Cardinals at Chiefs - Week 10 - Record: 9-1

This one was a bit more unnerving that it had to be. We have to remember that very pertinent maxim "Any given Sunday." The Cardinals are a proud NFL football team with good players. Josh Rosen looks like he'll be a fine quarterback. Larry Fitzgerald is still dangerous. I've seen David Johnson ranked as the very best running back in pro football. And the Cardinals pass rush definitely got to us -- I think I'd seen somewhere that Chandler Jones is one of the best D-linemen out there.

Thing is, our pass rush was tremendous today. Dee Ford. Allen Bailey. Breeland Speaks. Chris Jones. Justin Houston got back into things in a big way today. Even Ron Parker had a blitz sack today. These guys were all over their QB today keeping the Cardinals from getting anything really going.

It got a bit touchy when they got a nice drive for a TD to open the 2nd half, tightening the score 20-14. But after a nifty Houston interception of a screen pass just after the 4th quarter began, Spencer Ware scored the dagger touchdown on a short run to make the final score 26-14.

Patrick Mahomes got his two touchdown passes to surpass Len Dawson's mark for all-time Chiefs season TD passes. Believe it or not, with seven games left and the chance for Mahomes to get a few more, there have been only 81 quarterback seasons in NFL history when a QB has had 32 or more. Thing is, Mahomes did not get the 300 yard season to make it nine in a row. His last pass attempt was a deep out to Tyreek Hill when Hill did not break outside to the wide open field there. You could tell Hill was upset.

No worries about Hill though. He not only scored the two touchdowns Mahomes threw, but he caught seven total passes for 117 yards. He was terrific -- one of those TDs a deep fly pattern that split the defenders, just the kind of connection we like to see between Mahomes and Hill.

So we won a game we were expected to win, that's cool. Our next game is that long-awaited Monday night extravaganza against the Los Angeles Rams in Mexico City!
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