The rubber met the road in Week 15, and the New Orleans Saints offense didn’t have enough hands on deck to trade punches with Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs. Their defense sacked Mahomes four times and forced six punts, and the special teams did its part by gaining 60 return yards of their own and forcing 15 yards for loss on Kansas City’s returns.
And the offense was too short-handed to take advantage of it. Too many plays were wasted on passes to last-minute practice squad call-ups like Juwan Johnson (0 catches on 4 targets), and the Chiefs sniffed out gimmicky designed touches to Tommylee Lewis and Taysom Hill (0 catches on 3 combined targets).