KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The most obvious and tangible reason the Chiefs suffered a meltdown and flamed out of the AFC Championship Game against the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium can be quantified in the radical difference between Patrick Mahomes' statistical output in the first half (220 yards and three touchdown passes) and after the intermission (55 yards and two interceptions).
Throw in those back-to-back sacks that he took after the Chiefs were in second-and-goal at the Cincinnati 4-yard-line with a chance to seize the lead at the end of regulation, and it's easy to simply point the finger at the guy raising his hand to begin with.
"When you're up 21 to 3 at one point in the game, you can't lose it," he said after the Chiefs' shocking 27-24 overtime loss snuffed out their hopes of a third straight Super Bowl berth. "I put that on myself."
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