Put all that smoke-and-mirrors, misdirection-shovel pass stuff aside. Look past the young stud quarterback with the big arm made for highlight reels. In the fourth quarter of the season opener, the Chiefs’ offense stalled and left the defense largely hung out to dry. They didn’t pay for it, but they didn’t forget it.
Against a Pittsburgh Steelers team with an opposing offense on a roll behind a quarterback about as good as anybody in the league at making plays, and in a stadium where the Steelers had only lost two previous home openers, the Chiefs’ offensive line “manned up,” to use tight end Travis Kelce’s words.