The Early Years Tournament: Round 2, Heat 7.
 

Here's an oddity. In both of these wins, the Chiefs' opponent entered the game with a better record than the Chiefs. Which one do you like most?


2021 - Week 11 - W 19-9 over DAL
https://www.pro-football-reference.c...2111210kan.htm
Chiefs 6-4 / Cowboys 7-2


This game was a strong team effort. The defense held the opposing QB (Prescott) to 216 yards, with 2 Interceptions and 5 sacks. Mahomes passed for a nice 260 yards, and Tyreek was the leading yardage guy with 110 yards. Chris Jones had a career day with 3.5 sacks, along with the recovery on a Frank Clark sack and strip. Dallas never found a suspicious white powder that was the goal line. At 6:20 of the highlights you'll see a beautiful coverage interception by Ward, and Sneed ended the game with an interception. On the negative side of the ledger, Mahomes had one interception on a rare Kelce tipped ball, and Butker missed a FG and XP, despite making three other kicks. Perhaps the most interesting play of the game, though, was an ultra-rare fake field-goal pooch punt by Harrison Butker, which was placed beautifully to pin the opponents inside their own five yard line. And who do you think downed the ball? Townsend and Allegretti lit out as soon as the play started, and Townsend downed the ball at the 2. It's worth a watch at the 12:10 mark of the highlights.

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2019 - Week 14 - W 23-16 over NWE
https://www.pro-football-reference.c...1912080nwe.htm
Chiefs 8-4/patriots 10-2

This game is most known for Bashaud Breeland making a beautiful play to end the game by knocking down an end zone pass. Also, Kpassagnon blocked a field goal! How often do you see that? We also had a punt blocked, and the bad guys ran both a halfback pass and flea flicker to try to hang with us. Mahomes had 283 yards passing to a variety of receivers.

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This is a tough one. Beating the patriots in that game let the world know that there was a new sheriff in town. But beating the Cowboys was a great team effort, and I really enjoy that pooch punt.

I have to go with the patriots win. I'm a Breeland fan, and he ended that game so perfectly that not even the refs could screw us over with a fake penalty call.