Some have come to the conclusion that the only possible explanation for the Kansas City Chiefs’ second-half collapse at the hands of the Cincinnati Bengals in the AFC Championship was that Kansas City threw the game — or that the result was otherwise rigged.
That accusation is obviously ridiculous — but the drastic difference between the first and second halves was so impossible to fathom, people were naturally trying to find an explanation. In the second half— compared to how he played in the first two quarters — quarterback Patrick Mahomes simply couldn’t have played any worse.