{"id":78740,"date":"2022-09-26T16:46:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T16:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/chiefs-hc-andy-reid-qb-patrick-mahomes-downplay-end-of-half-spat-with-oc-eric-bieniemy\/"},"modified":"2022-09-26T16:46:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T16:46:59","slug":"chiefs-hc-andy-reid-qb-patrick-mahomes-downplay-end-of-half-spat-with-oc-eric-bieniemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/chiefs-hc-andy-reid-qb-patrick-mahomes-downplay-end-of-half-spat-with-oc-eric-bieniemy\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs HC Andy Reid, QB Patrick Mahomes downplay end-of-half spat with OC Eric Bieniemy"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Kansas City Chiefs had a tough afternoon on Sunday, giving up a 20-17 road loss to the Indianapolis Colts. One of the game’s biggest headlines came from a moment caught by CBS television cameras.<\/p>\n
At the end of the first half, an Indianapolis punt had given the Chiefs the ball at their own 46-yard line with 34 seconds remaining. After a penalty pushed them back 10 yards, the team opted to run out the clock and enter halftime with a 14-10 lead \u2014 rather than pushing for another score. As the team was heading to the locker room, quarterback Patrick Mahomes appeared to be arguing with offensive coordinator Eric Bienemy<\/a> over the play-calling that finished the half.<\/p>\n But after the game, both Mahomes and head coach Andy Reid downplayed the moment.<\/p>\n \u201cI’m sure that’s how it looked, but there really wasn’t anything,\u201d Reid explained to reporters in his postgame press conference. \u201cLike I said, [Mahomes] wanted to go for it. Not a Hail Mary \u2014 something else \u2014 but I thought it was best not to do it. He’s a brave kid. He wants to take advantage of every opportunity, but I thought it was best to let that ride. Really, if you heard the words that were said \u2014 I don’t know how it looked to you guys \u2014 but there wasn’t a confrontation at all.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAt the end of the day, I wanted to try to score,\u201d said Mahomes. \u201cThat’s just who I am. We were in a tough situation. I believe it was like second (or third) and 20 \u2014 or something like that \u2014 and probably the smart decision was to just take it; we get the ball out of the half, [so] we’ll just go to halftime.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I’m always gonna be wanting to score \u2014 and I pretty much just said, ‘Let me have a chance at it.’ then [Bieniemy] was just like, ‘Let’s get back to the locker room and we’ll get something going for the next half’. I don’t know if that’s an altercation, but that was the end of the conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite a solid showing by the Kansas City defense, the team missed multiple scoring opportunities and made mental errors throughout the game. Reid was quick to accept responsibility for his team’s performance.<\/p>\n