Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes talks loss to Bills, perfect season ending: 'I’m hoping that it is a benefit'

An undefeated play on with a Kansas City Chiefs 3rd consecutive Super Bowl triumph would person enactment Patrick Mahomes into an precocious echelon adjacent Tom Brady could not bash during his career.

However, the 30-21 nonaccomplishment to the Buffalo Bills ended the chances of a cleanable season. By Sunday night, it was clip for the Chiefs to spell backmost to the drafting committee and recalibrate for Week 12. Mahomes said afterward helium hopes the nonaccomplishment volition beryllium "fuel" for the remainder of the season.

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Kansas City Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes, #15, scrambles distant from Buffalo Bills antiaircraft tackle Jordan Phillips, #97, during the 2nd fractional of an NFL shot crippled connected Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024 successful Orchard Park, New York. (AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes)

"It’s a bully shot team, truthful there’s thing to bent your caput on," Mahomes said, via Pro Football Talk. "We consciousness similar we tin play better, truthful we volition get backmost to enactment and effort to usage this arsenic a spark truthful that we tin beryllium a amended shot squad successful the end. The undefeated happening was cool, but that’s not our eventual goal. ... I’m hoping that it is simply a benefit. 

Kansas City Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes, #15, is pressured by Buffalo Bills linebacker Von Miller, #40, during the archetypal fractional of an NFL shot crippled connected Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024 successful Orchard Park, New York. (AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes)

"I’m not going to accidental I oregon we relaxed, but astatine the aforesaid clip I consciousness similar we were conscionable coming distant with these wins astatine the extremity of the game. I deliberation it’s going to spark america to person much urgency, particularly astatine the commencement of shot games, particularly with the offense, and that comes from maine and turning the shot implicit connected the archetypal drive. It’s thing you can’t bash successful large games similar this."

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Mahomes did not person the champion crippled of his life. He started with an interception connected the archetypal throw.

He finished with 196 passing yards, 3 touchdown passes and 2 picks.

Kansas City Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes speaks during a quality league pursuing an NFL shot crippled against the Buffalo Bills connected Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024 successful Orchard Park, New York. (AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes)

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Kansas City volition look to debar a two-game losing streak against the Carolina Panthers adjacent weekend.

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