Patrick Mahomes says he was forced to embrace new role for Kansas City Chiefs this past season

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The Kansas City Chiefs have the chance to tread where no other NFL franchise has been before but had to go through the wars to be here.

Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid were forced to settle for the Wildcard round for the first time in their successful partnership.

After finishing 11-6 – his worst record as a starter – they had to bide their time in the first round of the playoffs.

Chiefs produce their worst regular season with Mahomes as the starter

Across the board, people have been in unanimous agreement that this was the worst we have seen of the Chiefs in the Mahomes era.

Furthermore, the offense failed to gel between the receiving core and the quarterback.

Kansas City produced the most drops of any team in the league (25), which included blunders by the greatest tight end of all time Travis Kelce.

Fortunately, the Chiefs bounced back after the pitiful loss against the Las Vegas Raiders on Christmas day to win their remaining two games.

Therefore, they won the AFC West and were rewarded with a home tie against the Miami Dolphins in arctic temperatures.

Kansas City is forced to play on the road against multiple contenders

A win at Arrowhead against the Dolphins forced them to travel to the AFC contenders the Buffalo Bills in freezing temperatures.

However, the offense was in sync for weeks and found no problem dispatching the optimistic Bills.

The Baltimore Ravens, led by MVP Lamar Jackson, were stunned by a Chiefs team that dominated the proceedings.

A rematch of Super Bowl LIV with the San Francisco 49ers was the final hurdle.

Despite trailing for most of the final, Mahomes found Mecole Hardman with 4 seconds left in overtime to win his third ring and MVP.

The Chiefs had to do things the hard way and only had themselves to blame last year.

Mahomes’ explains how he had to embrace the hostility from opposing fans

When speaking on the Impulsive Podcast with Logan Paul, he recalled the exact moment his mindset had changed.

“This year was more like a villain-type role for the whole team. I don’t think I really realized it until I got to Buffalo this year and I saw 40,000 middle fingers on the way into the stadium”, he said when speaking about the villain persona in Buffalo.

Mahomes said he was pelted with snowballs as well: “I’m trying to hand my headband and sleeve to a kid and snowballs are just flying at me like, these people really don’t like me.”

There is now an even bigger target on their head as they enter their three-peat season.

Every team will be hostile and want to be the ones to end their aspirations of making NFL history.