If you saw Sunday’s Kansas City Chiefs game against the Indianapolis Colts, which the Colts lost 17-14, you may have noticed before halftime that Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy got into an argument on the sidelines.
Patrick Mahomes and Eric Bienemy not on the same page today. pic.twitter.com/N4SImOJ3Ze
— The Comeback (@thecomeback) September 25, 2022
The argument was so bad that head coach Andy Reid had to pull the pair away from each other. But according to Mahomes, all is good now and it was nothing serious.
“Yeah, I think after seeing the video, I see why people thought it’s a bigger deal than it actually was,” Mahomes said on his weekly talk show on Monday. “Obviously, as an offensive player, and someone that wants to score every single time your on the field, I wanted to take another chance and try to get it down the field and get out of bounds or something like that and try to give us a chance to either throw a Hail Mary or kick a field goal. But they had kind of made the decision — not just coach Bieniemy; I think it was coach Reid and the whole offensive staff — that we were in a good spot. We had the lead, and we could just kind of get to the half and kind of refocus and had the ball coming out of the half, and we didn’t want to make a big mistake there at the half. That’s their jobs. I’ve got to be better knowing when that is the right decision, but at the same time, I always want to score. I think that’s kind of who I am.”
Mahomes chalked up the disagreement to the competitive nature of the game.
“That’s who we are. That’s what makes our culture so great is that all the people on this staff — the players, the coaches, and the locker room together, we all want to win,” Mahomes said. “We want to go out there and compete and win and that competitive nature is what drives us to be great. Sometimes there is a little disagreement here or there, but we know that we’re trying to do whatever we can to win at the end of the day. I think if that’s not the case, it becomes something different. But that is the case, and we’ve been together for a long time and have won a lot of football games together.”
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