As Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson headed off the field late Monday night, after the NFL’s so-called game of the year had turned into a running joke, Patrick Mahomes lingered in one corner of M&T Bank Stadium, waiting to explain to a national TV audience just what had gone right.
Kansas City can do what it did in prime-time — Chiefs 34, Ravens 20 — to a lot of teams. They are the defending Super Bowl champions because they have the game’s most prodigious arm and a talented defense and an innovative coaching staff. But this was supposed to be the Ravens' night, if only because their last two meetings had gone so poorly.