Patrick Mahomes helps Kansas City Chiefs take care of business against Cleveland Browns

The Kansas City Chiefs traveled to Cleveland to take on the lowly Browns and walked away with their eighth win of the season.

On Sunday afternoon, the AFC-leading Kansas City Chiefs took their explosive offensive show on the road to take on the Cleveland Browns. Fortunately for K.C., Mahomes and company rocked the Cleveland defense for 37 points and 499 yards of total offense for their eighth win of the season in a 37-21 victory.

Following an early defensive stop, the Chiefs got the scoring started early. With 8:14 to go in the contest, Ohio native Kareem Hunt caught a screen pass from Patrick Mahomes and took it 50 yards into the end zone. That capped off a seven-play ,95-yard drive and put Kansas City up 7-0.

The Browns answered back at the end of the first quarter with a field goal from 51 yards out, a new career long for Greg Joseph. Another Ohio native who now resides in Kansas City, Travis Kelce put six more on the board when Kelce and Patrick Mahomes connected from 11 yards out for the score.

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A rookie back out of Georgia, Nick Chubb walked into the end zone from three yards out to finish off another long drive. The Browns held the ball for seven minutes and went 75 yards in 12 plays. After a failed two-point conversion the score sat at 14-9, Kansas City.

Kareem Hunt—who sent 100 game tickets to his high school, friends, and family for this contest—put on a show as he ran in his second touchdown of the day at the goal line. That drive for Kansas City, only lasted four minutes and put them ahead 21-9.

The Browns held the ball for two minutes, going on a nine play, 79-yard drive that ended with Duke Johnson scampering into the end zone and another failed two-point conversion. The Chiefs got the ball back with 20 seconds to do and after an intentional grounding call during a play in which Patrick Mahomes spiked the football, the half ended with the Chiefs leading 21-15.

Getting the ball after halftime, the Kansas City Chiefs marched down the field and scored once again. On this drive, Mahomes passed for his 300th yard of the game, pushing his streak to eight straight games, the longest in NFL history. Mahomes took the Chiefs on a 10-play, 75-yard drive that finished with Kelce hauling in his second touchdown of the day. The Browns defender could not have played this post route any better. However, Mahomes tossed it where only Kelce could get it, and Travis Kelce high pointed the ball.

At the eight-minute mark, we got our first punt of the afternoon. The Browns sent out Britton Colquitt, brother of Chiefs punter Dustin Colquitt, to boot one away. Instead, it was blocked by Damien Williams setting the Chiefs up at the 21-yard line.

It took two plays for the Chiefs offense to get from the 21-yard line to the end zone. Kareem Hunt went for eleven yards on the first play of the drive, and ten more on the second play of the drive for his third touchdown of the day. All five of the team’s touchdowns have been via Cleveland area natives. After Harrison Butker missed the point after attempt, the Chiefs lead was 34-15. That put the game on ice for Kansas City with seven minutes to go in the third.

To open up the fourth quarter, Duke Johnson on a slant route over the middle caught another touchdown his second of the day. Again, the Browns failed on the two-point conversion but they still pulled closer, as the Chiefs lead then sat at 34-21.

Butker banged through a 39-yard field goal to extend the Chiefs lead. The next drive the Browns turned it over on downs and that was all she wrote with under eight minutes remaining. Cornerback Steven Nelson picked off a Baker Mayfield pass with four minutes remaining to seal the 37-21 victory.

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For the Chiefs, they improve to 8-1 and have one more “light” or “easy” week ahead hosting on the Arizona Cardinals next Sunday, before traveling to Mexico City for the clash of the season against the L.A. Rams. The Browns fall to 2-6-1, and play host to the Atlanta Falcons who are flying high fresh off a win over the Washington Redskins.

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