Tennessee Titans shock Kansas City Chiefs with blocked field goal to win

The Tennessee Titans shocked the Kansas City Chiefs with a fourth quarter rally and blocked field goal to win in Week 10.

In the aftermath of the Kansas City Chiefs shocking road loss to the Tennessee Titans, a 35-32 last second win for Mike Vrabel’s team in Nashville, there’s not a single facet of K.C.’s team that should feel confident going forward.

The Chiefs meltdown in Nissan Stadium on Sunday afternoon was a failure on every level, with penalties and dropped passes and miscues and poor coaching decisions. Even the Chiefs’ special teams units were a clown show for the entire game. Moving forward, the now 6-4 have a lot of soul-searching ahead of them to figure out just who they are and how good they want to be.

On Sunday afternoon, the Titans got the best of the Chiefs on an afternoon in which the favored team was somehow able to shoot themselves in the proverbial foot time and again. The last-second field goal attempt by Harrison Butker was blocked to win the game. The Chiefs could have tried another field goal to extend their five-point lead in the final minutes but that suddenly turned into a Dustin Colquitt incomplete pass that was called for intentional grounding.

The defense allowed Ryan Tannehill to march down the field like Tom Brady in January, and that came after the defense allowed Derrick Henry to do the same—even when the entire stadium knew Henry was going to run the ball.

There were overthrows from Patrick Mahomes and dropped passes from every pass catcher. Want poor play calls? You got ’em. Poor timeout usage? You got that, too. Sloppy penalties and turnovers? Both were served up.

The Chiefs have to be especially frustrated because the miscues were surrounded by moments of total domination. The Chiefs went up early on the Titans in a game that originally looked like it was going to be the blowout it should have been—at least on paper. Patrick Mahomes looked like an MVP candidate again. Tyreek Hill showed there’s no match for him downfield. Travis Kelce was a mismatch for most of the game.

On the flip side, Butker was automatic until the end (not his fault on that block). Chris Jones and Frank Clark both showed how they can impact the game along the defensive front. Some nice moments from Rashad Fenton, Charvarius Ward and Bashaud Breeland could all be seen at points during the game.

Unfortunately the collective effort was undone by mental and physical mistakes that were simply inexcusable. The Chiefs are now a half game up in a division that looked gifted to them weeks ago. A second half schedule that seemed easy is now much more daunting.

Most important, a Chiefs team that looked as if it had put such silly errors behind them went back to playing sloppy, careless football that relies on heroics to win games instead of proper execution.

Sustained winning is not possible when you play this way and it looks as if the Chiefs are somehow addicted to being their own worst enemy. The Titans are just the latest team to profit from it.