{"id":108626,"date":"2025-10-08T06:38:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=108626"},"modified":"2025-10-08T06:39:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:39:14","slug":"chiefs-in-crisis-after-their-shocking-week-5-loss-to-the-jaguars-analysts-are-highlighting-a-troubling-trend-in-kansas-citys-play-questioning-whether-the-chiefs-can-turn-things-around-befo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=108626","title":{"rendered":"CHIEFS IN CRISIS: After their shocking Week 5 loss to the Jaguars, analysts are highlighting a troubling trend in Kansas City\u2019s play, questioning whether the Chiefs can turn things around before the slide becomes irreparable and if the team\u2019s season is already on the brink of collapse&#8230;ll..ll"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Patrick-Mahomes58-e1759881708744.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Patrick-Mahomes58-e1759881708744.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Patrick-Mahomes58-e1759881708744.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Patrick-Mahomes58-e1759881708744.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Alarming Chiefs Trend Comes to Light After Week 5 Loss to Jaguars\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes in Week 5.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Kansas City Chiefs are now 2-3 following the Week 5 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars, but even more concerning is the latest KC news to hit social media.<\/p>\n<p>The script has flipped on the Chiefs \ud83d\ude31,\u201d B\/R Gridiron posted on October 7, sharing two problematic trends. The first is that Kansas City is now 0-3 versus \u201cteams with winning records\u201d this year, per B\/R Gridiron.<\/p>\n<p>The second was originally reported on by ESPN writer Bill Barnwell, just after the Monday Night Football loss on October 6. \u201cChiefs in games decided by seven points or less,\u201d Barnwell listed. \u201c2024: 10-0. 2025: 0-3.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the latter trend felt like it was bound to reverse itself following KC\u2019s bizarre run of one-score victories last season, the first statistic is a bit alarming. Typically, Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs thrive against top competition.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve seen their recent run of dominance in this area play out in the postseason most of all, as Kansas City has never missed an AFC title game since passing the torch from Alex Smith to Mahomes. The Chiefs have also obviously won three Super Bowls, appearing in five total NFL championship games.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Chiefs\u2019 Issues vs. Winning Teams Will Be Put to the Test Again in Week 6<\/h2>\n<p>The Chiefs are still without star wide receiver Rashee Rice, which provides some reason for optimism beginning in Week 7 and beyond. On the morning of October 7, Sports Illustrated NFL insider Albert Breer reminded fans of this on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want to think the Chiefs aren\u2019t any good, you\u2019re gonna look dumb,\u201d Breer wrote. \u201cWhat I saw last night was an offense that\u2019s getting better\u2014and still hasn\u2019t played a single snap with its best (by a good margin) skill-position player, and has a rookie left tackle improving every week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The hope is that Breer and the more half-glass-full KC supporters are right, and the reigning AFC champs turn things around with Rice back in the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, their next big test will come before he returns, as the 4-1 Detroit Lions are coming to town to face the Chiefs without Rice \u2014 putting this negative 2025 trend under the microscope once again.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Patrick Mahomes Says Chiefs Have \u2018Lost Too Many Games Already\u2019 After Week 5 Defeat vs. Jaguars<\/h2>\n<p>The NFL is commonly referred to as a game of inches. In recent seasons, the Chiefs have often been the best at making sure those narrow moments determined by inches swing in their favor. But that hasn\u2019t been the case in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like we have the guys and we\u2019ve executed at certain points of the game and looked really good,\u201d Mahomes told reporters during his postgame press conference after Week 5. \u201cAnd then we crush ourselves with penalties and mistakes and interceptions and fumbles, or whatever [it] is. We\u2019ve kind of done that to ourselves all year long\u2026 In this league, it\u2019s so close that those [plays] change games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mahomes is aware of the razor-thin margin of error. He\u2019s been on both sides of it, and lately, he\u2019s been on the wrong side of it more often than he\u2019d like.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got to be better,\u201d the Chiefs\u2019 superstar QB urged after the latest loss.<\/p>\n<p>Adding: \u201cWe\u2019ve lost too many games already. And so, we\u2019ve got to find a way to be better as a team and come together and play better throughout the rest of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael Obermuller covers the NFL for Heavy Sports, where he began writing in 2021. His areas of focus include the Kansas City Chiefs, New York Giants, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Pittsburgh Steelers, with expert knowledge on each based on years of coverage. Michael is an NYC area native and Quinnipiac graduate. 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