They would disguise defensive coverages to slow down Patrick Mahomes, and they would grind things out with the running game on offense. The goal was to slow things down, and to keep the ball out of Mahomes’s hands. But Mahomes showed he can survive a battle in the trenches and the Chiefs survived at home, beating the Ravens, 27-24, in overtime. But in overtime, with the Chiefs already having scored a field goal, the tenuous nature of Baltimore’s unusual style showed itself. When Jackson had to leave the game with an ankle injury, backup Robert Griffin III proved incapable of leading the Ravens to victory, throwing two incomplete passes to end the game.

Source: New York Times December 09, 2018 22:18 UTC