Chiefs 17 vs 9 Jacksonville Jaguars
JACKSONVILLE – A game that conflicted with script actually got an opportunity to go ideal for the Panthers late.
It didn’t work out.
The Pumas, in a “benchmark” game in the 2023 customary season home opener against the protecting Super Bowl champions, couldn’t exactly beat Patrick Mahomes – or their own botched open doors and missteps – and the Kansas City Bosses hung on for a 17-9 triumph before 69,615 at EverBank Arena Sunday evening.
“You play great groups, you play very much trained groups, you can’t beat yourself; that is the very thing that we did today,” Panthers Lead trainer Doug Pederson said.
Added Pederson, “The glaring thing is only our execution.”
The Pumas (1-1) lost an eighth continuous gathering to the Bosses (1-1) dating to 2009, with Kansas City beating the Panthers once in Week 10 last season and once in an AFC Divisional Season finisher this previous January.
“This is the group that beat us in the end of the season games last year,” Panthers quarterback Trevor Lawrence said. “You sort of have that new in your brain all offseason and the timetable emerges: You get Week 2 against Kansas City. We got it done week one and afterward we have our chance here at home …
“Laying an egg disagreeably, it’s really disappointing.”
The Panthers were held without a score interestingly since a 13-multi Week 2022 misfortune to Houston, with Lawrence on Sunday contrasting the two misfortunes. The nine focuses were the Panthers’ least since that game.
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“It’s frustrating,” Pumas tight end Evan Engram said. “The fact that we ought to have dominated makes this a match. We accept responsibility as an offense. We must be better. We need to assist our safeguard with bettering. We need to keep them off the field. We need to score in the red zone.
“We need to improve.”
Mahomes – the Bosses’ quarterback and a double cross NFL and Super Bowl Most Significant Player – covered drives with score passes to end the primary half and begin the second, transforming a thin Panthers lead into a lead Kansas City held from there on.
Mahomes passed nine yards wide collector Skyy Moore late in the primary half for the Bosses’ most memorable lead, then covered the following Bosses drive – the first of the second from last quarter – with a nine-yard score pass to tight end Travis Kelce.
The Panthers followed by the last edge late and headed to a first down at the Bosses 14. Lawrence’s inadequate pass into the end zone to wide beneficiary Calvin Ridley on fourth-and-12 from the Bosses 14 finished the drive with 4:18 excess.
Authorities administered Ridley was bobbling the pass and didn’t have ownership. The resulting drive finished with the Bosses stooping out the clock to end the game inside the Pumas 5.
A game that projected as a potential shootout never turned into that Sunday, with groups that positioned in the Main 10 in offense in 2022 joining for two scores and four turnovers.
Lawrence finished 22 of 41 passes for 241 yards and no scores without any capture attempts. Mahomes finished 29 of 41 passes for 305 yards and two scores with a capture attempt.
Botched open doors hurt the Pumas again against the Bosses. Five first-half Panthers drives past midfield Sunday yield six focuses for the Pumas. Five drives past midfield in the main portion of an ordinary season misfortune to Kansas City last season yielded seven focuses.
The Pumas scored six focuses on three belongings inside the Bosses 20.
“We did it to ourselves,” Pederson said.
The Pumas enlisted a sack and three important points – with a sack by linebacker K’Lavon Chaisson. Wide collector Tim Jones and inside linebacker Foye Oluokun recuperated first-half bumbles and security Andre Cisco enrolled a second-quarter capture.
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The Panthers have five sacks and six important points this season.
“The protection played well,” Pederson said. “The protection kept us in this football match-up, made the important points. It’s simply execution. We need to improve. We need to execute. We have such a large number of folks on offense, veteran players. We as a whole need to improve. Begin with me.”
Chiefs 17 vs 9 Jacksonville Jaguars
Bit by bit:
The groups traded dropkicks through first quarter, with each group driving past midfield once and drop-kicking to end the belonging.
The Pumas picked up speed from the get-go in a turnover-weighty second-quarter, taking a 3-0 lead with kicker Brandon McManus’ 32-yard field objective with 12:59 excess in the primary half. That play came four plays after Jones recuperated a muff by Bosses dropkick returner Richie James at the Bosses 17. The Pumas constrained three turnovers in the quarter and Kansas City constrained one. A nine-yard pass from Mahomes to Moore gave the Bosses a 7-3 lead with :27 leftover in the half, with the Panthers promptly driving 44 yards on five plays for a 49-yard field objective by McManus on the last play of the subsequent quarter. A 26-yard pass from Lawrence to Ridley helped put forth up the field objective.
The Bosses drove rapidly to begin the last part with Mahomes passes for another nine-yard score pass, this one to Kelce, for a 14-6 lead with 11:30 excess in a second from last quarter that finished with that score.
The Pumas cut the lead yet botched an open door from the get-go in the final quarter. The Pumas confronted first-and-objective at the one after a pass impedance punishment. Lawrence lost three yards on first down, with McManus’ 22-yard field objective after two deficient passes slicing the Bosses’ lead to 14-9 with 13:43 leftover. A 38-yard field objective by Bosses kicker Harrison Butker pushed the Bosses’ lead to 17-9 with 8:10 leftover.
Remarkable:
Game day inactives for the Panthers Sunday were wellbeing Antonio Johnson (hamstring), tenderfoot wide recipient Parker Washington, freshman wide beneficiary Elijah Cooks and running back JaMycal Hurried. Right gatekeeper Brandon Scherff and focus Luke Fortner played subsequent to being recorded as sketchy on Friday’s last injury report of the week with lower leg wounds supported in Seven days 1 triumph over the Indianapolis Foals.
Injury report:
Pumas wide recipient Zay Jones supported a knee injury in the subsequent quarter and returned.
Outside linebacker Josh Allen supported a shoulder injury in the second from last quarter and returned.
Running back Travis Etienne Jr. left with cramps in the final quarter.