Kansas City escaped Arrowhead with an overtime win over Tampa Bay on Monday night, but the Buccaneers made clear the Chiefs aren’t invincible.
Not many gave the Tampa Bay Buccaneers a chance Monday night to be the first team to hand the mighty Kansas City Chiefs their first loss of the season. Not when they were without wide receivers Mike Evans and Chris Godwin.
Then the meticulous search for a Chiefs weakness stopped when perhaps the only way of beating the reigning champions in the postseason stared everyone in the face as Mahomes was helped off the field after landing awkwardly during a touchdown pass in the fourth quarter. For a few minutes, Chiefs fans worried whether Mahomes would be O.K. to return to the field to continue the quest for a perfect season and capture a third consecutive Lombardi trophy.
The Buccaneers gained plenty of respect for being only the second team to score more than 20 points on the Chiefs’ defense, and gained even more admiration for having a counter shot after Mahomes’s return stole all the momentum. Mayfield orchestrated a 10-play, 71-yard touchdown drive that finished with a one-yard score to Ryan Miller to tie the game at 24 with 27 seconds left in regulation.
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