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Mahomes’ ‘Houdini’ play leads Chiefs’ bounce-back
TAMPA, Fla. — Patrick Mahomes has accomplished no-look passes, sidearm throws and even left-handed tosses. His 2-yard landing move to Clyde Edwards-Helaire within the second quarter of what would turn out to be a 41-31 Kansas Metropolis Chiefs win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday night time was at or close to the highest of the listing of Mahomes’ spectacular and weird performs — even to those that have been with Mahomes from the beginning of his NFL profession.
“The NFL hasn’t seen something like Pat Mahomes, I promise you that,” Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce stated. “And also you noticed it at the moment. He is the Houdini of our period, man.”
Mahomes ran 39.4 yards, in accordance with NFL Subsequent Gen Stats, and wanted 7.6 seconds to complete the landing move to Edwards-Helaire. He was flushed from the pocket and appeared able to run as he neared the sideline.
He then did a 360-degree spin to keep away from a defender and, beneath stress, flipped the move to Edwards-Helaire ultimately zone. Mahomes pushed the move as a lot as he threw it and referred to as his throwing movement on the play “a basketball shot.”
“I used to be ready to make use of my velocity, my little little bit of velocity, to get across the edge there. I used to be gonna run for it, however they sort of flew round me,” stated Mahomes, who threw for 249 yards and in addition had TD throws of 16 yards to Kelce and 10 yards to Jody Fortson whereas making NFL historical past by reaching 20,000 yards passing sooner than anybody else. “I spotted I wasn’t going to make it, and I noticed Clyde, so I sort of flicked it as much as him.”
Chiefs coach Andy Reid, in a nod to Mahomes’ creativity, stated the maneuver “shouldn’t be in our playbook.”
The Chiefs busted out offensively at a seemingly unlikely time. They struggled to attain 17 factors in final week’s loss on the Indianapolis Colts. And the Bucs had the NFL’s greatest scoring protection coming into Week 4, having allowed a complete of 27 factors in three video games.
By halftime, the Chiefs had scored 28. Additionally they rushed for a season-high 189 yards for the sport, this after working for 58 yards in opposition to the Colts.
Sunday night time’s contest marked the primary assembly between Mahomes and Bucs quarterback Tom Brady since Tampa Bay’s 31-9 rout of Kansas Metropolis in Tremendous Bowl LV — additionally performed at Raymond James Stadium — in February 2021.
“After I got here into the stadium, I spotted that I hadn’t been right here, and the dangerous style I had final time got here into impact,” Mahomes stated. “But it surely’s nonetheless not a playoff sport. It is a regular-season sport, which is essential. That Tremendous Bowl will all the time depart a nasty style for me.”
Bucs linebacker Shaq Barrett stated main as much as the groups’ Week 5 matchup that he did not see a lot enchancment within the Chiefs’ offensive line from the final time they met, within the Tremendous Bowl, when the Bucs’ defensive entrance dominated the sport.
“They accepted the problem,” Mahomes stated of his offensive line. “They made our group roll at the moment. That is an incredible protection, nice protection line. I feel they heard the speaking they usually heard the speaking not solely from [the Bucs] however from all people about how they did not play nicely final week. They accepted that problem, they usually went on the market; and after they dominate like that, it makes my job loads simpler.”
The Chiefs acknowledged desirous to get a measure of revenge in opposition to the Bucs for the Tremendous Bowl defeat. Edwards-Helaire, who rushed for 92 yards on Sunday night time, stated his final reminiscence of enjoying in Tampa was an disagreeable one.
“Every little thing was blurry as a result of I used to be so rattling teary-eyed,” he stated. “So it is rather like you are taking that and also you sort of bottle it up, work out the place you need to put it, after which I listened to actually the identical playlist that I had for the Tremendous Bowl and we went out right here and did what we wanted to do.”
Data from The Related Press was included on this report.
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Taylor Swift lip readers decode her message after Kansas City Chiefs win
Taylor Swift’s fans have decoded a message that she shared with fellow attendees after she watched her boyfriend Travis Kelce’s NFL team secure a win on Monday.
The pop star has been seen cheering on Kansas City Chiefs tight end Kelce and his teammates at a number of games, since they went public with their romance in September 2023. Earlier this year, Swift was on hand as the Chiefs won the Super Bowl.
For his part, Kelce has also been seen among the crowd at several stops on Swift’s record-breaking Eras Tour, which took her around the world for more than 18 months and saw her wrap the U.S. leg on November 3 in Indianapolis.
One day after she performed at her last U.S. Eras show, Swift was on hand to support Kelce as his team secured 30-24 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
In video footage shared on X, Swift was seen waving and blowing kisses to game attendees, who turned around to greet her in her private suite at Missouri’s Arrowhead Stadium.
At one point, Swift was seen dramatically mouthing a statement to fans as she walked in the VIP suite.
A Swift fan account suggested that the singer was expressing feeling the pressure, on behalf of her partner. Decoding her statement, a caption from the account read: “Taylor after the game, ‘Stressful!’”
At the Week 9 matchup, Swift was joined by her brother, Austin Swift, and her mother, Andrea Swift, who was photographed wearing a black jacket emblazoned with the words, “In my Chiefs Era”.
Taylor Swift sported a vintage Chiefs jacket, which she teamed with black denim shorts and a pair of knee-high boots.
Kelce’s family members were also in attendance, including his mother, Donna Kelce, and his brother, Jason Kelce, who was accompanied by his wife, Kylie Kelce.
Brittany Mahomes, who is married to Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, was also seen in the VIP suite.
Kelce has supported Taylor Swift at her shows. A video of the athlete leaving his girlfriend’s second Indianapolis show, while being followed by a camera crew recently went viral, strengthening theories that the pop star is filming a documentary about her tour.
This isn’t the only clip of Kelce supporting his girlfriend that has gone viral. A video on TikTok showed the tight end smiling and dancing to “So High School” alongside Taylor Swift’s mom.
Meanwhile, Taylor Swift’s support of her partner last season brought a flood of media attention—much to the exasperation of some football fans.
“I’m just there to support Travis,” the singer told Time in late 2023. “I have no awareness of if I’m being shown too much and p****** off a few dads, Brads, and Chads.”
Addressing the cameras often panning her way, Swift said: “I don’t know how they know what suite I’m in. There’s a camera, like, a half-mile away, and you don’t know where it is, and you have no idea when [the] camera is putting you in the broadcast, so I don’t know if I’m being shown 17 times or once.”
“Football is awesome, it turns out,” Swift added. “I’ve been missing out my whole life.”
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The GOP expects to keep Kansas' open House seat. Democratic Rep. Davids looks tough to beat
TOPEKA, Kan. — Republicans expected a former Kansas attorney general’s political comeback in Tuesday’s election to keep an open U.S. House seat in GOP hands while the party faced a tougher challenge in trying to oust the only Democrat in the state’s congressional delegation.
Republican Derek Schmidt sought the 2nd Congressional District seat held by retiring two-term Republican Rep. Jake LaTurner. Schmidt, who served three terms as attorney general, was coming off a narrow loss in the 2022 governor’s race and faced Nancy Boyda, making her own comeback bid as the last Democrat to hold the seat.
In the 3rd District in the Kansas City area, Democratic Rep. Sharice Davids faced Republican Prasanth Reddy, a doctor and former vice president of two medical research companies. Most of the district’s voters are in suburbs that have been friendly to Davids.
In the state’s two other districts, Republican Reps. Tracey Mann and Ron Estes were expected to win reelection comfortably.
Democrats have held the 2nd District seat previously, but not since Boyda served a single, two-year term and lost her race for reelection in 2008. LaTurner won both of his two terms by about 15 percentage points and would have likely cruised to victory again, but he announced in April that he wanted to spend more time with his children.
Schmidt is often affable in public, and he worked early in his career for two moderate Republicans, U.S. Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker and Gov. Bill Graves, before serving in the state Senate and being elected attorney general in 2010. That’s created lingering distrust among hard-right Republicans.
But Schmidt easily won a five-person primary this year — partly because former President Donald Trump declared in a social media endorsement post that Schmidt was “An America First Patriot” and, “HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!”
In the 3rd District, Davids gained national attention when she unseated a Republican incumbent in 2018 as a Native American, lesbian and former mixed martial arts fighter. Republicans still lump her in with the most liberal members of Congress. Her vocal support of abortion rights helps in her district, but she’s also positioned herself as a business-friendly and pragmatic centrist.
The key to a 3rd District victory is heavily suburban Johnson County, the state’s most populous county. Trump’s support has waned there since his victory in the 2016 presidential race, hurting Republicans, while Davids’ margins of victory have grown.
The 1st District that Mann represents includes the liberal northeastern Kansas enclave of Lawrence, home to the main University of Kansas campus, but its influence can’t overcome the GOP’s strength in the rest of the district covering the state’s western third and much of central Kansas. Mann is a former Kansas lieutenant governor who’s had no trouble winning his two previous terms.
His Democratic opponent was Paul Buskirk, an academic counselor and adviser for student athletes at the University of Kansas.
The 4th District of south-central Kansas is centered on Estes’ hometown of Wichita, and he’s a former two-term state treasurer. He’s held the seat since winning a special election in 2017 to replace Mike Pompeo, who was appointed by Trump to be CIA director and later U.S. secretary of state.
His Democratic opponent is Esau Freeman, a painter and union leader who is best known for advocating the legalization of marijuana.
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How to watch the Kansas City Chiefs game tonight: Free live stream
KANSAS CITY, Missouri — The undefeated Kansas City Chiefs will look to move to 8-0 today in a Monday Night Football matchup against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The game will air on ESPN and ABC, with the top crew of Joe Buck and Troy Aikman on the call.
It is the second time for both teams on Monday Night Football this season. The game will kickoff at 8:15 p.m. Eastern.
Several streaming services will broadcast the Nov. 4 game live, and you can watch on Fubo (free trial), DirecTV Stream (free trial) and Sling (promotional offers).
The Chiefs are still trying to avoid their first loss, as MVP favorite — quarterback Patrick Mahomes — has helped push the Chiefs to this point. Along with a stellar defense, Kansas City has allowed just 20 or more points in three of its seven games.
The Buccaneers are in perhaps the polar opposite position. Wide receivers Chris Godwin and Mike Evans have suffered long-term injuries, with Godwin notably out for the season. They’ve also lost two-straight games, including three of four.
Check out a complete rundown of NFL Week 9 action, including the schedule, predictions, previews, TV information and more.
Chiefs – Buccaneers Matchup Preview
The Chiefs are riding high atop the AFC and NFL standings with a dominant start to the season. They’re looking for a three-peat, and appear well on their way to being one of the AFC’s top seeds in the playoffs.
The Buccaneers are in some big time trouble, as they bring a 4-4 record into Kansas City. Aside from a 51-27 win over the Saints on Oct. 13, they’ve won just one game since Sept. 29.
Chiefs – Buccaneers Last Game Recap
The Chiefs won, again, over an AFC West foe, while the Buccaneers dropped another disappointing game against the Falcons.
Kansas City Chiefs: Beat the Las Vegas Raiders 27-20 on Oct. 27.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Lost to the Atlanta Falcons 31-26 on Oct. 27.
Chiefs – Buccaneers Players to Watch
The Chiefs are loaded with a talented offense and defense, while the Buccaneers are trying to work in various new offensive weapons absent some major contributors.
Kansas City Chiefs: Quarterback Patrick Mahomes (68.4% completion percentage, 8 touchdowns, 9 interceptions, 1,651 yards passing), tight end Travis Kelce (38 catches, 335 yards, 1 touchdown), defensive tackle Chris Jones (3 sacks, 15 tackles).
Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Quarterback Baker Mayfield (71.1% completion percentage, 2,189 yards, 21 touchdowns, 9 interceptions), tight end Cade Otton (36 catches, 344 yards, 3 touchdowns), linebacker Lavonte David (56 tackles, 3 sacks, 1 interception).
How to Watch Chiefs – Buccaneers
- Who: Kansas City Chiefs vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- When: Monday, Nov. 4, 2024
- Time: 8:15 p.m. Eastern
- Where: Arrowhead Stadium | Kansas City, Missouri
- Channel: ESPN, ABC
- Best Streaming Options: Fubo (free trial), DirecTV Stream (free trial) and Sling (promotional offers).
Channel finder if you have cable
You can access the channel by using the channel finders online: Verizon Fios, AT&T U-verse, Comcast Xfinity, Spectrum/Charter, Optimum/Altice, DIRECTV and Dish.
About FuboTV
Fubo (free trial) has three main packages: Pro costs $79.99/month; Elite is $89.99; Premier is priced at $99.99. Cancel before the free trial ends to avoid being charged. Fubo includes access to more than 185 sports, entertainment and news channels. You can record games, TV shows, movies and more.
About DirecTV Stream
DirecTV Stream, which also gives customers a free trial, offers four packages if you continue with the service after your trial ends: Entertainment for $69.99; Choice for $84.99; Ultimate for $109.99; and premier for $159.99. Choice offers the most channels for sports enthusiasts.
About Sling
Sling, which features promotional offers for new customers, has a Blue package for $20 for your first month ($40 after that) and an Orange package for the same price and deal. Get both the Blue and Orange packages for $27.50 for your first month ($55 after that).
For team hats, shirts and more gear: Visit Fanatics, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Lids, Champs Sports and New Era.
Information from the AP was included in this report and AI might have been used to assist with this story.
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