With just 23 seconds left in the game, QB Trevor Lawrence panicked. HC Liam Coen couldn’t help but hope he would throw the ball away. And then, there was rookie Travis Hunter, who had no idea what was going on… Well, the Jacksonville Jaguars QB stumbled twice before managing to get a 1-yard run to give his team a 31-28 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs.

It was a crazy finish for them. But to the Chiefs’ defensive tackle Chris Jones, that’s not something that Lawrence deserves credit for. Instead, it should make the Chiefs’ defense introspect. “It was a fluke play for him to be able to break that many tackles,” Jones said at the press conference. “But yeah, I put it on us as a defense.

“We got to finish. We got to bring him down on that.

“We’re going to continue to bounce back. We gave this game away due to so many mistakes made by us. There are so many things we could have done differently. We’ll watch film. We got a quick week. Quick turnover for a week coming up.”

Jones himself was walking slowly across the edge of the end zone, marking no one in particular, as Lawrence rushed. Whether Jones would have been successful in his attempt to stop the QB is debatable, given the distance between them. But he appeared to have switched off. He finished with 1 tackle and 1 QB hit.

Meanwhile, the Jaguars QB completed 18 of 25 passes for 221 yards and ran for a team-high 54 yards. Lawrence also ran for two touchdowns and threw for one TD. “What a crazy, crazy finish,” said Lawrence, who celebrated his 26th birthday in the locker room.

His teammates, who serenaded him on the occasion, also chipped in with their thoughts.

“Hey, it was ugly, but hey, we got the job done,” Jaguars’ WR Brian Thomas Jr. said about Lawrence’s winning TD. This was the Jaguars’ first win against the Chiefs since 2009.

But here’s the thing: Patrick Mahomes was almost successful in preventing them from reaching the milestone. With just 1:45 minutes left, he had led the Chiefs to a 28-24 lead. But then Harrison Butker kicked the ball out of bounds, putting the Jaguars at the 40-yard line in their ensuing possession. That started a late snowball effect.

Last season, Kansas City was 11-0 in games decided by eight points or less. They would pull in wins during the final minute of the fourth quarter, and that is what made them special. They were great in tight moments, but that’s exactly what they have been lacking in 2025.

Patrick Mahomes opened up about his emotions after a heartbreaking loss to the Jaguars

Mahomes wasn’t fond of the defeat. “Obviously, it sucks,” Mahomes said of the loss. “You let a game slip away. It still sucks whenever you get a lead and you’re not able to hold it.

“We have the guys and we’ve executed at certain points in games and looked really good, but we crush ourselves with penalties and mistakes,” he further added. The team had 13 penalties, which is the franchise’s most since November 2018, for 103 yards. Head coach Andy Reid was naturally not happy.

The most brutal of those penalties came with just 38 seconds left on the clock. Chiefs’ safety Chamarri Conner was flagged for pass interference as Lawrence threw the ball at Brian Thomas in the end zone. That penalty gave the Jaguars the ball at the 1-yard line, and then came the game-winning touchdown.

The Chiefs are now 2-3, and next up is their home game against the Detroit Lions on October 12. Can they win that one?