Monday’s NFL: Pat Mahomes Outplays Lamar Jackson to Lead Chiefs Past Ravens

Patrick Mahomes put on a scintillating show while outperforming Lamar Jackson, and the Kansas City Chiefs deftly played the role of defending Super Bowl champions in a 34-20 thumping of the Baltimore Ravens on Monday night. Most people are eager to know how he did it.

Mahomes danced, juked, and jumped in and out of the pocket. He even tossed shovel passes and flung it sidearmed. All he did worked for the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs, who rolled past the Baltimore Ravens 34-20 on Monday night.

”They don’t give that guy a half-billion dollars for no reason,” Ravens defensive tackle Calais Campbell said. ”He just made play after play. You’ve got to give him respect.”

Mahomes, who signed a decade, $503 million extensions in July, gave the Chiefs their money’s worth on Monday night, surgically shredding a Baltimore defense that had allowed only two touchdowns in its first two games.

”You got to give credit to Pat for leading the charge. He stepped up big,” Kansas City coach Andy Reid said.

”The plays we ran, we got in the right situations,” Mahomes said. ”I thought guys executed at a very high level on those plays.”

During a 13-play, 75-yard drive that produced the game-clinching score, Mahomes converted a third-and-5 with an 18-yard pass and ran for 12 yards on a third-and-10.

Besides, he also flipped a sidearm 12-yard pass to Sammy Watkins to set up a first-and-goal at the 2, from where Mahomes tossed a touchdown pass to appreciative tackle Eric Fisher with 8:14 remaining.