{"id":293726,"date":"2023-10-05T12:54:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T12:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/?p=293726"},"modified":"2023-10-05T12:54:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T12:54:23","slug":"chiefs-qb-patrick-mahomes-puts-wr-struggles-on-himself-i-think-if-i-start-playing-better-everybody-will-start-playing-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/nfl\/chiefs-qb-patrick-mahomes-puts-wr-struggles-on-himself-i-think-if-i-start-playing-better-everybody-will-start-playing-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes puts WR struggles on himself: &#x27;I think if I start playing better, everybody will start playing better&#x27;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeffPatrick Mahomes\ufeff and the Kansas City Chiefs are perched atop the AFC West as usual.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, the offense isn&#8217;t glistening as per usual and Mahomes is shouldering the blame for that, in particular the lack of production from his wide receiver corps.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just haven&#8217;t played very good to start the season,&#8221; Mahomes said Wednesday, via team transcript, &#8220;so I think if I start playing better, everybody will start playing better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mahomes has thrown for 1,006 yards (10th in the NFL) and eight touchdowns (tied for fifth) with a career-low 251.5 yards per game through four contests. The Chiefs&#8217; usually sterling offense is still third in yards and ninth in points scored, though, so there&#8217;s really not much reason to panic about at 3-1 and in first place in the AFC West.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the Chiefs&#8217; offense hasn&#8217;t appeared to be in vintage form and is averaging only 20 points per game when not playing the winless Chicago Bears.<\/p>\n<p>Tight end Travis Kelce\ufeff, despite missing a game, is the team&#8217;s leading receiver with 17 catches.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie Rashee Rice is the only wide receiver with double-digit catches, having posted 10 for 90 yards. There&#8217;s potential to be sure with Kadarius Toney (nine receptions for 57 yards), Skyy Moore (7\/112), Justin Watson (8\/163) and Marquez Valdes-Scantling (6\/104), but nothing&#8217;s truly clicked since a Week 1 loss to the Detroit Lions mired by dropped passes, notably by Toney.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, there&#8217;s no panic for the Chiefs, just patience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a couple young guys we&#8217;re kind of bringing along, but I think they&#8217;re doing a pretty good job, yeah,&#8221; head coach Andy Reid said when asked if there was concern with the wide receivers.<\/p>\n<p>In Sunday&#8217;s win over the New York Jets, Mahomes completed 18 of 30 passes for 203 yards, a touchdown and two interceptions. His counterpart, the Jets&#8217; Zach Wilson, was 28-of-39 passing for 245 passing yards, two TDs and no interceptions. It marked the first time in Mahomes&#8217; NFL (or college) career that an opposing QB had more completions, passing yards and passing TDs while having fewer INTs than Mahomes, according to NFL Research.<\/p>\n<h2>          <span>            Related Links          <\/span>        <\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>              2023 NFL season, Week 4: What We Learned from Sunday&#x27;s games            <\/li>\n<li>              Chiefs HC Andy Reid lauds &#x27;high-octane&#x27; RB Isiah Pacheco: &#x27;He&#x27;s going to go 100 mph and run hard every time&#x27;            <\/li>\n<li>              Chiefs&#x27; Patrick Mahomes reaches 200 career TD passes faster than any QB in history            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Still, Mahomes found a way to lead the Chiefs to a victory, thanks in large part to his legs.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Mahomes will be facing fellow Netflix <em>Quarterback<\/em> alum Kirk Cousins (1,214 yards, 11 touchdowns) for the first time. It will be just the third game in Mahomes&#8217; career that he will have fewer passing yards and passing TDs than the opposing starting QB heading into the game.<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs-Vikings matchup will be a Super Bowl IV rematch of a game played long before any of the current players were born. The game has long been remembered for Chiefs Hall of Fame coach Hank Stram&#8217;s 65 toss power trap call that produced a Mike Garrett touchdown. With the 2023 Chiefs finding new ways to win, perhaps Reid will dust off that play call.<\/p>\n<p>Likely not, but so far the struggles in the receiving game haven&#8217;t held back the Chiefs all that much.<\/p>\n<p>And Mahomes is not one to let any struggles dissuade him from playing his game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You just have to go out there and keep shooting it down the field,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That&#8217;s how I&#8217;ve always been wired. You just come in every single day and work and try to continue to get better and usually that stuff kind of figures itself out. I&#8217;ve had spots like this in my career where I haven&#8217;t had the best few weeks in a row and so I have to make sure that I can go back to the fundamentals and try to be better for the team and then rely on other guys to make plays. I think that&#8217;s somewhere where I can be better, is just getting the ball out of my hands and let these other guys make plays.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/chiefs-qb-patrick-mahomes-puts-wr-struggles-on-himself-i-think-if-i-start-playin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeffPatrick Mahomes\ufeff and the Kansas City Chiefs are perched atop the AFC West as usual.\u00a0 However, the offense isn&#8217;t glistening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes puts WR struggles on himself: &#x27;I think if I start playing better, everybody will start playing better&#x27; 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