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NFL playoffs: Kansas City Chiefs move into the semifinals with a limping quarterback

2023-01-22T16:01:41.064Z


The Kansas City Chiefs qualified for the semifinals of the NFL playoffs despite an injury to star quarterback Patrick Mahomes. The other favorite team, the Philadelphia Eagles, is also there.


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Star quarterback Patrick Mahomes led the Kansas City Chiefs to the semifinals of the US professional football league NFL despite an ankle injury.

The 2020 Super Bowl champion advanced to the AFC Championship Game with a 27-20 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars.

There the Chiefs meet the Buffalo Bills or the Cincinnati Bengals.

Also in the NFL semifinals is the other team with the best record of the main round alongside the Chiefs, the Philadelphia Eagles.

They dominated the New York Giants 38:7 (28:0) in front of their home crowd.

The Chiefs experienced a scare in the first quarter when a Jaguars defender fell on Patrick Mahomes' right ankle.

The star quarterback initially continued playing, but then made way for his replacement Chad Henne and returned to the field at home's Arrowhead Stadium for the second half.

"I don't go off the field in a playoff game unless they take me down," Mahomes said of his interim substitution.

X-rays showed no injury and a still limping Mahomes threw a touchdown pass to Marquez Valdes-Scantling in the final quarter for a 27-17 lead.

“It's just a different feeling when our number 15 is in the game.

He can do anything, even on an ankle,” said teammate Travis Kelce.

He took care of the interim 17:7 lead in the second quarter.

Mahomes' substitute Henne threw a touchdown pass directly in the first wave of attacks.

28-0 at break - Eagles teach Giants a lesson

The Philadelphia Eagles had fewer problems with the New York Giants, already at the break the Eagles were 28-0 up in their own stadium.

Philadelphia quarterback Jalen Hurts threw two touchdown passes in the first quarter and ran into the end zone himself in the second.

Towards the end of the regular season, Hurts had been sidelined two games with a shoulder injury, but there was no sign of that against the Giants.

'He is our leader.

Having him on the field is like having Michael Jordan," Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni said.

With the best main round records in their respective conferences, both the Chiefs and Eagles had a bye in the first round of the playoffs.

In the final for the AFC title, the Chiefs will face the Buffalo Bills or the Cincinnati Bengals, in the NFC final the Eagles will meet the winner of the duel between the San Francisco 49ers and the Dallas Cowboys.

While the Chiefs are in the NFL playoff semifinals for the fifth straight season, the Eagles have qualified for it for the first time since the 2017-2018 season.

That's when Philadelphia also won the championship.

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Source: spiegel

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