The Kansas City Chiefs’ hopes for a perfect season came to an end at the hands of Lamar Jackson last night in a gut-wrenching one-point loss on the road in Week 2. Valiant efforts from Patrick Mahomes and Tyrann Mathieu were nearly enough to be the difference, but miscues on both sides of the ball for Kansas City doomed the team in the fourth quarter.
For all of the overreaction after the close loss, the Chiefs deserved to lose the matchup against a battered Baltimore team that gave them every opportunity to put the Ravens away early. A total lack of pass rush on defense, and an uncharacteristically underwhelming performance from Tyreek Hill made this scrap an anomaly in what will prove to be a very long 17-game season. It’s always more fun to win, and this game proved that Kansas City is beatable, even if it takes some late-game heroics to steal a win against them.
Here were our biggest takeaways from the Chiefs’ first loss of 2021: