Last night and this morning were a little worse for me than yesterday, which was less painful than other playoff losses for me because of the Chiefs winning it all a couple of years ago. I am so glad we have Mahomes and I think his performance in the 2nd half, where he seemed a bit amped up and wasn't quite on target will be a particular motivation for him this offseason and he'll come back stronger than ever. I'm glad he's not going to have to be dealing with surgery and recovery from it this offseason, unlike last year. Given the challenges he had this year, being a new dad, coming back from surgery, dealing with defensive schemes that slowed him down, I think it's impressive that we got this far, but it stings that we were favorites and had a 21-10 lead at half, which really should have been 24-10, except for a bad decision on Mahomes' part.
I did a couple of productive things to deal with the loss, including bagging up three more bags of clothes to donate to Salvation Army and running 10 miles this morning at a much faster pace than I could have done two years ago...I've lost a little over 90 pounds during this pandemic and try to remember that there are things I can control and things I can't. Sports outcomes for the Chiefs and Royals are in the latter.
