The Kansas City Chiefs got back to their winning ways with a 41-31 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on “Sunday Night Football” in Week 4. They started this game off on the right foot and they didn’t let up for a full four quarters, controlling the game from start to finish. The Chiefs will now carry a renewed energy as they head back to Arrowhead Stadium to take on the Las Vegas Raiders next Monday.
What exactly did we learn about the Chiefs in their Week 4 win? Here are four of our biggest takeaways after the game:
Super Bowl LV and Week 3 played a part in the win
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There was a lot of talk about the Chiefs’ Week 3 loss to the Colts and their Super Bowl LV loss heading into this Week 4 game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Asked about the primary motivation behind the big performance on Sunday night, most players seemed to agree that both games were on their minds.
“You can throw it all together, man,” Chiefs TE Travis Kelce said. “There was a sour taste in our mouth from last weekend, there was a sour taste in our mouth from the last time we were down here in Tampa. I’m going to put both of those behind me at this point. We’re here now. We’re going to roll with this momentum and how well we played today.”
Patrick Mahomes agreed with Kelce’s thoughts that really both games influenced their performance.
“Yeah, it’s definitely a mixture of both,” Mahomes said. “When you play like you played last week, you have to be motivated to get back on track. Obviously, playing at the stadium, I think when I got to the stadium I realized, ‘Man, I want to win here.’ The bad taste that I had last time definitely came into effect a little bit more. But it’s still not a playoff game. At the end of the day, it’s not a playoff game, it’s a regular season game which is important, but that Super Bowl is always going to be a bad taste for me.”
Anytime this team plays badly they want to be able to respond the right way. This week felt especially important for these players because they have a lot of new pieces on the team who weren’t here for the Super Bowl LV loss and hadn’t yet been through the adversity of losing a game. Not only did many of those players step up and help some veterans achieve their redemption, but they responded to the Week 3 loss the right way. That’s a good sign for the season and this team moving forward.
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