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.
Jaxson Dart ruthlessly trolled by Saints' social media after Week 5 collapse
The NFL loves poetic payback. For every quarterback with a chip on his shoulder, there’s a team waiting to shove it right back down his throat. And this Sunday, after all the draft-day drama and media buildup, the New York Giants watched the New Orleans Saints go full sodium chloride on Jaxson Dart.
You may remember Dart’s comments last week, when he made it clear he hadn’t forgotten the Saints passing on him in the 2025 NFL Draft. He thought they’d take him at No. 9, only to watch them go in another direction while he waited for the New York Giants to trade back into the first round and make him their franchise cornerstone hopeful.
That chip on his shoulder was real, but then came Sunday, where he threw two interceptions, lost a fumble, struggled mightily in the second half, and walked off with his first career loss against the team he once thought he'd call home.
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But the (not-so) cherry on top? That came courtesy of the Saints’ social media team, who posted a shot of cornerback Kool-Aid McKinstry (two interceptions, if you’re keeping score) with the caption: “DARTED TO THE W."
DARTED TO THE W#Saints | @Gatorade pic.twitter.com/1WXKLNw1gz
— New Orleans Saints (@Saints) October 5, 2025
Jaxson Dart gets trolled by Saints social media after painful Week 5 loss
It was a cheap shot wrapped in fake cleverness. Dart came into Caesar's Superdome looking to prove a point, but instead watched his team cough up five turnovers and give up 23 unanswered points. It was an epic collapse all around.
The 22-year-old just wasn’t good enough. That’s the part that matters the most here. The second-half turnovers, missed opportunities, and the fumble are all on him. This loss is part of the learning curve. But there’s a difference between getting outplayed and giving a game away, and Week 5 felt a lot more like the latter.
He ended the game 26-of-40 for 202 yards and two touchdowns, with a 49.9 quarterback rating. It wasn't exactly the encore he — or fans — were hoping for.
At the end of the day, New Orleans needed five nonsensical turnovers and 90 penalty yards to put up 19 points on offense (they also scored a touchdown on defense). That's not exactly encouraging for a team whose quarterback just won their first career start in 11 tries.
For now, let them throw up a social media post about beating the 1-4 Giants... if that’s what helps them sleep at night, so be it. It might have been a rough Sunday for Jaxson Dart, but at least he figures to be the quarterback of the future moving forward. The same cannot be said of the Saints.
