{"id":271700,"date":"2025-08-08T13:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/271700\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T13:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:17:10","slug":"kansas-city-chiefs-qb-patrick-mahomes-comments-on-his-first-game-since-super-bowl-lix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/271700\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes comments on his first game since Super Bowl LIX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During Thursday&#8217;s training camp press conference, <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/kansas-city-chiefs\/339\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kansas City Chiefs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> quarterback Patrick Mahomes opened up about playing his first game since Super Bowl LIX and assessed this year&#8217;s roster.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, I don&#8217;t necessarily look forward to getting hit. I always like getting hit once, but it&#8217;s still a shock.&#8221; said Mahomes, &#8220;But going up against (Defensive Coordinator Steve Spagnuolo) Spags is always tough, but it&#8217;ll be a good defense that we are going up against, and they have a great scheme and a great coach, so I&#8217;m just excited to see where we&#8217;re at. Go out there and see where we&#8217;re at and hopefully get a couple of series in &#8211; go out there and play some good football.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Mahomes ended 2024 with 3,928 passing yards, 26 passing touchdowns, and 11 interceptions. Last season was his first as a starter without 4,000 passing yards. He feels confident about the new weapons added to the offense in the offseason by the front office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We brought in the players to do that. (General Manager Brett) Veach, like I said, has brought in a lot of great receivers, tight ends, and running backs to make plays,&#8221; said Mahomes. &#8220;The offensive line, we got depth there. They&#8217;re (the offensive line) playing some great football, and then my mindset is just let these guys go out there and make plays, and so I think sometimes you try to do too much when you have too much information, and I feel like at times these last few years I&#8217;ve done that. Just being smart and being able to see stuff, but at the end of the day, it&#8217;s football, and if you think it&#8217;s one-on-one and your guy can beat that guy, let him have a chance to make a play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mahomes led the Chiefs to a 15-2 record last season and went undefeated at Arrowhead Stadium. Their third consecutive AFC Championship and appearance in the Super Bowl overshadowed his down season compared to his high standards.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Chiefs Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/chiefswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/chiefs\/2025\/08\/08\/kansas-city-chiefs-qb-patrick-mahomes-discusses-first-game-since-super-bowl-lix\/85565963007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes discusses first game since Super Bowl LIX;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes discusses first game since Super Bowl LIX<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During Thursday&#8217;s training camp press conference, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes opened up about playing his first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[346,7,118,110,2438,2437,6,9081,499,2890,10302],"class_list":{"0":"post-271700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-chiefs","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-kansas-city","11":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","12":"tag-kansascity","13":"tag-kansascitychiefs","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-passing-yards","16":"tag-patrick-mahomes","17":"tag-steve-spagnuolo","18":"tag-super-bowl-lix"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114993341756813050","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}