The Kansas City Chiefs are 11-1 on the season, but their outstanding record has been anything but a cakewalk.
Per ESPN's Adam Teicher, star quarterback Patrick Mahomes thinks the gritty wins help the team stay sharp compared to winning games in dominant fashion week in and week out.
"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.