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Game Report: Chiefs 17, Jaguars 9

JACKSONVILLE - A game that conflicted with script actually got an opportunity to go ideal for the Panthers late.

It didn't work out.

The Pumas, in a "benchmark" game in the 2023 standard season home opener against the safeguarding Super Bowl champions, couldn't exactly defeat Patrick Mahomes - or their own botched open doors and missteps - and the Kansas City Bosses hung on for a 17-9 triumph before 69,615 at EverBank Arena Sunday evening.

"You play great groups, you play very much trained groups, you can't beat yourself; that is the thing we did today," Panthers Lead trainer Doug Pederson said.

Added Pederson, "The glaring thing is only our execution."

The Panthers (1-1) lost an eighth sequential gathering to the Bosses (1-1) dating to 2009, with Kansas City beating the Pumas once in Week 10 last season and once in an AFC Divisional Season finisher this previous January.

"This is the group that beat us in the end of the season games last year," Pumas quarterback Trevor Lawrence said. "You sort of have that new in your brain all offseason and the timetable emerges: You get Week 2 against Kansas City. We put everything in order week one and afterward we have our chance here at home …

"Laying an egg unpleasantly, it's really baffling."

The Pumas were held without a score interestingly since a 13-multi Week 2022 misfortune to Houston, with Lawrence on Sunday looking at the two misfortunes. The nine focuses were the Pumas' least since that game.

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"It's disheartening," Pumas tight end Evan Engram said. "The fact that we ought to have dominated makes this a match. We accept responsibility as an offense. We must be better. We need to assist our guard with bettering. We need to keep them off the field. We need to score in the red zone.

"We need to improve."

Mahomes - the Bosses' quarterback and a double cross NFL and Super Bowl Most Important Player - covered drives with score passes to end the main half and begin the second, transforming a thin Pumas lead into a lead Kansas City held from that point.

Mahomes passed nine yards wide recipient Skyy Moore late in the primary half for the Bosses' most memorable lead, then, at that point, covered the following Bosses drive - the first of the second from last quarter - with a nine-yard score pass to tight end Travis Kelce.

The Pumas followed by the last edge late and headed to a first down at the Bosses 14. Lawrence's fragmented pass into the end zone to wide collector Calvin Ridley on fourth-and-12 from the Bosses 14 finished the drive with 4:18 excess.

Authorities administered Ridley was bobbling the pass and didn't have ownership. The resulting drive finished with the Bosses stooping out the clock to end the game inside the Pumas 5.

A game that projected as a potential shootout never turned into that Sunday, with groups that positioned in the Best 10 in offense in 2022 joining for two scores and four turnovers.

Lawrence finished 22 of 41 passes for 241 yards and no scores without any capture attempts. Mahomes finished 29 of 41 passes for 305 yards and two scores with a capture.

Botched open doors hurt the Panthers again against the Bosses. Five first-half Panthers drives past midfield Sunday yield six focuses for the Pumas. Five drives past midfield in the principal half of a normal season misfortune to Kansas City last season yielded seven focuses.

The Panthers scored six focuses on three belongings inside the Bosses 20.

"We did it to ourselves," Pederson said.

The Pumas enrolled a sack and three important points - with a sack by linebacker K'Lavon Chaisson. Wide collector Tim Jones and inside linebacker Foye Oluokun recuperated first-half bungles and security Andre Cisco enlisted a second-quarter interference.

James Gilbert/Jacksonville Pumas

The Pumas have five sacks and six action items this season.

"The safeguard played well," Pederson said. "The safeguard kept us in this football match-up, made the important points. It's simply execution. We need to improve. We need to execute. We have an excessive number of folks on offense, veteran players. We as a whole need to improve. Begin with me."

Bit by bit:

The groups traded dropkicks through first quarter, with each group driving past midfield once and drop-kicking to end the belonging.

The Panthers picked up speed from the get-go in a turnover-weighty second-quarter, taking a 3-0 lead with kicker Brandon McManus' 32-yard field objective with 12:59 excess in the principal half. That play came four plays after Jones recuperated a muff by Bosses dropkick returner Richie James at the Bosses 17. The Panthers constrained three turnovers in the quarter and Kansas City constrained one. A nine-yard pass from Mahomes to Moore gave the Bosses a 7-3 lead with :27 excess in the half, with the Panthers quickly driving 44 yards on five plays for a 49-yard field objective by McManus on the last play of the subsequent quarter. A 26-yard pass from Lawrence to Ridley helped put forth up the field objective.

The Bosses drove rapidly to begin the final part with Mahomes passes for another nine-yard score pass, this one to Kelce, for a 14-6 lead with 11:30 leftover in a second from last quarter that finished with that score.

The Pumas cut the lead yet botched an open door right off the bat in the final quarter. The Panthers confronted first-and-objective at the one after a pass obstruction punishment. Lawrence lost three yards on first down, with McManus' 22-yard field objective after two deficient passes slicing the Bosses' lead to 14-9 with 13:43 leftover. A 38-yard field objective by Bosses kicker Harrison Butker pushed the Bosses' lead to 17-9 with 8:10 leftover.

Striking:

Game day inactives for the Pumas Sunday were security Antonio Johnson (hamstring), freshman wide beneficiary Parker Washington, new kid on the block wide collector Elijah Cooks and running back JaMycal Rushed. Right watchman Brandon Scherff and focus Luke Fortner played in the wake of being recorded as sketchy on Friday's last injury report of the week with lower leg wounds supported in Seven days 1 triumph over the Indianapolis Yearlings.

Injury report:

Pumas wide recipient Zay Jones supported a knee injury in the subsequent quarter and returned.

Outside linebacker Josh Allen supported a shoulder injury in the second from last quarter and returned.

Running back Travis Etienne Jr. left with cramps in the final quarter.