Exaggerations of the Kansas City Chiefs’ demise may have been greatly exaggerated.

While it was certainly stunning to see Kansas City lose more games in the first five weeks this season than it did all of last year’s regular season, the Chiefs were never as bad as their 2-3 record five games into the season indicated .

They proved that Sunday night with a 30-17 win over the scorching hot Detroit Lions.

“(This win) showed what we can do,” Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes said in his postgame TV interview. “We’ve been getting better and better each and every week, the results haven’t been paying off. It’s good to get one here at home.”

Going up against a Detroit team that had scored 161 points over its last four games and was leading the league in scoring offense (34.8 points per gam

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