The Kansas City Chiefs were 6.5-point favorites for the NFL season opening on Thursday night, but they fell 21-20.
Of course, they were missing star tight end Travis Kelce, which pushed the spread in favor of the Detroit Lions by roughly a field goal, but a team that missed the playoffs last year stunned the Super Bowl Champions on their home turf.
Sure, Detroit missed the playoffs last year, but since then, the Lions have won nine of their last eleven games.
But the Chiefs are the favorites to go back-to-back, a feat that has not been accomplished since the New England Patriots did it in 2004 and 2005, so it’s hard not to blame Patrick Mahomes for being disgusted at the loss.
“It’s embarrassing for me to lose any time,” Mahomes stated after the game.
The Chiefs had a ceremony to remember their Super Bowl LVII triumph over the Philadelphia Eagles in February, but Mahomes paid no notice to it, focusing on the task at hand, and he did not receive the result he needed.
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“Like I said after the ring ceremony, I’ve moved on to the next season,” he continued. “Obviously, it’s cool for the fans to be able to see the banner and drop in at Arrowhead Stadium. But this is a whole new year, and I think I know that, and we are trying to win another Super Bowl, and this is obviously not the way we wanted to start. So any time I lose, I’m embarrassed. So I’m going to try to get better so I don’t lose more as the season goes on.”
The loss was hardly Mahomes’ fault. One of Detroit’s touchdowns came on a pick-six on the ball thrown to Kadarius Toney. It went right off his hands, his first drop of several for the night, and into the arms of rookie Brian Branch, who took it to the house to tie the game at 14 for Detroit.
Officially, the Chiefs had four drops, but several other passes could have been caught.
