performance of Patrick Mahomes.Well Youth Travis Kelce Jersey , this is weird.It’s been a while since the Kansas City Chiefs lost a game, and it’s the first time in Patrick Mahomes’ career. Just as having a young, home-grown quarterback is unfamiliar territory for a generation of Chiefs fans, so is this feeling with the kid under center. The responses have been appropriate to the moment. This wasn’t a shellacking. This wasn’t remotely embarrassing.Mahomes went to toe to toe with the G.O.A.T. Tom Brady and brought his team roaring back to take a lead in the fourth quarter. Bill Belichick had three extra days to prepare to stop an offense that has been the talk of the league. He got the 23-year-old early in the game with a few plays we’ll talk about in the next few days that led to mistakes and turnovers. The Chiefs trailed 24-9 at the half, and things look bleak.Lesser 23-year-old quarterbacks have been chewed up and spit out in Foxborough, and for a half, it looked like that might be the case. Not your guy, Kansas City. The Chiefs lost, but your young quarterback hung 31 in the second half. He earned the respect of yet another locker room. He’s learning every opportunity he gets and he’s not duplicating many mistakes. There were rough moments on Sunday, but you still got the spectacular you’ve come to expect. He makes you forget that he’s not a veteran every week.The Patriots threw a lot at Mahomes this week, and it worked enough early to force the Chiefs to play from behind. No moment has looked too big for him for an entire game, though. He’s still having to manage the juice early, but he continues to figure it out as the game goes on and with enough time to give his team a chance to win. Every week, he’s inching closer and closer to it not mattering what the defense tries to do http://www.authenticskansascitychiefs.com/cheap-laurent-duvernay-tardif-jersey , and you can count on one hand the guys that are like that.Something goodThey scored too quick!This is, of course, the last time the offense would touch the ball. The Patriots are playing Cover 3 and the Chiefs dial play-action with Tyreek Hill working into the boundary on a deep crosser. The Chiefs ask Hill to eat up a ton of ground in order to get over. He threatens the safety vertically as he works across the field, and safety Duron Harmon opens his hips to Hill as he gets depth. As Hill crosses the safety’s face, it forces him to flip his hips, giving Mahomes additional space to throw. With the boundary corner occupied by Kelce, there’s no one in the way of this throw.The ball was a little behind Hill, but it didn’t matter. The velocity let Hill make up for a little lost time to accelerate away from Harmon. The route by Hill gave the duo some margin for error, but the 40-plus-air yard throw with rare velocity helped maintain enough of it for Hill to score.The Chiefs have run similar looks to this with Alex Smith in the past, just with shorter routes. They’re stretching the limits with Mahomes and Hill further now. Even though everything wasn’t perfect, the Chiefs are still keeping defensive coordinators up at night with plays like these. We’re spoiled getting to watch this perfect pairing.Something badHow about we add some positives to this week’s something bad before delving into a big mistake?There’s 51 seconds remaining in the half and the Chiefs trail by 15. At their own 30, the Chiefs face a third-and-15, needing to extend the drive to keep the ball out of Brady’s hands and give themselves a chance to shrink the lead.Things that are becoming norms should not be becoming norms. Quarterbacks aren’t supposed to make third-and-long plays look this easy, but every week Youth Mitch Morse Jersey , it feels like Mahomes pulls one of these off. The Chiefs are lined up in a Y-Iso look with Travis Kelce lined up to the left in the boundary. The Patriots are showing a two-high shell but roll into a Cover 3. They’re running a flood concept into the boundary with Kelce clearing space underneath on a vertical. With a late blitzing Kyle Van Noy coming to Mahomes’ front side, he rolls to his left with the direction of the pass concept.With space between the underneath defender, the cornerback on the vertical with Kelce and the middle field safety, Mahomes finds Hill with a throw of 38 air yards rolling to his non-dominant side, on a rope to convert for a gain of 27 yards. His ability to rotate his body to be able to deliver the velocity he did is absurd.You can hear a quiet but audible “Wow,” from Chris Collinsworth on the game broadcast. Unfortunately, that amazing play was wasted.With 17 seconds remaining and one timeout left at the New England 15-yard line, Mahomes makes a critical mistake.Mahomes does a nice job stepping up against front-side pressure and then exiting to his right. With a chasing Donta’ Hightower hanging onto him, he elects to take a chance and throws the ball into congested space to Kelce on the scramble working laterally with him after running a middle curl. The ball is undercut by Harmon, then bounces off of Devin McCourty and back into the hands of Harmon for a drive-ending interception.This play was a first-and-10. Had he thrown the ball away, Mahomes could’ve had a few more chances to get into the end zone before having to kick a field goal. The Chiefs still had a timeout remaining, so the playbook was still pretty open. This is the kind of mistake Mahomes has mostly avoided in the last few games. I don’t expect it to happen too often, but in this situation, the young quarterback tried to do too much. Quarterback anecdoteEvery week Sammy Watkins Jersey , I add a quick note about something I’ve picked up about the quarterback position through my time learning and playing the game.“Kill, Kill!” If you’ve ever heard that picked up a quarterback saying that on a broadcast microphone, you might have wondered what that meant. The quarterback gives two plays in the huddle and based on what the defense is doing. The play call might sound something like:“Wide Right Jet Right 544 F-Whip...Kill...3 Zone”The pass play is called in the huddle, but if they like the look to run they can kill into a zone-run play. If the quarterback elects to run the original call, he goes through his normal cadence. If he likes his numbers in the box, he would yell “Kill, Kill” into the run play.NFL true power rankings for Week 1: Chiefs land in middle of the pack Finally!The regular season is here!And as promised, here is the first weekly roundup and aggregation of NFL Power Rankings.If you already read our explanation of how we’ll handle power rankings this season, you already have a pretty good idea of how this will go.If you didn’t, please give it a look.Before we begin, a couple of things to note: We are adding SBNation’s NFL Power Rankings to the roundup of pundit power rankings we’ll aggregate every week.SBNation didn’t do power rankings last season, but this year, SBNation writer Rebecca Toback will be doing one each week.We’re happy to include them.The preseason MMQB power rankings are not yet published.We expect them to be available tomorrow.This is unfortunate because the MMQB and ESPN power rankings are weighted more heavily in our calculations than those of individual writers.And even worse, we have reason to believe that MMQB’s poll might favor the Chiefs more than some of the others since we already know two MMQB writers are predicting the Chiefs will win the Super Bowl Authentic nthony Hitchens Jersey , and another thinks they’ll play in the game.But because everybody else has already published their power rankings — and we know you’re anxious to see how the pundits rate the Kansas City Chiefs going into Week 1 — we’re going to go without the MMQB for this week only.When the MMQB rankings are published, we’ll load them into our model, and you’ll see them in next week’s regular pundit roundup on Tuesday. And also, this week only, the rankings in parentheses are those from each ranking going into Week 17 last year.Pundit Power Rankings for Week 1Chiefs AFC West Teams Other AFC TeamsMany Chiefs fans are convinced that Patrick Mahomes will make the difference, and the team will contend for the Super Bowl this season.But as you can see here, this view isn’t largely shared by these NFL pundits, whose comments about the Chiefs were remarkably consistent.The Chiefs have an NFL true power ranking (pundits only) of 14th heading into the 2018 season.ESPN - Chiefs ranked No. 14NFL.com (Elliot Harrison) - Chiefs ranked No. 17SBNation (Rebecca Toback) - Chiefs ranked No. 16Sporting News (Vinnie Iyer) - Chiefs ranked No. 14Yahoo! Sports (Frank Schwab) - Chiefs ranked No. 12CBS Sports (Pete Prisco) - Chiefs ranked No. 17So despite the presence of Patrick Mahomes, these pundits expect the Chiefs to drop five spots (on average) from last year.But the Chiefs are hardly the team they expect to have the biggest dropoff.The Buffalo Bills — ranked 32nd in three of the rankings — averaged a 15-place drop compared to where they were in Week 17 last year.The Seattle Seahawks averaged a drop of nine spots.On the other hand, the pundits expect both the Houston Texans and Green Bay Packers to do much better; the Texans average ranking increases by 16, and the Packers by 14.The New York Giants show an average rise of eight spots compared to 2017’s final week.From this beginning, it’s going to be fun to watch how things change after the first week’s games are played.And remember... on Wednesdays starting after Week 2 games, we’ll also add in rankings from the number crunchers and see how that changes things as the season progresses.