{"id":69592,"date":"2025-11-29T12:48:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T12:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/69592\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T12:48:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T12:48:30","slug":"patrick-mahomes-had-words-for-dallas-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/69592\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Mahomes Had Words for Dallas Cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patrick Mahomes<\/a> and the Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> and the Dallas Cowboys<\/a> head into their Thanksgiving clash on Thursday riding momentum from gritty Week 12 wins. Kansas City eked out a 23-20 win in overtime against the Indianapolis Colts<\/a>, while the Cowboys rallied from a 21-point deficit to defeat the Philadelphia Eagles<\/a>, handing Dallas some much-needed momentum. With both teams now firmly in the playoff hunt, Thursday\u2019s game could carry major postseason implications for two clubs still scrambling to get into the postseason field.<\/p>\n

Mahomes enters Thursday\u2019s game after completing 29 of 46 passes for 352 yards and an interception as Kansas City erased a fourth-quarter deficit and sealed the game on a field goal. That performance also made Mahomes the fastest QB in NFL<\/a> history to reach 35,000 career passing yards, doing so in 123 games \u2014 three fewer than the previous record held by current Los Angeles Rams<\/a> quarterback Matthew Stafford<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.Mark Konezny-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

The two-time league MVP will now face a Dallas defense that completely obliterated the Eagles<\/a> in the second half and has shown signs of life in its past two games.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Mahomes offered praise for Dallas\u2019 much-improved unit and acknowledged the challenge his team faces (via The Athletic\u2019s John Machota).<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, they\u2019ve been in the scheme a little bit longer and then they\u2019ve added players, they\u2019ve also gotten players healthy,\u201d Mahomes said. \u201cYou see that they\u2019re playing at a higher level than they were playing at the beginning of the year. That comes with being more comfortable with the scheme that you\u2019re in. They\u2019re coached really well by Coach Eberflus. They fly around to the football \u2026 it will be a great challenge for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mahomes is right \u2013 the Cowboys\u2019 defense shut out of the Eagles after halftime in Week 12 and has shown signs of real improvement, a unit many had questioned earlier in the season. As Mahomes and the Chiefs prepare for Thanksgiving, he knows breaking through Dallas\u2019 revamped defense will be no easy task.<\/p>\n

Still, the Cowboys’ defense is ranked among the worst in the NFL statistically. Dallas is 31st in points allowed (28.5), 29th in total defense (377.5 yards per game), 30th in pass defense (252.3) and 22nd in rushing defense (125.2).<\/p>\n

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In his lone career game against Dallas in 2021, Mahomes delivered 260 yards and an interception and failed to register a touchdown pass, leading the Chiefs to a 19-9 win. He\u2019ll hope to improve on that performance as Kansas City (6-5) aims to sneak itself into the playoff picture with just six games remaining.<\/p>\n

The Thanksgiving game kicks off at 4:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, with the broadcast on CBS and streaming via Paramount+.<\/p>\n

Related: Chiefs Fans React Strongly to Controversial Travis Kelce Decision<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally published by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Nov 26, 2025, where it first appeared in the NFL<\/a> section. Add Athlon Sports as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs and the Dallas Cowboys head into their Thanksgiving clash on Thursday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,113,104,103,10403,16598,8250,10417,10063,8251,10388,7698],"class_list":["post-69592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-matthew-stafford","tag-patrick-mahomes","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-the-cowboys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}