Tampa Bay harried and hassled the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback throughout Sunday’s Super Bowl. By the end of the game he looked stunned
With less than 14 minutes left in Super Bowl LV, the Kansas City Chiefs were down three scores and facing fourth-and-nine from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 11-yard-line. There no question that the Chiefs would forge ahead, but also no question that they would eventually hit pay dirt. These are the Chiefs, after all, and if they’ve proved anything during their repeat championship runs it’s that there is no scenario too bleak for them to escape as long as pro football’s Houdini is on their side.
When the ball was snapped to Patrick Mahomes, you thought, Here he goes again… But before Mahomes could plant his back foot, he was spinning away from Tampa’s William Gholston and sprinting deep to his right to find an open man. Finally, at the 32-yard line, Gholston swiped at Mahomes’s leg, sending the passer stumbling sideways and the throw eventually bumped off a receiver’s facemask. Afterward, Mahomes tarried on the grass, looking as stunned and steamed as the rest of us that his magic had run out.
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Patrick Mahomes was pressured more in this game than any QB in Super Bowl history (29), passing the record of 25 by Jim Kelly in SB XXVI.
Tom Brady faced his fewest pressures (4) in any Super Bowl of his career pic.twitter.com/CnRaG7gR5s
