Watch Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs host the Cincinnati Bengals in the AFC Championship Game at Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday; Starting at 20:00, live on Sky Sports NFL from 19:00.
“These chiefs, they’re like dragons, so hard to kill.”
Mahomes threw the clutch twice, Tyreke Hill for 19 yards and then Travis Kelsey for 25 to score a game-tying 49-yard field goal from Harrison Butker after time expired. In overtime, Mahomes then duly passed Kansas City for 75 yards down the field in eight plays, throwing an eight-yard touchdown to Kelcha to score.
Mahomes passed for 177 yards – nearly half of his 378 – in just the last two minutes as he scored every touchdown from Josh Allen for the Bills. The two teams totaled 25 points in those crazy last couple of minutes.
It was typical of a quarterback who just doesn’t know when he’s being hit, with an unshakable confidence that can only be helped by how rarely he’s had to lose in his four years as an NFL starter.
The Chiefs quarterback has never missed an AFC Championship game, let alone missed the playoffs or lost a season, a result that is too grim a reality for most of the league’s 31 other teams and their quarterbacks.
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Mahomes is gearing up for his fourth consecutive conference championship game this Sunday, and he has a shot at winning a third straight Super Bowl. And in these previous performances, he has shown many other examples of his “invincible” nature.
On his first Sunday in the championship, the Mahomes brought Kansas City back from a 14-0 deficit in the first half to the mighty AFC juggernaut that was Tom Brady’s New England Patriots and forced overtime with two rushing completions of 21 and 27 yards to Spencer Ware and DeMarcus. Robinson to set up Butker’s field goal. Sounds familiar? Yes, although this time Mahomes had just over 13 seconds to work, 39 to be exact.
Unfortunately, in overtime, the Mahomes and Chiefs would be ruled out, fouling the same rules that worked in their favor against the Bills last Sunday, as New England scored a first-ball touchdown to end the game.
But Mahomes and KC bounced back when they lifted the Vince Lombardi Trophy a year later, a stunning run to the Super Bowl in which they defeated the Houston Texans 51-31 ( trailing 24-0 in the second quarter) in the divisional round, and the Tennessee Titans 35– 24 (after trailing 17–7 in the second period) in the AFC title game.
