The Kansas City Chiefs will miss the postseason for the first time since 2014, after a 13-16 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers, in their home building, in front of the hoes.
For the first time in his career, Patrick Mahomes is missing the playoffs.
He will be watching them on crutches, recovering from his torn ACL at the end of the game.
Patrick Mahomes just tore his acl man it truly is over pic.twitter.com/CmjlApIvaY
— Brian Burns Szn🕸️ (@BurnsSpidaa) December 14, 2025
Mahomes underwent an MRI after the game that confirmed the injury. He and the Chiefs are now exploring surgical options, according to the team.
“Don’t know why this had to happen,” Mahomes wrote on social media. “And not going to lie, [it] hurts. But all we can do now is [trust] in God and attack every single day over and over again. Thank you, Chiefs kingdom, for always supporting me and for everyone who has reached out and sent prayers. I [will] be back stronger than ever.” (ESPN)
Patrick Mahomes is tied for 4th in interceptions and tied for 10th in passing touchdowns.
19th in passer rating, below league average, right above Justin Fields.
22nd in completion percentage, below league average, tied with Justin Fields.
The Chiefs defense ranks 5th in points allowed and 8th in yards allowed. A top 10 defense.
It’s not as if the Los Angeles Chargers offense was matching down the field and Mahomes lost his footing at the end of a dynamic, dramatic, high-scoring bombfest.
Kansas City and Los Angeles were mud wrestling. Justin Herbert, 2 weeks off hand surgery, offensive line providing Anthony Edwards-level protection, moving the ball was a struggle.
Let’s look at Mahomes’s day before his knee burst:
- 16-for-28 (57%)
- 189 yards
- 0 touchdowns
- 1 interception
- 62.9 passer rating
- 58.8 QBR
- sacked 5 times
Kinda sucked.
Tearing his ACL was the best thing to ever happen.
His legacy preserved.
Within minutes of his injury, helicopters arrived on the timeline. It’s an emergency after all, we must save Patrick Mahomes.
Pouring into the feed, comparisons between Mahomes and Brady, both making 3 straight Super Bowls and tearing their ACLs the following season.
Nuance and context eroded by the sands of time.
No one will remember Mahomes was putting up Justin Fields numbers through 14 games while playing with a Top 10 defense.
Years from now, his 2025 “the season Mahomes tore his ACL.”
I’m also realizing the headline for this blog makes it sound like I’m excited this man hurt his knee.
If you even read this far, I hope you know I want everyone to be 100% healthy every day (except Deshaun Watson).
I’ve been sick all weekend, thinking of dramatic ways to end it all. I can’t imagine how much Patrick’s knee hurts.
That shit sucks.
He’s earned the right to get a year redacted from the records.
Special treatment should be given to special people. That’s like the whole point of it.
If you’re still bored at whatever job you’re at or waiting for a commercial break to end, playing on your phone, I have a few more Kansas City Chiefs takes to get off my chest. I’m at the funeral, alcohol radiating off my body like Doctor Manhattan, no pants like Doctor Manhattan, YAPPING.
It’s time for Andy Reid to retire
Jim Harbaugh and Sean Payton came into this division, smashing heads.
Sean Payton’s Broncos, at 12-2, possess the best record in the NFL. On an 11-game win streak, unbeaten at home, Top 5 defense, physically, they’re Team Korea, dominating Physical Asia.
Jim Harbaugh has this Chargers defense playing like they’re starving hyenas Scar just promised the Pride Lands too.
Rashee Rice got popped every time he caught a pass.
Chargers safety Tony Jefferson was ejected for knocking Tyquan Thornton into the Upside Down.
I understand why Tony Jefferson was ejected for sending Tyquan Thornton to the 5 people he’ll meet in heaven
But the referees gotta stop treating the Chiefs like dependents on their taxes fillings pic.twitter.com/czhQojrLdy
— Dead Serious (@Deadseriousness) December 14, 2025
As mentioned earlier, the Chiefs defense is Top 10.
What if Andy Reid respectfully, honorably, retired, stepped down, handed the keys to Steve Spagnola; before Pete Carroll in Las Vegas finds his next Legion of Boom.
The receivers are healthy.
The offensive line is improved.
Patrick Mahomes is Patrick Mahomes.
But Andy Reid and Matt Nagy are outcoached weekly.
The NFL is cyclical.
Offense dominates for an era.
Defense dominates for an era.
Repeat.
Look at the QBs coming out of this year’s draft? Defenses caught up. They’re winning.
Andy Reid is obsolete.
I’d love to see Spagnola take over for Reid, the offense given to someone, young, creative, exciting, to unlock the next apex of Patrick Mahomes’s plateauing career.
Andy Reid can ride off into the sunset on horseback with Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift saddled up behind him.
Speaking of Travis and Taylor, let’s hand out their slice of blame pie.
Taylor Swift ruined the party
Reflecting her career, Taylor Swift arrived at the lit party late, cozied up with who she believes are the cool people at that party, so they can all pretend she’s throwing the party; then the party ends early because people hear she’s throwing the party.
Taylor Swift had nothing to do with the Chiefs success or failures.
Let’s be adults.
Taylor Swift was not out there, in a 3-point stance, giving up red zone touchdowns.
But man, the vibes became insta-corny when she and Brittany Mahomes were in the suites, hooting and hollering like they were sponsoring the Hunger Games.
Taylor Swift, the energy vampire, sucked the life force out of the Chiefs, laundered their championship success to sell her brand of milqtoast, sauceless mediocrity to a new consumer base, creating a gold rush for herself, tapping into the veins of the “vanilla, no sprinkles” orderers across the country.
Nina Simone would spit in Taylor Swift’s face.
Bad Bunny crushed it hosting SNL last year.
Powerbombed through a table at WWE Backlash.
Bad Bunny shot Action Bronson in a movie this year. Fire.
Annual Grammy recipient.
And we entertain “Should Bad Bunny perform the Super Bowl Halftime Show?” discussions, while Taylor Swift was 1000% offered, a couple years in a row now, and ducked the scrutiny of being dissected underneath the largest microscope in the country, a spot with weight that would crush her, those microphones on, live as hell.
Instead, choosing to rob her diehards with unnecessarily expensive “Taylor Swift Doing Taylor Swift Karaoke” shows, flying a private jet to the end of her driveway to retrieve edible arrangements from the NFL, begging her to show up to games looking like a microwaved Barbie doll, a maniac smeared red lipstick on.
I pray she and Travis Kelce stay together, two bores terrified of bad press, finally fading from the headlines. Peace. Tranquility. That girl Travis used to date can finally sit down and get a glass of water.
But most importantly, if Travis retires and takes Taylor Swift with her, we can go back to just making fun of Patrick Mahomes’s wife. Balance restored.
Gardner Minshew NFL try-outs
29-year old Gardner Minshew is wrapping up a 1-year, $1 million contract in Kansas City.
Odell Beckham Jr is on podcasts lying, claiming it’s impossible to live off his meek, modest, $100 million NFL contract. If Odell can’t survive off $100 milly, Gardner Minshew was living in the backseat of his car under the Buck O’Neil Bridge.
Gardnew has 3 games to audition for 32 NFL teams, including the Chiefs, who will most likely be without Patrick Mahomes, ACL not ready for Khalil Mack attacks.
Here’s a list of all the teams potentially in the market for a new quarterback for 2026 Week 1:
- New York Jets
- New Orleans Saints
- Las Vegas Raiders
- Indianapolis Colts
- Minnesota Vikings
- Arizona Cardinals
- Cleveland Browns
- Atlanta Falcons
- Carolina Panthers
- Kansas City Chiefs
And here’s Gardner Minshew on Sunday, making sure none of those teams call his phone:
Gardner Minshew throwing a balloon right to the Chargers to officially eliminate the Chiefs from the postseason for the first time since 2014
We’re in the heart of a recession. pic.twitter.com/puNiGKdz0A
— Dead Serious (@Deadseriousness) December 14, 2025
I hope Gardner moved into Rashee Rice’s guest room so the two can bond and go over film in their free time.
Right now, Gardner Minshew makes less than Philip Rivers.
Approaching 30 years old, these 3 games mean everything for Minshew. Either he balls out, forcing his way onto an NFL roster, playing well enough to even have negotiating leverage.
OR
He’s a QB coach at East Carolina University, making less.
Minshew stands at a crossroads. Which way, mustached man?
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