{"id":122702,"date":"2025-09-06T08:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T08:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/122702\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T08:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T08:03:08","slug":"nfl-los-angeles-chargers-beat-kansas-city-chiefs-as-justin-herbert-shines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/122702\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL: Los Angeles Chargers beat Kansas City Chiefs as Justin Herbert shines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Justin Herbert starred for the Los Angeles Chargers as they beat the Kansas City Chiefs 27-21 in their NFL opener in Sao Paulo, Brazil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The quarterback passed for 318 yards and three touchdowns as the Chargers defeated last season&#8217;s beaten Super Bowl finalists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[It was] just another game for us,&#8221; Herbert said. &#8220;We came out here, executed, did what we needed to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the second NFL game to be staged in Sao Paulo, Herbert found Quentin Johnson for a touchdown on the way to the Chargers going 10-0 up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Chiefs, with the help of a Patrick Mahomes touchdown, recovered to trail 13-12 before Harrison Butker missed the chance to level with an extra point attempt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Herbert then threw to Keenan Allen for a touchdown as the Chargers took a 20-12 lead into the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Travis Kelce touchdown reduced the deficit but Herbert and Johnson again combined for another score as the Chargers recorded their first win against the Chiefs since September 2021.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think in general they came out with more energy than we did,&#8221; said Mahomes, who threw for 258 yards and a touchdown on top of his score.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We didn&#8217;t execute. I missed some throws down the field and obviously we didn&#8217;t play good enough in the first half.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Herbert starred for the Los Angeles Chargers as they beat the Kansas City Chiefs 27-21 in their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-122702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}