Patrick Mahomes’ history on Monday Night Football is bad news for the Jaguars
After a slow, 0-2 start to the season, the Kansas City Chiefs will be looking for their third-straight win when they take the field on Monday night against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Playing on Monday, in primetime, is a different wrinkle for most teams, but not so much for the Chiefs, who live in primetime. Kansas City has been hard to beat on Monday nights, and that’s especially the case with Mahomes in the lineup.
Patrick Mahomes hasn’t lost much since taking over as the starter for the Chiefs, but on Monday Night Football. He has been especially dominant. In 12 Monday games with Mahomes under center, the Chiefs are 9-3. Mahomes will enter the Week 5 game on a two-game winning streak on Mondays, but two of his three Monday Night Football losses came in the two games before the start of the streak.
Patrick Mahomes will try to add to his elite Monday Night Football resume
Mahomes wasn’t just a part of these wins, he has played elite in them. In the 12 games, he has 3,411 yards, 27 touchdowns, and eight interceptions. That breaks down to 284 passing yards a game. On Monday nights, Mahomes has four games with over 400 yards, including the 478-yard, six-touchdown performance in the instant classic against the Los Angeles Rams. Unfortunately, Mahomes also threw three interceptions in that game, and Kansas City lost 54-51.
Monday’s game against the Jaguars probably won’t have that kind of output, but the Chiefs will be hoping to come out on top. Jacksonville will enter the game at 3-1, and could easily be 4-0. The Jaguars have a good offense and defense, and their defense is especially aggressive, leading the league with 13 takeaways entering Week 5. Mahomes and the Chiefs will have to protect the football to keep up their dominance on Monday Night Football.
Stefon Diggs Makes Honest Admission After Leading Patriots to Victory Over Ex-Team Bills
Yes, it was a little bit person for New England Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs on “Sunday Night Football” in Buffalo. Then again, it’s always personal for the ex-Bills wideout.
The 31-year-old had easily the best game of his young Patriots career and maybe one of the best games of his entire 11-year run in Week 5 against his old team. Diggs hauled in 10 passes for 146 yards, including some huge drive-extending receptions in the second half. He, along with Patriots second-year quarterback Drake Maye, was the biggest reason the Patriots pulled one of the season’s biggest upsets, knocking off the Bills 23-20.
After the game, Diggs was asked on the field by NBC’s Melissa Stark whether it was a little more personal for him beating his ex-team, and he made it clear what he thought about that.
“One-hundred percent,” Diggs said, as seen on the NBC telecast. “I love those guys and still got a good relationship with those guys, got a lot of respect for them, but I love the game of football more. Every time I go out there, I’m trying to prove it, not just to them, but to myself.”
Stefon Diggs Uses Bills Motivation to Spark Patriots Win
At this point, the Diggs-Buffalo drama might be slightly overstated. So much has been made about it, and enough time has passed that there’s not much left to say. Diggs enjoyed the best four-year run of his career with the Bills where he made four straight Pro Bowls and earned an All-Pro selection in 2020 when he led the league in receptions (127) and receiving yards (1,535).
It didn’t end well, though. The Bills never actually broke through to the level of success they should have, and Diggs grew frustrated with evolving team strategies and how he fit those plans.
“The player is famously mercurial.” ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler wrote in 2024 after the Bills traded Diggs to Houston. “The team’s level of patience with his personality ebbed and flowed. The offense was headed in a different direction. The ratio of the impact of these three causes on Diggs’ exit depends on who’s doing the talking.”
Ultimately, the reason for the breakup, from the Bills‘ point of view, was quite simple: “Tremendous player, but the offense didn’t need him anymore,” a team source told Fowler for that ESPN story.
