How the Chiefs bristled their way back after the bizarre and deflating play on which Rice suffered what figures to be a long-term knee injury, a play that soon left them down 10-0, was fresh testimony to what we should now accept as fact … Both for its reassuring upside and unsettling downside.

Mahomes, who once more had a game he’d like to revise, overshot an open Travis Kelce, the pass intercepted by cornerback Kristian Fulton. (Kelce had his best day this year, with 7 catches for 89 yards.)

The Chargers defense was once again phenomenal in a game they were forced to play an increased number of snaps due to the offense struggling to consistently maintain any drive. Th

Quarterback Justin Herbert was sacked only twice, but he faced consistent, unavoidable pressure from the Chiefs.

The Chargers played Sunday with a makeshift offensive line, a makeshift secondary and with a quarterback with a bum right ankle. Somehow, some way, the Chargers made the most of their patchwork lineup to challenge the Super Bowl champion Chiefs right down to the wire,