NFL Recap: Kansas City Chiefs vs. New York Giants 20:17

The Kansas City Chiefs have prevailed with 20:17 good luck against the New York Giants, benefiting mainly from errors of the guests. Patrick Mahomes played again uncertain, however, the defense showed up and coming form.

The Chiefs started the game with a trip to the Red Zone. But there they remained without points because Patrick Mahomes missed under pressure his receiver Josh Gordon and the ball bounced into the end zone on surprised running back Jerick McKinney and ultimately ended up in the arms of Julian Love.

The joy lasted among guests but not too long, because Daniel Jones then threw an interception right into the arms of linebacker William Gay. Shortly after Mahomes Tyreek Hill was in the end zone for a 6-yard touchdown to guide the home side.

The Giants then beat with its own touchdown early in the second quarter back - Jones to tight end Kyle Rudolph from the 1-yard line after play-action pass to compensate. After a few defensive stops KC laid by then: At the end of a dominated rookie running back Derrick Gore Drives it was just that, who scored from 3 yards his first NFL touchdown. The Giants then managed only a field goal from 23 yards to the 14: 10-Pausenstand.

Towards the end of the third quarter, the home side contributed the next error: Kelce caught a pass and Logan Ryan finally hit the ball out of his hands and James Bradberry conquered the fumble. This opportunity took the guests with both hands and marched into the Red Zone. There, Jones finally found tight end Evan Engram for a 5-yard touchdown pass to the first guide for the G-Men.

Chiefs weak in the Red Zone

In return Mahomes led his team once more in the Red Zone, where the Chiefs engine again faltered. In 3rd Down Leonard Williams managed a strip-sack against Mahomes, but O-Liner Trey Smith conquered the fumble and turned his complete disaster. However, KC satisfied with a field goal by Harrison Butker from 36 yards to compensate.

A little later, the Chiefs had the ball back and were lucky that another Mahomes interception was deep in his own half canceled due to an offside penalty against Oshane Ximines. Shortly afterwards still a curious facemask penalty against the guests and the Chiefs were back in business. A short time later they found themselves in the Red Zone again, but were stopped again - a sack of defensive back Keion Crossen against Mahomes forced another field goal, which brought the Chiefs lead, but the Giants had still 1:07 minutes to answer. This does not enough, but the game on Downs ended after a sack by Jones.

Kansas City Chiefs (4-4) - New York Giants (2-6)

Result: 20:17 (7: 0, 7:10, 0: 0, 6: 7) Boxscore

Chiefs vs. Giants - key statistics

In Drive, which led to his first NFL touchdown, Derrick Gore ran for 41 yards on seven Carrie. These were the most rushing yards in a drive of the Chiefs since Damien Williams in of 2019. Mahomes threw in the first drive of the Chiefs an interception, in the second then a touchdown. This marked the first time in his career that he threw in the first quarter both a touchdown and a pick. For Mahomes it was the seventh game in series with at least one interception. This is his longest such series at all, whether in high school, college or the NFL. The Chiefs now recorded for the fourth time in a row at least two turnovers in a game. This is the longest active series the NFL and the longest under Andy Reid with the Chiefs. Mahomes came averaged only 2.1 yards per completion Air, the lowest of his career. And his 13 passes, which went for more than 10 Air yards, only 2, also the lowest of his career came on. Penalties played an important role in the game. The Giants conceded 10 for 88 yards, the Chiefs even 12 for 103 yards.

The star of the game: The defensive front of the Chiefs

For a long time the defense of the Chiefs a big problem. but this time it was possible just at the front, to make a difference. The pass rush about managed 9 QB Pressures against Daniel Jones, including three sack and a strip-sack. Outstanding here were mainly D-liner Chris Jones (1 bag, 3 Pressures) and edge rusher Frank Clark (1 bag, 3 Pressures). also succeeded in composite, which runs the Giants usually stop (3.6 yards per carry). Then can be set up.

Flop of the Match: Daniel Jones (Giants quarterback)

Of course, Jones helped to keep his team in the game. But under the bottom line was that just in the decisive phase too little. He threw a bad interception in the first half and prepared a touchdown. And he never succeeded to find his receivers had some failure and used a lot too rarely the single coverage of his outside receivers. He also shied away any risk and threw almost short passports (3.7 adot).

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Analysis: Chiefs vs. Giants - The tactical panel

The Giants actually played through 2-high-Safetyys, these days the usual defensive structure against the chiefs. However, they varied their coverage on the line, just left a lot of space at the beginning, but then played with continuous playing time Press. And Top Cornerback James Bradberry Coverte sometimes Tight End Travis Kelce directly.

With the 2-high-looks, the Giants expected the Chief s chance on Big Plays through deep passes. But they also left great gaps for runs through the middle, which consenses the Chiefs temporarily. Otherwise, KC relocated to many short passports, which mainly went to Tyreek Hill.

In the Red Zone in turn, the Giants put on Double Coverage in the second half, against Kelce and Hill, so Mahomes secondary weapons all were involved in one-counter-one duels. The Giants had the ball, lacked the constancy in play calling. Much too often offensive coordinator Jason Garrett put on Runs in Early Downs, which opened the offense again and again into difficult third-downs.

As far as the passport is concerned, it was predominantly over very short passports, which were rarely beyond the marker even at 3rd down. Caution and Ball Security obviously stood here above all.