{"id":20170,"date":"2024-12-24T09:09:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T09:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=20170"},"modified":"2024-12-24T09:09:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T09:09:48","slug":"good-news-for-the-chiefs-%f0%9f%99%8c-chiefs-patrick-mahomes-in-a-better-place-with-ankle-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=20170","title":{"rendered":"Good news for the Chiefs! \ud83d\ude4c Chiefs&#8217; Patrick Mahomes In A &#8216;Better Place&#8217; With Ankle Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. &#8212; Patrick Mahomes said his injured ankle &#8220;should be in a better place&#8221; heading into the Kansas City Chiefs&#8217; Christmas Day game against the Pittsburgh Steelers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We haven&#8217;t done a ton as far as getting out there on the practice field,&#8221; Mahomes said before Monday&#8217;s practice, the most intense of the short workweek. &#8220;We&#8217;ve done a walk-through, actually two walk-throughs now, and I feel like I can move around and do what I need to do and now we&#8217;ll get to get to a little bit faster-paced practice and see where I&#8217;m truly at. But I thought, all in all, I came out pretty well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously the body&#8217;s going to be sore just with a short week and everything like that, but I think the ankle should be in a better place. We&#8217;ll see in practice [Monday], but as far as how I felt after this game compared to the one before, I&#8217;m definitely in a lot better place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Six days after suffering a high ankle sprain against the Cleveland Browns, Mahomes completed 28-of-41 passes for 260 yards and a touchdown in Saturday&#8217;s 27-19 win over the Houston Texans. He also ran for 33 yards and scored the game&#8217;s first touchdown on a 15-yard run.<\/p>\n<p>Mahomes said he was excited when the schedule was released last spring to learn the Chiefs had a second consecutive Christmas Day game, &#8220;until I realized it was on Wednesday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said the Chiefs were eager to put on a better show on Christmas than they did last season, when they suffered &#8220;a pretty embarrassing loss&#8221; to the Las Vegas Raiders at Arrowhead Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It sparked us to win the Super Bowl, so it ended up working out, but you want to make sure that you go out there and put up a better performance for everybody to see,&#8221; Mahomes said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is really cool playing the first Netflix game, playing on Christmas Day in front of the whole nation. It&#8217;s an honor, and so we will go out there trying to do what we can to not have the same experience we had last Christmas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By beating the Steelers, the Chiefs would clinch the AFC&#8217;s No. 1 playoff seed, which carries a first-round postseason bye and home-field advantage for any games they would play before Super Bowl LIX.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You want to get that 1 seed to get that bye, so that you&#8217;re basically winning a playoff game by getting the 1 seed,&#8221; Mahomes said. &#8220;You get that, and you&#8217;ll have home field advantage as well at Arrowhead, which we feel like is a huge advantage for us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t put all your attention to it. 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