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Originally Posted by htismaqe
Yep. They looked great last year crushing teams but they also got shut down by teams like Jacksonville and literally got run off the field by New England.
Despite their success, they tend to have a couple of bad losses every year. Mahomes just doesn’t have those. The teams that beat us are almost always really good teams.
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Has Mahomes ever lost to a team that ended the season below .500?
It's nice that it's a pretty easy list to parse through given the relative dearth of options...
2018: NE, LAR, LAC, Seattle; Seattle with the worst record at 10-6
2019: Indy, Houston, TN: And there's your tough loss; Indy at 7-9
2020: LVR; 8-8
2021: Bal, LAC, Buf, Ten, Cin; Baltimore ended at 8-9.
So two losses in 4 years against sub-par teams. And zero against teams that were truly uncompetitive, though I'd say that losing at home to Jacoby Brissett is a pretty lousy loss even if they only missed .500 by one win.
The combined winning percentage of those teams .610 (130-83). So the rough average for Mahomes losses in his career (not counting playoffs) is 10-6.
I have no idea how that stands up to anyone else, but it sure
seems impressive. The Chiefs, for pretty much the entirety of the Mahomes era, have 'beaten the teams they're supposed to beat...'
Which is a welcome change from previous years when I'd make my pre-season record prediction and then add an extra loss in there just for the inevitable 'well we really ****ed that one up....' game.