KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- It was easy to forget after back-to-back Super Bowl appearances the past couple of years, but the Kansas City Chiefs have a tortured playoff history.<\/p>\n
They added another chapter to the sorry list in Sunday's AFC Championship Game, a 27-24 overtime loss to the Cincinnati Bengals at Arrowhead Stadium. The Chiefs led 21-3 in the second quarter but collapsed, with the Bengals running off 21 straight points to take a 24-21 lead midway through the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
Quarterback Patrick Mahomes threw touchdowns on each of the Chiefs' first three possessions, but they didn't score again until Harrison Butker's 44-yard field goal as time expired in the fourth quarter to send the game into overtime.<\/p>\n
In overtime, the Chiefs won the coin toss, but Mahomes threw an interception on the first possession and the Bengals drove for the winning field goal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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The Chiefs won't be haunted just by wasting an 18-point lead but by a decision they made late in the first half. Leading 21-10 with five seconds left and no timeouts remaining, they tried a pass play from the Cincinnati 1 rather than kick a field goal.<\/p>\n
Mahomes completed a pass to Tyreek Hill but short of the end zone, and Hill could neither get into the end zone nor out of bounds before time expired.<\/p>\n
\"I knew the time was low and I knew we needed to get points,\" Mahomes said. \"We called a play where we were trying to get somebody over the middle quick [or] I was supposed to throw the ball away. I got a little greedy there. ... In the long run of things it looks bad but if we got another chance I would have went for another play again.\"<\/p>\n
It's the latest troubled playoff chapter for the Chiefs. In recent years they wasted a 28-point lead during a loss to the Indianapolis Colts in the wild-card round (2013 season), lost by two points without allowing a touchdown to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the divisional round (2016), blew an 18-point lead in a loss to the Tennessee Titans in the wild-card round (2017) and lost in overtime to the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship Game (2018).<\/p>\n
The 18-point comeback for the Bengals matches the largest in the conference championship round (2006 Indianapolis Colts over the New England Patriots) and matches the second-largest road comeback in NFL postseason history.<\/p>\n
\"In the second half we were just off a tick and that's all it takes to lose a football game,\" Mahomes said. \"Ive got to be better. We were up 21-3 at one point and you can't lose it. I put that on myself.\"<\/p>\n
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