Ravens at Chiefs - Week 14 - Record: 11-2

The legend of Patrick Mahomes continues to grow.

Chiefs are down 7 with little time left in regulation. It's 4th-&-9 at around our own 40, and Mahomes can't get a good look so he rolls right, and with a couple of Ravens linemen converging he heaves the ball downfield ------- and Tyreek Hill swoops under it to grab it and take it into the red zone. 48-yard pass completion. Just a few plays later he hits Damien Williams with a screen pass for the TD while a blitzing strong safety was bearing down on him.

After Harrison Butker misses what would have been the game-winning FG and the game goes into overtime, Mahomes gets to do it again.

The Chiefs got lucky with the coin toss again and Mahomes starts the offense driving down the field, chewing up OT clock, and this time Butker hits the FG. With the new overtime rules the Ravens have a chance to tie or win outright with a TD, but our pass rush steps up and makes more plays, keeping the Ravens from getting any points just 14 yards from FG range.

And this is not even to mention the insane, the crazy, the reeDONKulous no-look pass Mahomes threw to Demarcus Robinson earlier in the game. Please. The play was critical to get us to a very important FG to put us up 17-10 at the end of the 1st half.

This game was a tough one. The Ravens were what we thought they were, a smart, vigilant, and relentless defense. Mahomes was under pressure the whole time, and that was actually a fantastic thing so he can just keep getting what it takes to matriculate the ball down the field against as good a team as this one.

But the toughness of this Chiefs team. Spencer Ware got banged up, went back out. Tyreek Hill had a foot issue, went back out there and managed to catch that clutch pass from Mahomes limping around out there.

Thing is, this is the kind of game all of us Chiefs fans are desperate to see them win in the playoffs. We were watching the second half of this game in a restaurant and we just got some appetizers to go with our enjoyment of the game. Because the game was so close, so dicey, and the place was kind of cold, I started shivering. Aagh! This stuff gets to me too much. I try really really hard not to let it, but sometimes it just does. I'm going to be a wreck if this kind of thing happens during the playoffs, even with all the toughness we're supposed to have enduring seven straight losses in playoff games decided by a touchdown or less.

On the other hand, when the Chiefs did something good, most notably the Mahomes 4th-&-9 completion and the Justin Houston sack and strip to stop the Ravens from going anywhere further at the very end of regulation, the place erupted in cheers. Wow! A number of Chiefs fans here in southern California! Surely it wasn't as raucous as it would've been at Big Charlie's in Philly, but it was a taste! A lot of fun!

But yeah, maybe, just maybe this was a taste of the never-give-up, die-hard, take-no-prisoners, it-ain't-over-till-it's-over, push-it-to-the-limit GOT-IT that the Chiefs will have going for them during a very long and delightful postseason run.

Finally, gotta update the Patrick Mahomes touchdown pass count. He had two today, now it's 43 on the year. He's now tied with Drew Brees' 2012 season. Next up Dan Marino's 1986 of 44.

With this win we've clinched a playoff spot and we get to enjoy the next three games doing our hoping hoping hoping thing that we'll win some games after No. 16. As it is we'll be angling to get top seed and home field and all that stuff. (It helps that New England lost when Miami actually pulled off a no-time-left-lateral-the-ball-all-about and won.) Thursday night we've got a huge game against the Chargers with the division title on the line.

While January has rarely been very fun for us, December is once again still a very joyous time for the Kingdom.
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