220;We came in with the same mindset that we&#39;re going to come together, do our best and see if we can get a win. And that takes the mentality throughout the week, it takes every play be executed., and we did a great job today and managed to score enough to win.<\/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>Mahomes said he doesn&#39;t dread the prospect of playing his first playoff game on the road in noisy Buffalo;  on the contrary, he looked forward to it.  Mahomes had played in Buffalo once but had never seen the place in all its glory.  This match took place in 2020 and took place without fans due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was very excited,\u201d Mahomes said.  &#8220;It was going to be a great environment here in Buffalo. I had heard about it. Obviously, I played here but not with the fans. I knew the fans were going to be rowdy, hostile. But you appreciate the greatness of the organizations and going there week after week, filling the stadium and being fans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI obviously love playing at Arrowhead, but it\u2019s cool to go on the road for a playoff game and be able to win this one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs have been an effective team on the road with Mahomes at quarterback, and they have had a better record this season away from Arrowhead Stadium (8-2, including playoffs) than at home (5 -4).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s because guys are coming together,\u201d Mahomes said.  &#8220;I love being at Arrowhead and playing in front of this crowd. But when you&#39;re on the road, it&#39;s you against them, it&#39;s you against everyone in the stadium, and you have to be a team, and guys are doing it. You saw it in today&#39;s game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor three quarters offensively, we moved the ball up and down the court,\u201d he continued.  But we got stopped in the fourth quarter, and I went to the defense and told them, &#39;You&#39;re all going to stop and we&#39;re going to win this <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/football\/\"   title=\"football\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">football<\/a> game. We&#39;re going to the AFC championship game. &#39;  And they did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a team win, and that\u2019s what we need in the playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs are headed to their sixth straight AFC Championship Game, this time in Baltimore.  The first five took place at Arrowhead Stadium.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Mahomes, Chiefs relished &#8216;challenge&#8217; of road win over Bills\u060c Adam Teicher, ESPN editorJanuary 22, 2024, 04:51 Close Covered the Chiefs for 20 seasons for the Kansas City Star Joined ESPN in 2013 ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. &#8212; Patrick Mahomes has heard about the Kansas City Chiefs&#39; ability to survive their first true road playoff game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1898,2144,354,893,892,9603,5983,10],"class_list":["post-21260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-bills","tag-challenge","tag-chiefs","tag-mahomes","tag-patrick","tag-relished","tag-road","tag-win"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21260","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=21260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21262,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21260\/revisions\/21262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}