In late September and with the New England Patriots coming off their second straight loss to drop to 1-2, we wrote an article addressing the team’s slow starts — and comparing them to the NFL’s most prolific offense, the Kansas City Chiefs’. The story titled The Patriots are the anti-Chiefs noted that finding themselves in a hole early on was a recurring theme during New England’s road losses against the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Detroit Lions.
The Chiefs, meanwhile, were the best first quarter team in the league at that point — something they still are four months later.