Mahomes seeks 'calmer' endings after another Chiefs walk-off - ESPN

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — After the Kansas City Chiefs secured their fifth walk-off victory of the season Sunday, quarterback Patrick Mahomes said he will take the wins any way he can get them but would rather they be less stressful at the end.

«You want to have some blowouts,'' Mahomes said after the Chiefs beat the Carolina Panthers 30-27 on rookie Spencer Shrader's 31-yard field goal as time expired. „You want be a little calmer in the fourth quarter. I've always said it can be a good thing as you get to the playoffs and later in the season, just knowing that you've been in those moments before and knowing how to kind of attack it.

“But I would love to win a game [before] the very last play.''

The 10-1 Chiefs have eight wins by one score, tying an NFL record for the most by any team in the first 11 games of a season. Half of their wins have come down to the final play. One of those victories was decided by a blocked field goal, one on an overtime touchdown, one when an opposing receiver missed getting a foot down in the end zone by inches and now two by field goals.

Mahomes led the Chiefs on the winning drive against the Panthers. It started with two short pass completions, but the big play was a 33-yard Mahomes scramble that put the Chiefs in field goal range.

Mahomes by his own admission isn't the fastest or most elusive quarterback when he runs. But he's effective.

»He has a great feel for the game,'' coach Andy Reid said. «He knows by the coverage where guys are and what they're trying to do and accomplish with the coverage and he can feel the front.''

Mahomes has made some long runs for the Chiefs late in some of their most notable victories. The longest play on their winning drive in Super Bowl LVII against the