{"id":3649,"date":"2025-12-14T23:16:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T23:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=3649"},"modified":"2025-12-14T23:16:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T23:16:21","slug":"nfl-kansas-city-chiefs-to-miss-play-offs-for-first-time-since-2014-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=3649","title":{"rendered":"NFL: Kansas City Chiefs to miss play-offs for first time since 2014 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Three-time Super Bowl winner Patrick Mahomes will not play in the NFL post-season for the first time in his career as the Kansas City Chiefs have been eliminated from play-off contention. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sunday&#8217;s 16-13 loss at home to the Los Angeles Chargers means that, despite having three regular season games remaining, the Chiefs will miss out on the play-offs for the first time in 11 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Head coach Andy Reid has led the Chiefs to the post-season in each of the past 10 seasons and to the Super Bowl in five of the past six.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They won the NFL&#8217;s championship game in 2020, 2023 and 2024, and were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/american-football\/articles\/cly5x53450ko\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">denied the first Super Bowl three-peat last February.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mahomes, 30, became the Chiefs&#8217; starting quarterback in 2018 and has reached at least the AFC Championship game in each of the past seven seasons, a run bettered only by the New England Patriots (2011-2018) <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Chiefs have also produced the second-longest post-season run in NFL history behind the Patriots (2009-2019).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/american-football\/articles\/c5yj27zv47zo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three-time Super Bowl winner P&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}