Patrick Mahomes: Winning tight games keeps Chiefs focused

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Kansas City Chiefs aren't winning games by comfortable margins but Patrick Mahomes said there is a benefit to their weekly close games. Such games are keeping them focused.

"It keeps you motivated, which I think can be a good thing in the end,'' Mahomes said. "I think sometimes I look back on the year we lost the Super Bowl [during the 2020 season] and we were very dominant throughout the regular season and it's just kind of like you get to this point where you start coasting [because] you're winning games, you're just doing the normal thing.

"If you look at us last year though, it didn't go the way we wanted it to [during the regular season]. I feel…