Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs suffered a heartbreaking blowout loss at the hands of the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LIX on Sunday night. Following the 40-22 defeat in which the Chiefs never really had a chance, Mahomes admitted he didn’t play to his “standard” and lamented a few mistakes during the game.
“I threw a pick-six, and I threw a pick that they returned to the 5-yard line and they scored immediately after,” Mahomes said. “When you give the team 14 points, especially a really good football team, a Super Bowl football team, then not a lot of good things happen.
“I put us in a bad spot. Even though we put up some stats at the end of the game, those stats didn’t really matter because I’d already kind of lost the momentum for this entire team. I have to be better at not turning it over whenever it’s not going my way, trusting my defense, trusting the rest of my team to get those stops until I can figure out what we need to do as an offense.”
After the contest, Mahomes sent a message to Chiefs fans. “Appreciate all the love and support from #ChiefsKingdom I let y’all down today. I’ll always continue to work and try and learn and be better for it. Want to give thanks to God for every opportunity he has given me. We will be back,” he said.
That message was then shared by the NFL – which caught the attention of Mahomes’ wife, Brittany, who made the NFL’s post her first post following the blowout loss.
Mahomes knows he didn’t play his best game after throwing two interceptions and losing a fumble in the contest. “I feel like I didn’t play to my standard just with the struggles that I had early in this season,” Mahomes said. “There are things that I have to get better at, and they kind of showed today.”
