Chiefs at Steelers - Week 2 - Record: 2-0

It has been just under 32 years, just a little bit longer than the number of years it had taken us to win a game with a starting quarterback who was drafted by the Chiefs. Well, Patrick Mahomes took care of that drought on the last day of 2017.

Today Mahomes and the Chiefs took care of the 32-year drought, finally winning a game in Pittsburgh. Since then the Chiefs have lost six straight there, most of them by scores that looked like we'd sent out the third string team.Would you believe it? Our last win there was that final-game-of-the-season special-teams win to get into the playoffs in 1986. Since then it's been very not-good.

We got this one, however. And through the first quarter it looked liked we'd walk right over them, leaping out to a 21-0 lead before our very bendy defense allowed Pittsburgh to rip off some long TD drives to make it close.

But enough of the bad things about our defense. Here were some good things about it.

Kendall Fuller was a pretty good back there, breaking up passes and smothering receivers -- yes I know he wasn't perfect but he made critical plays especially late. Reggie Ragland and Anthony Hitchens are pretty good run defenders -- I don't know if it was more them or more Pittsburgh's weak running game, but we did decently keeping them from beating us on the ground. (Yeah, Ben Roethlisberger kicked our butt through the air, but well, we already knew that...) And Dee Ford had a clutch pass tip to stop a drive after the Steelers were yet again marching down the field against us.

But hey, what can Mahomes not do. I was listening to Mitch on the postgame and he said the Steelers have always done this blitz zone thing that the Chiefs have never been able to figure out. Turns out the Chiefs today threw the ball deep down the middle of the field and that's the way to beat that stuff.

Hmm, everyone had always said Alex Smith doesn't have enough of an arm to get the ball there, and I'd always thought, nahh, can't just be that...

Well, maybe there was something to that.

Now we've got a guy with a cannon for an arm. Let the numbers speak for themselves.

Mahomes threw six touchdown passes today to five different receivers. He had five incompletions. Wow. Again, 6 TDs, 5 INCs. How often does that happen. I have to add that it was very nice to see Sammy Watkins show what he's got. I've always been high on him and knew he'd get it done. He did it in a number of ways today, really good to see that.

Mahomes also set a record for touchdown passes in the first two games of a season with ten. Next highest, Peyton Manning with nine in something like 2013 I believe the graphic said. What other  superlative stat-laden things will they say about him? Yeah, we can rapturously swim it all, but let's just give him some time to settle in and keep learning. There's a whole season and more ahead.

I can't deny that I'm itchin' to shred our defense a new one about letting a team riddled with injuries and an aggravating hold-out (Le'Veon Bell) make this an actual contest, but hey, we knew that going in, not going to get into it. At least they held today -- let's face it we're going to have to endure nailbiter games of 42-37 until Eric Berry is healthy and our young defensive players can establish themselves out there and contribute. And it was in Pittsburgh, a hellhole for Chiefs football for years and years and years.

So for now, let's just savor this one and what our new quarterback can do out there. Very very sweet.
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