The Kansas City Chiefs and New York Giants have played each other just 15 times in history. And the Giants hold a commanding 11–4 edge in the all-time series. That record casts a huge shadow over the Chiefs as Patrick Mahomes looks to pull his team out of the worst start of his career.
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For the first time since 2014, the second year under Andy Reid, the Chiefs are 0-2. That 2014 team scraped together a 9-7 finish but missed the postseason.
Mahomes and company are in even more unfamiliar territory: A two-game skid where both losses came by a single possession. Entering this season, Kansas City hadn’t dropped a one-score game since Week 16 of 2023 against the Raiders.
Sunday’s 20-17 defeat to the Philadelphia Eagles added another layer of frustration. The Chiefs’ last meeting with Philly was in Super Bowl LIX, where they were convincingly beaten. This time, the turning point came in a brutal sequence between Mahomes and his most trusted weapon, Travis Kelce.
Down 13-10 early in the fourth quarter, the Chiefs marched to the Eagles’ six-yard line. On second-and-goal, Mahomes fired to Kelce, only for the ball to glance off the tight end’s hands and into the arms of rookie Andrew Mukuba. The safety sprinted 41 yards the other way before rookie Josh Simmons saved the touchdown with a desperate tackle.
Instead of taking the lead, Kansas City found itself on the wrong side of momentum once again. And now, with the poor start to the season and the Giants’ historical dominance looming, along with other tough matchups down the road, Mahomes knows there’s little margin for error.
