Considering what the Chiefs conjured with 13 seconds left against Buffalo last postseason, and any number of other tales to astonish from the Mahomes Era, staring at a four-point deficit with 1 minute, 46 seconds left against the Chargers on Sunday night at SoFi Stadium might have seemed like ho-hum stuff.
A routine emergency, if you will, one that even coach Andy Reid would say “seemed like an eternity” left after the Chargers had taken the lead on Justin Herbert’s 6-yard touchdown to Joshua Palmer.
Hard-wired and girded for these sorts of challenges as the Chiefs have become, though, this appeared to be a different tier of equation for Mahomes to solve. After all, the Chiefs were down three prime targets.
