An embarrassing loss to Tennessee has the Kansas City Chiefs on their heels in the midseason, struggling in every aspect of their game. Not only does this loss put them under .500 for the third time this year, but the implications for playoff seeding will also work against them every step of the way for the rest of the season.
Without many factors working in their favor this week, the only way to describe this game would be to call it flat-out ugly. It was almost unwatchable. The gruesome hit on Patrick Mahomes in garbage time was a grim reminder that merely losing a game might not be the worst possible outcome of a one-sided beatdown. Kansas City was totally outplayed and out-coached from the opening drive on, and the lopsided 27-3 final score wasn’t indicative of how truly out of hand this game got for the Chiefs.
Here are our four biggest takeaways from this week’s slaughter in Nashville.
