{"id":247522,"date":"2025-09-20T16:50:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T20:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=247522"},"modified":"2025-09-25T10:25:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:25:38","slug":"go-save-us-chiefs-offense-relying-on-patrick-mahomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/09\/20\/go-save-us-chiefs-offense-relying-on-patrick-mahomes\/","title":{"rendered":"“Go Save Us”: Chiefs Offense Relying On Patrick Mahomes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The bright lights of Sunday Night Football will shine on two desperate teams this week, as the Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> visit the New York Giants<\/a> at MetLife Stadium. Both franchises enter at 0-2, a start that has turned Week 3 into a must-win battle neither side expected.<\/p>\n

The Chiefs\u2019 stumble out of the gate is startling. Patrick Mahomes<\/a> and company now sit in the same column as the Browns<\/a> and Jets<\/a>, a far cry from the juggernaut standard Kansas City has set in recent years. For the Giants, this is all too familiar \u2014 seven times in the last nine seasons they have opened 0-2. History offers little comfort: since 1990, just 12% of teams to start 0-2 reached the playoffs, though three managed to climb the mountain and hoist the Lombardi Trophy.<\/p>\n

Patrick Mahomes \u201cmake it work\u201d<\/h2>\n

Mahomes faces Russell Wilson, who is in his first year wearing Giants blue<\/a>. Wilson turned back the clock against Dallas last week with 450 passing yards, showing flashes of the \u201cold Russ,\u201d but an untimely interception swung the game away. On Thursday, NBC News chief news and sports analyst Steve Kornacki joined TODAY and said Wilson looked like his old self \u2014 and not in a good way.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was the old Russell Wilson,\u201d Kornacki said. \u201cThere was an ill-timed interception, and they just couldn\u2019t get that done.\u201d [Timestamp \u2013 2:00]<\/em><\/p>\n